European Venture Contest

Welcome to business at European scale !
The European Venture Contest (EVC) finds, evaluates and awards world-class innovative companies with the potential to dramatically impact their industry and contribute to increasing European competitiveness and growth.
The EVC counted with 6 semi-finals across Europe during 2009, from which the top 25 companies compete in the final for a €90,000 prize.
The contest is the only internationally-delivered venture competition and is specifically targeted at early-stage high-tech companies in ICT, Cleantech and Life Sciences.
In 2010, the first Semi-Final will be organised within the 14th edition of the Innovact Forum. It will be held on the 3rd of March, 2010 at the Congress Center in Reims and it will select the 10 most promising high-tech companies from across sectors.

Why should you apply?
Benefits for the participants are :
International visibility and recognition
Possibility to get free access to one of the selection rounds
Unique opportunity to participate at the European Venture Summit
Chance to be a finalist and the winner 2010 !
The European Venture Contest offers entrepreneurs the opportunity to grow their businesses across borders by facilitating contacts to an experienced and international network of venture capital and corporate investors, strategic partners and expert advisers.




