European Student Startups

European Student Startups is the largest pan-European Angel and Seed Funding platform exclusively for students. We're also raising a pre-seed fund and make £20k investments into early stage startups run by students in Europe. ESS is a platform that connects Europe’s top Student startup competitions, to find Europe’s most exciting student start ups, and provide them a unique platform to pitch to 100 renowned angel investors and VCs. Those who don't make it to our demo-day still recieve valuable feedback from experienced Venture Capital Investors. In 2017 and 2018, ESS had 500 + startup applications from 25+ countries across Europe, the majority being finalists at an internal startup competition at their university. ESS 2017 had VC's from Balderton Capital, Smedvig Capital, Oxford Capital, Downing Ventures, Catalyst Founders, Nauta Capital, Mosaic Ventures, Dreamstake Ventures and McKinsey Ventures assisting as advisers/attending our event.

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