The NextWomen are running a Pitch Evening with Investors on November 29th in Amsterdam. The event, done in cooperation with Astia and sponsored by Microsoft Biz Spark, aims to support women-led businesses prepare and practice their investment pitches with a real panel of investors, while running initial screening of high growth entrepreneurs for the Astia & Microsoft Bizspark.

The Pitch Evenings are highly appreciated events organized since the start of The NextWomen end of 2008 at the request of our readers, and it provides an excellent networking opportunity with the possibility to make lasting business connections.

"It was such an experience to participate in TheNextWomen! The feedback from the panel was invaluable, the people met most intriguing, and the whole experience exhilarating. Thank you for making the event such a blast! I truly enjoyed every minute of it, but can only imagine how much work it took to make it happen so smoothly." Heikki Haldre, Fits.me

The event will give women founders with little or no experience in fundraising a first review of their business plan by experts and investors and initial practice of their pitch in a friendly environment, gaining first-hand insights and feedback from experienced investors from the judging panel, including Van den Ende & Deitmers,

Up to 8 women-led startups will have an afternoon workshop to prepare for the evening pitches. Up to 20 guests will further join the event at 6pm.
 

Location: Evert van de Beekstraat 354 1118 CZ Schiphol, Amsterdam (map) 

Microsoft Offices, Schiphol Amsterdam

Date: Tuesday November 29, 2011

• 3-6pm Workshop for pitching startups
• FOR ALL:
• 6-6:15pm Guests arrival and registration
• 6:15-6:30pm Entrepreneur Keynote
• 6:30-6:45pm Investor Keynote by Harry Helwegen of Business Angels Network Netherlands
• 6:45-7pm Networking Break with drinks
• 7-8:30pm Funding Pitches
• 8:30-8:45pm Networking Break with drinks
• 8:45-9pm Winner announcement and closing

If you want to attend this Evening, please respond asap via simone at thenextwomen dot com and register here: http://thenextwomenpitchingevening.eventbrite.com/

If you want to present at this evening as an entrepreneur, please register here: http://thenextwomenpitchingevening.eventbrite.com/

and contact simone at thenextwomen dot com with:

name company

name founders

description company

You will need to submit your power point with your presentation slides 4 days prior to the event.

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THE JUDGING & FEEDBACK PANEL:

Harry Helwegen, Chairman Business Angels The Netherlands (BAN)

Harry Helwegen is Owner at Diligence, Intermediary for M&A, and Founder & Chairman of Business Angels Network the Netherlands

Martijn Hamann, Investor at Van den Ende & Deitmers

Partner at “Van den Ende & Deitmers” –Venture Capital Partners
In 2006 Martijn jointly with 2 other partners started and invested in the digital media & e-commerce investment fund Van den Ende & Deitmers. This EUR 150m fund is related to Europe’s media tycoon and entrepreneur Joop van den Ende. Some well-known investments of the fund are Eyeworks, SpilGames, Albelli, Metrixlab, Smartclip, Improve Digital and CentralPoint. Other portfolio companies which has been sold successfully are Hyves, Unamic/HCN, Paylogic and Bright magazine.
Van den Ende & Deitmers is a rather operational driven venture firm with entrepreneurial roots, dedicated to building substantial international companies of lasting value. We provide growth capital to both early/mid stage European Digital Media and e-Commerce companies with strong international growth potential.

Alexandra Jankovich, Partner SparksOptimus

Alexandra Jankovich is one of the founding partners of SparkOptimus. Alexandra has over 20 years of experience in strategy consulting and in international (online) media. She has supported many leading players in the Netherlands in the media, online and communications sector in (digital) growth and transformation projects. Her expertise includes e-commerce, mobile, social media, video and gaming. Alexandra started her career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey&Company, after which she held various senior line positions in online media and marketing (Reed Elsevier, Last Minute.com) in New York, London and Amsterdam.

Mark Voermans, Microsoft BizSpark, The Netherlands

Maarten Oldenhof, CEO at AND Automotive Navigation Data NV, Investor