After a short break, the breakout session “What makes a strong startup leader? How VCs evaluate founders” by Inbal Perlman, Partner at TAU Ventures took place. During the presentation, the essential aspects of the leadership that Venture Capitals focus on when investing were unpacked. Without strong leadership, a venture capital fund will never invest. Some attributes that distinguish this leadership are the founder’s experience and knowledge, passion and charisma, intellectual integrity and self-awareness, as well as professionalism and strategic thinking. It is essential to differentiate between a leader and a manager. The leader will always be focused on the vision and will lead people through motivation, inspiration, and empowerment. Furthermore, a leader will be long-term oriented and devote day-to-day efforts to strategic thinking, always guided by the vision and focusing on the “WHY” rather than the “HOW”.
Before the last plenary session, an exciting dialogue occurred under the title “Money is just the beginning; value creation for startups”. The main takeaways were around value creation. Here, connections play a crucial role, and value creation is supposed to benefit both start-ups and VCs. According to Dorin Baniel, VP Value Creation at Glilot Capital, they form boards through searching social media for profiles that can be labelled as “forward thinkers” and that way add value.
Finally, Adi Yoffe, Founder & Owner of Fast Forward gave an inspiring talk on the main stage. Under the title “Future thinking – how to predict trends in a disruptive reality”.
Megatrends can be the key to glimpsing what will happen in the future since the present can tell us about the past, not the future, and through them, we can see how behaviours change. The future is something that is being invented now, and we should look at it another way, with other lenses, and different perspectives, given that the data is not enough to get a slight idea. It was also interesting to understand the different Visions of the Future. The “Future in pieces” is where services and products are cut into small pieces, as it happens with Tik Tok where we cut the video and gain the ability to choose what we want. We also found the so-called “Future of Re-Appropriation” where we all want to be the Masters of our lives and future. We look for facilitators to achieve it, such as the Metaverse, which should not be understood as a virtual reality tool but as a facilitator to achieve our utopian life.
To round off the Summit, an informal gathering in the form of a cocktail party was held next to the conference room. Here, the importance of networking and networking as a fundamental element in helping to develop ecosystems was once again evident, highlighting connections and experiences as enablers for achieving scale and the development of new innovative projects and experiments by the whole ecosystem.
Contributed: Oriol Pascual, CEO at STAGE2
The Health not The Death is a fundamental human right. A healthy population is not to be seen as human and social capital, an input, or by-product, towards economic growth. Alongside a healthy and sustainable environment, a solidarity, a healthy population must be the ultimate goal especially nowadays in helping Ukrainian migrants with cancer and their families.
Solidarity in health is a cornerstone of EU health policy. There are wide disparities in many health outcomes across the region and those outcomes. The access rules dramatically affect healthcare systems which are at the forefront of the migrant way, the people who are searching for help and the way how we could enhance and support their healthier and wellbeing status.
In order to ensure their access to care and continued cure in need, the probability of receiving a timely diagnosis and of surviving differs greatly from country to country where they are now. There is lack of information, help and inequalities in access. People need help in navigating cancer knowledge, diagnostics, secondary monitoring and prevention, way of treatments, and care.
Shifting our mindset, supporting healthcare connectivity, removing inequalities overall across Europe is our mission and even more now in a time of crisis, helping the Ukrainian people dealing with cancer is a good place to begin this transformative revolution.
1) Whether we have a chance to foster more holistic and integrated approaches to receive information and care, by supporting coordination and maximising an enabling and health-enhancing effect of care across services from different countries?
2) Whether actions should address the social determinants of health, the countries where they are now, the health need which they have, the social and language barriers are the conditions which have to be taken into consideration in a coordinated manner?
How might we improve patients and /or people who seek healthcare support, access to healthcare services at an EU & the Member States Healthcare systems level? Especially in a time of crisis in Europe.
How might we support refugees fleeing from their countries by navigating them to medical centres to receive best available care?