Startups and the entrepreneurial spirit around Europe has become more nurtured leading to Start-up hubs becoming common place.
We’ve seen a slow and steady development of these startup ecosystems over the years where almost every industry has developed its own startup ‘ecosystem’. Take a look the Netherlands where you have cities that focus on specific industries and they have supported the growth and development of their own ecosystems. Then you have top down approaches like Startup Delta that has unified the ecosystems to create a brand of the whole country.
There have been some amazing initiatives built to empower tech entrepreneurs, angel communities in the recent years. Take for example what Startup Nation has done — they effectively created such a transparent ecosystem that it is clear where you need to go and who are the people in the know around specific topics. This transparency creates more opportunitysince it’s easier to spot them.
Then take VC — following US trends we finally see other continents applying the same methodic ideologies to scale fast. In terms of connecting you see rapid intro’s, 10/15 minutes meetings and calls. With these quick meetings you can instantly focus on the problem at hand and see where you can add value. This is often done without direct return for the party that is providing the value.
Having said that, every top VC sees hundreds of early stage startups every year and use the information collected build internal data rooms on all these startups. This information remains closed as they are not sharing it. This to us seems extremely ineffective.
Fast Forward to the point where a startup finally hits the + 2M revenue mark and all of a sudden the market becomes more transparent, it’s easy to raise funding, get media attention and so on.
Thus we feel that early stage companies that are building game changing technology can get lost in the noise that startup ecosystems generate. The pioneers never reach ‘pioneer’ status as they are unable to reach the people can can drive them to changing the world and only limited the people or VC’s in their closed networks.
e/dt/ Global Foundation is built around a single premise. To facilitate the pioneers in emerging tech, who are fundamentally changing the way our world operates. We will start by connecting these pioneers with incumbents in their respective markets, with community leaders and influencers.
The foundation wants to further empower local community leaders that are already trying to break open the emerging tech landscape. Currently, they don’t have the means to do so.
The initiator for this foundation has travelled around Europe on the hunt for community leaders to understand what is missing. e/d/t will integrate the feedback that has been collected to connect the worlds ecosystem. With the funds we raise we aim to support these local communities and build the worlds first global community. We do this as a foundation so we are not influenced by profit or stakeholders.
One other thing: At e/d/t we are tired of networking events and only want people who are willing to provide knowledge. We do not do ‘networking’ and over the period of the foundation we will be introducing and actively pushing the newest form of information exchange; We call this ‘deep neural linking’.
e/d/t Global – First event – November 22nd at TQ Amsterdam
We are focusing on blockchain in our first event: yes it is hype but this quote from Deloitte sums up our stance.
“Blockchain will be bigger than you can imagine, but getting there will be harder than everybody expected”
At this event we will hear from some of the top voices in Europe and learn from their experiences. See the full lineup below.
The aim during our first event is to educate people about blockchain and provide them with the resources and knowledge for a source of ‘truth’ regarding this ever changing world. Just as you can’t program without having a good basic understand knowledge, the same goes for blockchain. At the end of the day it is just a database however with the new magical solutions it provides more things are possible than ever before in almost all industries.
In the coming months we’ll dive into other key areas in emerging tech that we defined as ‘fundamental’.
Confirmed speakers:
Toby Lewis is founder and CEO of Novum Insights, that has produced the definitive special report on blockchain startups in September 2017 tracking 1,000 ICOs & monitoring 2,318 blockchain startups. He will share key insights on the 3B dollars worth of blockchain related deals done in 2017.
Galia Benartzi from Bancor (Tel-Aviv) will share her views and experience on why we need tokens, the Bancor Protocol and User-Generated Currencies through a call-in interview. She is a technology entrepreneur, building software startups since 2005 when she graduated college. She’s been through acquisitions, wind downs, venture capital financing and everything in between.
Piers Ridyard from Radix (London) will talk about the technology that underpins blockchain, his vision & Radix. He started in blockchain by experimenting with creating insurance smart contracts that could operate without the need for a carrier in early 2015. Before taking the helm at Radix, he co-founded Surematics, a commercial blockchain insurance startup, helping to create the world’s first decentralised dataroom.
Panel information:
Moderated by: James Roy Poultier / CEO Blockchain Reserve
After a professional career covering finance and technology, James is dedicated to improving society through blockchains.
Forbes 30 under 30.
#1 Kellogg N. Fairbank / Monetha
Entrepreneur, Mentor and Advisor providing digital commerce strategy and advising European, US and Asia based companies, specifically related to cross-border/mobile commerce, blockchain and cryptocurrency.
#2 Daniel Haudenschild / CEO of Swisscom Blockchain AG
Digital Architect, developing the solutions that allow companies to shed the baggage of IT infrastructure and focus on their core business in a digital marketplace, Daniel has 20 years of experience in global 500 advisory working as a partner at EY. Most recently leading Financial Services Performance Improvement and distributed architecture division for EY. Working with distributed ledgers technologies to develop and explore market origination activities for FinTech.
#3 Marleen Evertsz / CEO of Nxchange
Buidling the next generation stock exhange.
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