Scale-up Champions programme has given us a good understanding of a potential target market. Our contact through the programme has done a lot of thorough market research and presents it to us weekly. We are also discussing potential partnership opportunities with local companies!
Co-founder and CTO of 10Lines
During the project, we raised a pre-seed investment of 200k €. At the moment we have 3 pilots going on in Norway. Through strategic investors, it is easier to reach new clients as they are well connected within the industry.
CEO of Unsinkable Robotics
We applied to participate in “Scale-up Champions” Market Discovery Tour in Denmark and the DTU Ignite Startup Pitch competition in Copenhagen. It worked - we were selected and took the pitching stage. Now we are taking one step at a time and developing connections that hopefully will bring us local links and credentials.
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Co-founder of Bitmetrics
Thanks to the experienced mentors from "Scale-up Champions Investment Readiness Programme", we gained knowledge and practical skills to develop scientific ideas, build a startup that attracts investments. We hope that our developed, tested and validated medical device - disposable syringe gel filler - will reach the Lithuanian market by 2023.
A scientist and the solution's developer of the medical startup "RamaZottius Lab"
The program encouraged us to review our business plan and market entry strategy and widened our understanding of small markets and their entry strategies. We were lucky to meet amazing mentors at the “Scale-up Champions” project who helped us to prepare needed materials for startup profile, review business plan and to do return on investment, revenue, manufacturing expenses calculations.
Co-founder of BrachyDOSE, a MedTech startup from the Baltics
It was a great experience! As I develop a medical device for psoriasis treatment, new materials interest me. During the Tour, I met 3D printing startups that are taking the niche of flexible and bio sustainable printing services. Their solutions would be great for the design of my devices. Also, I got funding contacts - one VC fund from Brazil was very excited about our innovation and I am looking further for future communication with them.
Founder of EMPLASTRUM
"A great match! In my opinion, it is the success of a great mentoring experience. Also, the mentee has to be coachable and eager to receive feedback. I help agrotech startups to fast-forward B2B sales. It is a very structured process - you have to prepare for it and have an actual plan. The plan is a great tool to achieve your goals."
CEO of Nando Europe, MENTOR
"Mentorship provides the experience from the deep-tech field. Usually, I've been where the entrepreneur is now or is going to be in the future, so I can warn them about pitfalls, traps, and problems they will encounter. Basically, I play the role of the "future self" of the entrepreneur."
Partner of BA International Partners, MENTOR
Europe-based deep-tech startups that meet the following criteria:
Are working on high technology innovation.
Have done the customer validation and tested the initial business model.
Have already received some investment or are generating significant revenue by bootstrapping and looking for next investment to grow effectively.
Have a strong core team with key positions (marketing, technology, leadership).
There is a real market problem that could be solved by a complex technology-based solution.
There is a large or growing global potential or high-value niche.
Europe-based investors that would like to be active part of the international deep-tech startup ecosystem and stay ahead of competitors by discovering our disruptive startups.
Europe-based corporates willing to boost innovation, explore disruptive solutions and establish a ground-breaking mindset within their company. The participating enterprises must have disposition to develop a proof of concept with one or more of the startups if their solutions fit the challenges.
Legal adviser
Handling of the investment process both on the public and private capital market; providing legal advice to start-ups and VC investors
Business strategist and investor
Nurturing global teams up to 6K-strong in Training & Coaching, Immaterial SaaS/AI (Marketing & Advertising), B2C (Retail), B2B, FMCG (Manufacturing), Chemical Formulation & Distribution, Engineering, Logistics and Supply Chain and Financial Services (Aircraft Leasing) industries
