European Venture Summit 2012

Last year over 350 persons attended the European  Venture Summit in Berlin at the Investitionsbank Berlin. It was the largest meeting point for the innovative enterpreneurs in the ICT, Life Sciences and Cleantech sectors.

• 128 Companies from 28 countries presented their business
• 108 Investors reviewed their presentation

The presenting contest finalists were selected from the various regional pitching events held throughout our 2012 calendar 



European Venture Contest 2012

EVC 2012 Winners:

The Contest Jury, composed of international investors with extensive experience in their respective fields, decided on the best 10 presenting companies (4 ICT, 3 life sciences and 3 cleantech) based on online reviews of the companies’ profile and their presentation pitched at the European Venture Summit. The EVC 2012 winners were:

ICT
	Bitbar (FI)	The easiest way to test your mobile apps
	Conferize (DK)	A social customer acquisition platform for the global conference industry
	Falcon Social (DK)	Complete Social Media Management for Teams and Enterprises
	iTraff Technolog  (OL)	Traff Technology empowers your mobile apps with image recognition technology. It turns every smartphone camera into a powerful consumer tool by mobilizing the shopping experience.
Life Sciences
	Abacus Diagnostics   (FI)	Abacus Diagnostica - easy-to-use DNA-based diagnostics for critical pathogen testing in routine clinical settings
	Crisalix (CH)	Crisalix is the worldwide leader in easy-to-use 3D aesthetic simulations based on standard digital photos which provides an answer to every patient's first and foremost question "how could I look after the procedure?"
	WISE s.r.l. (IT)	The new generation of leads for neuromodulation (NM) for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper
Cleantech
	Benjamin (DE)	A brand new technology in the logistics industry
	Camfridge (BG)	Next generation rare-earth free and gas free high-efficiency domestic and commercial cooling appliances
	ROMO Wind (CH)	Technology and service company focused on getting more production from wind turbines

EVC 2012 Jury Members:

ICT
Christian Nagel – Earlybird, Petri Laine – FinnVera, Erkan Kilicaslan – Iris Capital, Patrick Polak – Newion Investments Management, Roel de Hoop – Prime Ventures, Jörg Sievert – SAP Ventures, Michael Münnix – Target Partners, Wolfgang Krause – Seventure, Jens Schmidt-Ehmcke – Hasso-Platner Ventures, Marcus Polke – Acton Capital

Life Sciences
Davide Turco – Atlante Ventures , Emmanuelle Coutanceau – Omnes Capital , Jesper Roested – Vaekstfonden , Ida Beerhalter – Bellwald GmbH , Jasper Bos – Merck Serono Ventures , Wolfgang Renz – Boehringer Ingelheim , Micahel Pfister – High-Tech Gründerfonds , Ute Mercker – IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft , Viktor Drvota – SEB Venture Capital

Clean Technologies
Bernhard Mohr – Evonik Industries, Claus Hackmann – BASF, Klass de Boer – Entrepreneurs Fund, Fabienne Herlaut – Ecomobilité Ventures, Mark Felix – Dow Chemical, Walter Grassi – Munich Venture Partners, Robert Gallenberger – GIMV, Tore Sylvester Jeppersen – Seed Capital