Northbound Startups cross-border investor meeting

The Northbound Startups project kicks-off the series of investor meetings with a cross-border event in the beginning of June. Investors in Estonia, Finland and Sweden will gather together in a webinar presenting the startup scene of the Baltic region. The session will introduce a cross-border panel of investors and entrepreneurs talking about valuation and co-investment.

If you are interested in the connections with Finnish and Swedish investors, then this webinar is just for you!

From the Estonian side, Riivo Anton as an investor and Taavo Annus and Natalja Napsep as the startuppers will join the event.

Riivo Anton is a founder and partner of the United Angels VC and a founder and member of the board of the consulting company CIVITTA.

Taavo Annus and Natalja Napsep are founders of a startup called Bidrento, which digitizes rental market and provides people and companies in the rental business with a cloud-based platform and software that helps in finding and managing their tenants. Bidrento saves the landlord money and time, and offers better managing of income and vacancies. Bidrento is all in one solution for rental owners, which automates all important activities such as management of rental properties, tenants, invoices, contracts and much more.

Agenda:

• 10 minutes introduction
• 40 minutes Panel discussion, online with all partners, one investor and one startup from each partner participating in the panel.

Topics:

• Short introduction about the startup arena in each country
  Valuation of companies in the early stages – differences and similarities between countries
• How to create co-investments
• 10 minutes wrap up for engaging the participants in the audience.

Speakers from Finland:

• Investor will be Amel Gaily, Managing Director of FiBAN, https://www.fiban.org/
• Startup will be Peter Sarlin, CEO of SILO.AI, https://silo.ai/

Speakers from Sweden:

• Investor will be Malin Carlström, Senior Vice President Europe at ABB Technology Ventures
• Startup will be Fredrik Edström, Co-Founder Sally R https://sally-r.com/

Northbound Startups project focuses on knowledge-based companies and supports their internationalization at an early stage. The project aims to form cross-border teams, provide a path to entrepreneurship and support existing early-stage startups to find their first clients, investors and advisors.

More information about the project: https://www.tehnopol.ee/en/northbound-startups/