On April 24-25, we’ll be internet hosting the eleventh version of the EU-Startups Summit in lovely and sunny Malta! With round 2,200 founders, traders, and startup lovers becoming a member of us for 2 days filled with insights, inspiration, and high-impact networking, that is certainly one of Europe’s most fun startup occasions.
Among the many many highlights of this 12 months’s version, we’re excited to convey again our “Traders on Stage” session. This format flips the standard pitch mannequin—this time, it’s the traders doing the pitching!
We’ve invited a curated number of high-profile enterprise capitalists to take the primary stage, the place every can have 2-3 minutes to current their agency, funding focus, and how much startups they’re at present on the lookout for. It’s a useful alternative for founders to get a transparent image of which VCs are the very best match for his or her stage, sector, and ambition.
In the event you’re a startup founder, you know the way essential it’s to do your homework earlier than approaching traders. By attending our Traders on Stage session and taking full benefit of the chance to community with 250+ traders on the occasion, you’ll get a strategic edge in your fundraising journey.
Day 1:
Anca Albu – QAI Ventures
Anca is the Chief Operations Officer at QAI Ventures, a Switzerland-based VC and accelerator centered on Quantum, AI, and Superior Computing. With over 15 years within the international tech ecosystem, she oversees fund operations and startup help from lab to IPO.
Aldo Giordano – Malta Enterprise Capital
Aldo is a Advisor at Malta Enterprise Capital, specializing in early-stage investments that leverage Malta’s strategic location and innovation-driven ecosystem. He additionally serves as a Non-Govt Director at Lombard Financial institution Malta, supporting monetary development and startup collaboration.
Alexander Zemlyak – Geek Ventures
Alexander is the Principal at Geek Ventures, the place he focuses on investing in pre-Seed and Seed-stage startups with daring, high-impact concepts. With almost a decade of VC expertise, together with management roles at LETA Capital and Founders Manufacturing facility, he brings a robust background in B2B software program, knowledge, and worldwide deal stream.
Anaïs Cimbidhi – PT1
Anaïs is a part of the funding workforce at PT1, a pre-seed and seed-stage VC agency based mostly in Berlin. PT1 backs startups constructing transformative options for the constructed surroundings, vitality transition, and local weather adaptation. With preliminary tickets between €300K and €4M, the agency helps founders throughout Europe by means of hands-on steerage.
Angelo Burgarello – Look AI Ventures
Angelo is an Funding Board Member and Accomplice at Look AI Ventures, the primary Czech fund focusing completely on early-stage AI startups. The agency backs visionary founders who’re constructing real-world AI purposes throughout a spread of industries. The fund sometimes invests as much as €250K with room for follow-on rounds.
Conor Scanlan – Nauta Capital
Conor is an Affiliate companion at Nauta Capital, a pan-European VC agency with workplaces in London, Barcelona, and Berlin. He focuses on B2B software program and has a eager curiosity in deeptech, enterprise automation, and SaaS options with scalable enterprise fashions.
Ekke Van Vliet – EIC Fund
Ekke is the Funding Coordinator on the EIC Fund, the European Union’s multi-billion enterprise capital car backing high-impact deep-tech startups throughout the continent. With a background in enterprise economics and auditing, he brings over 20 years of expertise in monetary management roles inside EU establishments.
Fernando Peres Ferreira – Ventures.eu
Fernando is a Accomplice at Ventures.eu, a Portuguese VC fund centered on backing deep tech and impact-driven startups throughout Portugal and the European Union. He at present leads investments in modern, sector-agnostic ventures with international potential, supporting founders by means of strategic steerage and entry to a rising worldwide community.
Georgia Haigh – Anthemis
Georgia is an Affiliate at Anthemis, a worldwide enterprise funding platform centered on reshaping monetary providers. Primarily based in London, she works on early-stage offers throughout Europe and is especially captivated with supporting feminine founders and shutting the funding hole.
Iryna Krepchuk – Trind VC
Returning to our stage this 12 months, Iryna is an Funding Affiliate at Trind VC, a seed-stage enterprise fund centered on software program startups with neighborhood and consumer-driven fashions. Primarily based in Tallinn, Trind is especially energetic throughout Northern and Central Europe.
