Venture Network, an informal weekly pitch slam, is an invaluable resource for early stage entrepreneurs. Venture Network is a forum in which you can engage with the entrepreneurial community, promote your startup, and have the opportunity to pitch before a panel of investors & entrepreneurs. Venture Network is unique in that it is a very informal gathering where startups can meet investors in a casual setting over beers and snacks and focus on what’s important: building relationships. Venture Network is a great way to perfect your pitch, get feedback on your product, and meet the local startup community.

Venture Network's jury this week includes:

Javier Duran, LuceCEM

Miguel Maté, Afintup.com y Business Angel

The two startups that will present their project in 7 minutes are:

Kapital100, Antonio Carballo

Kapital100 is the first Fintech platform specialized in Merchants Cash Advance in mainland Europe, serving small businesses’ short-term funding needs, with credit exposures averaging between Euros 2 to 30 thousand.

The business model is hugely innovative, and allows for significant flexibility to borrowers, as they gain access to funds in exchange for a percentage of the businesses' daily credit card income, directly from the processor that clears and settles the credit card payment.

This means that in slower months merchants may repay less than in better periods. It also means that Kapital100 is the first party being paid, therefore reducing significantly the platform´s risks for shareholders.

Kapital100 is currently in operation. Having commenced our activities with a small number of live loans, we are now raising our first round of funding to grow our credit portfolio.

Please watch our video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43N8c0p8bw

Twitter: @Kapital_100

Anbotux, Juan Mateu

Anbotux is a customer-journey Analytics product API integrable with digital channels & chatbots (by any vendor) and other data sources providing a new type of AI (not NLP nor recommendation) to provide personalization and digital empathy actionable rules to improve the digital channels customer experience.

Anbotux solves the lack of empathy in digital channels especially the conversational ones as chatbots and lack of costumer-journey external-factors aware. From nice to have to must-have new piece for customer-service architecture in intensive in digital customer service verticals as banking, insurance, telcos, utilities, airlines, e-commerce.

In 18 months self-investment development phase Anbotux has a commercial product, first corporate customer and several partnerships, participated in an accelerator in Austria, and got finalist in SouthSummit’18 and Chatbot Summit Startup competition (Tel-Aviv). Now looking for seed capital round combining an equity crowdfunding campaign and direct investments.

Twitter: @anbotux

https://twitter.com/anbotux

If you have a startup and would like to pitch, please contact Allison Rohe: allison.rohe@ie.edu