Friendsurance is one of these grown-up startups that absolutely nailed it when getting in big sums of investment. In the last year only, they raised 15,3 million US dollar in total by various investors led by Horizons Ventures, and on October 15th their co-founder Sebastian Herfurth will speak on our panel ‘How to deal with big investment’ – alongside founders from Orderbird (Bastian Schmidtke), Incapptic (Rafal Kobylinski) and Jobspotting (Robin Haak).
Global
With only 2 weeks left until the event, the team is working hard to ensure that this year’s event will be the biggest and best yet! We’re currently adding the last few names to our program, we also recently released a guide to getting the most out of our BETAPITCH Global & Investors Day. We’ve invited many relevant and interesting investors, VC’s and accelerator teams, and we got in over one hundred ticket applications from startups! We’re doing our very best to make sure that they all get their tickets as soon as possible. Are you in a startup and haven’t you applied for your ticket yet? You can do so until October 6th – only a few days left!
One of our main BETAPITCH sponsors this year is Airbus Bizlab. They’re working on a pretty amazing accelerator program at the moment and they’re going global soon! About time we’d introduce you to them. We asked Airbus Bizlab Hamburg leader Alexander Katzung some questions.
Smartrade is an app planning to popularize access to the financial market so that anyone can learn to invest in the stock market. Through education and collaboration, users of Smartrade have the opportunity to migrate from a virtual to a real investment environment. The Smartrade team won our BETAPITCH | Campinas in Brazil, so you can look forward to hearing them pitch for global gold this Saturday!
Deutsche Bahn is one of our main BETAPITCH | global sponsors. They’re currently looking to invest in various sorts of startups and they’ve also launched an accelerator program; one that’s currently taking place in betahaus. We got in touch with them and asked them a few big questions.