Apply Now for EIT Digital Champions & Scale Your Business!

The EIT Digital Champions is a pan-European innovation competitors to establish one of the best European digital know-how scaleups, searching for enterprise capital financing at each the EU-level and past. Winners will likely be rewarded with free entry to the 12-month EIT Digital Progress Providers Program.

What does the EIT Digital Progress Providers Crew do?

The EIT Digital Progress Providers program is designed for European digital deep tech scaleups with worldwide development ambitions. EIT Digital is searching for fast-growing European deep tech firms with a differentiated product providing that leverages refined, hard-to-reproduce digital applied sciences.

Chosen candidates will obtain entry to finance assist tailor-made to your organization’s enterprise wants, offered by a devoted staff of fundraising specialists working from throughout Europe and a hub in Silicon Valley.

How Will EIT Digital Progress Providers Help Your Firm?

PREPARE: Elevating a Sequence A is lots of work. From pitch decks to projections, from deal construction to the info room, it’s time to get organized. Double-check, triple-check, tighten, and polish. With EIT Digital Providers, you’ll construct the arrogance and competence to ace your investor conferences.

CONNECT: Nothing beats a very good community. Broaden your fundraising search effectively past your house nation. EIT Digital’s fundraising consultants have private relationships with traders all throughout Europe. What’s extra, they know what traders need. Get launched to traders whose pursuits match your tech, geography, and ticket measurement. Startups with a global investor broaden sooner and have a greater likelihood to do a big Sequence B spherical.

RAISE: You solely get one likelihood to make a primary impression. Make it rely. With EIT Digital’s custom-made coaching and introductions, you’ll be poised to ship the proper message to the proper viewers on the proper time. Let the traders see your objective, your potential, and your development plan. Discover a strategic and value-adding investor that understands your enterprise. Get a valuation that retains the fairness the place it belongs. Above all, safe the capital inflow you’ll want to develop.

Meet the EIT Digital Progress Providers Crew!

The EIT Digital Progress Providers staff boasts a robust monitor report, serving to 140+ scaleups from 20 nations of their funding journeys with the assist of 1000+ VCs which might be a part of its community. Get to know the staff:

Marie-Caroline Hameon has 15+ years of expertise in M&A and company finance advisory with a concentrate on the digital tech sector. After beginning her profession inside Ernst & Younger TAS (Transaction Advisory Providers) in Paris and New York, Marie-Caroline joined Drake Stars, a Company Banking boutique specializing within the know-how, media, and communication sectors, and labored carefully with entrepreneurs to assist them succeed of their fundraising.

Keen about digital applied sciences, Daniel Michel began his profession as an engineer using distributed software program architectures, whereas engaged on house packages at Airbus. He has been supporting tens of firms in fundraising efforts within the final 10 years, in varied technical areas: SaaS, Enterprise Software program, ClimateTech, MedTech, Fintech, Business 4.0, IoT, HW, and so forth.

Based mostly in London, Ben McClure is a seasoned know-how financing and development advisor and investor. Ben has been serving tech CEOs for greater than twenty years, serving to them develop their companies, getting them prepared for brand spanking new funding, and serving to them safe financing from traders primarily based within the UK and throughout Europe and world wide.

Daniel Auriel is as “deep tech” as they get. He began his profession in chemical and pharmaceutical R&D in giant companies similar to Bayer and Stora Enso earlier than taking up varied innovation, technique, and enterprise assignments centered on superior applied sciences in Germany, China, Israel, and different areas. His work resulted in seven merchandise being delivered to the market, one enterprise unit & one regional workplace created, and one new enterprise mannequin carried out.

Jari Mieskonen is a seasoned enterprise supervisor with expertise of some +120 direct investments primarily within the Nordics and Baltics space. He has all the time protected the founder’s curiosity in complicated deal constructions and saved impartial professionalism in deal-making. Based mostly on his lengthy expertise within the enterprise trade he has seen a number of cycles out there and is aware of that timing is usually extra essential than most worth.

That is what the CEO & Co-Founding father of Sensoneo needed to say after elevating EUR 6.2 million in funding with the assistance of the EIT Digital Progress Providers staff:

“The assist of EIT Digital’s consultants was extremely beneficial as we pursued our purpose of a Sequence A funding. This fundraising will permit us to consolidate our market main place, whereas on the identical time proceed to innovate to be on the forefront of our buyer wants”

– Martin Basila, CEO and Co-Founding father of Sensoneo, an EIT Digital Progress Providers portfolio firm

How Does Your Firm Profit by Becoming a member of EIT Digital Champions?

EIT Digital will shortlist as much as 50 firms to take part as finalists on this competitors. They are going to have the chance to pitch to a jury of high-profile traders. Moreover, winners will likely be invited to attend a high-profile European tech convention and an related VIP investor dinner occasion hosted by EIT Digital. Additional, becoming a member of EIT Digital Champions advantages your organization within the following methods:

Elevate your subsequent Sequence A or B spherical from strategic worldwide traders.
Leverage EIT Digital’s 300+ Pan-European community of high European companies, traders, SMEs, universities and analysis establishments.
Achieve worldwide visibility by EIT Digital communication channels.