This session will cover various aspects of FIWARE, a platform designed to facilitate the development of smart solutions for a range of industries.
The session will begin with an introduction to the FIWARE Training program, which offers courses designed to help developers, entrepreneurs, and other interested parties get up to speed with FIWARE technologies.Next, attendees will learn about the FIWARE Marketplace,an online platform that provides access to FIWARE-based products and services and how to become part of it.
The session will delve into the intersection of thermodynamics and FIWARE, and how this collaboration can address climate change. Attendees will learn about the use of FIWARE in creating smart solutions for energy management, emissions reduction, and more.
Furthermore,The session will showcase the FIWARE integrated data platform for healthcare, which offers a range of tools and applications designed to improve healthcare outcomes.
Finally, the session will also explore the Smart Data Models program, which will show 6 use cases of their successful use in different industries (Health, Energy, Water, open data, etc). Attendees will learn about the benefits of using these models and how they can be integrated into various applications.
Overall, this session offers a comprehensive overview of the various aspects of FIWARE, including its marketplace, training programs, smart data models, and integrated data platforms for healthcare. The session will be beneficial for developers, entrepreneurs, and other interested parties looking to leverage FIWARE technologies to create innovative solutions for a range of industries.
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Presentation Slides From Vision to Business - David Seoane FundingBox .pdf
1. Vienna, Austria
12-13 June, 2023
#FIWARESummit
From Data
to Value
OPEN SOURCE
OPEN STANDARDS
OPEN COMMUNITY
Leap into EU Funding & International
Venture Readiness Opportunities
David Seoane, Head of Digital
Business Development, FundingBox
3. ➔ We are leading distributors of European
public funds in the uptake or development of
digital innovation.
➔ We are a trusted player for the tech
ecosystem and thus we are an orchestrator of
public & private partnerships and
communities and bring them to the
entrepreneurial challenges of tech startups,
SMEs, experts, institutions and investors.
➔ Our purpose is to Champion those actors that
want to make an impact in the technological
and innovation sphere.
FIWARE Gold Member and Accelerator Partner
Investors
WHO_Can we Champion?
Innovators i-Xperts
Institutions
4. Funds Box
OUR
FACTS
Equity-free funds
under management
Funding
Applications
FBox VC
private funds
€85M 7M 10k
Tech
Members
Coaches
& Mentors
Research
partners
Tech
Communities
50k 150 600 550
Communities Box
Digital
Innovation
Hubs
250
Champion
Founders
Venture
Ready Startups
Accelerated
Startups
1.5k 500 30%
Total Raised by
Accelerated Startups
€300M
EU Funding Projects
Managed
EU Successful
Application
3k 40%
Beneficiaries Box
Funding
Management
Trainings
100
Services Box
Funding
Programs
60
Leaders in Cascade Funding management
with more than 50 projects
5. Struggling to find venture or
market readiness
opportunities?
More than “only” funding…
7. “The best invention of the EU
since the Erasmus programme is
called cascade funding and it
offers researchers and startups a
financial boots that is about to
change forever (and for the better)
the entrepreneurship and
innovation landscape in Europe”
1. Cascade Funding Open Calls:
What? A transparent and trusted equity-free funding
mechanism promoted by the European Commission
Who? Boosting funding or digital transformation for:
Startups, SMEs, Universities, Technology & Research Centers,
DIHs/ EDIHs
How? They are carried out through a system of:
● Open Calls (OCs) or
● Expressions of Interest (EOI) launched by EU projects.
Startups, Scaleups, SMEs, RTOs, Universities…:
How can we help you?
Download here
Cascade Funding
Leaders: Unlock the
Report discover, fund
and support future
Champions.
