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WELCOME TO

MADRID

PARTNERS

Place of one of the hottest startup hub in Europe

269M€ invested in 2014

Venture capital

Lots of projects in Incubators, accelerators...

Many foreign investment fund opening offices in Madrid

More than 10 universities 2 Technical Schools 2 Business Schools

Very active community: Entrepreneurs meetups Venture Forums Hackathon Startups Weekends

International Events

- Startup School: 11 editions in Madrid and 5 in Barcelona. Bring the

opportunity to develop their own startup in 6 sessions. From the idea to prototype

- Active Community: 35 active startups, workshops, european events. Monthly meetups.

Tetuan Valley is the first non profit pre-accelerator in Europe. We have been working with first timers entrepreneurs for 5 years.

Currently, S&I has 800 active projects, receives over 400 project proposals from entrepreneurs per month and has more than 2,700 investors.

Socios S&I is a Global Network linking web entrepreneurs who need capital and investors who wish to participate in business projects. S&I was founded in 2010, becoming the first purely equity-‐based crowdfunding company in the world. S&I is an innovative platform for connecting talent and capital: We provide financial resources to entrepreneurs in a time of financial scarcity and, simultaneously, provide reliable investment opportunities to investors seeking o finance business projects.

BISA focuses on developing Salamanca (Madrid area) startup ecosystem, providing web entrepreneurs with direct exposure to investors and strategic partners. In the last years, BISA has supported hundreds of startups and run an incubator and organized tens of events attended by thousands, generating 408 new skilled jobs in the field of web and mobile technology. More than €5.2M was raised for the development of web and mobiles startups.

BISA is located at the Science Park of the University of Salamanca (PCUS), which is a private, non--‐profit foundation based in Spain, and was created in 2005 to boost the economy of the environment through the promotion of entrepreneurship and support the creation of startups, mainly those with a technological outlook.

Thank you!