IdéCafé is a collaboration between VentureLab and Student Unions of Faculty of Engineering, Social Sciences, Humanities and Theology. Three times per month IdéCafé gathers external lecturers in workshops and gives space for discussing ideas. During the meetings the participants are offered free coffee and a free lunch. Participant number is usually limited to for 40 people.

The lunch activity topics for the two first events in December will be about Idea generation. The third event in the series will focus on the topic “Learn how to speak”.

2/12/2015 – IdéCafé with Humanities and Theology students’ union
Place: LUX between 11-14
Place for a lunch activity: lecture hall B129 at LUX between 12-13

7/12/2915 – IdéCafé with Faculty of Engineering students’ union
Place: Studiecentrum between 11-14
Place for a lunch activity: Studiecentrum between 12-13

16/12/2015 – IdéCafé with the Social Sciences students’ union
Place: Eden between 11-14
Place for a lunch activity: lecture hall 129 at Eden between 12-13

Visit IdéCafé and get inspired to make your idea a reality!

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The event features an exceptional Nordic Investor Panel discussion with top investors from Helsinki, Stockholm, Malmö and Copenhagen. The panel includes the entrepreneurs, experts, angel investors and company co-founders in a variety of fields, including consumer electronics, software and green technologies, ICT and MedTech, innovative storytelling, digital health, education, online media and eCommerce.

Moreover, you have a chance to hear from the six best startups in the region. And then there will be a unique opportunity to network with startup-hungry investors, business leaders, entrepreneurs and key players in the innovation ecosystem. During the mingle, you will enjoy free food and beverages!

Join the Demo Day & Investor Panel at Oxhallen in Helsingborg on November 26th! Sign up free of charge here: Demo Day & Investor Panel registration. There is a limited number of seats. The doors are open at 15:45 and the program starts at 16:05.

Last but not least, don’t miss a chance to apply for the three month program at THINK Accelerate to develop your startup quickly and efficiently. The application for spring 2016 will be opened soon! Check THINK Accelerate to find out more about the program!

When: November 26th, 15:455
Where: Oxhallen, Helsingborgs bryggeri

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Britain has been the largest market for EuroFlorist and after the acquisition of Iflorist the company will grow even further there.

“We had an awesome growth in the UK over the last four years, and with this deal we strengthen our position in the UK market. Iflorist has a well-developed B2B sales strategy, that we were just going to implement. Moreover, the incorporation of the Iflorist’s e-commerce into our environment would bring direct positive effects on the company’s performance,” – says Laszlo Varga, a managing director of EuroFlorist.

EuroFlorist was founded in Malmö in 1982. In 1995 the company started with e-commerce and nowadays has a network of 54000 flower shops in twelve European countries. The online sales make up sixty percent of the company’s turnover today. The company had sales of 993 million kronor (107 million euro) in the split financial year 2013/14. It is estimated that the order volume for the company after the purchase of Iflorist would increase by thirty percent. The company EuroFlorist is considered to be the most reliable floral network in the world.

“My hope for the future is that I work to make the world a little better,” – says Laszlo Varga about his plans for the future of EuroFlorist

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Previously Anna Wilkens has been living in San Francisco for the last six years and managed a start-up grocery service company there. That was not easy to find an investment for the company, which made it finally merge with another bigger one.

“It needs so much passion, perseverance and long time to find an investment. You should meet perhaps a hundred of investors before you finally find the one you match with,” – says Anna Wilkens

With the acquired experience she is back to Sweden to lead the development of the Connect’s business angel networks at regional and national levels.

Connect is a nonprofit organisation, which brings together entrepreneurs and investors. The organisation was founded in San Diego in 1985 and nowadays is active in 20 countries all over the world. It came to Skåne in 1998 and has already established 120 business angel networks here.

Even though Connect Skåne has facilitated an investment process for 15 companies during the last year, Anna has greater targets to achieve. She wants to include more industries, younger investors and more women into the networks. Moreover, she has an aim to strengthen national and international cooperation. To achieve the goals a new investment platform Nordic BAN is going to be launched already this month.

Nordic BAN is a collaboration between the Connect unions in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, and its sister organisations Fiban in Finland and in Estonia. Together they have about 1500 angel networks. Anna hopes that Nordic BAN will create even more favorable business environment for the entrepreneurs and investors of the region to meet each other. It is estimated that the total sum if the investments would be between 200 000 and 2 million EUR, which is quite a promising figure.

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The app was launched in Denmark first, then in Sweden and Norway, and within weeks it will appear in the United States. Just 7 weeks after the launch, the app had 10,000 users who may benefit with toys such as those anal vibrators for beginners. And within six month since the launch it has 15,000 users in Denmark. With such a start the hope is that Teazr will become a number one app for users all around the world.

“We would like to create a product that millions want to use … we launched the app in Denmark to test it out, and as we are nearing our goal, we can finally go to the States. We will start in Los Angeles and then go to San Francisco,” says co- founder and CEO, Daniel Delouya.

The app meets the need for security and transparency in virtual communication and aims to change user experience. A new groundbreaking feature of the app is that the text on the selfies are directly transferred to the chat.

“People communicate through images instead of texting. This makes it easier for people to start a conversation with each other. You can’t select an image from your camera roll, instead you only capture the image directly through the app. In this way, we have made a seven-second snap picture for the sake of security. If you take a screenshot, you will be banned for 24 hours. If you do it again, you will be banned for 30 days. It’s one of the ways to make sure that people feel secure,” explains Daniel Delouya.

Daniel Delouya, Umar Akram, and Simon Degn are the team behind Teazr. They met in November last year and started an exciting journey to embody the idea they were burning for. Their work manifests the harmonious combination of proficiency, energy and creativity driven by enormous inspiration. Recently the first employee has joined the team, and currently they are looking for talented iOS developers, who could contribute to the development of the app on the US market.

Even though the team works nearly 24/7, they are convinced that it will be worth the effort, when people use and like the product they have created.

“It gives a taste when you can see that people are using our product – something you have spent so many hours of the night for and fought so hard. When people then actually use it and praise it it’s worth it. It sounds like a cliche, but you know, it’s not in vain, and it’s not just some hobby,” Simon Degn.

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