Pitch Training

Pitch Training
This session offered the opportunity to present your pitch infront of our feedback panel 1 week ahead of pitching at Global Investor Forum. All start-up that are pitching on 27 March had the possibilty to attend the Global Investor Forum Pitch Training online on wednesday 20 March 2024 9:30 - 12:00 (CET).

Attending the pitch training is a valuable extra to your Global Investor Forum experience and will not only prepare you for your pitch during the actual Global Investor Forum, but for every future pitch you will present!

Programme

9:15 Welcome & Introduction
9:30 Pitch training by Giuseppe Marzio
10:15 10-minute Q&A to Giuseppe Marzio

10:30 Start practice pitches
10:30 Hemastatx - Kevin Hollevoet
10:45 Eversyn – Rachel Thu Nguyen
11:00 Predica Diagnostics – Marco de Boer
11:15 Vini Mini – Jozien Boersma & Tommie Koppens
11:30 siRNAgen – June Park
11:45 CILA Therapeutics – Safia Rizvi

12:00 End trainings session

Meet your trainer & feedback Panel

Giuseppe Marzio, Ph.D.

Founder, Chiaro | Strategic Storytelling
Pitch trainer & Feedback panel

Giuseppe Marzio, a scientist-turned-strategic-storyteller, has over twenty years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. As founder of Chiaro, a communications agency specializing in strategic storytelling for health and life sciences, he has worked with some of the most admired companies in the sector, from startups and VCs to large corporations.

Giuseppe has been instrumental in raising hundreds of millions in funding, closing high-value deals, and taking organizations to the next level. His book Winners Have a Story was published in 2022 and became an international Amazon bestseller.

Read more on Chiaro.nl

Abstract

Success starts with a great story, in business as in life. Because stories get attention. They get remembered. They change perceptions. Today’s most successful entrepreneurs are those who excel at sharing inspiring stories about their product, company, and vision.

But what does it take to craft a good story?

In this session, you will learn how to apply the basic principles of storytelling to pitch a winning story – to raise funding, grow a successful business, and make the world a healthier place.

Tess Korthout

Early Innovation Partner, Johnson & Johnson Innovation
Feedback Panel

Tess joined the Johnson & Johnson Innovation team as an External Innovation Scout for the Benelux region. Within this role she focuses on the sourcing, screening and evaluating opportunities and potential matches between internal and external research needs of high strategic value to Johnson & Johnson Innovation.

Tess pursued her PhD at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam to study epigenetic processes in cancer progression. This research exposed her to the latest genomic technologies, which led her to a Postdoc at the Hubrecht institute working on a technology to detect epigenetic signatures in single cells. After this, she extended her network in the biotech industry with her previous role as a Business Development Director at the oncology startup iClusion.

Rajiv Vaid Basaiawmoit

Head of Sci-Tech Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Aarhus University
Feedback Panel

Narrative CV: Dr. Rajiv Vaid Basaiawmoit is an award-winning Entrepreneurship Educator and works at the intersection between innovation, entrepreneurship, interdisciplinary-collaboration and gamification. He designs and embeds Entrepreneurship into curricular education. He is an invited speaker at many conferences and events around the globe and he has spoken on various well-known platforms such as TEDx, ECS and NATO-CoE. He also runs a Game studio – Biosymfonix Edu Games under his consulting business Biosymfonix. One of it's flagship products is a multi-award-winning board game called ESHIP:NavigatingUncertainty currently in use in over 60+ institutions across 25+ countries. A recently launched board game GRANTED: The Research Grant Game – which helps interdisciplinary teams come together and create a skeletal grant proposal in under 3 hours – is currently making waves as well.

Alexander Demoulin

Associate, Bioqube ventures
Feedback Panel

Alex is an Associate within the investment team. Since joining Bioqube in 2016, he has been involved across the investment process for both portfolio investments as well as early stage venture creation as part of Bioqube’s dual investment model, and sits on the board for 2 portfolio companies.

Prior to the launch of Bioqube Factory Fund I, Alex supported the growth of multiple biotech companies within J&J Innovation’s novel investment and incubation model.  Alex graduated with an MSc in Medical Biotechnology and Business Management and holds a BSc in Biomedical Sciences.

Pitching packages

The pitch training is included for all pitching start-ups at Global Investor Forum

Start-up Package

2-day ticket for Global Investor Forum on 27 March and Innovation for Health on 28 March 2024.
Possibility to schedule 1-on-1 meetings with investors for 28 March 2024 at I4H.
Pitching slot (5 minutes) on 27 March 2024 in the programme of GIF.
Possibility to be selected as finalist for the start-up pitch session on 28 March 2024 at I4H.