Eligibility criteria

• Early-stage startups and SMEs within the eHealth sector.
• headquarters in Europe*,
• solution is live and available,
• SME actively looking for seed or series A funding.

Main selection criteria

• unique value proposition and competitive advantage – scalability –
• user momentum or pilot/implementation programmes or commercial traction – UX design:

Trainers and experts for the Investment Readiness Academy

Hosted by Dario Mazzella. META Group S.r.l

The Investment Training Academy will include experts:

• Beth Susanne, Professional Investment Readiness Coach (Spain)
• Clara Leonard, Associate, DH Ventures (Germany)
• Francesca Natali, Managing partner of Meta Zernike Ventures Spa

 

Panel of investors for the EC2VC pitch

Our panel of investor judges include:

• Farooq Abbasi, Partner, Mosaic Ventures (United Kingdom)
• Alessio Beverina, General Partner, Panakès Partners (Italy)
• Josep Sanfeliu, General Manager, YSIOS Capital (Spain)
• Edward Kliphuis, Investment Director, Merck Ventures (The Netherlands)
• Lara Koole, Senior Manager, Philips HealthTech Ventures (The Netherlands)
• Marc Lambrechts, Senior Investment Director, Capricorn Venture Partners (Belgium)
• Sven Lingjaerd, Managing Partner, Endeavour Vision (Switzerland)
• Clara Leonard, Associate, DH Ventures (Germany)
• Cristian Pascual, Digital Health Angel Investor (Spain)
• Dr. Klaus Stöckemann, Managing Partner, Peppermint VenturePartners (Germany)
• Francesca Wuttke, Managing Director/Investment Principal - Europe, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, LLC (Spain)
• Marc-Olivier Luecke, Partner, Atlantic Labs, (Germany)
• Dr. Michael Sidler, Founding Partner, Redalpine Venture Capital (Switzerland)

 

Other investors already confirmed to attend EC2VC include:

• Christian Angele, Venture Partner at DocCheck Guano AG (Germany)
• Miguel Amador, Program Manager at Startup Braga (Portugal)
• Feliz Arias, Partner at Avet Ventures (Spain)
• Diane Lejeune, Senior Investment Manager, Life Sciences & Healthcare Venture Capital at PMV (Belgium)
• Laurent Morlet, Director, Healthcare Technology New Ventures, Johnson & Johnson Innovation (UK)
• Franck Noiret, General Manager at Innovation Capital (France)
• Daniel Oliver, Director at Capital Cell (Spain)
• Lluís Pareras, Director at Healthequity, SCR (Spain)
• Zuzanna Pogorzelska, Research Master at RTAventures VC (Poland)
• Florentine Radelfahr, Senior Associate at Wellington Partners (Germany)
• Dr. Mussaad Al-Razouki, Chief Investment and Business Development Officer at Kuwait Life Sciences Company (Kuwait)
• Luis Gutierrez Roy, Managing Partner at Telegraph Hill Capital (US & Spain)
• Marc Sluijs, Advisor at DigitalHealth.Network (Switzerland)
• Steve Seuntjens, Partner at PHS (Netherlands)
• Georgina Sorrosal, Investment Analyst at Healthequity, SCR (Spain)
• Daniel Steffen, Investment Manager at IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft (Germany)
• Montserrat Vendrell, General Partner at Alta Life Sciences (Spain)

Agenda

Morning: 

10:00-13:00: Investment Readiness Academy

10:00-11:15 Presentations

11:45-13:00 Pitch Practice

Digital health SMEs seeking private funding will learn how to gauge their funding needs, what sources of funding are best for their specific situations, how to prepare before engaging in a serious conversation with investors and how to improve their pitches.

Hosted by Dario Mazzella, Senior Consultant, META Group (Belgium), the Investment Training Academy will include experts:

• Beth Susanne, Professional Investment Readiness Coach (Spain)
• Clara Leonard, Associate, DH Ventures (Germany)
• Francesca Natali, Managing partner of Meta Zernike Ventures Spa (Italy)

This session is mandatory for all EC2VC SME finalists.

Afternoon: 

14:00-17:30: EC2VC Investors Forum and Pitch Competition

Moderated by Roberto Ascione, CEO of Healthware International (Italy) and Dr. Vishal Gulati, Venture Partner at Draper Esprit plc (UK).

 

14:00: Pascal Lardier, Executive Director – International, Health 2.0 and Principal, [édito], France

14:00-14:30: Investors Forum: European and Global Trends in Digital Health Investments

14:30-14:45: Presentation: Beth Susanne, Professional Investment Readiness Coach (Spain):

“Getting to YES: Secrets to a Winning Pitch”

14:45-15:45: Pitch sessions #1: early stage category (6 companies)

15:45-16:15: Networking break

16:15-16:30: Presentation: Clara Leonard, Associate, DH Ventures (Germany):

“Scaling Up a Digital Health Company”

16:30-17:30: Pitch sessions #2: series A (6 companies)

17:30: Jury deliberations and presentation: Jorge González, Managing Director, TicBiomed and Coordinator of the EU-funded eHealth Hub project (Spain): “Building a European Investment Platform for Digital Health”

18:00: Winners announcement of EC2VC and the eHealth Competition

19:30: Private dinner for digital health investors – Discussion topic: creating a European Life Science Investors Network. Investors can indicate their interest in joining this private dinner in their investor registration form.