The Europas, (http://TheEuropas.com) the European Tech Startup Awards & Invitation-Only Conference will be held on June 16, 2015, in London. TechCrunch is the official Media Partner and attendees of The Europas will automatically receive deep discounts on TechCrunch Disrupt Europe tickets, among other perks. The Europas will be accompanied by a parallel track called PathFounders, the exclusive event for startup Founders, in particular those at an early stage. Also invitation-only, PathFounders will bring together Founders and Investors in a series of exclusive networking experiences, on the days either side of The Europas.


You can apply for these invitation-only events here: http://eepurl.com/3n15T

Once you are invited to attend, all tickets must be paid-for by invitees. The entire event is hand-curated to create the right mix of awesome founders, investors, media and eco-system players.

Until May 1st, 2015, we are offering  ‘early bird tickets’ at the rate of £365+VAT for Founders, or £595+VAT for service providers and investors.

PathFounders:
PathFounders is a new invitation-only event for start-ups in fund-raising mode. This is for the future ‘moonshot entrepreneurs’ networking with their future investors and partners. On the days either side of The Europas Awards, we will bring together 150 of Europe’s hottest early-stage Founders, together with Europe’s best VCs and Angel Investors in a relaxed environment, with amazing hospitality. We will open up tickets to PathFounders at a later stage, which will be an “upgrade” ticket for existing Europas attendees.

Check out the video of The Europas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0az4zW7qf2c

JUST SOME OF THE PREVIOUS ATTENDEES OF THE EUROPAS INCLUDE: Niklas Zennström, Founder of Skype; Avid Larizadeh, Google Ventures;  Florian Meissner, Founder of EyeEm; Kathryn Parsons, Founder, Decoded; Nick Halstead, Founder of DataSift; Peter Arvai, Co-founder of Prezi; Renaud, Visage, Co-founder, Eventbrite; Ben Holmes, Index Ventures; Brent Hoberman, Founders Forum; Christian Hernandez, White Star Capital; Christian Thaler-Wolski, Wellington Partners; Eileen Burbidge, Partner at Passion Capital; Daniel Waterhouse, Balderton Capital; David Rosskamp, Earlybird; Jeremie Berrebi, Kima Ventures; Jon Bradford, Techstars London; Jos White, Partner at Notion Capital; Max Niederhofer, Partner at Sunstone Capital; Michiel Kotting, Accel Partners; Nic Brisbourne, Forward Partners; Reshma Sohoni, Seedcamp; Serguei Beloussov, Runa Capital; Simon Cook,  DFJ Esprit; Amir Mizroch, The Wall Street Journal; Ben Rooney, Informilo; Ingrid Lunden, International Editor, TechCrunch; Jemima Kiss, The Guardian; Juergen Stueber, Berliner Morgenpost; Mark Scott, The New York Times; Martin Bryant, Editor in Chief, The Next Web; Monty Munford, The Economist; Olivia Solon, Wired; Robin Wauters, Tech.eu; Tim Bradshaw, The Financial Times.

Contacts:
General Enquiries
Please email:
TheEuropas@gmail.com

Sponsorship Enquiries ONLY
Petra Johansson
petra@twistedtree.co.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 20 3239 9325

NOTES:

This is an internet and technology competition that recognises startups based in continental Europe and is open to all countries that also appear in the Eurovision Song Contest. No companies are restricted from consideration. Certain awards have specified criteria but, otherwise, all companies and products are eligible for consideration based on their business accomplishments made during the past calendar year. Companies may be nominated for multiple award categories, and companies may win multiple awards. There are no fees to nominate companies for consideration.

Everyone is invited to nominate companies for award consideration. For each award category, each person is invited to submit one company for consideration per IP address per day. Nominations across all categories do not need to be submitted in a single ballot, but each confirmed submission will be counted as final per user.

The Europas Judges will select the top five nominated companies per award category based on the quantity, quality and breadth of submissions received. Finalist companies are invited to purchase tickets to attend the Award Ceremony.

Everyone is invited to vote for their favourite winners. One ballot per IP address per day will be counted in the final vote. The Europas Judges reserves the right to discard any and all votes that it reasonably determines to be fraudulent or submitted by bots or other computer-generated voting applications. There are no fees to vote.

The final award winners will be determined based on the popular votes received through website voting and the Europas Judges. The award winners will be announced live at the Awards Ceremony.

The ‘Grand Prix’ award cannot be entered as it is selected by Judges only, often from an entry that is a winner in one other categories. But it can also be a 'Wild Card' selected by Judges that has not appeared in another category.