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Cloudonix, Inc.

Cloudonix, Inc.

  • Country: United States
  • Round: Post Seed
  • Area: Enterprise

Cloudonix’s voice communication technology turns your existing digital assets into communication channels accelerating sales and increasing customer satisfaction.

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Ariadne Maps

Ariadne Maps

  • Country: Germany
  • Round: Post Seed
  • Area: Marketing and advertising

Ariadne is the operating system of commercial real estates that provides advanced, real-time customer analytics enabled with award winning accuracy and certified privacy compliance. Track your customer journey with Ariadne’s low-cost, plug-and-play solution – no app, no network connection, no cameras! On top of its Analytics solution, Ariadne enables Indoor Navigation, and communication with the visitors, sending them notifications about promotions, discounts and updates.

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UPMEM

UPMEM

  • Country: France
  • Round: Round A
  • Area: Enterprise

UPMEM, a rare European fabless semiconductor company, designs and sell an ultra-efficient processing accelerator for analytics and AI applications in the datacenter and edge. UPMEM unique processing-in-memory solution attracts top-tier global application owners and cloud players, and opens the path for reducing datacenters energy consumption by 20%.

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The Jury

Dr. Plamen Russev Host
Dr. Plamen Russev

Webital Investment Network

Fund size
Evergreen 
Average ticket
€500K to €2.5M 

Dr. Plamen Russev

Executive Chairman
Webital Investment Network

Fund size Evergreen 
Average ticket€500K to €2.5M 

Dr. Plamen Russev is the initiator and focal connector of one of the world’s largest impact networks and curator of the global Webit community, reaching out to over 800,000 digerati, policy makers, innovators and media. His success stories include creating the global Webit brand from scratch, supporting founders and brands in establishing and growing a successful marketing strategy, creating meaningful relations with potential partners, customers and media. Plamen supports causes which impact the achievement of the UN’ SDGs.

He is an investor, philanthropist and serial entrepreneur and proven success record in developing business ventures in multicultural and challenging business environments.

Plamen Russev is B.Sc in Marketing and Management, M.Sc in Electronic Education/Mathematics and Physics, and Ph.D in Healthcare Management.

Plamen Russev has been appointed Goodwill Ambassador for Digital Affairs of his home country – Republic of Bulgaria and a member of European Commission’ BOF.

Dr. Russev’ work and impact have been recognised and awarded by governments, associations and NGOs along with 2 honorary doctorates from Universities in Europe and South America. Plamen Russev is featured in hundreds of international and local media including The Economist, Bloomberg, CNBCe, Forbes, Venture Beat, CNN to name a few.

Dr. Russev is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Webit Foundation and host of Webit Virtual. He is happily married to the most wonderful girl in the world and father of 2 boys.

Philipp Schroeder
Philipp Schroeder

Endeit Capital

Fund size
€300M 
Average ticket
€10M 

Philipp Schroeder

Partner
Endeit Capital

Fund size €300M 
Average ticket€10M 

Philipp Schroeder, Partner at Endeit Capital and Founder Active Venture Partners.
Founded his first Venture Capital Company with 25years of age in 1999.

Ida Kuijken
Ida Kuijken

Fortino Capital

Fund size
€750M 
Average ticket
€5M 

Ida Kuijken

Partner
Fortino Capital

Fund size €750M 
Average ticket€5M 

Ida Kuijken, based in the Netherlands. Originally a physicist but in M&A and investment business for c. 15 years already. Currently one of the partners at Fortino Capital a Western-European investor in B2B SaaS and IT Services businesses.

Patrick Lord
Patrick Lord

Truffle Capital

Fund size
€300M 
Average ticket
€10M 

Patrick Lord

Partner
Truffle Capital

Fund size €300M 
Average ticket€10M 

Experienced digital & marketing strategist and entrepreneur.
12 years strategy and enterprise transformation consulting at Accenture and A.T. Kearney in London. 8 years digital, web and mobile entrepreneurship and M&A advisory in Paris.
Master in Sciences and Management from Cambridge University (1992). Master in Innovation andEntrepreneurship at ESCP Europe (2006).

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