The Start-Up Stadium @ BIO World Congress provides high visibility to early-stage emerging companies. During the sessions, 32 start-up companies across 7 sessions will share their new technologies and value proposition through formal 8-minute presentations followed by a 6-minute Q&A to an audience of investors, analysts and strategists from across the value chain.
Congratulations to the Start-Up Stadium @ BIO World Congress Winners!
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2 | Agricultural Technologies |
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5 | Renewable Chemicals and Bio-based Products |
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6 | Renewable Chemicals and Bio-based Products |
Download Program Overview View the 2019 Finalists
Industry Categories
Start-Up Stadium is accepting applications from early-stage companies based in the 6 industry categories below:
Exclusive Prizes
Four winners will be selected from the pool of finalists and awarded with these two exciting prizes:
| One-year membership to Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) |
One-hour advisory discussion with venture capital firm, Emerald Technology Ventures |
One-hour advisory discussion with venture firm, Prairie Crest Capital |
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Investor Panel
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Advisory Committee
The 2019 BIO World Congress Start-Up Stadium Advisory Committee is comprised of experienced leaders with perspective on current issues and priorities for the industry.
Judges
The 2019 BIO World Congress Start-Up Stadium Judges come from the public and private sectors with collective expertise in early-stage investing, entrepreneurship, the start-up landscape, industrial biotechnology, and GreenTech space. They will be evaluationg applicants and finalists.
2018 Participating Investment Firms
Akoya Captital, Chicago, IL
ARCH Venture Partners, Chicago, IL
BASF Venture Capital, Cambridge, MA
BioCognito, Battle Ground, WA
BP Ventures, San Francisco, CA
Braemar Energy Ventures, New York, NY
Cargill, Inc., Minneapolis, MN
Emerald Technology Ventures, Toronto, Canada
Genoa Ventures, San Francisco, CA
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, Washington, DC
Marc IV, Kearney, MO
Spruce Capital Partners, San Francisco, CA
Sustainable Conversion Ventures, Sun Lakes, AZ
Tecton Captial Partners LLC, San Francisco, CA
Ultra Captial, San Francisco, CA
Xeraya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Example GreenTech Finalists from 2018
Biomere Tech, Worcestser, MA
DMC Biotechnologies, Inc., Boulder, CO
Global Bioengergies, France
Kalion, Inc., Milton, MA
Leaf Resources Limited, Australia
For Investors
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A Proven Success
At the 2017 BIO International Convention, one agriculture technology company became a true Cinderella story after pitching the Start-Up Stadium judges on its “gene switch” application to improve agriculture productivity. This kicked off a business relationship that would lead to Lateral Capital investing in the company in early 2018. Read Agribody Technologies' success story here...