Who says European startups can’t raise serious venture capital?
Word came from ividence CEO Eric Didier this morning that 2-year old startup, ividence, closed a $4.2 million Series A financing with A Plus Finance, a Paris-based private equity firm. ividence is a SaaS email ad network that generates [...]
Continue Reading →Congratulations are in order for our partner, the City of Zaragoza in northern Spain, which completed a key milestone in the city’s transformation to an information economy. Centro de Incubación Empresarial (CIEM) a 2,000 sq meter facility opened this month to house up to 30 young companies building businesses in information [...]
Continue Reading →A year ago, Guidewire Group embarked on an ambitious plan to seek out the Innovate!100, a global list of the 100 startups demonstrating high potential and higher velocity as they build their businesses from idea to sustainability. Today, after more than 30 Pitch Slam events in more than 30 cities on [...]
Continue Reading →Last week, Guidewire Group kicked off the Innovate 2010 program with Pitch Slam events in Zaragoza and Madrid. In all, 22 companies presented their businesses in our fast-paced, 5-minute format designed to quickly tease out a company’s market opportunity, unique differentiation, and execution against plans. As company’s pitch the business, our [...]
Continue Reading →Guidewire Group is looking for early-stage companies that have what it takes to be named one of the world’s most promising startups. Our Innovate!2010 global competition will consist of Pitch Slams around the world, kicking off March 1st in Barcelona.
The top 100 companies chosen from these Pitch Slams [...]
Continue Reading →It’s been an exciting morning around here, with the news of Chris passing the DEMO Executive Producer baton to Matt Marshall and DEMO’s new partnership with Venture Beat. Chris has detailed her personal feelings on leaving DEMO after 13 years, but we also wanted to take a moment to [...]
Continue Reading →Several weeks ago, we published a list of the participating startups in our Going Global workshop for Innovate!Europe. The kickoff workshop in Zaragoza had 24 enthusiastic startups, all hungry for knowledge and tips on succeeding in Silicon Valley and beyond. With such great ideas and innovative entrepreneurs, it was [...]
Continue Reading →We’re back from an incredible kickoff to our Going Global workshops in Zaragoza, Spain for Innovate!Europe. When we initially announced Innovate, we knew we’d see some good entrants from entreprenuers in Europe but weren’t prepared for the overwhelming response. We had a packed day in Zaragoza last week, with 24 participating startups, [...]
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