On May 22nd, the italian and european startup scene will gather in Rome for TechGarage. Hosted at LUISS university, the event is one of the most important startup happening in Italy.
The event is organized by DPixel, which operates one of the few early-stage venture capital funds present in Italy, and for this year with the help of Telecom Italia.
TechGarage features a
start
up
competition
featuring
10
hot
and new european start
ups. These 10 finalists will have the chance to pitch their ideas and business plans to VCs and business angels. 3 winners will receive an award and a package of services from DPixel: accounting, legal and advising services that will guide the company to its next stage and prepare it to get funded. Many venture capital funds will be present as well as entrepreneurs, CEOs, bloggers and the best of the italian internet and media community. Given its smaller “size” compared to major events like TheNextWeb, LeWeb or Next, there will surely be opportunities to create more relationships, making it a networking event not to miss.
TechGarage will bring visibility to european startups and many opportunities to young and promising entrepreneurs who will be able to meet some of the most importan seed and venture capital fund, business angels and other entrepreneurs. They will also have the opportunity to meet bloggers and journalists so to get media coverage for their ideas, as well as meeting programmers and all kind of geeks.
This is the program for the day:
- 8:30‐09:25am
Guest Registration
and and
Breakfast
- 9:30am
Introduction by Pier Luigi Celli, CEO Università Luiss
- 9:30 – 9:45
Keynote
‐
Luca
Montezemolo,
Ferrari, LUISS
chairman
- 9:45 – 10:15am
Keynote
–
Franco
Bernabe’,
CEO Telecom
Italia
- 10:15‐11:15am
Start
Up
Pitches
- 11:15‐11:40am
Coffee Break
- 11:40‐12:40pm
Start
Up
Pitches
- 12:40‐1:10pm
Closing
Keynote
by
Saeed
Amidi, CEO And President Plug & Play Tech Center
- 1:10‐1:30pm
Awards
to
the 3 Winning
Start
Ups
- 1:30pm
Lunch
- 2:30pm
Working Capital Camp
In the afternoon Telecom Italia will host its Working Capital Camp. WorkingCapital is a nice new initiative focused on high tech and innovative companies. Telecom Italia helps entrepreneurs by funding their companies with services. It is refreshing to see such a big company take interest in early stage innovative startups.
theStartup.eu is an official media partner for the event, so expect (hopefully) live coverage, startup presentations and interviews.
If anyone is planning to attend the event, send me a quick email and we’ll meet up!
This sounded amazing, an update on this event would be interesting to hear
I have to agree with you it is really great seeing these bigger companies getting out there and helping the little people on the streets it gives then more hope that they too can get their businesses off the ground.