About HDI

Pitch Coaching

HDI helps to make start-ups and researchers investor-ready for their final pitches. The participants benefit from an individual pitch training by bwcon coaches and international agrifood experts. By practicing their presentations they have the possibility to improve their pitches.

Topic

The focus „AgTech & FoodTech“ addresses precision agriculture solutions for sustainable farming, functional foods and nutrition with health benefits and mobile services and IoT for the agrifood market.

Financing

You are a founder, start-up or researcher looking for funding? Or you are an investor looking for disruptive technologies and concepts to invest in? The Heidelberg Innovation Forum connects entrepreneurs and financial providers at the pitch day!

Cooperation Partner

Do you have a food product that you would like exposed to 80 + top critics of food?
How can we feed 80 + people in 1 hour?
Showcase your food product and join us for FoodSmash Networking Lunch

Agenda

SPEAKER

Jewell Sparks

Jewell is the Founder of BITHOUSE
GROUP, AgTech FoodTech Summit and
the Chairwoman of the Food and Food-
Tech Expert Group of the German Startup
Association. She will speak about current
trends and future movements in AgTech
& FoodTech.

Frank Karlitschek

Frank will talk about his different experiences in founding and running start-ups as well as the different mindset of VCs in the US and Germany. Also, he will speak about mistakes that he made and how to avoid them.

Panelists

Berlin Organics
Klaas Koolman

CellGarden
Alexander Lie
Josef Teips
Marina Zeisler

Computomics
Dr. Sebastian J. Schultheiss

Further Start-ups:

Additionally, the best Start-ups from KATANA Bootcamp will pitch their ideas. The KATANA Bootcamp takes place from 7 to 9 July 2017 with 100 selected teams out of the AgTech & FoodTech sector. KATANA is an EU-funded business accelerator.

More Information: www.katanaproject.eu