Positive:

1. My personal thanks and appreciation to Jeanette and Smit. They have done the great job before and during the show! Very attentive and professional – they are top assets of this team.
2. I like the idea of investors/industry reps giving short presentations.
3. Color-code of badges and book parts is the great idea. You can see and find investors easily!
4. Technically, presentation sessions were very well organized

Alex Michine, CEO, MetGen, Finland 

I think the event was well organized, I can say that personally, I received ample support, especially from Jeanette.

As to results – still too early to say. To date – I Got only one reply to email follow-up on the interesting parties. But if I get 4-5 parties engaged in serious consideration of investment, it will be counted as success!

Esther Loewy, Partner, Bootcamp Ventures, Israel

Dank Microsoft konnten wir auf dem EVM sein. Eine für uns wesentlich bessere Veranstaltung, als das Eigenkapitalforum in Dresden, weil nur zwei parallele Vortragsreihen und die auch noch getrennt in ICT und CleanTech / Biotech. So konnten wir die komplette Aufmerksamkeit aller ICT Interessierten haben. Die Slots waren gut besucht mit 40+ Anwesenden. Die Zeiten zwischen den Slots waren auch sehr gut nutzbar, da alles ziemlich eng aufeinanderprallte und trotzdem genügend Platz und Raum war, um sich gut zu unterhalten. Man konnte sich quasi nicht ausweichen. Wenn man jemanden nicht kannte, haben die Leute von der Continua mich an die Hand genommen und mich den Personen vorgstellt.

Der Bericht vom EVM, Zusammenfassung:

1. Hat sich gelohnt
2. Präsentationsabstimmung gewonnen
3. 5 + 1 Mögliche Investoren
4. 2 Neue Partner im Ausland möglich
5. 1 Kontakt in die IT einer großen Chemie Firma

Christian Zander, CTO, Protected-networks.com GmbH, Berlin

Thank you very much for the opportunity to attend and speak at the Venture Capital Market event organized by Continua this week. I really appreciated it and found it very interesting. I also had the opportunity to meet motivated people; meetings which will possibly lead to business opportunities.

Xavier de Nazelle, Aloe Private Equity, Paris

The EVM was very useful in getting to see more European deal flow.

Gitte Bedford, Investment Principal, Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH, Gerlingen

The event was well organized and summa-summarum for us a success.

Dr. Gunter Pollanz, Chief Executive Officer, Med–O–Card, Frankfurt (Main)

Mir haben Organisation, Veranstaltungsort incl. Hotel, Programm und Teilnehmerspektrum ausgezeichnet gefallen. Die Internationalität der Veranstaltung hatte ich so nicht erwartet; ausgesprochen positiv! Auch das Spektrum von Kapitalsuchenden und -anbietenden Firmen war sehr gut.

Obwohl unser Interessengebiet - industrielle Biotechnologie - nur einen kleinen Teil des Spektrums ausmachte und ich nur am 18.5. teilnehmen konnte, habe ich interessante Kontakte aufbauen können, die wir weiterverfolgen.

Wir unterstützen Sie auch in Zukunft gerne; kommen Sie auf uns zu! Ihre Ansprechpartnerin bei uns ist Frau Dues.

Dr. Manfred Kircher, Chairman, CLIB2021 – Cluster für Industrielle Biotechnologie, Düsseldorf

Congratulations on a smoothly run event!  It was definitely worth my while and the contacts I made were at the highest level, much appreciated.

Dr. Tania Peitzker, Australian Investment Network, UK

In my opinion it was a top-class event. I am more than impressed by this event and you can expect full support from our side for this project.

Michael Pock, Hochschule Liechtenstein

Thank you again for the opportunity to participate in your event organized in Berlin.

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We would like to introduce some investment ready and coached companies at your next events […].

Claire Munck, Managing Director, European Business Angels Network (EBAN), Belgium

Great happening, good networking, great people and spirit there!

Werner Weihs-Sedivy, CEO, twingz, Austria/Switzerland

Good vibrations and great feedback and contacts at European Venture Market

Cornelio Santana Gil, CEO, Heliocom, Spain

I would like to thank you for your help in making the EVM a great event, and making my stay in Berlin a great experience. I was a speaker, however, it was interesting to compare this conference with US similar type conference that focus on entrepreneurship, raising money and start-ups. I hope I can attend the conference next year.  Great value.  Always on time and great content.

Mona Pearl, Founder&COO, BeyondAStrategy, USA

All in all: a great event, good matches. thank you.

Ben Berwing, Business Manager, MINERAWA, Germany

The continua TEAM is very polite and extremely helpful! Thx for a good experience.

Klaus Kremer, Operate-IQ, Germany

It was a pleasure attending the 2009 EVM conference. I want to thank you and your staff for making the event pleasant as well as fruitful.

Eyal Efron, CEO, Spiral Frame, Israel

I would like to thank you for organising the European Venture Market in Berlin. This is what Europe needs and especially when organised in such a professional way. Please continue as European entrepreneurs need this kind of proactive events.

Jaques Putzeys, Value Development, Monaco 

The days in Berlin were extremely useful for us not only to have an incredible density of interesting talks and contacts with possible investors but also helped us in establishing fruitful business relationships with other entrepreneurs in the IT security and application sector. Furthermore we felt extraordinarily honored by winning the presentation award, which created additional awareness for our BenHur II Server project.

Frieder Hansen, CEO, Pyramid Computer, Germany 

Having spent 9 years in Silicon Valley during its most formative years, I can honestly say that you have exceeded my expectations! You attracted a fine number of companies, capital providers without any of the "fluff" that sometimes appears, value-added service providers and expert technical support and facilitation. The three days were well paced and straightforward. In fact, my advice to you would be to continue (no pun intended) the way you are, developing a unique and honest program and to stay away from the hype of the S.F. Bay Area that will scare away those whom you most hope to attract. I must make special mention of Mr. Leonhard’s talents at making all feel at home and for keeping things on-track.

Steve Perlinski, President, Perlinski & Company, California 

Two days before EVM took place I got the hint from Technologiestiftung Berlin that this event offers the opportunity to present our innovative development, VSWmobile® the mobile electronic patient card for handheld computers, to an interesting auditorium. Two days of preparation remained. So I applied for participation. - The outcome was more then I could expect before. Not to mention the instructive talks with VCs during the conference, but also the concrete follow up meetings and steps to add value into our project that took place since then.

Heinz Vilsmeier, CEO, VSW - Vilsmeier Systemware GmbH, Germany 

I would like to thank Continua for a really great event. CompuTouch is just a small entrepeneurial start-up company presenting for the first time. We were cordially welcomed and really helped when we needed some extra equipment. The tutoring session was helpful and the response we had after the presentation was better than we had hoped for.

Hans Steller, CEO, CompuTouch AS, Norway