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Future of European Technology. Should you be a part of it?
Piotr Piasek
Exclusively for
Dino Makers Global Competition Summit Party
Who am I?Who am I and why am I here?
– 10 years of entrepreneurship
– 1 company sold ( Exit )
– 5 failures ( learning lessons )
– 1 major failure ( BIG lesson )
– 4 brands founded: • See Bloggers
• Wolves Den
• Wolves Summit
• The Sales Gate
To the point… HardwareHardware is eating the world…
and there is no app for that.
Rise and shine
• Hardware startup accelerators have spread
• Investors - gaining experience and confidence
• Crowdfunding maturing
• Easier to rise money
• Still not much investors in the area
Problem to solve?• Big enough problem to solve
• Is it really pain in the a%$?
• Make an impact
• Technology that serve people
• Useful for big enough group
Protect yourself
• Defensibility and speed matters more then ever
• Marathon not Sprint
• What’s your USP?
• Distinguishing factor
• Value in execution
EUROPEAN BREAKTHROUGHS
MARKET
• Huge market - large potential – 738 mln people
– Biggest markets: UK, Germany, France
• Collection of smaller markets still defragmented– Language barrier
– Different cultures
– Legal issues
– Logistics
Startup Revolution
• Why bother about Europe?
• What good can come out of it?
Technology of the future – IS IT A FUTURE ALREADY?“We wanted flying cars — instead we got 140 characters.”
Peter Thiel, early investor in Facebook
What’s Next?• Low cost chips
• custom chips
• hardware + biotech
• energy harvesting
• Low cost industrial arms
Innovation comes in waves
Word of the day: Connected• Cyber security• Cyber spying
Innovation -> Commodity
• Shorter then ever
• Seagway years to grow market
• HoVerboards only 12 months
VS
Investor from Asia? Why to look at Europe?
• Chinese have supply chain connections
• Startup Revolution
• Grown ecosystem
• Experience co-Investors
• Serial entrepreneurs
• Lower valuations
• Emerging cee region
Still space in Europe for expansion
• Choose Region
• Conduct research
• Use local help - connections
• The right time is NOW
• Many markets EMERGING
The next big thing. Where DOES it come from? 中国?• Trend is changing – incrising number of Chinese hardware
startups target global market instead only China
• Investors from China are familiar with manufacturingand feel more confortable with hardware investments
• Investors from China have easier access both to europeanand us market
• 深圳 (Shenzhen) = best supply chain from prototyping to production "It's Hollywood for electornics"
- Eric Pan, Seed Studio
Future of European Technology shaped by Asia
VS VS
New generations to come – travel beyond stars
Communities + Network
• Accelerators: HAX Accelerator, HighTechXL, Startupbootcamp
• Hardware Massive – worldwide community
• Investors, Mentors, Advisors
• It took me 2 years to meet investors that I wanted to meet
• To establish relationship it takes longer
Get around the right people
Build network in europe
Uczestnicy i goście 27.10
SEED STAGE31%
EARLY STAGE 45%
GROWTH STAGE 24%
OUT OF 2880 STARTUP APPLICATIONSonly 276 qualified for the Great Pitch
MORE THAN 45 INDUSTRIES - 53 COUNTRIES25% Poland, 75% Europe & other countries
STARTUPS FROM THE GREAT PITCHCOMPETITION IN A NUTSHELL
Startups from more than 45 sectors (mainly Europe)
Investors (mainly Europe)
Tech companies
C-level Executives, Strategy Directors & Innovation Directors
WHO IS ATTENDING
INVESTORS WHO ATTEND WOLVES SUMMIT
The third edition of Wolves Summit took placein April 2016 in Warsaw. And it was huge.
WOLVES SUMMIT’S SPEAKERS
Christian AntingTVN
Christoph LangeZalando
John BiggsTechCrunch
Melanie SchröderAxel Springer
Michael KrauseDeezer
Wojciech ZaskórskiSamsung
Andy ShannonStartupbootcamp
Adam ShepherdNotion Capital
30281:1 Meetings
276Startups
313Executives
221 Investors
2044Attendees
51 Countries
WOLVES SUMMIT LAST EDITION
CONTACT USConnect with the most innovative and promising startups from around the world.
Contact Piotr to attend Wolves Summit as an investor.
Piotr [email protected]+ 48 697 891 985
