Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program for Singapore Startups

Autodesk, the leader in design, visualization and simulation software, created a special offer for the most promising Clean Tech startups in Singapore and providing them access to the Autodesk Digital Prototyping software to support their product development and marketing goals.

We are working with Autodesk to offer selected Cleantech startups an outstanding opportunity, through the Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program (http://goo.gl/UCegpb), to receive full commercial Autodesk software licenses, valued at up to $150,000. With these powerful tools you can more thoroughly explore and test your ideas, substantially reduce potentially costly design errors, and more clearly communicate your concepts prior to physical creation. With Autodesk 3D design software for Digital Prototyping, you can get your ideas to the world, and to market, faster.

In the past years Autodesk helped a lot of Startups to speed up their projects. One succesful example is Green Building Group, focused on driving excellence in facade engineering for Singapore’s building industry, developing cost effective, energy efficient solutions.

“For budding entrepreneurs like us, the Autodesk Cleantech Partner Program has helped open new doors within our industry and beyond.” – P. Kwang, Managing Director, Green Building Group

For further information, please, contact me at valentina.migliore@skipso.com

Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program for Singapore Startups

 

We have partnered with Autodesk, the leader in design, visualization and simulation software, to create a special offer for the most promising Cleantech startups in Singapore and providing them access to the Autodesk Digital Prototyping software to support their product development and marketing goals.

Skipso and Autodesk haveagreed to offer you an outstanding opportunity through the Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program and you may be eligible to receive full commercial Autodesk software licenses, valued at up to $150,000.

With these powerful tools you can more thoroughly explore and test your ideas, substantially reduce potentially costly design errors, and more clearly communicate your concepts prior to physical creation. With Autodesk 3D design software for Digital Prototyping, you can get your ideas to the world, and to market, faster.

For further information, please, contact me at valentina.migliore@skipso.com

The Veolia Environment Moisture Measurement Challenge

In many Veolia Environnement activities, matrices’ humidity is a key parameter for the management of operations. The quality of measurement (speed and accuracy) represents a challenge in the management and optimization of our business operation processes.

For example, in the energy sector, the water content of the fuel is a parameter used in the regulations of some manufacturers to manage the settings of a biomass boiler. But it is also essential for verifying if the measured LCV (Lower Calorific Value) of the fuel delivered is compliant with that ordered.

For biological treatment of waste, moisture determines the proper operation of equipment such as screens or presses and especially the smooth operation process of organic matter degradation (compost) .

We are looking for innovative solutions able of measuring intrinsic moisture either online or on a flow of matrices with high organic content ( biofuels, household waste, biogas digestate … )

– See more at: http://via.skipsolabs.com/en/challenge/veolia-environment-moisture-measurement-challenge#sthash.jUrfKKDf.dpuf

European Cleantech Challenge 2014 is Live!

On behalf of Intesa Sanpaolo we are pleased to invite you to apply to the 2014 edition of theEuropean Cleantech Challenge, a unique fund raising and business development opportunity for the best cleantech start-ups in Europe.

Are you looking for funding and support for your cleantech startup?

This program is part of the Intesa Sanpaolo Start-Up Initiative, an end-to-end acceleration platform that combines training, services, access to international investors and media coverage. The initiative, launched in 2009, has developed a strong track record: 50 investment forums in 5 countries, matching over 300 start-ups and growing companies with over 3.500 investors and corporate players.

Selected start-ups will go through a training and selection phase made available at no charge by key industry players and qualified coaches. The most promising teams will have a chance to take part in an international roadshow pitching to top investors in Italy, UK, France, Germany and the US.

Deadline for submissions is Sunday, March 30th 2014.

Learn more from here.

Cleantech Challenge 2014 – Italian Chapter

For the third year running, MIP has been selected as the Business School given the privilege of organising the prestigious ‘Italian Chapter’ of the 2014 Clean Tech Challenge, a competition intended for MBA and EMBA students focusing on the creation and design of Clean, Green technologies.
The CleanTech Challenge is an international competition primarily based in London and jointly hosted by the London Business School and the University College London Business. Participatory members of this programme include the INSEAD in France and the Vlerick Business School in Belgium, with MIP acting as the representative in Italy.
The first deadline for the submission of ideas to the competition is the 16^th of February. Further information on the programme is available at https://www.cleantechchallengeitaly.com
Winners of the competition will receive a prize of €5,000 and will take part in the Global Final of the competition in London, where the eventual winners will be awarded £10,000 in prize money.

Veolia Environment Waste Logistics Innovations Challenge

Commercial & Industrial waste, C&I, regroups a set of waste types including industrials, tertiary sector and others.

To ensure the valorization of C&I waste, we propose to our customers a logistics configuration suitable to their needs. This is to say, we provide them with adapted sk ips and we plan and schedule skip collections according to waste volumes produced and customers’ time constraints.

