Di Digital Startup Tour 2017 Stockholm
27 september var det premiär för Startup Tour 2017
Stort tack till alla som var med oss under premiärkvällen på Hotel Rival.
Under eventet fick vi följa dramatiken när dessa sju vassa startupbolag pitchade på scen, där publiken tillsammans med en eminent jury korade kvällens vinnare - Inkbay. Vinnaren går vidare till finalomgången som hålls i Stockholm den 7 december. Här kan du läsa om priserna som de pitchande bolagen gör upp om.
Läs om hela turnén på startuptour.di.se
Förutom en rafflande tävling bjuds det även på mingel och förfriskningar!
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Ansökan till att pitcha på Startup Tour 2017 är tyvärr stängd. MEN, registrera dig här så kontaktar vi dig när nästa tillfälle ges att pitcha på ett Di Digital event!
Årets turné:
Stockholm 27 september: Hotel Rival
Umeå 11 oktober: Väven
Linköping 25 oktober: Torn1
Göteborg 8 november: Kajskjul 8
Malmö 22 november: Slagthuset
Final i Stockholm 7 december: Kulturhuset
Hotel Rival
Mariatorget 3, 118 91 Stockholm
Var med på plats och rösta fram vinnaren!
15.30 Ankomst
16.00 Intro av Di Digital
16.15 Intervju med Jacob De Geer
16.35 "I huvudet på"
16.40 Tävling del 1 – Pitch (läs om pitcharna här)
17.50 Paus med mingel
18.20 Intervju med- Anna Ryott
18.35 Tävling del 2 - Mot väggen
19.00 Publiken röstar - vinnaren utses
19.10 AW med mingel, förfriskningar och chans till att träffa våra partners
Vinnaren av Startup Tour 2017 belönas med flera fina priser från våra partners, läs mer om det här.
Läs om hela turnén på startuptour.di.se
OSA till Stockholm 27/9
På scen
Anna Ryottvice vd Norrsken Foundation
Anna Ryott professional aim is to do everything in her power to eradicate poverty and fight climate change through sustainable business.
Anna Ryott is Deputy CEO of Norrsken Foundation. Norrsken has established Norrsken House which has quickly become the largest hub for social entrepreneurship in Europe. But more than the physical space, it's also grown into an ecosystem for making the world better through technology, bringing together business, government and entrepreneurs.
Anna has extensive professional experience from business and civil society organisations, such as; Swedfund, SOS Children's Villages Sweden ,UNICEF Sweden, McCann, McKinsey and Hagströmer & Qviberg.
Anna Ryott also sits on the board in the World Childhood Foundation, the UN Foundation Global Entrepreneurs Council and the Anna Lindh Academy. In 2014, she was awarded H.M. The King's Medal for "Significant contributions to Swedish society and industry".
Jacob de GeerFounder / CEO at iZettle
Jacob de Geer is a serial entrepreneur. Recognised as one of the most influential leaders in fintech, Jacob is co-founder and CEO of iZettle, a Swedish business named by The Financial Times as one of Europe’s fastest growing companies. Under Jacob’s leadership, iZettle has grown into a ‘one-stop-shop’ for small business commerce. Live in 12 markets in Europe and Latin America, more than 1000 new small businesses sign up to access iZettle’s financial and commercial tools each day. Prior to launching iZettle, Jacob co-founded movie sharing firm, Ameibo, and Tre Kronor Media, an award-winning communications agency. Jacob cut his teeth at performance marketing firm TradeDoubler. He was the first employee and helped to grow the advertising network to become one of the largest in Europe before its listing on the Swedish stock exchange in 2005.
Christoffer NormanInvestment Manager, Northzone (Jury)
Christoffer joined Northzone in 2017 and is based in the Stockholm office. His primary areas of interest are businesses with network effects, especially marketplaces. Prior to joining Northzone, Christoffer was COO and Head of Verticals at Avito, one of the largest marketplaces in the world. Before this, Christoffer was at McKinsey and the Swedish Embassy in Moscow. He has a BSc in Business and Economics from SSE.
Sanna WestmanInvestment Manager, Creandum (Jury)
Sanna is an investment manager at Creandum, with an extra eye on Digital Health and the future of commerce.
Sanna has deep experience in e-commerce, digital financial services and M&A. Before joining Creandum she worked for the Kinnevik company Qliro Group, where she was head of business development with responsibility for the Groups new strategy and M&A, and later led the health subsidiaries Bodystore.com and FitnessMarket. Prior to this, Sanna spent several years at McKinsey working with improvements in the Public Sector, growth strategy and M&A for consumer companies.
On top of searching for interesting companies in Europe, she has a weak spot for sports in general and swimrun in particular.
Magdalena JernerPartner, European Trademark and Design Attorney, Zacco (Jury)
Magdalena has long experience of working with strategic and legal matters relating to Intellectual Property. This includes advice regarding legal protection, conflicts and agreements relating to trademarks, copyright, design and patents as well as related areas as marketing law and data protection law. Her goal is to help her client’s to create and maintain strong and necessary IP that supports the client’s business case.
Katja BergmanCo-founder and Partner, MOOR, Technology investment firm, Sweden (Jury)
Katja has longstanding experience building global technology businesses. Katja was part of the commercial team at Nokia Networks in the very early days and has held held senior business development positions at both Nokia and Ericsson head-offices. As co-founder of Pipebeach, she was part in taking a tech start-up from idea to a global leader in interactive voice services. The company was acquired by HP. Katja holds a M.Sc in Engineering MBA from the University of Technology,Helsinki.
She is passionate about new technology and ways to change the world for the better.
