Euro Tech Week Held at Eureka Park During CES 2019
Organized by European American Enterprise Council and Las Vegas
Events ITS
2019 Events Include Business Matchmaking, Global Startup Pitches,
Guided Tours & Briefs, Also Introducing $1 Billion Investment Pools to
Startups
LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Global startups, global investors and digital corporate stakeholders
will all be networking during Euro
Tech Week happening at CES 2019. This year, Euro Tech Week, in
partnership with the Consumer
Technology Association (CTA), will be mainly held at Eureka Park and
will be all about introducing top global investors and corporate
innovation executives to Global startups.
“Last year’s Euro Tech Week at CES 2018 was so successful that we
decided to launch the program on the floor of Eureka Park, while
focusing on global investment and offering specific matchmaking, pitch
and education activities,” says Sebastien Torre, president of the European
American Enterprise Council (EAEC) and Euro Tech Week organizer.
“Global investment, open Innovation and digital transformation projects
and initiatives are being facilitated and accelerated by Euro Tech Week,
the global ecosystem accelerator,” added Christophe Aubriet, CEO of Las
Vegas Events ITS, and Euro Tech Week co-organizer.
All the investors that were here the first day at the Silicon
Valley Funding Summit event combined have over $1 billion in capital
to invest. Moreover, many of these European companies who have chosen to
expand and grow in the US have created jobs and brought matching
investment from the EU Fund Horizon 2020 which just recently announced
more capital making it a 100 Billion Euros fund for Horizon 2027.
Key events of Euro Tech Week:
-
The MatchFest
platform and event at CES (co-organized with Enterprise
Europe Network) taking place on the floor of Eureka Park. Hundreds
of global European and American startups are paired with investors,
buyers, distributors, and digital decision makers. -
The Silicon
Valley Funding Summit pitching event (co-organized with Angel
Launch) on Jan. 7 at the Tuscany Suites & Casino. Forty highly
selected global European and American startups pitched and met with 40
top global investors. -
CES Guided Tours and Briefs are handled by Las
Vegas Events ITS working closely with close partners: Digital
Men and Emotic.
The European American Enterprise Council (EAEC) is a private
member-driven social enterprise and network (eight US and EU chapters).
EAEC is part of the European Commission’s Enterprise
Europe Network (600+ organizations in Europe, and a worldwide
presence), and aims at promoting transatlantic collaboration, trade and
investment between European and North American companies, institutions
and economic regions, while fostering innovation and entrepreneurship.
EAEC is also a part of the European Commission’s ENRICH
in the USA initiative, started in April 2017 to establish a network
of European Research and Innovation Acceleration Centers throughout the
United States that will act as a central contact point for European
research and innovation actors – clusters, universities, R&D
labs/centers, researchers, start-ups, Small and Medium Enterprises
(SMEs) – seeking to grow and reinforce collaboration. The mission of the
network is to provide standardized as well as tailor-made, research and
innovation international support services to European researchers and
innovators, to accelerate their exposure and access to the US market.
Contacts
Sebastien Torre
President
European American
Enterprise Council
Tel: (619) 377-8091
Cell: (619) 382-8442
E-mail: storre@eaecouncil.com