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Have you applied for Seedcamp yet?

robin Written on July 29, 2008 – 12:20 pm
Robin Wauters, Next web enthusiast & Plugg organizer

We’ve blogged about Seedcamp before, the program that aims to provide a catalyst for Europe’s next generation of entrepreneurs. Seedcamp’s CEO, the charismatic Reshma Sohoni, sent word that the deadline for the applications is rapidly approaching. If you’re a EMEA-based startup looking to engage with an impressive number of investors and mentors for an entire week, you have less than two weeks to submit your application (more specifically until August 10).

And why should you do this? Well, if you’re one of the lucky 20 startups to get selected, you’ll not only spend a week in London with some of Europe’s top minds, but you’ll also be eligible to receive seed funding to the amount of €50K each (for 5 teams, in exchange for a 10% stake). Seedcamp does not require preferred stock, board rights, or other rights often required by institutional investors.

If you win, you have to be prepared to spend 3 months in London, where you will be ‘helped and nurtured’ so you can grow your product and or business with the aid of a whole battery of advisors.

You can apply here.

Update: totally missed that Jemima Kiss outlined some of the people who are participating in this year’s Seedcamp over on the digital content blog from The Guardian. The line-up includes names like Michael Birch (Bebo), Martin Stiksel (Last.fm), Brent Hoberman (Lastminute.com), Niklas Zennström (Skype), Martin Mickos (mySQL), Kevin Comils (Buy.at), Jyri Engeström (Jaiku / Google), Tommy Ahlers (ZYB / Vodafone), Matt Bidulph (Dopplr), etc.

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Will Seedcamp London fund your bright idea?

simone Written on July 17, 2008 – 9:27 pm
Simone Brummelhuis, writing about women on the web

If you’re running a start-up and haven’t heard of Seedcamp before, you’d better take a minute now to read this article. Seedcamp is a much-applauded week-long program for young entrepreneurs from the Middle East, Africa, and…, Europe. That means you can participate as well. From September 15 through 19, London calls you.

So why should you go? At the end of the week - filled with workshops and presentations-, Seedcamp will invest up to 50K Pounds for a 10 percent stake in each of final five teams and provide ongoing mentorship and support for three months in preparation for the companies’ formal rounds of financing. Last year’s winners included Zemanta, an excellent blog service we use at The Next Web as well.

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CEO and co-founder of Seedcamp is Reshma Sohoni, who used to be a banker at 3i. Her business partner is Saul Klein from Index Ventures. They raised capital from a number of informal investors last year.

As the editor in chief of The Next Women, I’m glad to see that the advisory board has many female internet heroes: Sherry Coutu, an early stage investor, Sara Murray, founder of Buddi.co.uk, Bindi Karia of who runs the UK Startup Accelerator Programme of Microsoft and Lori Vokes, Operation Director of Cisco.

If you feel you’re a bright young mind with a game changing start-up, you have the change to be one of the twenty start-ups to participate in the program. That is, if you make it through the application procedure. Not ready yet to go all the way to Seedcamp? Then try the Seedcamp event brite taster events. Here you may find the right team mates that get you going!

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