June 15, 2015 - Seed Forum international fund and iHUB network of innovation and entrepreneurship centers with the support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs held Seed Forum Odessa 2015 international investment conference for the first time
About 80 people, among whom were representatives of investment and diplomatic circles, accelerators and incubators, founders of international and Ukrainian IT-companies, attended the conference: Odessa city council, Odessa Regional State Administration, Ernst & Young, Deloitte Ukraine, Globallogic, Startup HUB Ukraine, OK Factory Accelerator, GeeksLab, AB-soft and others. The keynote speech was made by the President & CEO at Seed Forum Global Steinar Hoel Korsmo and the Board Director of Seed Forum Eastern Europe Foundation, Chairman and Co-founder of Seed Forum Ukraine Foundation Dimitri Podoliev.
Six startup teams from Ukraine presented their projects for the audience. Each team had only 5 minutes to present the project and 2 minutes to answer the questions. At the end of the official part, the participants and the guests of Seed Forum Odessa discussed the results of the conference during lunch.
Seed Forum Odessa 2015 startup projects:
PolitaiMo creates next generation entertainment, develops avatar-style games, where user controls real physical model and receives real-time telemetry and dimensional feedback from it.
TONA is innovative mobile marketplace, which connects together shippers and carriers and allows people ship their goods within city in few minutes.
Pibox is a cloud-based messenger for large HQ files.
Tap4Parking is global parking app with which you may find, book and pay for your parking just in 30 seconds. T4P is a solution to the problem of chaotic parking, comfortable urban space tool, qualities service and simple parking administration.
MeViCS represents a revolutionary new intelligent device for prevention spine problems and making stunning posture. The device serves as your personal standalone assistant, reminding you of the need to straighten up.
Looks.fm is a photo competition service, which joined together social network and photohosting. It satisfies need of the users in acknowledgment and easy winning. The simpliest tool for advertising contact with the audience.
The second important part of Seed Forum Odessa 2015 was held at Fratelli restaurant in the evening. All guests were able to discuss the results of the conference, to establish business contacts and chat in an informal atmosphere.
The organizers’ team is grateful to the international law firm Magnusson, financial partner BeyondBroke, and to the partner of the conference business incubator WannaBiz.
InVenture - the biggest investment portal of Ukraine dedicated to market private equity and venture capital - was supporting the event as a general media partner.
Summary:
Seed Forum - is a global network of national not-for-profit foundations, founded in 2002 in Norway, which unites more than 24000 mentors and investors from 46 countries and 60 cities all around the world. Seed Forum helps young startup companies to find international partners and investors to promote their business. Seed Forum Odessa is a part of a global Seed Forum network. The conference was held in Kiev, Lviv and Odessa successfully in 2015. For more info, please visit: www.seedforum.org.ua
iHUB - is a network of centers for entrepreneurship and innovation, established on the initiative of Seed Forum in 2014. iHUB contributes to the development of young, innovative startups and is a full-fledged Norwegian-Ukrainian network of centers for entrepreneurs, innovators and IT specialists. iHUB is expanding its network actively: in the nearest plans for 2015 - to launch centers in Vinnitsa and Lviv, as well as to expand iHUB network in Moldova and Georgia until 2016. For more info, please visit: ihub.com.ua
Magnusson is an international law company, which provides a full range of legal services. One of the priorities of Magnusson is providing the support for IT industry. The firm was formed by a group of lawyers, specialized in different areas of law - intellectual property law, corporate law, litigation, - which carry out the support for projects in the sphere of high technologies. Magnusson’s specialists take part in national and international associations and networking for IT lawyers, including ItechLaw. "We provide comprehensive legal support in all areas of technology. Magnusson advises buyers and suppliers of software or services, cloud services, content, online services, hardware, etc. We are able to combine our resources to provide clients with effective legal decisions".
BeyondBroke - is a service for online credit, which allows you to buy on credit at online stores from anywhere in Ukraine.
