{"id":4355,"date":"2021-03-02T09:26:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T09:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ppnt-beta.ppnt.poznan.pl\/thriving-demo-day-for-scale-up-champions-investment-ready-startups\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T10:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:50:11","slug":"thriving-demo-day-for-scale-up-champions-investment-ready-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ppnt.poznan.pl\/en\/thriving-demo-day-for-scale-up-champions-investment-ready-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Thriving Demo Day for Scale-up Champions\u2019 Investment-ready startups!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14076 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ppnt.poznan.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Investment-Ready-Scale-up-Champions-FINAL_Moment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"152\" \/><strong>Scale-up Champions held its virtual Demo Day on February 25, which counted with the participation of more than 20 investment-ready disruptive startups working to scale-up their growth and over 40 investors, venture capitalists, business angels, advisors and corporate professionals from all over Europe.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the session, we were thrilled to listen to the pitches of 17 ambitious and forward-thinking <strong>deep-tech startups<\/strong>. The winner of the <strong>pitching contest<\/strong> was <a href=\"https:\/\/renderro.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Renderro<\/a>, a&nbsp;provider of cloud solutions for digital content creation, which was awarded a&nbsp;guaranteed spot in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolvessummit.com\/pitch-contest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Great Pitch Contest<\/a> semi-finals of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolvessummit.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wolves Summit<\/a> 13th edition, happening on 24-26th of March.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These were the first of 17 innovative \u201cSUPERSTARS\u201d pitching their ground-breaking projects:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14077 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ppnt.poznan.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/startups.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the pitches hearing, there was also a&nbsp;<strong>Networking \/ Business Mixing session<\/strong> where investors seeking new business opportunities met with the participating startups. There were around 30 different meetings and some of the internationally renowned <strong>ecosystem funds<\/strong> participating were <a href=\"https:\/\/inovo.vc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inovo Venture Partners<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valuetech.pl\/?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Valuetech Seed Fund<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/speedupgroup.com\/en\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpeedUp Venture Capital Group<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldventuresinvestment.com\/gvi-gold-ventures-incubator\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gold Venture Investments<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedinvest.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speedinvest<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunfish-partners.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunfish Partners<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adamed.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adamed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, there was a&nbsp;<strong>knowledge session<\/strong> hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/marcin-jaraczewski-99baa8109\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcin Jaraczewski<\/a>, partner at <a href=\"https:\/\/lawmore.pl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawmore<\/a>, who focused on the most important legal aspects of venture capitalists\u2019 and business angel\u2019s investments. He also took a&nbsp;closer look at several possible investment models and how they work in the EU: a&nbsp;standard investment process, convertible note and SAFE model.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After 3-months long Investment Readiness programme\u2019s activities, the participants had an opportunity to engage practically in the most common scenarios for their upcoming funding and investment opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From Scale-up Champions we want to extend a&nbsp;huge <strong>THANK YOU<\/strong> to everyone who attended this event! We can\u2019t wait to see you in future editions!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scale-up Champions held its virtual Demo Day on February 25, which counted with the participation of more than 20 investment-ready disruptive startups working to scale-up their growth and over 40 investors, venture capitalists, business angels, advisors and corporate professionals from all over Europe. \u00a0 During the session, we were thrilled to listen to the pitches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":4361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppnt.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppnt.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppnt.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppnt.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppnt.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ppnt.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4360,"href":"https:\/\/ppnt.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions\/4360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppnt.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppnt.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppnt.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppnt.poznan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}