Fireside chat: Carolina Rodríguez, CEO of ENISA & Alister Moreno, Chairman of EsTech
ENISA has become a key public institution for any entrepreneur building an innovative project in South Europe. Its funding role goes beyond due to its task enforcing the Spanish Startup Law and certifying the scaleups of the future.
Carolina Rodríguez is not only the CEO of ENISA, she has been a key public official in the effort to connect a common vision of public and private entities in the way to create a national startup culture.
Carolina will talk with Alister Moreno, not only the Chairman of EsTech, also a key serial entrepreneur committed to boost Spain as the best emerging companies territory.
The Future of European Investment: Transforming Investment Culture & Funding Channels
Funding is the fundamental trigger for Spanish and European scaleups. European and national investors and institutions are sharing the diagnosis about the need to move fast, increasing the size of investments and the opportunity to create better frameworks for European stock markets and an effective European capital union.
This panel represents a key opportunity to hear key people leading the conversation on how Europe and its regions must address and protect entrepreneurship, investment and high growth innovative companies. Also, how their tech communities and hubs are growing considering the current global economic and technological developments.
From Seed to Scale: VC Strategies Across Regions and Stages
How are global venture capital firms navigating today’s dynamic tech landscape across geographies and funding stages? This panel brings together three top-tier investors, each with a distinct model, to uncover how capital is being deployed from the earliest startup moments to growth-stage scale-ups.
Join Jacky Abitbol (Managing Partner, Cathay Innovation), Fridtjof Berge (Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer, Antler), and Alejandro Rodríguez (Managing Partner, IDC Ventures) as they explore how their firms approach sourcing, backing, and scaling innovation, from Antler’s “day-zero” startup creation, to Cathay’s cross-continental growth investments, to IDC Ventures’ strategic Fund‑of‑Funds investing in top-performing VCs across the globe.
Anatomy of Venture Capital in Europe
With a perspective on startups, Spanish VCs, and European VCs, we will analyze all the essential variables for making investment decisions related to the latest trends, such as AI, Deeptech, etc. The startup as a guiding thread will guide us through a dissection of how VCs behave, what interests them, and where they look for the latest trends. Times change, technologies advance rapidly, and the way we analyze potential unicorns is ever-changing and diverse, and we will explain the key factors.
