One of the big value adds of Seedcamp is the relationships with Corporate mentors that begin during the Mini Seedcamp events, continue over Seedcamp Week, and progress through the 3 months of mentorship support, which includes the 2-week US roadshow that just culminated. Since our recent visit in the Valley in March to the Facebook office, we have been working closely to find ways to let the Seedcamp companies have more and easier access to the Facebook platform. Until now, this support came mainly through mentoring at the Seedcamp events all over Europe, email contacts, and through our direct visits at Facebook HQ.
We are thrilled to announce a deeper and stronger new partnership with Facebook that will help many of our companies to move forward a lot faster: Seedcamp startups will receive product, technical, and design support as well as early access to beta products and programs on Facebook Platform. Since many of our portfolio companies use parts of Facebook’s offerings in their setup, talking to the folks working on these products directly will be a massive help. In addition, an early look at what is coming up will enable Seedcamp companies to be ahead of the market and to play with cool new features first.
Finally, our startups will also receive additional support as Facebook becomes a Platinum Seedcamp Founder Sponsor. The partnership with Facebook sets a great example for how we want to work with more of our US and European corporate mentors.
Facebook is clearly becoming ever more important to startups, be it in the way services are distributed, members are found, or information is shared. We are looking forward to see how our companies are integrating Facebook into their services, and how they can make the best of this partnership!
Copenhagen has long been known as one of the most environmentally friendly cities on the planet, providing great quality of life to its citizens. It is also known as a regional centre of business and media and we are hoping to tap into the wealth of talent across Denmark and the rest of the Nordics when we visit this pretty city hub on 27th May 2010 for our first ever Mini Seedcamp Copenhagen, which is kindly being hosted by NorthCap Partners and supported by Rainmaking. The programme will be held at the uber cool premises of 5th Unit.
Last year saw us in Helsingborg, which was a great success and brought us face to face with quality teams across the region and beyond. We’re urging teams from Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, Finland, Iceland and Norway that are confident and ready to apply to Mini Seedcamp Copenhagen. Of course, our open door policy means that any team from anywhere can also apply.
Mini Seedcamp Copenhagen will connect 20 top quality, early stage web tech startups with over 50 regional and European esteemed, sought after and highly experienced entrepreneurs, investors and developers. Through an interactive panel discussion and informal 1:1 sessions, teams benefit from engaging with and listening to a variety of distinguished mentors and industry leaders from PR, HR, product development, business development, marketing to name but a few.
Mini Seedcamps provide the best way to have a chance at winning a spot as one of our top teams that receive investment in 2010 and to leverage the value the programme brings. As such we encourage startups to apply to any of the Mini Seedcamps that best match the timing and progress of your business.
Past winners have been blogging about the importance of attending a Mini Seedcamp and also what to expect from a Mentor Session, which gives a good insight into how the day is run and what to expect.
As always, we are looking for strong, quality startups that have the talent, drive and capacity to fully embrace the opportunities that participating in a Mini Seedcamp brings. Which is receiving quality advice from top industry leaders and start building those key relationships to help drive your business. Relationships that normally take years to build, you’ll have access to in one day. Mini Seedcamps are not a conference, but an entrepreneurial ecosystem of support and a program designed to strengthen and catapult your ideas into a viable business.
Check out our resources page that is full of advice and videos, blog posts, and follow us on Twitter , the hashtag for the event is #seedcampCPH, and Facebook to see what we’re looking for, what teams get out of it and what you can do to improve your chances in winning a spot on one of the most prestigious and rewarding web tech programs that is helping to drive and shape the European startup scene today.
You will gain invaluable insight and a solid foundation to help kick-start a viable business in Europe today. Not to mention being inspired by fellow entrepreneurs and a chance to broaden your scope within the European startup ecosystem.
Applications are now open and close at midnight on 13th May 2010. For full details, updates and how to apply go to the mini site.
Barcelona has been a long-standing city of arts, culture and commerce and has seen the likes of Gaudi, Dali and Picasso grace it’s streets. In recent years, Spain’s entrepreneurial network has been growing and bringing us great entrepreneurs such as Martin Varsavsky and startups like Madpixel, tooio.net, visual-engin.com and Tuenti. We know there is a wealth of talent throughout Spain and the surrounding region, who can’t wait to make their mark on not just a European, but Global stage. With that in mind, we are very excited to announce that applications are now open for Mini Seedcamp Barcelona, which will take place on 23rd March 2010 at the wonderful premises of IESE Business School.
Although this is our first year in Spain, we have seen some great teams apply to Seedcamp in the past few years from the region. We truly feel there is an abundance of emerging talent there and are specifically urging teams that are confident and ready to apply to Mini Seedcamp Barcelona from Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy. Of course we always have an open door policy so any team from anywhere can apply.
