Coaching and mentoring scheme for ICT SMEs at the European level

Funded by FP7,the EIG project is organising a competition at the European level to benefit from a coaching scheme – a bootcamp session in November 2014- and get access to over 6.600 investors all over Europe.

The challenge :  Many EU funded projects have greatly helped to carry on ICT research and to develop innovative technologies. But despite of their commercial potential, these new ideas often fall in the so-called “valley of death”, the gap between knowledge generation and its commercialization. As a result of this phenomenon, many potentially exciting and useful new technologies do not enter into the European market as new products or services and investors miss the opportunity to foresee the tangible productivity of innovation.

The strategy: The central goal of the European Investor Gate project (EIG) is to bring results of European research projects to the market and to make ICT researchers, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or first-time entrepreneurs investor ready. At the same time EIG will raise awareness among investors for innovative early stage research projects and their economic potential.
    
The competition: The EIG Competition is open for researchers, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and first-time entrepreneurs in ICT sectors. EIG supports participants in developing compelling business strategies and to find the right investment partners.
Profit from the ongoing selection to participate in  webinars, investment fora, investor readiness trainings, picthing events and e.pitches! In addition, you can win one out of 50 places for the Silicon Stroll Bootcamp in Dublin on 3rd and 4th November supported by Google and Paypall.
Be selected as one of the 50 “most investable” start-ups and get investor-ready at the Silicon Stroll Bootcamp!

Further information: download  the project presentation by clicking here