Area 31 Newsletter
Thursday 15th of January 2015
Dear Area 31 Entrepreneurs and Friends,
EVENTS JAN 19TH - JAN 25TH
EU Mobile Challenge Acceleration Camp
Monday, January 19 2015
15:30 – 18:00
Location: Area 31, The Garden
The Acceleration Camp is intended to provide teams competing in the EU Mobile challenge with a tangible roadmap of how to take their mobile app ideas and make them commercial-ready.This involves introducing them to the lean start-up methodology and outline the best practices in mobile app development from other developers. During the Acceleration Programme, teams will be exposed to potential corporate partners, accelerators, and angel investors who could provide them with additional support during the coming months.
Pitch 2 Peers
18:30--21:30
Location: Area 31, The Garden
Sparring for Investment Readiness. A Startup entrepreneur, prepared to convince investors, pitches to an audience of fellow entrepreneurs and experts. Working in teams of five, the participants provide valuable feedback to improve the pitch and investment readiness of the Startup. Sign up here
Venture Lab Session
19:00--22:00
Location: Area 31
Private sessions for participants in IE Business School's Venture Lab accelerator. This is the first session for the new Venture Lab intake. The teams will be introduced to the Venture Lab methodology and they will have a first opportunity to pitch their ideas.
Agrotech Startup Coming to Area 31
Tuesday 20 January 2015
18:00--19:00
Location: Area 31, The Garden
5 million euros to be disbursed in supporting technology, training and investment projects in the following areas: agriculture (agrotech), water (aquatech), biomass, drones, big data and eHealth during 2015. Interested? Agrotech are coming to Area31 to explain the project and meet you. To register click here
Entrepreneurial Management Session
Thursday January 22 2015
13:30 – 16:00
Location: Area 31, The Hill
Venture Network
18:30--21:30
Location: Area 31, The Garden
Come and join our weekly informal gathering for startups, investors and anyone interested in entrepreneurship. This pitch slam, in a casual setting over beers, is perfect to focus on what’s important: building relationships, practicing and improving. Find more info and register to pitch here.
Betabeers Madrid
Friday 23 January 2015
19:30--21:30
Location: Area 31
Among the key factors driving the acceptance of a SDK in the developer community is a combination of ease of use and potential usefulness. Betabeers has always had a strong focus on providing developers and startups with the best payment tools. If you want to discover how to integrate Cards, PayPal, BitCoin, Apple Pay in a simple, secure and fast way, come and join Betabeers talk about v.zero. sign up here
For IE startup teams who are looking for developers, you can apply to pitch at the end of Betabeers. More Info here
Entreprenuerial Management session
Saturday January 24 2015
12:00 – 14:30
Location: Area 31, The Valley
OPPORTUNITIES
EU funding for your StartUps and SMEs - up to 2,5 million euro
Looking at Funding your startup?The European Young Innovators Forum(EYIF) through its partner EU StartUps Services can help. They are aimed at empowering Entrepreneurs, StartUps and SMEs to access public finance of between EUR 50.000 and EUR 2,5 Million from the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme. Access the 30% discount with this promo code: IEVentureLab
FROM THE BLOG
Meet the Startups in Area 31: Bee Bee Babies
Author: Marta Carruesco, Bee Bee Babies
Bee Bee Babies is a baby clothes firm which garments grow with the baby so it can be used longer than usual. We design, produce and sell our products.
How does it works?
We looked for the perfect design for long, we tried several systems to get it, and finally we realised that we had it in front of us. We said: “make it simple”, and then an easy, comfortable and practical design came to us. Read More
AVAILABILITY OF THE SPACE
- Monday, January 19th, 19:00-21:30, Only half of the space will be available
- Thursday, January 22nd, 13:30-15:00, Only half of the space will be available
- Friday, January 23rd, 19:30-21:30, Only half of the space will be available
- Saturday, January 24th, 12:00-15:00, Only half of the space will be available