Past winners have recently been blogging about the importance of applying to a Mini Seedcamp, and this year even more so. The Mini Seedcamps provide the best way to have a chance at winning a spot as one of our top teams that receive investment in July 2010 and to leverage the value the programme brings. As such we encourage startups to apply to any of the Mini Seedcamps that best match the timing and progress of your business.
As always, we are looking for strong, quality startups that have the talent, drive and capacity to fully embrace the opportunities that participating in a Mini Seedcamp brings. Which is receiving quality advice from top industry leaders and start building those key relationships to help drive your business. Relationships that normally take years to build, you’ll have access to in one day. Mini Seedcamps are not a conference, but an entrepreneurial ecosystem of support and a program designed to strengthen and catapult your ideas into a viable business.
Check out our newly revamped resources page full of advice and videos, blog posts, and follow us on Twitter and Facebook to see what we’re looking for, what teams get out of it and what you can do to improve your chances in winning a spot on one of the most prestigious and rewarding web tech programs that is helping to drive and shape the European startup scene today.
Mini Seedcamp Barcelona will connect 20 top quality, early stage web tech startups with over 50 regional and European esteemed sought after and highly experienced entrepreneurs, investors and developers. Through an interactive panel discussion and informal 1:1 sessions, teams benefit from engaging with and listening to a variety of distinguished mentors and industry leaders from PR, HR, product development, business development, marketing to name but a few.
You will gain invaluable insight and a solid foundation to help kick-start a viable business in Europe today. Not to mention being inspired by fellow entrepreneurs and a chance to broaden your scope within the European startup ecosystem.
Applications are now open and close at midnight on 9th March 2010. For full details, updates and how to apply go to the mini site.
Prague has often been called the ‘Golden City’, and Seedcamp is hoping to find a gold rush of exciting web-tech talent that is bursting with bright and innovative ideas set to make their mark. Applications are now open for Mini Seedcamp Prague, which will take place on 2nd March 2010 at the University of Economics Prague.
Last year, we held a Mini Seedcamp in Warsaw for the region, which proved a great success, and we are coming into Prague as we cover a different city each year. Through past Seedcamp Weeks, we’ve had winners such as uberVU and Brainient from Romania, ERPLY from Estonia and Codility from Poland.
We truly feel there is a wealth of talent in this region and are specifically urging teams that are confident and ready to apply from Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Estonia, Bulgaria and neighbouring countries to apply. Of course we always have an open door policy so any team from anywhere can apply.
Past winners have recently been blogging about the importance of applying to a Mini Seedcamp, and this year even more so. The Mini Seedcamps provide the best way to have a chance at winning a spot as one of our top teams that receive investment in July 2010 and to leverage the value the programme brings. As such we encourage startups to apply to any of the Mini Seedcamps that best match the timing and progress of your business.
As always, we are looking for strong, quality startups that have the talent, drive and capacity to fully embrace the opportunities that participating in a Mini Seedcamp brings. Which is receiving quality advice from top industry leaders and start building those key relationships to help drive your business. Relationships that normally take years to build, you’ll have access to in one day. Mini Seedcamps are not a conference, but an entrepreneurial ecosystem of support and a program designed to strengthen and catapult your ideas into a viable business.
Check out our newly revamped resources page full of advice and videos, blog posts, and follow us on Twitter and Facebook to see what we’re looking for, what teams get out of it and what you can do to improve your chances in winning a spot on one of the most prestigious and rewarding web tech programs that is helping to drive and shape the European startup scene today.
Mini Seedcamp Prague will connect 20 top quality, early stage web tech startups with over 50 regional and European esteemed sought after and highly experienced entrepreneurs, investors and developers. Through an interactive panel discussion and informal 1:1 sessions, teams benefit from engaging with and listening to a variety of distinguished mentors and industry leaders from PR, HR, product development, business development, marketing to name but a few.
You will gain invaluable insight and a solid foundation to help kick-start a viable business in Europe today. Not to mention being inspired by fellow entrepreneurs and a chance to broaden your scope within the European startup ecosystem.
Applications are now open and close at midnight on 16th February. For full details, updates and how to apply go to the mini site.
Good Luck!
Like many startups, Seedcamp started out with a big idea: to help to lay a long-term foundation for first-time European entrepreneurs to get access to the knowledge, network, validation and access to capital they would need to build a big business.
But in truth, we had very little idea of exactly how Seedcamp was going to play out and we’ve evolved substantially over the years.
In 2010 alone, Reshma and her lean, mean fighting machine have:
And we still have Mini Seedcamp events in Singapore and Mumbai to come in 2010.
