Venture Day 13th Nov 2014
IE BUSINESS SCHOOL´S STARTUP COMPETITION
IE Business Schools´ top 10 Startups
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KEY PARTICIPANTS
ANTONIO LOPEZ DE AVILA (SEGITTUR)
AVI BIRAN
Mr. Avi Biran is the CEO and a co-founder of Cyber Odysseys, an innovative Cyber Security company based in Israel. Prior to that, he worked for 25 years for the elite Technological Unit of Israel’s Intelligence Corps Special Forces, where he served as a senior commander in the Cyber Command. Through the years he has being acquired deep knowledge of Cyber Warfare, computer networks, special communication systems, satellite systems as well as complicated electronic systems.
ANDER MICHELENA (TICKETBIS)
JUAN GARCIA (CABIFY)
ALBERTO GOMEZ (ADARA VENTURE PARTINERS)
MARK KAVELAARS (SWAN LAAB)
MARIA EUGENIA GIRON (MEGADVISE)
GABRIEL ALDAMIZ (CHICISIMO)
FERNANDO PORCAR
JAVIER FERNANDEZ (TOURISTEYE)
Founder and CTO of TouristEye, a travel mobile app with over 500.000 users that was bought by Lonely Planet. Right now, founder and CEO of Selltag.
CARLOS RODRIGUEZ-MARIBONA (AXON CAPITAL PARTNERS)
Carlos, Associate at Axon Partners Group, is responsible for deal-flow coordination and screening of companies for India Opportunities Fund, an Indian growth capital fund for industrial or service SMEs in the ICT, Engineering, Cleantech or Healthcare sectors. Able to work equally in both Spanish and English-speaking environments, has been involved in several investment processes.
Markets analyzed include different verticals such as pharma, auto components, digital entertainment or online ticketing.
JOE HASLAM (HOT HOTELS)
Joe Haslam a start-up guy, professor, mentor, commentator ,parent. His main job is as the Chairman of Hot Hotels. Hot is Europe´s leading last minute, mobile only, hotel booking App offering hotels in 54 countries & 320 cities. Also he works at IE Business School as the Executive Director of Owners & Entrepreneurs Management Program. Besides of teaching at the school and being one of the mentor startups in the Venture Lab.
FERNANDO RIMBAS (GENTLEMAN MAGAZINE)
Fernando Rimbas is founder and director of the monthly magazine GENTLEMAN, since its beginning in October, 2003. Dedicated from his beginnings in journalism to the illustrated magazines, he has worked in the most important Spanish publishing groups, where he has developed several journalistic projects, has collaborated with prestigious national and international publications, taught courses and seminars at universities, written prologues and books. Nowadays he is also working on digital projects.
SAM KING
Sam King is an American singer songwriter and multi instrumentalist from New York City. His music is a mix of Americana, soul, and folk rock. In late 2013, he released his debut EP, the "Dear Lucy Soundtrack” on iTunes and did his first tour of Germany and Holland. Now, with over a year of sold out shows in NYC, thousands of downloads, and an international tour under his belt, Sam is embarking on the next chapter of his career. In Summer, 2014. Sam moved to Berlin to spend a year writing, recording, and touring in Europe. A large part of the trip is being funded by fans around the globe.
Listen to Sam’s music, and find out about upcoming tours, releases, and updates at samkingtv.com
TOMAS VILLEN (PORSCHE)
The new CEO of Porsche Cars North America , 44 years old , holds a degree in Law and a Masters in Business Administration from the Universidad San Pablo ( CEU ) , and he has a broad experience in the automotive sector .
Villén Thomas joined the PSA financial group in 1987 , and then assumed the development of fleets of Peugeot Spain . He was in charge of the management of the Smart Center in Madrid in 1998 and three years later he was appointed as the commercial director of Rover and Land Rover Spain , then owned by BMW group from which he was the Sales Director for Spain . In 2004 he agreed to dealing with the general direction of BMW Madrid for three years after joining the Volkswagen Group as the head of Seat Motor Spain .
IVAN MARTINEZ CUBELLS (FUERA DE SERIE)
So far he is the Director of the Magazine "Fuera de Serie" , which is a supplement which seeks to entertain and inform readers with the best way of life- distributed every Saturday with Expansion newspaper and Sunday with El Mundo. Previously , he was the director of the " Gaceta Universitaria ' for six years and the Chief Editor of ' Magazine ' and section chief Crónica supplement for two years.
OLIVIER GAY (CARTIER)
Venture Lab @ IE Business School
IE Business School is one of the most celebrated business schools in the world ranked No.1 in Europe and 8th Worldwide by The Financial Times 2013. IE Business School is also ranked No. 9 Worldwide for Entrepreneurship by Bloomberg´s Business Week. The Venture Lab is IE Business School´s startup accelerator where students and alumni are given the oportunity to launch their own ventures with the support of our expert mentor network, a series of startup workshops, and incubation at Area 31 our startup incubator. We accelerate 50 innovative high potential startups a year of which we see up to 20% of teams go on to launch the venture and/or secure seed funding.