ABOUT THE EVENT
Come meet the best startups from Spain
The Summit will feature a group of 8 selected early-stage startups who will pitch in front of a panel of Silicon Valley well-known investors. VCs are also invited to attend the event and connect with the founders to explore investment opportunities.
Startups will have gone through an exhaustive selection and mentoring process by our Advisory Commitee to make sure they are ready to raise a seed/series A round.
Confirmed VC Panelists
Anoushka Vaswani
Partner Lightspeed Venture Partners
Adeyemi Ajao
Managing Partner Base10 Partners
Niko Bonatsos
Managing Director General Catalyst
Mar Hershenson
Managing Partner Pear VC
THE PROCESS
Startup Selection
The Advisory Committee will carefully review the application of all startups. A group of 8 will be invited to pitch at the Venture Summit on June 10th. This is the selection criteria:
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Company started in Spain, primarily run in Spain and product/services developed out of human capital based in Spain
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Having raised approximately €500k+ and actively seeking a round of capital of €3m+
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Business model/product/service with the ability to significantly scale up
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A recommendation by a professional investor (Spanish VC) that can attest that the startup has the ingredients to raise another round of funds
What startups get:
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Coaching sessions by seasoned investors and entrepreneurs to master their pitch
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Access to well-known Silicon Valley investors during and after the Summit
Startup Application is closed now
The selected startups will be announced by June 1st
ORGANIZER
GOLD SPONSORS
SILVER SPONSOR
DISTRIBUTION PARTNERS
MEDIA PARTNERS
Interested in sponsoring or becoming a media partner?
Contact us at venturesummit@californiaspainchamber.org
THE PRE-SUMMIT PROGRAM
OPEN TO ALL APPLICANTS
Legal key issues for Spanish startups raising VC money in the US
Session led by Cuatrecasas and K&L Gates
MAY 18th, 9am PST/6pm CET
Building a kick-ass investor pitch
Session led by Holly Liu, investor and former Kabam co-founder
MAY 19th, 8:30am PST/ 5:30pm CET
Learning from your compatriots
Session with Maria Alegre (Chartboost), Alejandro Artacho (Spotahome) and Alberto Martinez (Streamloots), moderated by Javier Cortes.
MAY 27th, 8:30am PST/5:30pm CET
ONLY FOR SELECTED STARTUPS
Inside the mind of a Silicon Valley VC
Session led by Mar Hershenson, managing partner at Pear.VC
JUNE 4 8:00am PST/5:00pm CET
1:1 Pitch training
From JUNE 1st- JUNE 9th
Holly Liu
Former co-founder Kabam
Alejandro Artacho
Co-founder Spotahome
Alberto Martinez
Co-founder Streamloots
Maria Alegre
Co-founder Chartboost
Why Spain
WHY SPAIN
The time is now
Spain is synonym of good weather, history, culture and a delicious gastronomy, but also a growing startup ecosystem that it's going beyond its borders and becoming more global than ever.
With companies like Glovo, Wallapop and Typeform, the Spanish market just surpassed the €1bn transaction value threshold in 2020, becoming a sizable market in the context of the larger European region. International VC firms are already operating in Spain, have established a productive and symbiotic relationship with their Spanish co-players, whereby the seed early stage investments are taken by the latter and international VCs take the bigger rounds of funding.
In the recent years, the Spanish landscape has been populated with many more seed and early stage startups, resulting in a number of future late-stage/large size investment opportunities which will be of the interest of international VC firms.
