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Engage | Invest | Exploit is Informatics Ventures annual showcase of high-quality deal flow spinning out of Scotland's world leading Informatics and Computer Science departments, and hot startups associated with our institutions. The Informatics space is vast, including ventures in BioTech, CleanTech, Gaming, Mobile and a wide variety of Software.

 

In its third year, this annual showcase has a simple value proposition for investors and serial technology entrepreneurs: spend one morning with us and get to see fifty hot prospects in one place with an engaging agenda, in one of Europe's most dynamic and award winning physical environments. Additionally, TechCrunch Europe will be holding their first UK event outside London following Engage | Invest | Exploit 2010.

 

Engage | Invest | Exploit 2010 will feature an interactive Panel discussion: Commercialising Scotland's Science: From the Cool Comfort of the Laboratory to the Cruel Crucible of the Marketplace; with:

• Anne Glover, Co-founder and Chief Executive of Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd
• Professor Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Advisor for Scotland
• Ann Budge, Former CEO of Sopra Group and Advisor to Par Equity LLP
• Anne Johnson, Edinburgh Informatics alumnus and early stage investment advisor
• Panel moderator: TBC

Engage | Invest | Exploit 2010 will be led and introduced by Andrew Mitchell, Project Leader, Informatics Ventures.

 

More details on the panel and timings are in the Engage | Invest | Exploit agenda.

 

Investor guests at Engage | Invest | Exploit from previous years include: TTP Ventures, Seven Spires, Seraphim Capital, Scottish Equity Partners, Pond Ventures, Pentech Ventures, NESTA, Doughty Hanson, Balderton Capital, Archangel Informal Investment, Amadeus Capital and 4iP. Investors committed to attending Engage | Invest | Exploit 2010 are listed on the Investors page.

 

As a result of Engage | Invest | Exploit 2009:

• 92% of investors said they have had follow meetings up with prospects as a result of the event.
• 67% said they have considered investing in relation to someone met at the event.
• 83% said they will be back next year. 17% say maybe. 0% said no.
• Actual Analytics Limited, the School of Informatics most recent spin-out, closed a round of funding after engaging investors at Engage | Invest | Exploit 2009.

Some facts about Informatics at the University of Edinburgh:

• Best in the UK: Informatics at Edinburgh delivers 69 percent more world-leading research than our nearest competitor in the UK.
• Biggest in Europe: Informatics at Edinburgh is the largest Computer Science department in Europe and regarded as top four in the world.
• Gateway to Scotland: Through Informatics Ventures, spinouts and startups from across all Computer Science departments in Scotland will be pitching and demonstrating.

Material from Engage | Invest | Exploit 2009:

• Images from Engage | Invest | Exploit 2009.
• Video summary of Engage | Invest | Exploit 2009 below.
• One page "crib sheets" on each company pitching and demonstrating at EIE 2009.
• EIE 2009 featured a keynote speech by Guy Kawasaki.