Veolia Environment is looking for partners able to come with new perspectives for this activity and innovative services to reinforce our operational performances and improve our customers’ satisfaction.

As part of this challenge, Veolia Environment expects to see new proposed business organizations with support of communication tools that will guarantee optimal functioning. These new operational organizations will rely on emerging communication technologies.

See how it works and submit your application here: http://via.skipsolabs.com/en/challenge/veolia-environment-waste-logistics-innovations-challenge

 

 

WISE Case Study and Funding Opportunity

The WISE (http://www.wisebiotech.com/index.php?link=company) story is a great example of how the Nanotech Call for Start-ups (http://goo.gl/Bk0nln ) could benefit any international up and coming nanotech start-up. WISE , a nanotechnology start-up that which  develops electrodes for stimulation with the aim of treating neurological diseases (such as chronic pain, Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy) fabricates and commercializes exploitation of electronic, won the  Nanochallenge & Polymerchallenge 2011, the business competition organized by Veneto Nanotech and IMAST. After winning the Nanotechnology challenge, WISE it was also funded by an important German investment fund High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and it subsequently was also qualified as one of the Top 10 start-ups of the European Venture Contest 2012. An amazing journey which certainly is the result of WISE’s amazing value proposition, but certainly facilitated by the Nanotech challenge and investor road show program.

 

Veneto Nanotech, Nanoforce and Intesa SanPaolo will offer the same opportunity to any the nanotechnology start-up that will join and take part in this year’s programs. The nanotechnology selected startups will in fact start-ups would have the opportunity to pitch their idea, product and business plan in front of a selected audience of high profile investors. There is no cost to join and to submit your application. You can easily do so from this website http://goo.gl/Bk0nln before September the 2nd!

Details of the program are the following:

The 12 select start-ups will be invited to join a Boot Camp program organized by Intesa Sanpaolo Start-Up Initiative and its partners Maverick Angels.

Following the Boot Camp, the 12 start-ups will pitch in front of investors – venture capitals, business angels, development funds, etc. – and industry players – companies and corporations embracing the open innovation paradigm to boost their development potential.

The best start-up from the pitching session will be eligible for the grand prize of the 360by360 Competition, on Friday 29th. For the first year running 360 Capital Partners, a private equity firm specialized in VC investments with a track of more than 75 backed businesses in 10 countries, has launched a competition for companies in the following sectors: digital, industrial & cleantech and medical devices. The total prize amount is 360.000 dollars.

In addition to the above, the selected teams will benefits some advantages from the following:

1.  Free registration to the NanotechItaly 2013 Conference

The 12 start-ups (up to two persons per team) will receive a code to register free of charge to the whole NanotechItaly 2013 conference. The start-ups admitted only to the poster session will pay the minimum fee of 70 € per day (through a dedicated code to be inserted on the registration link and that will be sent at the time of communication of the results). All registrations must be carried out no later than September 26th.

Participants in the audience of the session From the Lab to the Market will be able to register for free upon invitation through a special code sent by email by the organizers. This registration will allow access only to this specific session on Friday 29th.

2. Nano Stand

The 12 selected teams will be offered by the Organizers a “nano-stand” for free on Friday 29th November in the foyer of the NH Laguna Palace Conference Center, to show and display their own technologies, products or business proposals to investors and scientific and industrial partners.

3. Poster session

A specific area of the conference venue will be set up for start-ups and dedicated to their posters.

NanotechItaly 2013

SkipsoLabs is excited to announce the launch of a unique opportunity for nanotechnology start-ups looking for funding: Nanotech Italy Call for Startups http://startup.nanotechitaly.it.

From the Lab to the Market is a unique coaching and fund-raising fast-track opportunity for nanotechnology entrepreneurs that will take place during the NanotechItaly2013 conference. The event From the Lab to the Market is dedicated to start-ups in the field of nanotechnology and aims at presenting new companies with business ideas in nanotechnology to a wide audience of experts, companies, investors and VCs in order to facilitate the matching of supply and demand of nanotechnology.

It is co organized by Intesa Sanpaolo Start-Up Initiative and the Nanoforce project. The Start-Up Initiative is an international acceleration platform developed by Italy’s leading bank Intesa Sanpaolo. The program selects promising high-tech start-ups, coaches them and connects them with financial and corporate investors.  Since its inception in 2009, it has developed a strong track record: 55 investment forums in 6 countries across 5 technologies, matching over 370 start-ups and growing companies with thousands of investors, corporations and players of the innovation ecosystem. The Start-Up Initiative Alumni have raised over 30M€ in equity, awards and grants, and 5 of them reached an exit.The Nanoforce project aims to foster the innovative nanotechnology sector networks across Central Europe regions by bringing together public and private organizations (enterprises, research centres, venture capitalists and public institutions) to carry out collaborative and interdisciplinary researches on nanomaterials and to turn the most promising laboratory results into innovative industrial applications.

