BTC City Ljubljana hosted the Demo Day event on Friday, June 24, 2016. Nine promising startups presented their breakthrough business ideas to potential local and international investors in the SiTi Theater. The event concluded the third three-month program for startups in the ABC accelerator, aimed at developing solutions in the field of innovative forms of electronic sales or business and technology.
In Ljubljana BTC City it is ABC Accelerator, which encourages faster entry of young companies into foreign markets, with the event Demo Day reunited startups and investors in total 240 participants. The third generation of young entrepreneurs spent three months developing solutions within the third program: Commercial Tech. "The purpose of the event is to startups are mainly presented to global investors. They attend the event with the intention of investing their funds in these startups," explained the executive director ABC accelerator Ljubljana Urška Jež.
Damjan Kralj, member of the board and director of marketing and BTC marketing, expressed his enthusiasm that it is an innovative city BTC City Ljubljana for the third time, an event venue where investors recognize the ambitions of young entrepreneurs: "With events within the framework of two key innovation centers, ABC of Accelerator and business hub ABC Hub, we strengthen the innovative dimension BTC City Ljubljana. This is becoming an important center of advanced ideas and opening the door to the international business space for enterprising individuals."
Among the nine companies, which impressed investors, also presented themselves two Slovenian. Company 45HC improves the efficiency of companies' supply chains with its solution. As the company director Štefan Kukman said in the presentation, they want to become the largest logistics service platform in the world in the next five years. Another Slovenian company, SmartIS City, presented itself with solutions for the management of smart cities. Company representative Maša Kovač she explained that the platform SmartCity it connects all databases and resources in the city and thus offers a complete overview of the city. At the same time, it also allows cities to increase their revenue by selling data.
Italian companies also participated in the program FruttaWeb and Paperleap. First, it deals with fast delivery of quality fruit and vegetables from Italy to anywhere in Europe. Paperleap and wants to help scientists find the best opportunities for publishing their articles and findings. Polish Hotailor.com deals with a solution for more efficient and personalized planning of business trips. Indo-French WeShare however, with its platform, it makes it easy to share virtually anything and earn money on that account. French Bubble Chat plans to use its app to provide direct communication with local shops and services in one place via smartphone. Serbian-Australian Violanta develops a platform that collects market data on consumer behavior and automatically adjusts the website according to customer needs in real time. Serbian Crumbly and is evolving into a specialized social network for fashion.
The startup presentations were followed by a lecture an Estonian entrepreneur, the investor and the founder of the startup Pipedrive Ragnar Sass and awarding of the award for the best mentor, lecturer, program partner ABC of Accelerator. Among the award winners are: this time he received the award for the best lecturer Kristjan Pečanec, he took home the award for the best mentor Roger Blott, and the award for the best partner was won by the Ljubljana branch BMW Vertriebs GMBH.
Intensive three-month program under the frame ABC of Accelerator successfully completed the the third generation of old men. While the first two events Demo Day, where approximately two million euros of investment were recorded, in the third generation, for the first time, four startups acquired investors even before the final event itself. In October, the ABC accelerator started the fourth three-month program, which will be held on the topic of the Internet or internet of things. This will offer an opportunity to an even greater number of participants, as it will be in the program as many as 30 startups could participate.
ABC accelerator (accelerator) has gained tremendously since its establishment in March 2015 global recognition and reputation in the world of start-up companies and investors. According to the director of the ABC accelerator Dejan Roljica accelerators are important for both investors and startups. He also presented some of the plans of the ABC accelerator, which plans to open a new Venture Gates accelerator in Germany on June 30, and a Global Home accelerator in Silicon Valley in August.
BTC City Ljubljana is consistent with the Company's Development Strategy BTC by year 2020 grew into an innovative city last year. This is demonstrated by many events in the field of entrepreneurship, youth education and the development of innovative business ideas. With the support of ABC Accelerator BTC company consolidates its international reputation of BTC City in Ljubljana and at the same time, in cooperation with partners, contributes to the international recognition of partners and innovative and of enterprising Slovenia.
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