Startup Pitches #11

ECompete, Magic Sauce, Animo & Two Week Startup Project

Did you hear the news that Norwich recently placed 12th in most popular hub for startup investment in the UK? Check it out here.

This is a good example of what our mission is all about, promoting and supporting local startups. We can all do this by attending and pitching at our events. So please join us as we hear from 4 new startups.

** Pitches **

– Animo – mind & body workforce empowerment
– ECompete – Host eSports and grassroot events
– Magic Sauce – Accelerate Anywhere, Any Time
– two week startup – launching every two weeks

** Agenda **

6.00pm – Kickoff
6.10pm – Animo
6.20pm – ECompete
6.30pm – Magic Sauce
6.40pm – two week startup
7.00pm – Q&A & wrap-up

** PITCH 1-> Animo **

Animo will be pitching a new digital product that empowers the workforce to take responsibility for their own minds & bodies. Using digital tools for Health & Safety, Efficiency, Self Development & Personal responsibility, while the employer learns about their company culture in order to adapt.

> https://animo.global/
> https://twitter.com/animoglobal

Speaker James Bushell, founder and CEO who has an obsession on how to solve workplace wellbeing. This all began in his early 20’s when I was that very person dealing with the obstacles of mental ill health without the support.

> https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-bushell-41686471/

** PITCH 2 -> ECompete **

ECompete is an online platform enabling sports organisers to automate the laborious admin work behind managing sports tournaments.Offering instant online payments, in-built match management, and live streaming integrations; we allow you to forget about the boring stuff and keep your focus on playing the game you love. Say goodbye to spreadsheets, say goodbye to wading through 100s of DMs, and say goodbye to hard to track cash payments. ECompete is a game changer.

> https://www.ecompete.io
> https://www.twitter.com/e_compete

Speaker Max Andreassen is an Australian/British technical founder who has been in the Norwich area since the age of 7. Previously worked at VC backed scaleup Pickr, locally known superstars Purple Tuesday, and my own previous startup Allergen Directory.

> https://www.twitter.com/max_andreassen
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-andreassen-386870132/

** PITCH 3 -> Magic Sauce **

Accelerating your startup without you giving away equity. We want EVERYONE to have a shot at being able to access real investors and real investor feedback, access to the right startup strategies and growth hacks via our startup accelerator. This is a blended mentoring platform, so you’ll have access to real humans by video as well as the materials you need to scale

We help businesses from Pre-Seed to Series A with their raises, so we focus on what us and our eco-system of experts are good at (and what investors want to see).

> https://magicsauce.online/
> https://twitter.com/MagicsauceO

Speaker Kris Jones is CEO and Co-Founder and had a career that’s spanned finance, telecomms, subscription goods and IT in senior roles.

> https://www.linkedin.com/in/kris-jones-kinnovate/
> https://twitter.com/Kinnovate123

** PITCH 4 -> two week startup project **

Michael attempts to start a business every 2 weeks. Each attempt has steps on how you can do it yourself. The startups so far.

* week 1 – Eco face masks
* week 2 – Custom NASA flight suits
* week 3 – Coffee subscription service

> https://www.youtube.com/user/Technogenius1996/featured

Michael Niman is a 5th Year medical student at Barts and a entrepreneur.

> https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-niman-19a2615b/
> https://twitter.com/technogenius

** Our lovely Sponsors **

> Purple Tuesday https://twitter.com/PurpleTuesday
> Leathes Prior https://twitter.com/leathesprior
> FXHOME https://twitter.com/FXhome
> Thyngs https://twitter.com/thyngs

Thanks Norfolk Developers for zoom account!