Area 31 Newsletter
Thursday, 3rd November 2016
Dear Area 31 Entrepreneurs and Friends,
This week Area 31 brings for interesting events and opportunities. Do you have a Startup and you would like to perfect your pitch? Come be a part of Venture Network Weeklies, a great way to get feedback on your product, meet the local startup community, and perhaps even close an investment! It's an opportunity to network with investors and entrepreneurs over beers! This Saturday, IE Business School's Net Impact Club brings for you, 11th Annual Social Responsibility Forum, with a focus on social responsibility at all levels: from start up to the boardroom!
From our Opportunities section we bring for you Venture Day Madrid where selected startup teams get the chance to pitch to an audience of local and international angel and VC investors! Do you have an idea but you need someone to program it for you? Cabify and Ironhack Initiative has joined forces to make this happen! Check out the opportunities by blue BBVA Challenge, Lanzadera, Garaje Program. If you are based near Sevilla, here's your chance to apply Venture Network Sevilla and From our blog meet Area 31 Startup: AdoptaUnAbuelo.org!
Lastly, This week is the Deadline to Apply to Area 31 Startup Incubator, Apply now!
Events: 7th November - 13th November
Venture Network Weeklies
Date: Thursday, 10th November
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Location: The Garden, Area 31
Join us for another round of Venture Network Weeklies this week. Come see startups give a 7-minute pitch in English, hear feedback from the panel of investors, ask the startups your own questions, and meet the local startup community. This weekly event is an informal way to learn and network with people from within and outside of IE while enjoying a beer from our sponsor, Heineken. This event is open to all, Register Here.
11th Annual Social Responsibility Forum
Date: Saturday, 12th November
Time: 9:00 - 19:30
Location: Espacio Geranios, Madrid (Metro Stop Ventillas)
We will focus on social responsibility at all levels: from start up to the boardroom. The goal of this forum is to encourage other students, professionals, and leaders to share their experiences, passions, ideas, and work involving social impact. Breakfast and lunch are included, and participants will have access to workshops, networking events, and more! Visit here for more details.
OPPORTUNITIES
Cabify Initiative powered by Ironhack
Deadline: 14 November 2016
Do you have an idea but you need someone to program it for you? Ironhack and Cabify are making this possible! First, tell them why you have to be chosen, then get into a "StartUpCab and we will make your project come to reality! Read more and sign up here.
Venture Network Sevilla
New edition of Venture Network Sevilla, comes in hand with IE Business School, BStartup, Banco Sabadell & AndalucĂa Open Future, who will gather some of the best startups from the Spanish ecosystem. Learn more, apply and attend here.
blueBBVA Challenge
Date: 26 November 2016
If you are a university or vocational training student, come and spend a day learning how to work in teams while solving some of the challenges that cities are facing today. You can sign up with a team or by yourself, in the latter case, we will find you a team.
The best solutions will go through an incubator program, counting with blue BBVA support, Impact Hub Madrid and real entrepreneurs. The winning team will travel to Berlin to present their project in the global meetup Unlikely Allies. Learn more here.
Lanzadera Program
Apply to Lanzadera or Garaje Program, depending on the needs and maturity of your project. Both programs support entrepreneurs to make their projects come into reality! You will have accessed to counseling and business development training, and even to 9 months of acceleration and up to 200k euros of funding. Read more and apply here.
BLOG
Meet Area 31 Startup: AdoptaUnAbuelo.org
AdoptaUnAbuelo.org is one of Area 31 Startups that has changed the way that we perceive elderly people, their value and how thankful we should be to them. For the time being they have more 200 volunteers in 2 years, present in 5 cities,7 residences, 4 awards (Social innovation, social enterpreneurship), 1,750 applications to be part of AdoptGrandFather from 10 countries, 1800 volunteers hours done and 45 cities where they want to implement their program.
Read more in our blog!
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