Reshma has done an amazing job building a truly international network of entrepreneurs, mentors and investors. In a little over three years, she’s taken a concept and turned Seedcamp into a living breathing organization. Since 2007, we have:
I’m really proud of what Reshma, Alasdair and Steph have achieved but we want to do more with our network – more teams mentored, more locations visited and investments made.
Looking forward to working with the winners of Seedcamp 2010 and beyond, its time for Reshma to get some serious firepower and support to take Seedcamp to the next level, keep pushing the envelope and continue to improve the experience we can offer our network.
So I’m thrilled to be introducing two new stars in the Seedcamp team – Carlos Espinal and Philipp Moehring.
If you’re one of the 400 or 500 people who have been part of Seedcamp Week, you will have met, had an email from or come into contact with our Associate Philipp. He’s only been with us since June but has hit the ground running – providing the glue holding our operations together and moonlighting with some great video commentary. He will work with all of our companies on the portfolio management side to provide the value Seedcamp brings.
Carlos will be joining us from Doughty Hanson. He will be a Partner to work alongside Reshma, helping her to develop the organization, deepen our international network and offer the best possible support and development to Seedcamp entrepreneurs.
Carlos is a great blend of serious engineer and talented early-stage investor – he’s also not a bad cyclist. He will be a great compliment to Reshma and help us expand not just our capacity but also our horizons and language skills.
There is nothing more exciting in an organization than seeing it grow – having seen what Reshma was able to achieve flying solo, I can’t wait to see what her partnership with Carlos will deliver. You can find Carlos on Twitter and his full bio.
Please help me welcome Phil and Carlos to the team – and feel free to reach out and say hello.
Saul
This time last year, we held the first Seedsummit in London. The idea behind it was to help to create a forum for active European seed investors to connect and establish a stronger more cohesive network to support entrepreneurs. Now 12 months later – we are ready to take the wrappers off Seedsummit.org.
Recently, Seedcamp has been sharing lots of news about growing our team and adding firepower for our international platform. We have a stronger foundation to help the companies and founders that are at the stage where Seedcamp is a good fit. We have always helped Seedcamp companies gain access to further capital and so many other entrepreneurs have always reached out to us frustrated at how difficult it is to identify true seed stage investors in their local regions and across Europe or US with whom there is a fit.
Enter Seedsummit.org. Like Nivi and Naval’s excellent AngelList, we aim to be a resource to connect entrepreneurs and local seed investors looking to find each other. The investors on Seedsummit.org are qualified, active in seed and they are looking for deals. While we don’t have the density of either the VC or angel money available in the Valley, there is still an emerging group of very active seed investors in the markets that Seedcamp is local in, from Union Square to Mumbai.
Given many Seedcamp companies raise their post-Seedcamp funding from these very investors like Jeremie Berrebi, Sherry Coutu, Alex Hoye, Stefan Glaenzer, Dave McClure and Robin Klein, we have gotten to know our fellow travelers well. Seedsummit.org is a first step. As with Seedcamp, we will look to all of you to help us iterate and make sure we can serve entrepreneurs and investors best in their quest to find the right partners. So, please do have a look and play around and feed back to us as much as possible.
There is a dedicated space for both investors and entrepreneurs on the site. We will be adding more useful features and content soon, along with connecting with our friends in other places putting together a similar platform. But we hope this is a very helpful start for all of you to get better connected and funded.
In addition, we will host two full Seedsummit events for active angel and seed investors this year. The first will be taking place in January, right after our just announced Seedcamp London. Following our first North American Event in June, we will host a Seedsummit in New York City aiming to connect Seed investors across the Atlantic. We are looking forward to a great 2011, and Seedsummit.org will be a large part of it!
We also want to point out our technology partner Lateral, who helped us out with the development and review of the site. Ciprian and his team are an important part of the inception of Seedsummit, we are looking forward to working together on the future changes to the site to develop an even greater experience for both investors and start-ups.
I’m Jakob Marovt (@jmarovt). Joined Seedcamp as an intern last autumn and have loved every single minute of it. Why?
Seedcamp is the perfect springboard into the start-up community In the end, many fruitful relationships arose from my Seedcamp experience and I am sure it will prove life-changing for me in the end run. For starters, I’m joining one of the Seedcamp portfolio companies next month.
Seriously, it can’t get more exciting!
— If you would like to see what the Seedcamp crew thinks and writes about on a daily basis, then this blog and Twitter are your best friends: follow our great partners Reshma (@rsohoni) and Carlos (@ceduardo), awesome associate Philipp (@pmoehring) and the newest addition, general manager Kirsten (@k1rstc).
It’s already a dream team – make it an extra special one by applying for the Intern position now!
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