Invitation for the Balkan Venture Forum in Sofia May 21-22 + Seedcamp + Leancamp

[Aleksandar Tasev]

Hello colleagues,

With great pleasure I'd like to invite you to attend the Balkan Venture Forum in Sofia, May 21-22.

We have a gathering of top startups, VC investors, serial entrepreneurs, innovators from the Balkans, Europe and the USA. Balkan Unlimited Foundation is the initiator and third time organizer of the event after Skopje and Belgrade.

Apart from the excellent networking opportunity and fun in Sofia as a vibrant startup hub, you will be able to follow a world-class program of startup coaching, startup competitions, keynote speeches, workshops and discussion panels.

Some of the participants and speakers: 

• Jon Bradford - founder/CEO at Springboard, TechStars, F6S; 
  
• Salim Virani - founder at Leancamp, Founder-Centric; 
  
• Dan Lupu - CEO at EarlyBird Venture Capital; 
  
• Phillip Moehring - Principal at Seedcamp, 
  
• Maciej Zak - Investment Director CEE at Intel Capital; 
  
• Giannis Papadopoulos CEO at Attica Ventures; 
  
• Prof. Panayotis Ketikidis Vice-principal at City College, 
  
• Vadim Tarasov Investment Director Bright Capital; 
  
• Oliver Holle CEO at Speedinvest;
  
• Marius Ghenea Chairman at VentureConnect;
  
• Yavuz Kaynar Principal Banker at EBRD Venture Capital;
  
• Todor Breshkov Managing partner at LAUNCHub accelerator VC fund;
  
• Lyuben Belov Managing partner at LAUNCHub accelerator VC fund;
  
• Dilyan Dimitrov Founder at Eleven Startup Accelerator;
  
• Hubert Cottogni Head of regional business development at European Investment Fund;
  
• Peter Brodsky Director at SoundCloud;
  
• Apostolos Apostolakis Founder of e-shop.gr, doctoranytime.gr, Taxibeat;

...and many more.

We have a Pitching Competition for 36 selected startups, as well as the Seedcamp pitching contest.

With the addition of the partner events Seedcamp on 22nd and Leancamp on the 23rd of May, we are having a fantastic startup festival in Sofia 21-23rd of May.

All members of the group that confirm their attendance in this thread receive a free conference pass. The conference pass also includes access to the Seedcamp.

For your immediate networks you can share the multi-use discount code: 941649065

It provides 20% discounts for purchase of 1-2 tickets, and 40% for purchase of 3+ tickets.

Find more details about the event at:
http://www.balkanventureforum.org/

https://www.facebook.com/BalkanVentureForum
https://www.facebook.com/events/135416083311460/

http://twitter.com/balkanventurefo

I'm looking forward to seeing you in Sofia.

Cheers,
Aleksandar Tasev

[Peter Záboji]

Aleksandar,

This is very impressive!

I am terribly sorry but I cannot participate as I have a key note commitment 

at Julie Meyer's conference + a board meeting in England.

Wish you luck and a great success!

Peter

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[Plamen Russev]

Hello Aleksandar,

The event looks very good and interesting. Congrats!

I will do my best to attend if I make it back to Bulgaria.

Anyway good luck and way to go!

best,

Plamen

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[Stanislav Sirakov]

Hey Aleks,

Thanks for putting this - happy to share it further.

Sofia is going to be a cool startup place next week.

Best

Stan

 

 

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