Mini Seedcamp Prague - Creating Europe’s Next Generation Entrepreneurs

1. Mini Seedcamp Prague
Creating Europe’s Next Generation Entrepreneurs
2nd March 2010

2. Are you exciting web-tech talent? Go for it!

3. What is Seedcamp?
• Seedcamp is a programme
created to jumpstart the
entrepreneurial community
in Europe by connecting next
generation developers and
entrepreneurs with over 400
mentors
• Seedcamp acts as a micro
seed fund to invest in startup
companies
• Targeted at EMEA’s brightest
and most ambitious young
entrepreneurs
• Organization dedicated to
helping them take risks to
create world-beating businesses

4. Who’s behind it?
• Saul Klein (Founder)
Saul is a Partner at Index Ventures and also a Founding
Partner of The Accelerator Group. An entrepreneur, seed
investor and operator. Most recently he was the co-
founder and original CEO at Lovefilm International and
part of the executive team at Skype. He started
Seedcamp and OpenCoffee Club in 2007 to help support
seed and early stage entrepreneurs in Europe.
• Reshma Sohoni (CEO)
Reshma runs Seedcamp on a day-to-day basis as its
CEO. She joined Seedcamp from the Venture team at 3i.
Prior to 3i, Reshma spent over 3 years at Vodafone in
their Commercial Strategy team, working across the
Europe and Japan footprints in marketing strategy and
pricing functions. Reshma started her career in the US in
investment banking (Broadview) and venture capital
(Softbank).
http://seedcamp.com/pages/about_team

5. And a few names behind
Founder Investors Friends
• Atlas • Amazon
• Atomico • Albion
• Balderton • Ballou PR
• Doughty Hanson • Cisco
• Eden Ventures • Consort Partners
• Index Ventures • Google
• Nauiokas Park • Library House
• NESTA • Microsoft Corporation
• Northzone • Mozilla
• Venrex Investment Management • Oracle
• Reuters
• SJ Berwin
• Skype
• Spark PR
• Sun Microsystems
• Yahoo
• Xcalibre Communications

6. How does it work?
• Application & Selection
– Targeted at young teams from EMEA
February to
– Open application through the web
August
– 20 best teams selected by panel of VCs
– Invited to come to London for week in September
• Seed funding
– Week long, immersive event in London for winners
– Successful teams surrounded by 150+ exceptional mentors September
– Up to 5 teams chosen for €50k funding for 10% equity stake
– Invited to stay a further 3 months in London
• Company development
– Weekly dinners & events to support teams
– Demo day after 6 weeks September to
– Funding day after 10 weeks November

7. Seedcamp 2009 Winners
(Birmingham, UK) - (Paris, France) - Makes
Server monitoring for all your inbox easier to
website owners manage by intelligently
screening and organising
(Bucharest, Romania) - your emails
Helping video publishers
monetize on the (Cambridge, UK) -
increasingly growing Revolutionizing how
video content patients ineract with
doctors as a start to
(Warsaw, Poland) - First better provided care
line of testing of
programmers, saving (Vienna, Austria) - The
employers a time and social gaming network for
money browser based games
(Tallinn, Estonia) - ERP (Amman, Jordan) - The
on the web. Comedy Channel of the
Comprehensive CRM, Middle East, providing a
accounting, billing and space for self-expression
inventory management and sharing humour
for SMEs

8. What is Mini Seedcamp Prague?
• Mini Seedcamp programme
runs throughout several
startup hubs around Europe
from January-June
• Prague is 2nd Mini Seedcamp
in 2010 (Zagreb, Prague,
Barcelona, Paris, Tel Aviv,
Copenhagen, Berlin, London)
• Contact to all the new startup
talent in Central Europe (CZ,
DE, AT, PL, SK, HU, RU, UA)

9. Run of Mini Seedcamp Prague
Mon 1st March: OpenCoffee (7-9pm)
• networking evening for 100+ people
• Jazz Dock, Janackovo nabrezi 2, Prague - Smichov
Tue 2nd March: Mini Seedcamp Prague
(9:00am-6:30pm)
• 100 participants – IT entrepreneurs, mentors,
media & bloggers
• local finalists get to connect and learn from
prominent entrepreneurs, investors, developers
and other web technology experts
• the day consists of 5 minute presentations by the
teams; panel discussions; and four 1:1 mentoring
sessions
• Academy Club, University of Economics Prague,
Winston Churchill Sq 4, Prague

10. Who’s behind Mini Seedcamp Prague?
Founder
• Seedcamp London
Local Contact
• TUESDAY Business Network
• Credo Ventures
• University of Economics
Prague

11. Apply
Startups: http://seedcamp.com/pages/prague10
Bloggers and mentors who’re interested: Nikola Rafaj -
rafaj@tuesday.cz, www.tuesday.cz
Press: Stephanie Zari - zari@seedcamp.com