A full day in the innovation planet. The first edition of Bloom event organized by U-Start in Milan showed the many faces of the meaning of doing and supporting innovative start-ups. The event, hosted by the big spaces of Fabbrica del Vapore, presented a series of panels and a series of pitches by start-ups selected and trained to present at their best. Good ideas, good presentations, and a tough competition. But what are the main aspects of the Bloom event? First of all was a real international event, conducted entirely in English, something that is not yet so common at events about start-ups in Italy, with the participation of a series of high level speakers from all over the world.
I personally was asked to moderate the panel with the international accelerators that saw on the stage Marcelo Sales founder of 21 212 based in Brasil, Stefano Zorzi founder of 88MPH with presence in Kenya and South Africa, Marina Treshchova CEO of Fastlane ventures of Russia, Jens Lapinski co-founder of Forward Labs in United Kingdom and Sebastian Feldmann associate of Mas Angel Fund of Germany. All of them described their respective accelerating programs and all the initiatives despite based in different part of the world are very similar on the basic models, this means once more how the start-up ecosystem is developing following similar paths and with a worldwide vision and approach. All speakers pointed out they are working both to support domestic growth start-ups and are open to support start-ups coming from abroad that are interested to expand in their respective markets.
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