International Conference IDCEE 2011 “Investor Day Central and Eastern Europe 2011: Internet Technologies & Innovations” (IDCEE 2011) will take place on October 25-26, 2011 in Kiev, Ukraine. This year the Conference will be held at the exhibition hall "ACCO International". More than 2,000 participants from Central and Eastern Europe, United States and Canada are expected to attend the event.
The main goal of IDCEE 2011 is to bring together ideas and insights of leading experts and start-up entrepreneurs with expertise and experience of investors and business-angels.
Representatives of the leading global funds, including top venture funds from Europe (Mangrove), Switzerland (B-t-v (BrainsToVentures)), Russia (ABRT), USA (Intel Capital), and Ukraine (TA Venture) have confirmed their participation in the conference.
During the conference the selected start-ups from the CEE region will pitch their projects to investors. Investors and entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to discuss the projects one-on-one. The most successful start-ups will share the prize pool of the conference in proportion 60%, 30%, 10%.
Within the framework of IDCEE 2010 three most investment-attractive start-ups were chosen. The winners shared a prize pool of EUR 10 000, of which EUR 6, 000 got the company from Russia – Zingaya. Second place and EUR 3, 000 was granted to the company from Ukraine - Thick Buttons. And the third place won the company from Czech Republic – Lurista, which received EUR 1, 000.