Javier González-Soria y Moreno de la Santa – Traveltech.vc
A seasoned investor and journey {industry} knowledgeable, Javier leads Traveltech.vc, an funding agency devoted to early-stage startups innovating in journey and hospitality. He brings many years of strategic perception and a ardour for remodeling how we discover the world.
Jon Steinberg – Mountside Ventures
Jon is a Founding Accomplice at Mountside Ventures, a London-based agency serving to startups increase funding from VC and household workplace traders. A chartered accountant, he helps firms from Seed to Collection B with fundraising technique, valuations, and interim CFO experience.
Nicola Weiroster – Onsight Ventures
Nicola is a Junior Funding Supervisor at Onsight Ventures, an early-stage VC agency backing deep tech startups in fields like semiconductors, quantum, photonics, and AI. Primarily based in Austria, she helps portfolio improvement by means of deal sourcing, due diligence, and ecosystem engagement.
Noémi Szabó – Elevator Ventures
Primarily based in Vienna, Noémi is a Senior affiliate and key participant at Elevator Ventures, the enterprise arm of Raiffeisen Financial institution Worldwide. The agency backs growth-stage fintech and deeptech startups, and Noémi actively appears for European founders with scalable options and cross-border ambitions.
Thomas Bigagli – Plug and Play
Thomas is a Accomplice at Plug and Play, one of many world’s most energetic early-stage traders and the most important open innovation platform globally. With expertise throughout 10 nations and 4 continents, he has backed over 200 startups from pre-seed to Collection A and helped launch greater than 10 Plug and Play workplaces worldwide.
Day 2:
Anthony Bellafiore – Katapult
Anthony is an Funding Supervisor at Katapult, a worldwide affect funding agency backing startups that speed up the inexperienced transition and social affect. He focuses on ocean and local weather tech options with scalable, measurable affect.
Ekaterina Gianelli – Calm/Storm
Ekaterina is a Enterprise Accomplice at Calm/Storm, Europe’s most energetic early-stage investor in digital well being. She focuses on backing purpose-driven well being tech startups and supporting founders from throughout Europe.
Hege Tollerud – Brighteye Ventures
Hege is Head of Neighborhood at Brighteye Ventures, Europe’s most energetic edtech-focused VC fund, investing in startups that assist folks be taught and develop. With over 15 years of expertise in media and communications, she builds sturdy ecosystems by means of insights, occasions, and help.
Igor Ryabenkiy – AltaIR Capital
Igor is the Founder and Managing Accomplice of AltaIR Capital, a worldwide enterprise agency managing over $600 million in belongings. Primarily based in Portugal, he leads investments throughout Europe, the US, and Israel, backing early-stage startups. His portfolio consists of unicorns equivalent to Deel, Miro, and PandaDoc.
Jaren Schippert – Id Ventures
Jaren is an Investor at Id Ventures, a VC fund backing early-stage startups led by LGBTQ+ founders throughout Europe and past. Primarily based in Berlin, he helps daring, purpose-driven entrepreneurs who’re disrupting industries and difficult the established order.
Karina Vantslav – Extremely.vc
Karina is a Programme Supervisor at ULTRA.VC, an early-stage investor with an in-house accelerator for impact-driven European founders. Primarily based in Krakow, she helps purpose-led startups with hands-on steerage, international development instruments, and founder well-being.
Luca Pauline Paeschke
– SevenVentures
Luca is a Senior Affiliate at SevenVentures, the company VC arm of ProSiebenSat.1, supporting high-growth shopper startups by means of media-for-equity investments. Primarily based in Berlin, she helps manufacturers scale throughout Europe with a deal with advertising technique and visibility.
Michal Sikyta – Soulmates Ventures
Michal is an Funding Accomplice at Soulmates Ventures, a green-focused VC and accelerator backing sustainable startups throughout sectors like vitality, mobility and round economic system. He helps purpose-driven groups by means of funding, mentorship, and structured go-to-market programmes.
Mohamed Foulser – Redstone
Mohamed is a part of the funding workforce at Redstone, the place he leads the agency’s Industrial technique, masking every little thing from deal sourcing to portfolio help. With a background in engineering and entrepreneurship, he brings a robust technical perspective to the workforce, serving to consider deeptech and industry-focused alternatives.
