On April 24-25, 2025, the EU-Startups Summit returns to Malta for 2 action-packed days of networking, inspiring talks, and in-depth discussions with Europe’s most forward-thinking founders and buyers.
Because the startup panorama matures, collaboration between corporates and startups is turning into an important engine for innovation throughout the continent. Greater than ever, massive enterprises are turning to agile startups for brand spanking new concepts, applied sciences, and enterprise fashions—whereas startups achieve entry to markets, capital, and experience. However how will we transfer from short-term pilots to long-term, scalable partnerships that ship actual affect?
To discover these questions, we’ve introduced collectively two prime specialists for our panel “Company Venturing in Europe: From Pilots to Scalable Partnerships”
Gabriela Matic – Aerospace Xelerated
Gabriela is a Enterprise Accomplice at Aerospace Xelerated, a worldwide aerospace accelerator run in partnership with organisations like Boeing and Tawazun Council. She can also be the Co-founder and Director of Metta, an innovation company targeted on bettering the sustainability and accessibility of innovation. Since 2016, she has supported greater than 150 startups instantly and mentored lots of extra throughout totally different industries and levels. Gabi can also be an angel investor with a selected curiosity in sustainability, well being tech, and underrepresented founders, and she or he continues to advise a variety of early-stage startups.
Manuel Mendigutía – European Innovation Council and SMEs Government Company
With greater than twenty years of expertise in worldwide affairs, financial improvement, and innovation, Manuel is a Senior Technique Adviser and Programme Coordinator on the European Innovation Council and SMEs Government Company (EISMEA), the place he leads the EIC Company Partnership Programme, an initiative aiming to attach the very best European companies with EIC-funded firms. His work focuses on turning pilot collaborations into strategic, scalable partnerships that assist European startups develop.
Victoria Hernandez Valcarcel – CaixaBank
Victoria is a seasoned government and board member with a powerful observe file throughout the tech, banking, and innovation sectors. She at the moment serves as Non-Government Director at CaixaBank Funds & Client, the place she sits on each the Expertise & Innovation and Threat Committees. With extra roles representing the EIC Fund on numerous boards, Victoria performs a key position in driving strategic alignment between corporates and high-tech ventures. She can also be a recognised skilled in European innovation coverage, a champion for variety, and an lively contributor to thought management on digital humanism and rising applied sciences.
This panel is a must-attend for founders trying to navigate company partnerships, innovation leads constructing open innovation frameworks, and buyers within the evolving dynamic between startups and established business leaders.
Safe your ticket at the moment and keep tuned for thrilling updates on our occasion web page—you can even try the total agenda right here to maintain observe of all of the audio system and panels.
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Malta Enterprise is Malta’s financial improvement company, facilitating financial development, funding, and innovation, by providing a variety of assist companies for native and overseas enterprises establishing a productive presence in Malta. As a key participant in Malta’s financial panorama, it contributes to the nation’s prosperity by attracting investments, supporting companies, and driving innovation, thereby reinforcing Malta’s place as a lovely vacation spot for entrepreneurs and buyers alike. Malta Enterprise actively cultivates a vibrant startup ecosystem, taking part in a pivotal position in fostering a conducive atmosphere for startups and providing tailor-made assist and incentives to empower rising companies.
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