Venture Capital meets AI
Explore the Fusion of Venture Capital and AI! This innovation challenge invites you to uncover new technological opportunities for strategic investment and VC financing. How can AI enhance the process of identifying promising startups for venture capital investment? How can AI transform the way companies secure capital? Discover new opportunities and shape the future of strategic investment in the era of AI!
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✅ Completed 🏁 Winner Congratulations to Sircular & Vestberrians!
🏆 Prize EUR 5,000 prize pool + potential investment, collaboration or employment
🪙 AI & Data Science This challenge is part of the AI & Data Science Innovation Program
How are you involved? Here is an overview of the main events for this program - Don't forget to mark the dates in your calendar!
The following gives you an overview of the different phases and events within the AI & Data Science Innovation Program.
Qualification Phase: until August 27, 2023
In this phase, you will have the opportunity to develop new ideas and solutions or to further develop and apply your existing idea or solution. You can either work alone or together in (interdisciplinary) teams.
You have until August 27, 2023, 11:59 PM CEST to submit your approaches.
Calling the Finalists: September 11, 2023
After the submissions are forwarded to the challenge providers they chose 2 final teams that will enter the final phase of the AI & Data Science Innovation Program. All teams that submitted will be informed on whether they are finalists or not by mail on September 11, 2023.
Virtual Innovation Bootcamp: September 21, 2023
The final teams will be invited to a digital innovation bootcamp, where they can get valuable input to further develop their approaches. The innovation bootcamp especially lays the foundation for the further collaboration phase and your work with your challenge provider.
Please make sure to be available for the bootcamp.
Collaboration Phase: until November 14, 2023
Over the following phase the goal is to further advance your approaches in close communication with your challenge provider. The concrete form of the collaboration can vary per challenge and is adapted to the needs of the challenge provider, finalists and the solution.
For this purpose, ekipa will guide the process and the definition of the concrete deliverable until the end of the project. On-top we will organize valuable workshops to further help the finalist in preparation to the final event.
Final Pitch Event: November 16, 2023
The final event is the highlight of our innovation program.
We further prepare a full program of panel discussions, networking sessions, and, obviously, the finalists will pitch their solutions to the challenge providers!
The winners of every challenge will be selected and honored on this day. There will be two winning teams per challenge.
Furthermore, there will be one social media prize of EUR 500 for one of the final teams of the whole program, which shared its steps and processes the most via the social media channels.