BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6@duurzaam-beleggen.nl DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20160928T063000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20160928T103000 DTSTAMP:20160906T081551Z URL:https://www.duurzaam-beleggen.nl/events/amsterden-scale-up/ SUMMARY:AMSTERDEN SCALE-UP! DESCRIPTION:AMSTERDEN Scale-Up! focuses on the positive change venture capi tal and innovation are making in business and society. AMSTERDEN Scale-Up! is an invitation-only “Dragons’ Den”-format breakfast for reputable \, like-minded VCs\, impact investors\, HNWIs\, angels\, corporate CEOs an d CIOs\, venture catalysts and a select group of strategic partners from a round the world interested in high-growth\, high-impact scale-ups in Europ e.\n\nTo take their companies to the next level and ensure exponential gro wth\, promising European scale-up entrepreneurs wish to be connected to st rategic partners\, to access new markets\, and to secure capital to scale. AMSTERDEN Scale-Up! provides an exclusive setting in Amsterdam for the fo unders of mission-driven\, pro-life scale-ups\, interested investors and l eading corporates to listen\, learn\, partner and invest\, in order to red efine success in business—together.\n\nWhy?\nThere is a significant gap\ , particilarly in Europe\, between seed funding and later-stage funding fo r outstanding high-impact entrepreneurs who are running young\, fast-growi ng Cleantech\, Circular\, Bio-Based\, Autonomous/Off-Grid\, Clean Energy\, Smart and/or Social scale-ups. We prefer to call them “impact gazelles ”. It is precisely this “capital-to-scale” gap—hampering the furth er rapid growth of such game-changers—that AMSTERDEN Scale-Up! wishes to fill.\n\nWhat?\nAMSTERDEN is proud to be invited for Amsterdam Capital We ek 2016 to present the sequel of our first edition\, held at the Port of A msterdam HQ in May of this year. AMSTERDEN Scale-Up! will be held in the E uropean Capital of Innovation on the fourth day of the Amsterdam Capital W eek\, on Wednesday\, September 28\, 2016 from 6:30-10:00 AM\, prior to Cap ital Impact.\n\nWhat you can expect?\nWith your breakfast you will enjoy o ur selection of 10 pre-screened impact gazelles in The Netherlands and els ewhere in Europe seeking growth capital of at least €1 million to materi alise their rapid international scaling ambition. They will give 4-minute pitches on stage together with their current investor(s)\, followed by 6 m inutes of Q&\;A\, first with the Dragons and then with the audience. Am ple opportunity is provided for connecting with your fellow power players in the venturing\, impact and innovation space. A special VIP guest speake r will be invited to have an interactive session of 20 minutes with the au dience.\n\nBe first at the table with these 10 impact gazelles that are:\n \n\n rigorously pre-screened by AMSTERDEN\,\n younger-stage\, innovative \, mission-driven game-changers that have a viable Product (or Products)\, Service as a Product (SaaP) or Software as a Service (SaaS)\,\n fast-gro wing companies with strong a management team and technology/IP\,\n Certif ied B Corporations\, Certified Pending B Corporations or otherwise be “B Corps to B” (they are not (yet) Certified B Corps\, but will complete t he B Impact Assessment\, which assesses how their company performs against dozens of best practices)\,\n seeking at least €1 million in growth ca pital to scale quickly and with integrity\, both nationally and internatio nally\, in order to achieve greater impact and profitability\,\n focusing on high-tech\, clean\, renewable\, circular\, bio-based\, autonomous/off- grid\, alternative\, modular\, social and/or smart solutions to pressing\, modern-day challenges in terms of energy\, lifestyle\, building\, mobilit y\, healthcare and/or technology for good\,\n seeking to create long-term corporate synergies and secure strategic collaborations with CEOs and par tners who sign on to the company values of the 10 scale-ups.\n\nBenefits o f investing in and/or partnering with the impact gazelles pitching at AMST ERDEN Scale-Up! include:\n\n\n they strive to achieve environmental\, emo tional and social impact as well as financial success\,\n focus on value creation for all participants instead of solely for their shareholders\,\n are in business for the long-term\,\n work for (and with) people\, comm unities and the planet—as well as for the bottom line\,\n are at the be ginning of their hockey-stick growth\,\n are structured to maintain their mission after the next financing\, sale or IPO\, and\n can command highe r valuations.\n\nAMSTERDEN Scale-Up! programme\n\n6:30 Start of continuing breakfast service (available until 10:00 AM)\n6:40 Welcome\n6:45 Keynote address\n6:55-7:25 Presentation\, Q&\;A – scale-ups 1-3 with their cu rrent investor(s)\n7:25-7:40 Break\n7:40-8:10 Presentation\, Q&\;A – scale-ups 4-6 with their current investor(s)\n8:10-8:25 Break\n8:25-9:05 P resentation\, Q&\;A – scale-ups 7-10 with their current investor(s)\n 9:05-9:30 Break\n9:15-9:30 Dragons’ jury deliberation\n9:30-9:50 Special VIP guest speaker and Q&\;A\n9:50-9:55 Dragons’ top-three ranking pr oclamation\n9:55-10:00 Closing and exit\n\nMore information ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.duurzaam-beleggen.nl/wordpress/wp-co ntent/uploads/2016/09/amsterden.png CATEGORIES:Professional/Bedrijf LOCATION:n.a.\, n.a.\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands\, 1082 PP\, Nederland GEO:52.3702157;4.895167899999933 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=n.a.\, Amsterdam\, Netherla nds\, 1082 PP\, Nederland;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=n.a.:geo:52.3702157,4 .895167899999933 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20160327T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR