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Bits & Pretzels Bits & Pretzels

Europe’s leading founders festival. Join us on 29 September – 1 October 2025. Taking place annually in Munich, Bits & Pretzels is a 3-day festival for 7,500 founders, investors, and startup enthusiasts. Our vision is to enable founders to shape a better future through innovative ideas and technology. startups, entrepreneurship, events, founders, pitch, networking, investors, and innovation

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Web Summit Web Summit

"The world's biggest technology event" - POLITICO. Join us in Lisbon, Doha, Rio de Janeiro and Vancouver #WebSummit In the years since 2009, Web Summit has grown from a 150-person conference in Dublin to a global event series gathering more than 140,000 attendees every year from all over the world. We build incredible things, from technology and stages to relationships and experiences. Since 2009, we've grown our team to more than 340 people. At our headquarters in Dublin, Ireland – and in Portugal, Canada, Qatar, Brazil and many more locations around the world – incredible engineers, developers, producers, designers, marketers …

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Merck Group Merck Group

This channel is not intended for U.S. and Canadian visitors. Merck operates in the U.S. and Canada as EMD Serono in Healthcare, MilliporeSigma in Life Science and EMD Electronics in Electronics. An unaffiliated and unrelated company, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, US holds the rights in the trademark MERCK in the U.S. and Canada. _______________________________ We are Merck, a leading global science and technology company headquartered in Germany. We are curious explorers, courageous pioneers, and ingenious inventors. Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Life Science, Healthcare, …

Tags: DAX30 Sectors: Biotechnology Pharmaceutical

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Kurma Partners Kurma Partners

Our Vision : We have High Standards - We Build Companies - We have Impact Kurma Partners is a key European venture capital group specialized in healthcare, with €470 million under management, with two dedicated franchises : Kurma Biofund focused on therapeutic (current active fund KBIII) and Kurma Diagnostics focused on diagnostic and digital health (current active fund Kurma Dx2). Biotechnology, Lifesciences, Drug Development, Technology transfer, Rare diseases, Digital Healh, Diagnostics, and Medtech

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

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Karista Karista

Karista is a VC firm investing in game changers from scratch to success. Karista is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in ambitious entrepreneurs. For the past 20 years, we have been backing and guiding more than 100 companies from inception to success in Health, Digital, and Technology. Because we believe that investment is not only about money but mainly about people, we provide support to our founders and entrepreneurs very early-on. We come from different backgrounds and bring various skills to help nurturing our portfolio companies on many levels. We are currently deploying three European early stage funds: our …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

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NEFTYS NEFTYS

Neftys, 1st Alternative financing fintech of innovative start-ups and SMEs Neftys is the 1st business financing platform in France (1900+ operations carried out for a total cumulative amount of € 1 billion - figures on 01/01/2024). Our vocation is to help business creators and managers to secure and speed up their research investments. With our Exclusive Preficir® system, we offer start-ups and SMEs an immediate cash advance on their research tax credit, in order to finance the time lag between the commitment of research expenditure and the benefit of the CIR, a period which can reach 12 to 18 months …

Sectors: Finance

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EU-Startups EU-Startups

EU-Startups.com is the leading online magazine about startups in Europe. Also check out our annual EU-Startups Summit! Menlo Media is the parent company of EU-Startups.com, the leading online publication about startups in Europe. In addition, Menlo Media organizes the annual EU-Startups Summit and focuses on FutureTravel.com and related projects.

Sectors: Media

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FemTech Lab FemTech Lab

The leading global FemTech-focused accelerator that helps rising stars take their products to market and raise funding. Unlocking Women's health and wellness for a fairer, better World. Join the movement! FemTech Lab is a global ecosystem of 20,000+ founders, investors, corporate partners, biotech and research, hospitals, pharmaceuticals, government, and retail leaders innovating across all women's health and wellness subsectors. The FemTech Lab Accelerator program has supported 70+ inspiring startups in women's health. If you are interested in applying, check out the timing of the next cohort on our website and sign up for the next open webinar. Decoding The Future …

Sectors: Health Startup accelerator & VC

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HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds

We believe in tech. We invest in people. HTGF is one of the leading and most active early-stage investors in Germany and Europe, financing start-ups in the fields of Deep Tech, Industrial Tech, Climate Tech, Digital Tech, Life Sciences and Chemistry. With its experienced investment team, HTGF supports start-ups in all phases of their development into international market leaders. HTGF invests in pre-seed and seed phases and can participate significantly in later-stage financing rounds. Across its funds, HTGF has over 2 billion euros under management. Since its inception in 2005, HTGF has financed more than 770 start-ups and successfully sold …

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Revent Revent

Venture capital for purpose-driven founders tackling the problems that truly matter. Today’s immense climate and societal challenges will not be solved without visionary entrepreneurs creating tomorrow’s most innovative companies. We gather a community of purpose-led founders, investors and scientists to drive systemic change in climate, healthcare, education and finance. Our role is to provide founders the platform to succeed, supporting them with capital, relevant networks and an aligned mission. We believe that in today’s world, the companies founded by extraordinary teams around a strong purpose, will be the ones to succeed and thrive.

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

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Sifted Sifted

The leading media brand empowering startup Europe | Backed by the Financial Times. Sifted is the critical friend of the European startup ecosystem – providing startup founders, senior management teams, investors and service providers with the curated insights, in-depth analysis and networking opportunities they need to grow their business. Whatever your role is within the ecosystem, however you like to stay up to speed, we've got something for you: 🗞️ Sifted Daily: Our daily newsletter is the essential morning read for founders, investors and corporates who want a quick digest of the news that matters 🔎 Sifted Pro: Our premium …

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