IndieBio EU 2016 Summer Party & Demo Dinner
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Glimpse a revolution, with living foods and new nutrients, miraculous diagnostics and magic shields, bugs and beauty creams. IndieBio EU return for our third year, and our second-ever Summer Party!
Join us for our 2016 session of thirteen biotechnology startups, and enjoy food, drink, and merriment alongside founders, investors, and partners from throughout the world. Our party is held on the grounds of the historic Gaol (Jail) museum in Cork City, with a spectacular light-show at nightfall to close the celebrations.
If you cannot attend in person you can watch our livestream option, which will be available from 6.30pm on July 28th. Registering for the Live Stream option will guarantee you a reminder of the Live Stream and the URL in time for you to follow along.
Here's a sneak-peek of our thirteen start-ups:
Anú Dairy are an Irish dairy biotechnology company producing probiotics for the dairy industry that will increase vitamin K2 content in the milk. This will create a new niche in the functional food dairy market, building on a rapidly increasing growth in Irish butter exports all the while improving the quality of land with better grassland management. Tweet this!
Chinova Bioworks are a Canadian company revolutionising the beverage industry by developing a natural, safe and effective antimicrobial cocktail mixture. This mixture provides a targeted or broad spectrum antimicrobial effect, protects beverages from spoilage and enhances their shelf-life. Tweet this!
Uira BioenergEthic Pty Ltd. are a holistic biotechnology company committed to making animal-free Omega-3 nutraceuticals. They extract omega-3 oils from selected algae strains, and adopt innovative, cost effective, and sustainable technologies to benefit human & animal health. Tweet this!
MicroSynbiotiX, Ltd is an Irish company developing novel oral vaccines for aquaculture. Their vaccines will help to eliminate the unnecessary use of antibiotics, and to combat devastating viral outbreaks causing major stock losses in aquaculture globally. Tweet this!
Cell Reserves Inc is a Canadian biopharmaceutical company developing a biomolecular shield for therapeutic molecules. In this way, they can increase the longevity of therapies in the body, thus significantly reducing the risks and costs associated with disease management. Tweet this!
Moirai Biodesign are an Spanish molecular diagnostics company pioneering the development of Plug and Play RNA devices. With these, they will create improved non-invasive diagnostics, and targeted therapies, for treating cancer. Tweet this!
Your food is dead. Since you are what you eat, that’s bad news for people who want delicious, fresh and nutritious food. Spira is an American company that makes a high-protein shake based on spirulina, a tasty microalgae that thrives in the bottle; just add sunlight. Tweet this!
Hexafly are an Irish company producing a sustainable & natural solution to the looming fish feed crisis in aquaculture. The price of fishmeal has tripled in the last 10 years! In nature fish eat insects. For us they can provide a new raw materials source to the aqua feed, chitin, & plant nutrition industries. Tweet this!
Magenta Biolabs are a Costa Rican company providing a solution for the growing demand of high quality hyaluronic acid. The company can repurpose common waste to produce this high value molecule for commercial applications such as cosmetics, healthcare and pharma. Tweet this!
Peer-to-Peer Probiotics are French company engineering nutrient-fortified microbes for traditional fermented products. These can add vitamins and nutriceuticals that support health and well-being, without requiring drastic dietary changes. Because fermentation is a global tradition, they can also help to bring nutrient fortification to "last mile" regions where vitamin deficiencies remain endemic.. Tweet this!
Crónicas are an Ecuadorian company, developing novel crops resistent to common and virulent infections. In this way, Crónicas can resurrect lost varieties of much-loved fruits and vegetables, and bring traditional foodstuffs into the modern agricultural era. Tweet this!
Milis Bio are an Irish protein bio-engineering company that believes that our relationship with flavour doesn't have to be bitter-sweet. We are developing sensational protein-based food additives, without the drawbacks of traditional or contemporary additives. Tweet this!
Helixworks Technologies are an Indian biotechnology company specialising in novel DNA synthesis. Helixworks Technologies mission to is to drive down the costs and increase speed of turnaround while guaranteeing the speed and reliability of automation. Tweet this!
Register early for discounts, and be part of closing this year's session of the world's greatest biotechnology accelerator.
The Web Summit have sponsored a BETA prize for the the best pitch for one of our startups at Demo Day.
BETA represents the most promising of the early-stage startups attending our events. Startups cannot apply for this track.
- Four tickets to Web Summit which include access to all three days (500+ speakers across 15 different stages, 100+ Partners, 1000+ investors, 1000+ startups) and the Night Summit (3 nights of of socialising, networking and building relationships across Lisbon’s most fantastic locations);
- Larger exhibition space for one of the three days;
- Opportunity to access workshops, roundtables & office hours with potential investors, mentors and corporate clients;
- Fulfilment officer to help with preparations and gather all startup information six weeks out from the event;
- Access to Web Summit mobile application to help you build connections prior to the event & curate your own schedule. There will be both an attendee profile for each of the team members, as well as a company feature on the application.
- Preferable positioning on the exhibition floor with BETA designation and accreditation;
- Featured as a BETA startup on the app;
- Slightly bigger booth, at 1x1.5m
- Guaranteed place in our PITCH competition.
