A Quick Update 🔔

Hi there,

Here comes your weekly EU-Startups Update, including some exciting opportunities and a few fresh insights that could be interesting to you:

✈️ FutureTravel Summit: On Nov 4th, we're co-hosting this year's FutureTravel Summit in Barcelona. We just announced the agenda and the 10 finalists of the Pitch Competition. Want to join 350+ Travel Industry Leaders, Investors & Travel startups? A few tickets are still available here.

☀️ The 2nd edition of the Start Up Festival will be taking place on October 13-14 at Villa Bighi in Kalkara in Malta. It will provide great matchmaking opportunities for startups & scale-ups looking to strike deals with local and international angel investors as well as experiences for aspiring founders. If you'd like to join this exciting event in sunny Malta, make sure to secure your tickets now!

💸 EU Funding Opportunities for Startups: Due to scheduling issues of our partner UpSpark the webinar has been postponed until October 13. If you are interested to learn more about EU Funding Opportunities for Startups, you can still sign up here.

💡 Madrid vs Barcelona: This week, we had a closer look at the startup ecosystems in Madrid and Barcelona. Would you like to know which of the two is leading, and which are the key characteristics of both ecosystems? Find out here.

🚀 Fit 4 Start, Luxembourg’s leading accelerator programme, is currently on the hunt for high-potential digital/data-driven ventures and healthtech startups that want to expand internationally. It offers a 6-month intensive coaching programme, granting selected teams free access to co-working spaces and the chance to get up to €150k in equity-free seed financing. Application deadline: Sept. 19!

🏆 EIT Digital Challenge, the leading pan-European competition for digital deeptech startups, is currently on the lookout for Europe’s most promising startups for the 2022 edition. The deadline for applications is Sept.19th! Learn more and apply now!

💰 Fresh Funds: London-based VC firm Northzone just unveiled a new €1 billion fund to back game changing European innovators, and the new European impact fund Junction plans to invest €100 million in green energy startups.

📊 Crowdcube vs Seedrs: We just did a LinkedIn poll asking "which is Europe’s best and most popular equity crowdfunding platform?" 380 people have already voted. Check out the results and vote here.

🚌 EU-Startups on Tour: Next week our Head of Content, Patricia, will be at the SpeedInvest Insights Summit in Vienna, a few days later our Events & Partnerships Director Anastasiia will be in Munich for Bits & Pretzels, and by the end of September I will moderate an M&A panel at the CFO Connect Summit. Catch us if you can! :-)

That's all we had to share with you today. Have a nice rest of the week and soon a relaxing weekend!

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