Pekka Makki – 3TS Capital
Pekka is Managing Accomplice at 3TS Capital Companions, certainly one of Europe’s main tech-focused development capital companies. With over 20 years of expertise, he helps formidable scale-ups throughout sectors like software program, media, and tech-enabled providers all through Europe.
Philipp Hauptmann – STS Ventures
Philipp is an Funding Supervisor at STS Ventures, a Cologne-based early-stage VC agency led by serial entrepreneur Stephan Schubert. He helps technology-driven startups throughout Germany, serving to founders refine technique, construct traction, and scale with skilled, hands-on steerage.
Talia Rafaeli – Kompas VC
Talia is a Accomplice and Co-founder at Kompas VC, the place she leads the agency’s Barcelona workplace and oversees investments throughout Israel, the Iberian Peninsula, and the US. She brings deep experience in mobility, deeptech, and rising automotive applied sciences.
Thomas Cuvelier – RTP International
Thomas is a Accomplice at RTP International, an early-stage VC agency backing formidable tech founders throughout Europe, the US, and India. He focuses on enterprise software program and AI, and has supported startups driving innovation in complicated, regulated markets.
Verica Poposka – Accelerace
Verica is a Senior Affiliate at Accelerace, certainly one of Scandinavia’s most energetic pre-seed traders and startup accelerators. Copenhagen-based, she drives worldwide funding initiatives and helps early-stage startups in sectors like well being, cleantech, and foodtech.
Viktoriia Korytska – Flyer One Ventures
Viktoriia is an Investor at Flyer One Ventures, an early-stage VC backing startups throughout Europe and North America in sectors like AI, SaaS, and shopper tech. Primarily based in Amsterdam, she focuses on deal sourcing and utilizing data-driven insights to help scalable innovation.
Don’t miss the prospect to fulfill these and lots of different traders dwell in Malta on April 24-25! Take a look at the full agenda right here and seize your ticket whereas they final. Whether or not you’re fundraising, scouting for alternatives, or simply curious to listen to what’s trending within the VC world, the Traders on Stage session is an unmissable a part of the EU-Startups Summit expertise.
OUR HEADLINE SPONSOR
Malta Enterprise is Malta’s financial improvement company, facilitating financial development, funding, and innovation, by providing a spread of help providers 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 sexy vacation spot for entrepreneurs and traders alike. Malta Enterprise actively cultivates a vibrant startup ecosystem, enjoying a pivotal function in fostering a conducive surroundings for startups and providing tailor-made help and incentives to empower rising companies.
OUR SPONSORS
Scytale helps startups get compliant and keep compliant with frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, NIS 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS and extra, with out breaking a sweat.
Airwallex is a number one international monetary platform for contemporary companies, providing trusted options to handle every little thing from funds, treasury, and spend administration to embedded finance. With their proprietary infrastructure, Airwallex takes the friction out of worldwide funds and monetary operations, empowering companies of all sizes to unlock new alternatives and develop past borders. Proudly based in Melbourne, Airwallex helps over 100,000 companies globally and is trusted by manufacturers equivalent to Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and lots of extra.
EUROCROWD is an impartial community organisation aiming to help and promote crowdfunding in its place funding mechanism for small and medium-sized enterprises and modern initiatives. EUROCROWD promotes and helps the event of Crowdfunding mechanisms as a viable funding supply to European entrepreneurs and funders.
M. Demajo Group is a number one enterprise participant in Malta, with a profitable historical past spanning 115 years. The Group’s development and diversification have resulted in a large protection of enterprise sectors by means of a dedication to long-term outcomes. M. Demajo Group’s workforce is 500 sturdy and their numerous actions have been developed by means of natural development, acquisitions, partnerships, and startups. Its sturdy monetary state of affairs and moral requirements, its enterprise status, and its famend observe report as a enterprise companion are all key components in its continued growth.
The European Innovation Council (EIC) is a flagship initiative of the European Fee to show disruptive European science into groundbreaking business propositions and speed up the scale-up of “game-changing” improvements. It’s a key constructing bloc of a bolstered European ecosystem and the New European Innovation Agenda, filling the hole between R&D help, personal traders, and the market. With a finances of over €10 billion below the Horizon Europe Programme (2021-2027), it seeks to place Europe as a worldwide chief within the present wave of deep tech innovation.
