Nadya Eka Lestari
TechInAfrica — The leading emerging market startup community and investor, Seedstars has announced its global Seedstars Summit 2020. The 7th edition of the event will take the stage in Lausanne, Switzerland from April 1st to 3rd, 2020.
The Seedstars Summit is the final step of Seedstars World, the world’s largest startup competition in emerging markets. For the past six years, the Seedstars teams have been scouting for the best early-stage startups by traveling around more than 80 countries for 9 months.
Entering its 7th edition, the event will showcase the 48 most promising startups from emerging economies in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. The startups are competing for the title of Seedstars Global Winner, equity investment up to $500,000, and additional prizes that will be granted by Seedstars partners.
This year, as Seedstars unveils a new theme for the Summit, all teams will focus on how to serve, galvanize entrepreneurial ecosystems and go beyond borders, limitations, structural challenges, financial constraints, and prejudice. The event will continue to be a driving force for sustainable change in emerging markets, bringing together over 1500 participants at the Swiss Tech Convention Center (EPFL campus).
As a catalyst to facilitate the best business and investment opportunities, the global Seedstars Summit will gather its network of startups, investors, mentors, ambassadors, partners, and key stakeholders.
The Summit will as well be an opportunity to showcase and strengthen Seedstars initiatives launched throughout 2019. Last year alone, the group launched several initiatives to deliver in-depth support to all involved ecosystems including Seedstars Africa Ventures, a sub-Saharan Africa fund targeting $100 million to make early-stage minority investments from $250,000 to $5 million in the most promising and innovative ventures across sectors and countries.
“The past year has been impressive and exciting for the Seedstars group. As we are getting ready to bring these promising entrepreneurs to the forefront of the technology & innovation scene in Switzerland, we are looking forward to creating more networking, investment & partnership opportunities. We really tried to redefine the impact Seedstars could have on these ecosystems and our new theme, “Beyond”, sums up everything we stand for. We are truly going above and beyond as we try to dissolve all possible limitations, whether gender-based or financial, so they can reach their full potential and impact millions of lives in emerging markets,” Alisée de Tonnac, CEO & Partner at Seedstars said.
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Source: startupmgzn.com
