Venture Network, an informal weekly pitch slam, is an invaluable resource for early stage entrepreneurs. Venture Network is a forum in which you can engage with the entrepreneurial community, promote your startup, and have the opportunity to pitch before a panel of investors & entrepreneurs. Venture Network is unique in that it is a very informal gathering where startups can meet investors in a casual setting over beers and snacks and focus on what’s important: building relationships. Venture Network is a great way to perfect your pitch, get feedback on your product, and meet the local startup community.

The three startups that will present their project in 5 minutes are:

Lucius Report, Guillermo Miranda

Lucius is a legaltech tool that generates due diligence reports and background checks for the compliance with anti-corruption and anti-money laundering regulations. We have a broad suite of services including different levels of reports, on-demand e-learning courses focused on the compliance field and AML solutions for the FinTech industry. We offer high quality, fair priced, domestic-focused compliance legal services with a strong international background.

Twitter: @luciusreport

Cherpa, Ibrahim Ezzedine

Cherpa is a gamified e-learning platform that offers tech courses for teenagers preparing them for future jobs. With Cherpa, schools are able to offer their students at a young age courses in AI, blockchain, self driving cars, robotics, coding, data science and more. It’s an interactive environment where students code, solve real life challenges and acquire soft skills.

Twitter: Cherpa.io (@cherpa_io)

Soundwalkrs, Jorge Moises

Within the online travel market, tours and activities sector is showing a interesting growth (160 bn US Market Size 2017 projected 180 bn US 2020 ) dynamics. Many efforts are being made to address the inclusion of activities to be booked online but today only about 20 percent of in-destination inventory is available. Soundwalkrs is the immersive audiowalk for the travel Marketplace. We offer Our B2B clients an early victory to be part of this action, generating new incremental revenue streams. Through Soundwalkrs content, we make boring audio guides a thing of the past; as actors perform the soundwalks directly to users headphones, our gamification strategy allows offer our OTA clients engagement of their users with quality in-destination content.

Twitter:@soundwalkrs

If you have a startup and would like to pitch, please contact Allison Rohe: allison.rohe@ie.edu

The world's most widely distributed beer, Heineken beers are brewed with great care, based on the same successful principles developed by its founder almost 150 years ago. Similar to a Pilsen, Heineken is produced following the highest standard of quality and manufactured using only natural ingredients.

Website: http://www.heinekenespana.es

IE Business School is one of the most celebrated business schools in the world. Through its Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, IE offers its students and alumni training, mentorship and resources to ideate, validate and launch startups thanks to programs like the Venture Lab. The Venture Networks, organized by the Venture Lab team, are organized with the aim of fostering a community atmosphere and spirit in Area31 for the greater Spanish entrepreneurial ecosystem and also for IE students and alumni who are interested in entrepreneurship. The startups who pitch can be from anywhere (with no ties to IE) and investors who are interested in helping out early stage startups, meet aspiring entrepreneurs and stay abreast of what startups are up and coming are welcome to participate. Contact us!

Website: https://www.ie.edu/entrepreneurship/programs-initiatives/initiatives/venture-networks-area31/
Location: Calle de María de Molina, 31, Madrid, Spain
Twitter: @IE_Ventures