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Sweden goes Silicon Valley

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Start date: 05 Dec 2012 04:30 PM
End date: 05 Dec 2012 08:30 PM
Street / Location: TBA
City / town: Palo Alto
Country: California, USA
Organizer: Silicon VIkings, Vinnova, IdeLab, Invest Sweden, Innovationsbron, KTH Innovation, SU Innovation
Name: Fabiola Einhorn
Email: fabiola.einhorn@siliconvikings.com
Phone: 415.987.6592
Homepage: http://siliconvikings.com/events/159/

Sweden goes Silicon Valley: 11 top Swedish startups pitch for a panel of investors. Join us for an evening filled with top notch innovation excellence from Sweden. Sweden may be a small country, but it is full of great ideas. Its curiosity, creativity and desire for change has made it into one of the worlds top innovation nations, producing disruptive technologies in a variety of fields.

On December 5th you will hear more about the great opportunities Sweden presents to companies and investors from around the world, speech by Invest Sweden. You will also hear Emil Eifrem, CEO and co-founder of Neo Technology tell us the story of how they grew the small startup from Sweden into the world's leading graph database, opening up offices in several locations in Europe and US HQ in Silicon Valley. Neo Technology very recently (Nov 2nd) raised $11 Million in Series B to grow even stronger.

If that isn't enough you will have a great opportunity to see and hear 11 top Swedish startups pitch to a distinguished panel of Silicon Valley investors - Ullas Naik, very active investor, Streamlined Ventures, until recently a senior partner at the VC firm Globespan Capital, Anis Uzzaman, general partner at Fenox Venture Capital, Victor Belfor - 500 Startups, Startup Advisor and Angel Investor, Max Shapiro, CEO and Founder PeopleConnect, Angel Investor, Keirestu Forum. More panelists TBC.

Join the networking with food and wine before and after the event, starting at 4:30PM. The program starts at 5.00PM.

Register here:
http://siliconvikings.com/events/159/