Posted by Four Years From Now, the startup business platform of Mobile World Congress that enables startups, investors and corporations to connect and launch new ventures together, goes to Barcelona, Spain, from February 27 to March 1, 2017. We could not think of a better context to run the fourth edition of our series of Startup Battles.
Telefónica has invited PreSeries, the joint venture between Telefónica Open Future_ and BigML, to participate at the 4YFN event and showcase its early stage venture investing platform on the main stage on February 28 in front of an audience of over 500 technologists. In a nutshell, PreSeries provides insights and many other metrics to help investors make objective, data-driven decisions in investing in tomorrow’s leading technology companies.
In rapid fire execution mode, Valencia was the first city that witnessed the World’s premiere Artificial Intelligence Startup Battle last March 15, 2016. On October 12, the PreSeries Team travelled to Boston to celebrate the second edition at the PAPIs ‘16 conference. Less than two months later we celebrated the third edition in São Paulo, in the BSSML16 context. The fourth edition of our series of startup battles will be hosted in Barcelona, Spain. The distinguished audience and press members in Catalonia will discover how an algorithm is able to predict the success of a startup without any human intervention.
To recap the process, five startups from the Wayra Academy, Telefónica’s startups accelerator, will present their projects on stage through five-minute to-the-point pitches. Afterwards, PreSeries will ask a number of questions to each contender in order to provide a score between 0 and 100. The startup with highest score of all will win the battle. Having the opportunity to participate in the battle is key for participating startups as it will give them excellent exposure to potential corporate sponsors, strategic partners and the venture investments community. Stay tuned for future announcements, where we will reveal the contenders of the fourth edition of our Startup Battle as it may just prove to be the most competitive one so far.
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