Trends and Investment opportunities going into the 2020’ies
This year the meetup will host a networking opportunity and investor dinner to be held Tuesday, June 25th in restaurant Alfred & Kamilla in Odense and a Business Angel Academy to be held on Wednesday, June 26th in Odense Congress Center.
The big theme for the Congress Meetup is “Trends and investment opportunities going into the 2020’ies”.
Meet the speakers
Jesper Jarlbæk
NEW Business Angel Survey
Jesper is the chairman at Danish Business Angels (DanBAN) and a Angel investor. Jesper is also part of the board at CataCap, Bang&Olufsen, HappyHelper and many more.

Neil S.W. Murray
Trends in Early stage Startups in the Nordics
Neil is the Founding Partner of The Nordic Web, supporting the early-stage ecosystem through investment and analysis. The Nordic Web is the most authoritative and comprehensive resource on the Nordic startup ecosystem, with Europe’s investors, entrepreneurs and corporates using it as an entry point to the ecosystem and for deal flow. The Nordic Web Ventures invests into early-stage Nordic startups, providing them with resource, community and capital.

Anette Nordvall
Sustainability as a main Investment focus for the 2020’ies
Anette is an active Early Stage Tech Investor and Environmentalist, focusing on the New Nordic markets on ICT, and Deep-tech Science-based innovation - while adding for-profit Impact, Diversity, Environment and Global goals into the mist. Anette is an appreciated Board member, Public speaker and Business leader. She was mentioned in The EBAN 2018 Report as one of the 200+ most active Business Angels in Europe and awarded as "Sweden's nicest Business Angel” at Venture Cup Swedish Country final 2018.

Risto Rautakorpi
Maximising the probability of an Exit
Risto is Managing Partner of Gorilla Capital. He is an entrepreneur at heart – first company at age 22. He has been a full time start-up professional for the past 12 years. In the last 7 years he has invested in around 60 early stage startups and is helping them to realize their full potential as a "start-up whisperer" . That experience has resulted in a very deep understanding of what works for early stage investors.

Lars Fløe Nielsen
The story of a Danish Unicorn
Lars is a founding partner and chairman of nordicmakers.vc, a syndicate of angel investors, all founders of unicorn size businesses. Lars is also a founding member of byFounders collective. Having a technical background, Lars co-founded Sitecore in 2001, where he served as Chief Development Officer, running strategy, product strategy, and engineering until a majority stake was sold to EQT in 2016 for more than one billion Euro.
Today Lars help entrepreneurs by serving on the as boards of nemlig.com, Bookboon.com, #CPHFTW and as Jury Chairman at EY Entrepreneur of the Year.
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Contact
DanBAN
Sisse Melsen
sisse@danban.org
+45 30225690
As a participant you will receive 10% discount on accommodation in Odense if needed. However, capacity is limited so we recommend booking as soon as possible. Booking details will follow as part of registration.
