The first meeting of EAE Investor
15 de July de 2019
15 de July de 2019
EAE has held the first meeting of its investment acquisition initiative, EAE Investor, at the Príncipe de Vergara 156 Campus. Participants at the open session included Business Angels, Family Offices, Venture Capitalists, and students and alumni of EAE Business School.
Josep Maria Altarriba, the Dean of EAE Business School, gave the institutional welcome to the event, giving a brief overview of the School's history, the key areas of tuition, its position in the rankings, more than 100,000 students working all over the world and the success achieved by the Alumni program.
For the last three years, EAE Business School has been focusing its efforts on entrepreneurship with initiatives run in collaboration with Babson College, the EAE Lab project incubator and EAE Investor. The Director of EAE Investor, Anindya Saha, then explained the three pillars of the initiatives, known as the "three Ts: Team, Trust and Transparency".
EAE Investor showcases innovative projects with cutting-edge technologies such as blockchain, the cloud and fintech with coverage in Spain and Latin America, the latter of which is one of the key markets as it is in the full throes of growth. They are initiatives in the early stages with a minimum exit requirement, in which the risks have been minimized and high profitability operations are on offer. "We are not interventionists, but we are hands-on", explained Anindya. Lastly, he emphasized some of the differential features of EAE Investor, such as the commitment to the projects and the consolidated team, with experience in transactions and legal support.
José Luis Santamaría, the CEO and founder de NewBeing, gave the participants an Em-Power Talk on challenges, propositions and motivations. Consistency, fear and vulnerability were the key focus of this motivational pitch, which also mentioned agile methodologies and innovation, which he described as "an essential obligation that has a lot to do with responsibility". He finished by giving the participants some valuable advice: "don't start a project unless you are sure what it is for".
Carmen Pumariño then handed over to the presentations of the first four projects to take part in EAE Investor: Gádaca, Reloadly, Acqustic and The Sideways Project.
The founders of these startups highlighted the different values and business expectations of their projects. To get a more in-depth and individual insight, investors and entrepreneurs had the chance to network at the Meet-n-Greet session organized on the terrace of EAE Business School's Príncipe de Vergara Campus.