Anna SöderholmInvestment Manager, Almi Invest (Jury)
Anna is one of 40 Investment Managers at Almi Invest, the most active seed stage venture capital investor in Sweden doing 45-75 new investments/year, focusing on investments across multiple sectors. Anna focus on investments mainly within tech. She’s active in all parts of the investment process, from deal sourcing to exit. She has a mix of companies in her portfolio within adtech, fintech, IT security, IoT, both B2B and B2C, hardware and software. Anna is passionate about well-composed entrepreneurial teams building brilliant products at the same time as they are brilliant in taking them to the market.
Tina ZetterlundSenior Tax Partner, Head of Tax, KPMG (Jury)
Tina is the Senior Tax Partner and Head of Tax at KPMG, and is one of the leading tax advisers in Sweden. Tina has advised Swedish and foreign companies in a wide range of sectors for more than 15 years. She has extensive experience of advising on Swedish and international taxation, mergers and acquisitions, tax litigation, tax compliance and tax accounting. With her combined skills in accounting and tax, Tina is appreciated by her clients for her ability to see the full spectrum of tax related issues and is regularly consulted on tax issues with financial statements impacts. Tina is also widely recognized for her candid and operative advice, based upon her own previous experiences as a CFO and audit manager.
Anders WedahlTechnology Evangelist Manager Northern Europe, Microsoft (Jury)
With a long background as an architect in the financial services industry, Anders started at Microsoft 10 years ago. He has contributed with solutions and expertise to all business segments from early startups to ISVs and larger corporations. Anders is a trusted advisor not only in technology but also in business management and has been involved with many successful startups choosing Microsoft as their business enabler.
Today Anders is leading a technical team of 16 people in northern Europe that are focusing on technical innovations that enable organizations and developer communities to achieve more.
Yvonne KarolinManager Accenture Interactive (Jury)
Long background within Swedish retail, both in fashion and in groceries. Main roles as ecommerce manager and development manager ecommerce and in these roles supporting in the move from traditional retailing to digital retail. She has contributed to digital business changes. She has worked with the optimization of the new businessprocesses needed for the change and she has great knowledge in all supporting technologies that come along with this shift. She has enabled and worked with digital marketing, digital (and physical) sales, logistics, organisation change and the overall IT architectural choices connected to support this.
Today Yvonne works alongside retailers advising in digital transformation and business development to move towards the seamless customerjourneys that is needed to prevail in the competetion of today.
Huvudpartner
Zacco
Zacco är ett modernt konsultdrivet företag med ett 360° perspektiv på immateriella rättigheter (IP).Vår vision är att säkra och skydda våra kunders innovationsprocesser och immateriella tillgångar. Med vår tekniska och juridiska expertis kombinerad med vår erfarenhet arbetar vi för att värna om våra kunders innovationer så att dessa kan utvecklas och nå deras fulla potential.
Volkswagen
Satsningar på ny teknik är helt avgörande för oss för att klara framtidens krav på hållbar mobilitet. Strävanden mot ökad elektrifiering, digitalisering och självkörande bilar är centrala delar i våra
framtidsinvesteringar. All form av utveckling som gynnar ny teknik är därför något vi gärna uppmuntrar. Därför känns det viktigt för oss att vara en del av Di Digital Startup Tour och på det sättet möta människor som står för den typen av initiativ.
Nordea
Nordea brinner för entreprenörskap eftersom vi anser att det är Sveriges framtid och utveckling. Därför är vi stolt partner till DI Digital Startup Tour. Under deltävlingarna har alla start-ups som besöker vår monter möjlighet att skapa en unik pitch för sitt företag. Allt spelas in och du får sedan en färdig video så att du kan sprida budskapet om ditt företag. Ta del av våra bästa tips för att få till en vinnande pitch här.
Accenture
Förmågan att skapa och genomföra innovativa idéer är central för oss på Accenture och i arbetet med våra kunders digitalisering. Vi vill genom vårt partnerskap med Di Digital Startup Tour hjälpa till att säkra återväxten inom den svenska startupscenen och hålla den digitala innovationstakten – inom alla delar av samhället – uppe.
Microsoft
Microsofts vision är att hjälpa människor och företag över hela världen att förverkliga deras fulla potential och tillsammans med våra partner driver vi utvecklingen och digitaliseringen av samhället framåt. DI Digital Startup Tour ser vi som en fantastisk möjlighet att bidra till att fördjupa vår satsning på ny digital innovation och hjälpa startups att nå framgång.
KPMG
Vi drivs av att skapa trygghet och bidra i förändring – viktiga faktorer för växande bolag som behöver både stabilitet och flexibilitet. KPMG hjälper i dag tiotusentals företag och organisationer runtom i landet med revision, rådgivning och förändringsresor. Vi ser Di Digital Startup Tour som en fantastisk möjlighet att få fortsätta bidra till näringslivet och innovationskraften i Sverige.
VC partner
Almi Invest
Almi Invest är Sveriges mest aktiva investerare i startups. Vi gör investeringar i hela landet via 8 regionala riskkapitalbolag och ett nationellt riskkapitalbolag inom GreenTech. Almi Invest förvaltar cirka 3 miljarder kronor och har sedan start investerat i ca 600 startups. Våra bästa innehav har förvärvats av bl a Google, Microsoft, Qlik och Apple eller noterats på olika börser. Almi Invest är ett riskkapitalbolag inom Almi-koncernen.
Organizers
Di Digital
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Projektledare
cornelia.andersdotter@di.sePartneransvarig
turid.synnermark@di.seMarknadsförare
josefine.vonuthmann@di.se