Area 31 Newsletter
Thursday, April 14th 2016
Dear Area 31 Entrepreneurs and Friends,
If you're interested in applying to IE's Incubator in Area 31, join next Thursday's Open House Day, which will be the last one before the deadline. Other important highlists next week in Area 31 are our monthly Get Together and Creators Networking Night, featuring Matt Trinetti, on Monday. Also, Area 31 is hosting a session on PR for Entrepreneurs on Wednesday. Finally, don´t miss IE Net Impact Weekend, a social entrepreneurship workshop focused on accelerating your ideas.
Our newsletter holds exciting opportunities this week! Startup Grind is hosting the Cofounder of Cuponation, one of the fastest growing startups in Spain! Are you passionate about building a technology company? Apply to TechFounders! Do you have a startup that solves big social and environmental problems? Unreasonable Institute comes to Spain with a 5-day acceleration program. Finally, apply to Cleantechstart 2016, an acceleration program focused on clean technologies. From our blog, meet Area 31 startup Micocar, that allows you to save with discounts in your taxi rides!
EVENTS APR 18TH- APR 24TH
Area 31 Get Together
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Location: Area 31, The Garden
Our monthly get together is back this month for the startups in our present intake of the Incubator in Area 31! Every month the entrepreneurs in Area 31 have the chance to share their challenges and achievements and ask each other for support in an informal setting.
Interest and Region Networking Night, Featuring Matt Trinetti
Date: Tuesday, April 19th
Time: 19:00-21:00
Location: Area 31, The Valley
The Creators Network hosts another great night of speakers and networking. Find people you might be able to help with your expertise. This night is not exclusive to startup folks, so all are welcome! Featuring TEDx speaker and entrepreneur, Matt Trinetti (Founder GiveLiveExplore | Startup Director Escape The City | Publisher Tales of Iceland). RSVP emailing caraline@student.ie.edu
PR for Entrepreneurs. A key element for your brand visibility
Date: Wednesday, April 20th
Time: 17:30-19:00
Location: Area 31, The Garden
Area 31 Open House Day
Time: 18:00-19:00
Location: Area 31, The Garden
Impact Weekend
Date: Friday, April 22nd
Time: 15:00-21:00
Date: Saturday April 23rd
Time: 9:00-21:00
Date: Sunday April 24th
Time: 9:00-19:30
Location: Area 31
Impact Weekend is a social entrepreneurship workshop where students and individuals come together with ideas for social enterprises, work within teams and with coaches to develop these ideas into social venture business plans and finally present to a panel of VCs and entrepreneurs. Join us for the 6th annual Impact Weekend. This will be a weekend filled with prototyping and iterating upon a social enterprise idea. Learn more and register here.
OPPORTUNITIES
Startup Grind - April Event
Date: Thursday, April 21st
Time: 19:30 - 22:30
Location: Campus Madrid
10 tickets with a 100% discount code for IE: SGIE
Pedro Clavería is the Cofounder of Cuponation, one of the fastest growing startups in Spain, with revenues around 40 million in 2015. Rocket Internet called Pedro to lead Cuponation in Spain. Pedro is now in charge of Spain, Italy and Mexico, and has turned Madrid into the strongest hub of the group, which is present in 24 countries. Learn more and sign up here.
Apply to TechFounders!
Deadline: April 24th
Everybody who is passionate about building a technology company is welcome to apply! TechFounders is a 20 week international accelerator program based in Munich, Germany. The accelerator brings tech startups together with industry partners and venture capitalists. The summer program starts 15 July and lasts for 20 weeks. Apply here.
Unreasonable Institute Spain
Deadline: May 2nd
Date: June 13 - 18Location: Madrid
Unreasonable Labs comes to Spain hand in hand with Teamlabs, to offer an extreme 5-day acceleration program specialized in fundraising for entrepreneurs and startups who look to solve big social and environmental problems. We are looking for entrepreneurs who want to change the world! Apply here.
Cleantechstart 2016
Deadline: April 20th, 2016
Cleantechstart is an acceleration program addressed to entrepreneurs' projects in the clean technologies area. The program supports the rapid transformation of startups in clean technologies into high-growht companies. Cleantechstart facilitates financing, international contacts, expert guidance, mentoring and incubator services to selected projects. Register here.
FROM THE BLOG
MEET AREA 31 STARTUP: MICOCAR
We interviewed Juanma Nieto, Microcar's CEO. Micocar is an app that allows taxi customers to save money with discounts in every taxi ride! The app was born from the idea that taxi's price should be flexible according to the demand of taxis at each hour of the day. Learn how it all started here!
AVAILABILITY OF SPACE
- Monday, April 18th, 19:00-21:00, only half of the space will be available for coworking
- Friday, April 22nd, 15:00-21:00. All the space will be busy with an event.
- Saturday, Aril 23rd, 9:00-21:00. All the space will be busy with an event.
- Sunday, April 24th, 9:00-19:30.All the space will be busy with an event.