The Inudian

Three Great Opportunities for Startups in Europe

I just wanted to let you know about three great opportunities for any of you that are thinking about building startups this year.
  • SeedCamp - Deadline 6th April
  • Open Ventures Challenge - Deadline 20th April
  • Something Else - Deadline ASAP
Seedcamp Applications are now open for Mini Seedcamp London which aims to bring together 20 of the best seed stage web tech startups with experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and developers from the UK and all over Europe to participate in a day of intense mentoring, panel discussions and presentations at NESTA's HQ in central London.
  • As a team in Mini Seedcamp London you will:
  • Get access to a world-class network of advisors to help you with every aspect of your business
  • Be recognised as one of the 20 best startups in the UK
  • Open a direct route to seed and venture capital
Apply and find out more information at http://seedcamp.com/pages/london09 now! Open Ventures Challenge The Open Ventures Challenge in aid of Cancer Research UK is to "create three new ventures with the potential to generate £10m to help beat cancer". The OVC is a search for ideas that can make a real difference to the future of Cancer Research UK and the people who can turn those ideas into reality. All sorts of projects can apply for funding and support. Find out more at: http://ovc.mo.jo/ Something Else We've been exploring a few ideas recently around new approaches for helping technical people like us through the first few months of developing a new product. We're interested in creating something that will bring together up to 8 teams, probably based in Brighton, that all have one of two goals they'd like to reach by the end of the year:
  1. Raise investment in their product so they can work full time on continued development
  2. Generate enough revenue from their product that they can live off the income
If you are interested in getting involved in this please let me know and I'll provide some more details. We're most interested in hearing from potential participants with ideas and technical skills.