Sanyu Karani
FundingBox Co-founder & Executive Chairman
8. From the 3 F’s (Family, Friends and Founders) to: 4 F’s-> 3 F’s + FundingBox
Family, Friends & Founders
1. BOOTSTRAPPING
EC & Local Authorities Grants
2. ACCELERATION/ GRANTS
Crowdfunding
VCs (FBOx Deep Tech Fund)
4. SEED
Business Angels
Crowdfunding
3. PRE-SEED
FundingBox
Free-equity funding:
Innovative
Tech Solutions
FundingBox
Deep Tech Fund:
Venture Capital for
Innovative Tech
Solutions
Top League VCs
5. SERIES A
9. Tech Areas:
Cascade Funding
Next Generation
Internet
Artificial
Intelligence
Industry 4.0 Internet of
Things (IoT)
Robotics Big Data Photonics
The funding opportunities organized within the
framework of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe are
typically related to the following technological areas:
10. Open Calls per Topic/Cluster: Some examples we are managing
AI
NGI
Manu-
facturing
DIH’s
Industrial Data Services for Quality
Control in Smart Manufacturing
Tech
Transfer
Join FBox
Spaces and
find out
more!
11. We have…
2. Access to test-before-invest, services,
private funding and more…
12. 2. Matching with other Opportunities:
What?
● Providing access to technology partners (RTOs) to freely
test technology before market ready adoption
● Providing access to Deep Tech services for free
● Boost a seamless and frictionless process of public and
private investment and deal flow management with
OnePass [NEW]
Who?
Startups, SMEs, Universities, Technology & Research Centers,
DIHs/ EDIHs
Startups, Scaleups, SMEs, RTOs, Universities…:
How can we help you?
13. Go-To-Market Strategy
Problem-Solution-Fit
Matching solutions with
customer problems
Problem-Market Fit
Drafting market
hypothesis
Product-Market-Fit
Verifying with Early
adopters
Idea MVP
Test-
Before-Invest
Market
Validation
From Idea> Prototype > Test-Before-Invest > Market Validation = FundingBox
Struggling to find how to move from Idea to Market Validation?
1 2 3 4
14. Access technology: What is an Expression of Interest?
The applicants can access to Test Before Invest experiments: from testing new
technologies at TRL6-7, demonstrated at Open Pilot lines
Expression-
of-Interest
Services free
of charge
Consultancy – valued up to 10,000 EUR;
Process Development – valued up to 80,000 EUR;
Pre-Series – valued up to 35,000 EUR.
Training – valued up to 12,000 EUR;
16. Access Deep Tech Services (CloudCamp4SMEs project example)
Expression-
of-Interest
Upskilling EU SMEs in Cloud
We are building a unique Cloud Training Program to empower Small and Medium-sized
Enterprises in the European Union to digitally transform their businesses.
https://cloudcamp4smes.fundingbox.com/
17. Project intro
More at https://cloudcamp4smes.fundingbox.com/
CloudCamp4SMEs is empowering SMEs to digitally transform their businesses with Cloud Training.
Mission
Unique Cloud Training Programme tailored specifically to the needs of SMEs located in five EU countries.
CloudCamp4SMEs aims to train around 400 SMEs - and over 1,000 participants - to start.
Led by FundingBox, includes Schuman to develop the sustainability strategy and liaise with the Digital Skills & Jobs Platform together with
training providers FastLane, Mylia, Adecco-Mylia, and Modis and business associations with support from Amazon Web Services (AWS) - the
global leader in cloud technology - and the EBN Network
Pilot
Goal
Team
19. Through Local Contact Points: ex DIHs
● Access to a curated network of 300 DIHs/EDIHs across Europe.
● Covering leading edge technologies such as digital and industrial technologies in
manufacturing and AI, Data and Robotics
● Acting as a dissemination and exploitation channel for EU manufacturing
solutions
20. 1
i-Xperts
Paid partnership collaborations for
Mentors, Evaluators & Ambassadors
Be the voice of Tech Communities
HOW do we Champion you?
2
During NGI Pointer I mentored 20 different FSTP project
teams. Working with Fundingbox, I could entirely focus
on helping the team building their Internet solution
while Fundingbox helped with all of the documentation,
legal and financial matters. It worked so smoothly
Mirko Presser
Mentor
Associate Professor, Aarhus University
We believe great founders can come from anywhere in
the world and helping FundingBox as an evaluator I’ve
met great European startups.
José Iglesias
Evaluator
Community Director, Techstars
I would like to thank FundingBox for your work and for
the essential role that I4MS plays in the real life of so
many SMEs and stakeholders
Raluca Cibu
Ambassador
SME owner and I4MS Ambassador
21. David Seoane Vilariño
Head of Digital Business Development at FundingBox
david.seoane@fundingbox.com
+34 663 991 414
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