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The Europas Awards and Conference

The Europas, the European Tech Startup Conference & Awards will be held on June 14, 2016, in London. On one single day you will see great speakers from the US and Europe, deep-dive into niche discussion groups relevant to your business, network with Europe's key founders and investors, and enjoy a stunning awards dinner and party.

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Date: 14 June 2016
Location: Old Billingsgate, UK

Chat with Dave McClure, Founder of 500 Startups

Join Dave McClure, founding partner of 500 Startups when he visits London.He'll share the view from Silicon Valley and join a panel of local founders and VCs who will discuss growth & fundraising, the M&A market and other perspectives on Europe.

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Date: 13 June 2016
Location: Central Foundation Boys' School, UK

Event Alert: Success in the US

Success in the US - Free Event - 10 Sep

Chinwag's new project, Pitch NYC kicks off next Thu evening (10 Sep) in London with a free evening event, Success in the US. The event features speakers from across the US as we explore how to raise investment and develop a commercial strategy on the other side of the pond.

The event marks the start of Pitch NYC, a new initiative supporting the UK's top tech startups in raising investment from US investors. The programme features an intensive Investor Readiness Bootcamp in the UK, followed by further training and Pitch NYC itself on 11 Nov in New York City.

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Startup Asia

Startup Asia Singapore showcases newly launched and product-ready tech startups. It showcases only startups which are born in Asia. Of course, Startup Asia Singapore will have, as the name suggests, more startups that originate from Singapore.

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Date: 2 February 2012
Location: Singapore Post Centre, SG

The Movember Digital Sizzle

MOVEMBER SIZZLE - WE WANT YOU... TO GROW A TECH 'TASH FOR CASH! We are determined to make 2011's final Digital Sizzle the best ever by joining forces with a very worthy cause - Movember. Yes, we're going to pit start-up against start-up, agency against agency - all to raise money for The Prostate Cancer Charity.

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Date: 24 November 2011
Location: Adams Street Private Members Club, UK

European Tech Accelerator Launches with £1m Fund

Ignite. by Ben Seidelman

The team behind the North East's successful incubator, Difference Engine are back with a new accelerator fund, ignite100, backed with funds of £1m.

Jon Bradford, founder of Difference Engine, which includes Digital Mission alumni Screenreach amongst the companies is supported, returns as Executive Director with Paul Smith, a North-East based entrepreneur running the programme. He said,

"Difference Engine was the first major acceleration bootcamp programme in Europe. ignite100 redefines acceleration programmes again and will be first acceleration programme in Europe to offer up to £100k per team."

The deal?

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Pitchoutwater Meetup

This event features a combined British / Down Under Invasion theme with 2 or 3 firms from the UK and one each from Australia and New Zealand To keep order we should probably ban all talk of rugby and cricket. We also have a firm from Denmark to mix things up a bit.

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Date: 4 November 2010
Location: Hive at 55, US

Mini Seedcamp London

Mini Seedcamp London is a one day event aiming to connect the 20 best web-tech, mobile and software talent with some of the leading entrepreneurs, developers, and experts from the European tech ecosystem.

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Date: 20 July 2010
Location: University College London, UK

Engage Invest Exploit 2010

Engage | Invest | Exploit is Informatics Ventures annual showcase of high-quality deal flow spinning out of Scotland's world leading Informatics and Computer Science departments, and hot startups associated with our institutions.

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Date: 9 May 2010
Location: Informatics Forum, UK

TechCrunch Edinburgh

TechCrunch Europe will be co-locating with EIE'10 in Edinburgh on 12th May 2010. Our venue hosts will be holding EIE in the AM and in the PM TechCrunch Europe will be running an interactive afternoon seminar followed by a joint networking party for both events in the evening.

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Date: 12 May 2010
Location: Informatics Forum, UK

Venture Lab on Getting Investment Ready - LBS

Genius Incubator in association with The Private Equity & Venture Capital Club of London Business School invites early-stage and growth-stage entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, LBS students and alumni to their Venture Lab.

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Date: 5 May 2010
Location: London Business School, UK

European Venture Contest (EVC) Semi-Final Liverpool/Digital Media

Europe Unlimited, in association with Liverpool Vision and supported by Vision+Media, is delighted to present the European Venture Contest (EVC) Semi-Final Liverpool/Digital Media taking place in Liverpool on 20th of May 2010.

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Date: 20 May 2010
Location: Crowne Plaza Liverpool City Center, UK

April DrinkTank

This month, DrinkTank is hosted by Eden Ventures, Huddle's esteemed investors. We will be returning to our new venue - the Crystal Bar at Jewel in Covent Garden. Very private, very VIP.

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Date: 21 April 2010
Location: Jewel (Crystal Bar upstairs), UK

What Makes New York's Digital Investors Tick? The Digital Mission to New York Found Out.

Digital Mission NYC '09 - Investor's RoundtableA short pause for breath in the Digital Mission activities provides an opportunity to blog about the investor breakfast yesterday morning. It was organised in conjunction with The Hatchery and UKTI at the very digital Roger Smith Hotel - more on that in a moment.

The companies and investors mingled over breakfast, then both groups gave a short introduction before we dived into a roundtable Q & A session. I was struck by how frank the investors were. I've been dealing with VCs for more than a decade, and it was one of the most open exchanges I've seen, and with a broad range of investor types too. There were lots of sound bites and snippets, I'll share a few...

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mashup* event: Investment Opportunities in Digital

This event will explore the investment opportunities from multiple perspectives in the digital arena.

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Date: 29 September 2009
Location: BCS London Office, UK