INVESTHORIZON WEBINAR
December 3rd, 2020 – 4:00 PM CET
Global market volatility has
increased between two to six times in past months, according to proxies such as
the CBOE Volatility Index. Meanwhile, the volume
of venture financing deals has decreased in Europe by 15% on average in the
past six months, as reported by Crunchbase, making it -in some cases- more
challenging for European science-based companies to seduce investors.
Discover how to:
- Choose
the right type of investor at the right time
- Strength
your investment readiness
- Negotiate
the challenging clauses of your investment term-sheet
Attendees
will also receive access to a IESE recent study on best practices for deep tech
entrepreneurs.
About the speakers:
- Andrei
Zuzin is Head of Corporate Venture Capital and Digitalization at EFKO
Management company. Former Director for the Skolkovo project at Cisco System, Zuzin has more
than 10 years’ experience in venture capital. In 2004, received his MBA
from Fuqua Business School at Duke University (USA).
- Almudena
Trigo Lorenzo is Founding Partner and Chairwoman at BeAble Capital, a
private fund specialized in high industrial technology and tech transfer
investments. Before BeAble capital, she collaborated as a researcher for
the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) and the Spanish
National Research Council (CSIC). Almudena holds a Telecommunications Engineering degree from Polytechnic University of Madrid and a Ph.D. degree in
Molecular Biology from the Autonomous University of Madrid.
- Isaac de
la Peña is General Partner for Conexo Ventures, expert in Technology and
responsible for operations in Silicon Valley. He is CEO of Alternative
Insights and former CTO at Agora EAFI. Isaac was educated at Harvard
Business School and MIT, Sloan School of Management.
- Carmen
del Campo Elvira is Chief Innovation Officer at Mutua Madrileña. She
starts her carrier in consultancy at Deloitte and has a long experience as
Head of Marketing Intelligence for cities at Ferovial. She was educated at
IESE Business School and LSE.
- Thomas Bigagli is a
Senior Investment Associate at Plug and Play Tech Center, with a large experience
in the European investment sector. Before joining the Plug and Play team,
Thomas worked as startup consultant. He was educated at Esade and Bocconi
University.
- Juan
Felipe Gonzalez Hidalgo is an
investor and the Chief Sales Officer at Aerial Technologies, a Canadian AI
startup involved in the telecom industry. With over 30 years in strategic sales
management in the telecom and high-tech industries, Juan Felipe is a Limited
Partner at the Montreal-based startup foundry TandemLaunch, an angel investor
in several B2B Artificial Intelligence startups, as well as a business mentor
at NIU, Andorra Telecom’s startup incubator. Juan Felipe holds a B.Sc., Honors in
Chemistry, from Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, and an MBA from the
School of Industrial Organization (EOI), Madrid, Spain.
The webinar will be moderated by
Josemaria Siota, Executive Director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Center at IESE Business School, and Corporate Venturing Expert at the World
Economic Forum and the European Commission.