Close out August with an evening of practical insights, honest feedback, and new connections for founders, builders, and innovators. Get ready for your next move with a session on raising your first seed round, hands-on UX testing, and Demo Tables featuring startups and innovation projects from across the ecosystem.
Come share what you're building, test your ideas, learn from others, and wrap up the summer with the community.
In the Demo Table zone you will discover various products, technologies and projects being presented by the founders or startup-representatives.
In the Info Table zone you will find out about projects, organisations and ideas.
WE ARE FULLY BOOKED FOR THIS DATE
Would you like to present your organization on a different Thursday? Send us an application!
However remember, this is NO HARD SALES zone.
Unwind, connect, and vibe to the rhythm! This lively session blends casual networking with great music, offering the perfect atmosphere to meet fellow innovators, exchange ideas, and forge new collaborations. Enjoy the beats, and build meaningful connections in a relaxed, energetic setting.
Come and join us for our popular UX-Testing! You will learn what products are to be launched soon in the market and meet interesting people with innovative mindsets. Our startups will show you their prototypes, and you get the chance to give them valuable feedback from a user perspective. All along, you can network in an inspiring crowd of participating teams, startup experts and guests.
In Collaboration with:
Hint: most of this you can train.
It's just far less romantic, and far more trainable, than the myth.
Which traits actually show up in the research. Which ones you can build. Which ones you can only borrow for a sprint, and then pay back with interest. And which ones you should stop arguing with and design the company around.
Plus four founder myths that don't survive contact with the data. At least one of them is currently on a wall in your accelerator.
This is not the four-colour test from the last offsite.
This session is for early-stage founders with pitch-ready ideas across industries, looking to raise their first institutional round.
Based on my 5 years of experience in VC, I will give a presentation and open floor Q&A covering the following topics:
1. Who should raise venture funding
2. How to identify the right investor
3. How to get in the room
4. How VC decisions are made
5. How to tell your story in a way that lands (more on my storytelling/pitch practice here: arc-labs.studio)
Guests will walk away with better clarity on whether and how they can raise venture funding for their businesses, as well as actionable tips on building and delivering their pitch narrative.