 Best start-uppers will pitch in front of investors – venture capitals, business angels, development funds, etc.- and industry players – companies and corporations embracing the open innovation paradigm to boost their development potential.

New entrepreneurs, start-uppers, researchers and scientists with a business idea are invited to submit their proposals by filling in the online form here available http://startup.nanotechitaly.it, the deadline is 2nd of September.

The whole event is spread over 4 days, with a first phase of training of Intesa SanPaolo followed by the pitching in front of investors:

·       Tuesday 26th of November: Boot Camp day 1.

·       Wednesday 27th of November: Boot Camp day 2.

·       Thursday 28th of November: 1to1 meeting to prepare Friday pitch.

·       Friday 29th of November: From the Lab to the Market presentation in front of the an audience of industrial and financial investors.

5 reasons to join the European CleanTech Challenge 2013

If you are an early stage CleanTech start up and are thinking about taking part in this year’s competition, we wanted to share with you 5 good reasons why we think this is an amazing initiative for you to take part:

1. Funding

If you are a start-up looking for funding, this is really a unique opportunity to pitch to top investors (Angels and VCs) in Milan, London, Frankfurt, Paris, New York and San Francisco. Every investor Arena Meeting is attended by, on average, 75 selected investors. Many of the start-ups that went through this program in previous editions have successfully closed one or more rounds of funding. One of the finalists from last year is now incubated at 500 Startups.

2. Coaching/Mentoring

If you have already gone through start-up bootcamps in your career you might be doubtful whether there will be any value in attending yet another one. Having gone through the program ourselves, we really think there is something special about this one. The group / one-to-one sessions held by Bill Barber and his team at Maverick Angels are top quality. They really focus on helping you improve the pitch and provide some great insights on how to approach investors and fine-tune your 10 slide presentation.

3. Networking with other start-ups

You will have the opportunity to meet and bond with start-ups from different tech fields and countries. Going through each stage of the program you will meet great fellow entrepreneurs and share ideas, experiences, feedback and insights that can be extremely valuable.

4. Intesa Sanpaolo Partner Network

Being the second largest Italian bank, with a significant presence abroad, Intesa Sanpaolo reaches out to a large network of partners, service providers as well as large corporate organizations. These contacts can be extremely useful for start-ups looking to grow their business. The focus is on funding, but you will get much more out of it (media coverage, meeting potential partners, customers.)

5. Free to Join!

There is no fee to join and the submission only takes a few minutes to complete. We really think that, if selected, you will benefit hugely from the program!

If you have any question or need any further clarification, feel free to send us a message at franck.lada@skipso.com. All the best on your submission and we hope to see many of you at the first bootcamp weekend in Milan on October 12nd .

The European Cleantech Challenge 2013

SkipsoLabs, in cooperation with Intesa Sanpaolo, is pleased to invite you to apply for the 2013 edition of the European Cleantech Challenge, a unique fund raising and business development opportunity for start-ups active in cleantech.

The challenge is part of the Intesa Sanpaolo Start-Up Initiative, an end-to-end acceleration platform that combines training, services, access to international investors and media coverage. The initiative, launched in 2009 by one of Italy’s leading banks, has developed a strong track record: 31 international editions in 5 countries, matching over 190 start-ups and growing companies to over 2.800 financial and industrial investors and corporations, a significant number of these have successfully closed their financing round.

Participating start-ups will go through a training and selection process made available at no charge by key industry players and qualified coaches. The most promising teams will have a chance to pitch their project to a wide audience of financial and corporate investors, significantly improving their fund raising and business development reach.

The program, whose initial phases will revolve around Milan, Italy, is structured as follows:

• October 12 – 13 – Boot Camp Weekend (Milan): admitted start-ups will receive two full days of training delivered by Silicon Valley investors Maverick Angels.
• October 14 – 28 – Remote coaching: each start-up will have a chance to schedule one-to-one skype sessions with our coaches, to strengthen its business plan and improve investor communication
• October 28 – Deal Line-Ups (Milan): the trained start-ups will pitch to a panel of experts (industry players, investors and researchers), who will provide structured feedback and select the finalists, which will move forward with the program
• November 12 –Investor Arena Meeting (Milan): on one of the two days (depending on technology) the start-ups selected at the Deal Line Up will have 10 minutes to pitch their project to an audience of investors, corporations and players of the innovation ecosystem
• The best among the finalist start-ups will be given an opportunity to embark in an International Roadshow covering UK, Germany,France and the US to reach more investor audiences and maximize their chances of success.

There is no cost to join and submission deadline is September 15th!

Register here : http://www.europeancleantechchallenge.com/en/registration