I got a chance to attend the STHLM TECH Meetup that took place on 8 Dec, 2015 at Hilton Slussen. The event began with latest news and updates from Swedish Startups and what makes Stockholm an ideal place to start a new company. The event was organised and hosted by Tyler Crowley. Tyler Crowley advices early-stage startup founders and helps to create more momentum for the startup ecosystem in Stockholm.

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The main guests of the evening were Boris Golden VC at Partech, Willy Braun VC at Daphni and Pierre-Eric Leibovici Co-founder at Daphni.  20151207_185712All of them are based in France. They talked about the startup scene in France particularly in Paris. They also gave advice on how to give effective, efficient & to the point pitch to attract the attention of VCs. They gave some examples of common mistakes young entrepreneur make while pitching their products in front of the VCs and customers.

Then the pitching session started. The first startup to pitch was Good Times Media. They pitched their product “perfectbanner” which is the world’s first automated ad-enhancement tool. It Auto-enhance AdWords display ads’ creative elements; color, image, message and more.Their algorithm improves conversion by 30-179%..

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The next startup to pitch was banana charge, they provide people’s smartphones with nutrition and energy by offering rentable power banks at parties and night clubs.

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The last startup to pitch was by handiscover. Handiscover.com is the first community based Holiday accommodation-booking website dedicated to people with Physical disabilities. At the core of Handiscover lies a unique classification system, which allows users to select accommodations based on their level of physical disability. Handiscover was ultimately chosen as the best startup to invest in among the three through voting by the audience and the judges.

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The pitches were very interesting and I enjoyed listening to them. The guest VCs (who were also judges for the evening) listened to the pitches and gave valuable suggestion and feedback to these startup after they presented their pitch. Overall it was a good learning experience for me. I got to see practically how actual startups pitch their product in front of VCs and what are the things a VC looks for in a pitch. I gained a lot of knowledge on the art of pitching and also in the field of entrepreneurship and open innovation & user innovation. I got to know how crowdsourcing can be used to make a product better. I could relate practically to many of the theories I learned in class after attending this event. It was a truly amazing event and I would suggest everyone to attend the next STHLM TECH Meetup which will be held in January 2016.

Sarjo

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