ZAGREB CONNECT 2017: ANOTHER YEAR OF HANDING OUT VALUABLE PRICES TO THE BEST START-UPS!

ZAGREB, Zagreb Fair, December 6, 2017

This year, the City of Zagreb and Croatian Business Angels Network – CRANE are jointly organizing the fourth Zagreb Connect start-up conference, which will be held on December 06, 2017 in the Congress Center at Zagreb Fair. The conference’s aim is to support young entrepreneurs in developing their business ideas and to promote the start-up companies in Zagreb and beyond.

We are expecting more than 500 visitors and we plan on hosting numerous successful start-up companies, investors, business angels, along with prominent experts and lecturers in these fields. As a part of the conference, there will be a startup (pitch) competition where the best entrepreneurs will be awarded with valuable prizes. The overall prize pool is 130.000,00HRK, but the start-up teams can expect many other awards as well! Zagreb Connect is an ideal opportunity for Croatian and foreign start-ups to present their business ideas to potential investors, investment institutions and business angels.

Like every year, a bootcamp workshop will be held just before the conference, on December 5, 2017, where the finalists will have a chance to perfect their presentation skills and learn from top professionals and mentors the best ways to present their projects to investors.

Zagreb Connect conference has been organized since 2014, and so far it has successfully networked over 100 top quality start-ups with investors and business partners. Zagreb Connect 2016 was a part of EBAN Winter University 2016 – the largest annual business angels’ conference in Europe, where the potential of the Croatian and the entire region’s start-up scene was presented to 1,200 visitors. It included numerous lectures and panel discussions with renowned lecturers and guests. Some of the most distinguished guests at the conference were: Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden’s singer, entrepreneur and business angel, Dov Moran, the inventor of USB stick, Allyson Reneau from NASA , Matan Bar from PayPal and many others. Also, some of the entrepreneurs who achieved enviable business results and were once the participants of the Zagreb Connect, including: Amodo, Vollo, Nanodiy and others.

On this occasion, we invite all business start-ups and individuals with good business projects to sign up for the Zagreb Connect pitch contest. The deadline for applications is November 1, 2017, and all who are interested can find more information at: zagrebconnect.zagreb.hr.