Name: Web Summit 2018
Start: 2018-11-6 04:30
End: 2018-11-8 04:30
Location: MEO Arena and FIL

Click here to find out more about EIB activities at the 2019 Web Summit.

As a leading supporter of start-ups, innovation and the digital economy, we will be sponsoring the “Growth lounge” at Web Summit 2018. Described as “Europe’s largest and most important technology marketplace”, Web Summit gathers 70,000 participants from over 170 countries, including the world’s most disruptive technology companies and those interested in how technology can improve lives.

You will find us from 9.30am to 4pm each day at the “Growth lounge”, where we will give presentations on our financial products and meet new clients.

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7 November 2018

Pitch me your idea: Ultimate.ai

Ultimate.ai is a customer service automation platform where artificial intelligence helps reduce average handling time by 30%. Can their COO Sarah pitch Ultimate.ai in 42 seconds or would she need help from artificial intelligence herself?

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7 November 2018

Pitch me your idea: GenePlanet.com

Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of all deaths but 75% of those could be prevented with a personalized action plan. How does GenePlanet.com plan to do it? Watch their elevator pitch to find out!

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7 November 2018

Pitch me your idea: Kuzzle

Kuzzle is a next generation open source back-end platform for mobile and Internet of Things with a mission to boost their clients’ mobile and IT innovation. Will they manage to explain it all in 42 seconds?

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7 November 2018

Pitch me your idea: Tokenbox

Tokenbox is a platform for crypto investors, funds and traders who decided to take on the elevator pitch challenge. Will they make it before the elevator door open?

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7 November 2018

Pitch me your idea: SmartGovernance

Smart Governance is all about simplifying decision-making ecosystems. So Managing Partner Pedro Serrano shouldn’t have a hard time pitching SmartGovernance in a 42-second elevator ride, right?

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9 November 2018

Pitch me your idea: Behind the scenes

How many people can fit in an elevator? How does pitching your company feel like when you know you are pressed for time? Let us take you behind the scene of the elevator pitch challenge!

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5 February 2018

EIB Group support for small businesses

Discover in this video animation the main EIB Group products to facilitate access to finance for small businesses. Our offer (loans, guarantees and equity) help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) all over the EU benefit from favourable conditions through our network of over 1 000 local partner banks.

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30 October 2018

EIB’s venture debt: Innovative ventures

Imagine you own an innovative company with a great product idea, but you have no sales or assets and you need money to bring your product to the market. Where would you go? The EU bank’s venture debt might be the answer.

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8 November 2018

Starting up is so hard to do

At the Lisbon Web Summit, start-ups say attracting customers and talent are the biggest challenges

15 June 2018

Don’t fear AI

Artificial intelligence will soon have an impact on jobs. Here's how European policymakers can reject doomsayers and create a workforce equipped for a new technological age of work.

14 February 2018

Fitness in the cloud: EGym wants the masses to start working out

EGym’s advanced digital strength machines, software and apps pull the gym experience out of the 1970s and into the future

3 May 2018

How to double investment

An economic experiment shows how even a small shift in financing conditions can double the investment a firm choses to make

14 December 2017

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5 December 2017

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Academic spinouts: From Paris universities to the market

European Investment Fund backs France’s first academic spinouts fund

13 February 2017

Supercapacitors and coconuts: A better way to store energy

The key ingredient in powerful devices for storing energy has been charred coconut. Now a company in icy Estonia has figured out how to make a supercapacitor without tropical fruit.

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Click here to find out more about EIB activities at the 2019 Web Summit.

Elevator pitch challenge

Pitch me your idea: Ultimate.ai

Pitch me your idea: GenePlanet.com

Pitch me your idea: Kuzzle

Pitch me your idea: Tokenbox

Pitch me your idea: SmartGovernance

Pitch me your idea: Behind the scenes

Pictures Gallery

Videos

EIB Group support for small businesses

EIB’s venture debt: Innovative ventures

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Starting up is so hard to do

Don’t fear AI

Fitness in the cloud: EGym wants the masses to start working out

How to double investment

Peanut bars and payment systems

Molecular diagnostics save lives and money

Academic spinouts: From Paris universities to the market

Supercapacitors and coconuts: A better way to store energy

At Lisbon Web Summit, 8 things to know about technology

Find support

Publications

EIB Press Kit

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