Unicorn Battle,
June 23, 2020
Startup.Network team are grateful to all the participants, juries, partners, and guests of our Unicorn Battle in London that was held online on June 23, 2020.
Special thanks to our Jury Expert Board:
Alexander Soroka, CEO & Founder at Startup.Network
Giles Farley, Director at FPP Asset Management LLP
Filip Perkon, Founder at Bamboo Venture Partners and Perkon Productions
Alex Reed, Co-Founder at Mountside Ventures
Abraham Van Wyk, General Partner at Acquipharma, CEO at TCD Global
Hugo Conceição Silva, Investment Manager at Pi Labs
Luca Cartechini, VC at Pretiosum Ventures | Previously at Jefferies and Bloomberg
David Rees, General Partner at Izy Capital
Raymond Rubin, Owner at Claridge Management Ltd.
Abhijeet Kumar, Co-Founding Partner at ah! Ventures
Victoria Mehran, Associate at Expert Dojo
Aristos Peters, Early-Stage Investment at We Klik, CEO & Founder at D-Risk It, Senior Partner at Quorumm Digital Venture Partners
Ana Barjasic, Global Entrepreneurship Network & Investment Readiness
Giacomo Ghiraldo, Associate Director, EMEA Sales at PitchBook Data
William Du, CEO & Founder of Ingenious Haus Group, a family office, providing corporate finance, private equity, wealth management & investment services to entrepreneurs and business owners since 2004
Ruchi Dana, Partner at Dana Group
Pradita Astarina, Senior Vice President at Cakra Ventures
Preeti Chaudhary, Venture Partner at ah! Ventures
Guillaume Kloof, Managing Partner at Valley Date Venture Partners
Kirill Babich, Venture Builder at Swiss Startup Factory
Datuk Paul Chong 拿督 張保羅, Managing Partner at Camelot Capital Management, L.P.
Eddie Ler, Investor at Vantage Venture
The event was started with a Startup.Network introduction and presentation of the global initiative:
SUMMER CUP
Global Pitch Competition Finals Online
Welcome to the Summer Unicorn Cup Finals: 3-days pitch & networking event.
Only 50 startups - winners of preliminary Unicorn Battles that took place in 25 countries of the world will pitch live mainstage at the SUMMER UNICORN CUP Finals on July 28-30th, 2020.
You will see best international startups from different industries – three days - LIVE!
Guests of the event will also vote online for the Best Startup in the Audience Awards nomination.
VC industry all over the world comes together for a great cause!
The second part of the Battle was devoted to the Pitch Session.
We had а winner of the Unicorn Battle in London!
The first place winner is:
Keyless is a deeptech, cybersecurity company building the world's first privacy-preserving biometric authentication and personal identity management platform.
https://startup.network/company/417259.html
The Winner of the Unicorn Battle London will participate at the Unicorn CUP – Silicon Valley Finals.
The second place went to:
Pynk is Unique in its technology and business model.
https://startup.network/company/417093.html
The third place went to:
Small Robot Company is reimagining farming to make food production sustainable.
https://startup.network/company/417507.html
https://battle.startup.network/events/415903/
To find a startup's pitch deck please click on the startup logo on the event page.
Many thanks to our Global Sponsors:
Network VC California Seed Fund
ICU Ventures is a Kyiv-based venture capital fund that invests in technology companies with strong ties to Ukraine and Eastern Europe making late seed and series A investments across the tech spectrum.
ICU Ventures is part of the ICU Group, an independent asset management firm founded in 2006 by senior investment professionals from ING. It is one of the largest and most diversified asset managers in the CEE region. To check the forthcoming events, please, follow our announcements: https://battle.startup.network/events/
2:50 pm - 3:00 pm: Registration.
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm: Introduction by Organizers.
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm: Jury introduction.
During this section, Jury will have 1 minute each to introduce themselves.
3:45 pm – 5:00 pm: Startups Competition.
Each founder will have 3 minutes for a pitch, and another 3 minutes for questions, comments, and suggestions by Judges.
5:00 pm - 5:05 pm: Winners announcement.
5:05pm - 5:30pm: Networking