ITALIAN TRADE AGENCY (ITA) and BORSA Ä°STANBUL PRIVATE MARKET invited seven innovative startups from Italy to meet Turkish investors at Borsa Ä°stanbul on Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 12:00pm. Each startup executive will make a seven-minute pitch, followed by a four-minute Q&A session. After the pitching sessions, startup executives will start investment negotiations at the following coffee break.
Italian Startups operating in Augmented Reality, Video Generation from data, Quality Control and Security Control Equipment, Energy, Health Tech, Nanotechnology, Retail and Smart Cities sectors will make pitches in order to get capital from Turkish investors.
In addition to members of Borsa Ä°stanbul Private Market, VC and Angel Investor groups from Turkey are invited to this event, as well as individual investors. Besides investment opportunities, this event aims to help Italian startups seek new distribution channels and technological collaborations in Turkey. ITA Istanbul Office and Borsa Ä°stanbul Private Market carry the centuries-old trading partnership between the two countries into the future.
The startups that will pitch at the event:
Marioway addresses the problems people with disabilities face with wheelchair, which hasn’t changed in design for over hundred years despite technological advancements. Marioway has revolutionized wheelchair design by creating an electricity-propelled and hands free mobility device. Marioway’s Business Development Director Flaviano Tarducci will do the pitch. (http://www.marioway.it/word/en)
Coelux Artificial Window Systems transform windowless spaces by creating the optical illusion of endless skies and sunlight with nanotechnology. Coelux Marketing Communications Manager Cristiana Sasso will do the pitch. (http://www.coelux.com)
EasyLumen: EcoSmartGrid is an innovative system that is part of the Smart Cities movement. EcoSmartGrid improves energy and maintenance efficiency in street and private lighting by using the already existing electric infrastructure to communicate between the devices by transmitting encrypted data. EasyLumen’s Communications Coordinator Emanuele Morelli will present EcoSmartGrid. (http://www.easylumen.it/en/index.php)
Founded as a result of the collaboration between the University of Padua and Mentis, EXPERENTI is a strategic consulting company focused on integrating Augmented Reality (AR) with the emotional involvement of experiential marketing. Experenti is a technological platform designed to transform marketing messages in an unforgettable experience with the use of AR, mobile communication, etc. Amir Baldissera will represent the company in Istanbul.
ELSE Corp is a B2B fashion retail startup developing a SaaS cloud platform that offers a new shopping experience for custom-made and made to order fashion apparel and shoes. Through a “Virtual Console” customers have their body measures scanned, they can feel and touch real samples of the merchandise and can easily select the combination of materials, accessories and colors of choice with the virtual image of the products. The E.L.S.E. platform represents an innovative, high impact, low investment solution for retailers, designers, fashion brands and manufacturers to promote sales. (http://www.else-corp.com/)
Littlesea has a patent pending technology that enables the automatic generation of an unlimited number of personalized videos for editorial, business, marketing and customer service purposes on a massive scale. Littlesea created several vertical projects such as Upitch.net, a system that enables startups to autonomously and automatically generate their own business plan video, Whyinvestin.com the first financial video platform ever, and youresume.net, for the automatic generation of video CVs. There’s a big need to videos from data with the help of technology, which Littlesea uses to help any sector or industry. (www.littleseavideo.com/web/)
Xnext is focuses on new generation non-destructive testing and analysis with XSpectra® –the most advanced in-line real-time defects detector. XSpectra® revolutionised the market for X-ray machines used for non-invasive quality controls on the production line due to its multispectral technology. XSpectra® identifies contaminants in food manufacturing lines; in security controls it identifies hidden explosives. Industries, where the capability of detecting non-conformities is key to success prefer XSpectra®, as well as airports and other dense public spaces. Bruno Garavelli will deliver the pitch in this event. (http://www.x-next.com)
Innovative Startups: The Italian Way
These are all innovative startups supported by the Italian Government with special policies and regimes. For a company to qualify as an innovative startup, at least 15% of their expenses need to be on R&D, it has to have at least one founder with a PhD degree or two founders with master’s degrees; and the company needs to own registered intellectual property.
These innovative startups are often founded in university techno parks with seed capital from publicly and privately supported incubation centres. They build monetisation schemes and profit models to transfer their IP from academic sphere to the market.
Italy has the perfect climate for unicorns to thrive with its design, industry and academic prowess. However, the Italian Government provides fertiliser with policies like free company incorporation and registration in Chamber of Commerce, as well as lenient tax regime and flexible labour and social security schemes. Furthermore, Italian industry (automotive, fashion, construction materials, furniture, lighting, etc.) follow up on the technological advancements of these new startups, integrating some of the new solutions to their production and work processes. Italian Trade Agency supports these startups by organizing a series of international events.
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Italian Startups Meet Borsa İstanbul Private Market - Italia’s Innovative Startups Meet Turkish Investors
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