Presentation on EU funding opportunities given by c*funds in collaboration with EU Startup Services and B Amsterdam during the Capital Week Amsterdam 2017 on 25-9-2017.

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Louis Papaemmanuel
EU Start-up Services
– Director, Sales and Customer Relations –

3. Today
Funding Frameworks
Practice, Examples
1:1 Consultation

4. Should I go
for
EU funds
or

5. Go for both!

8. Combine
smartly

9. Copy winners

10. get high tech
startups well
funded

11. speaking the
language of tech
startups & EU &
investors

13. EU grants 3,5 b EUR
for startups
3B EUR
287 M
280 M

15. 28 M EUR raised last 3
years; 24 high potential
startups incubated all
over Europe

27. Why do you
want to raise
funds?

28. • to hire talent
• to gain new markets
• to relaunch your product
• to finance losses
• to finance
groundbreaking
innovation

29. Am I
ready for
EU funds?

31. 1) Startup as mono-
beneficiary (solo-trip)
Max: per startup 2,5
M
2) Startup in a
research
innovation
/consortium (Max
per consortium 3M)
3) via your Investor. European Angel Fund
(Multiply your
investment)

32. R&D related call, 33% chance to win
per consortia 2,2 M EUR,
per Dutch startup max 450.000 EUR
To scale, commercialise, to
gain EU market (for scaleups),
per Dutch startup max 2,5 M
EUR, 5-10% chance to win.

34. Deadlines: 14
Sept 2017, 14
March 2018
Deadlines (4x year) SME1 –
7 Nov, 6 Jan
SME2 18th
Oct, 18 Jan

36. Most booming Topics
-Blockchain, fintech
-IoT
-Artificial Intelligence
-Nanotech
-Big Data, Business Intelligence
-Big Data Visualisations
-Dashboards
-IoT Platforms
-Disruptive Business Model
-Community building

37. How to find a
winning idea?
Beyond state of art tech innovation
-Disrupts the market
-Has promising commercial perspectives
-Solves a problem
-Risk taking
-USP is very clear
-IoT Platforms
-Disruptive Business Model

40. turnkey
end-to-end
customized
open source
disruptive
open API
highly responsive
agile
user friendly
context aware I(hyperlocal)
decision supportive web dashboards
prediction for city plannning (data/evidence based)
crowdflow management
SaaS( software as Service)
Co-design with users
EaaS
EU
Buzzwords

41. ROI
MRR
growth
Financial soundness
Market share
Market retention
User satisfaction
Scalable
International recognition
Due diligence
Term Sheet
Conversion Rate
CAC’s
Opex
Investment
Buzzwords

43. Standard parts of the startup EU proposal:
-Competitor analyses
-Market Analyses
-Expected Impact of the Product Innovation
(economic, social, environmental)
-USP’s
-Gantt Chart of planned activities in the
coming 2 years
-Finance: Expected project costs, turnover

44. SME2 Technological
Readiness Level
Scala

48. Look & Feel Submission

58. »Alternative source of financing
»Factoring, debt financing, trade financing
»Equity financing with crowdfunding
»Venture debt and convertible loans
»Peer-to-peer lending
Future Financing
Trends for startups

63.  Multiple Streams of Funds at the same time
 Don’t depend on public funds too much, use as
complimentary tool
 Look for investors, Angels, reuse public fund
documents
 Submit. Correct. Resubmit. Stay a cockroach.
Win.
 Solo journeys = waste of time
 Discover alternative ways of funding

66. Copy winners.