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A great success for the first Innovation Forum’s Pitch in a Pub in Barcelona. Yesterday Enrique Hernández, Founder and CEO of LoopDx, Noemi Balà, CTO and Co-founder of Aortyx, Joan Grasas, Co-founder and CPO of RheoDx, and Maria Poveda, Investment Analyst at Inveready, took part in the first Pitch in a Pub event organized by the Innovation Forumaaa
Read moreMeet the participants of this year’s edition of IMAGINE IF Barcelona IMAGINE IF! is Innovation Forum’s pre-accelerator competition for science-based ventures that boasts a truly global reach. The 2019 edition of IMAGINE IF! is already up and running! A pool of experts coordinated by the Barcelona team of Innovation Forum selected nine of the most promising science-basedaaa
Read moreIt was a geat day, full of highly innovative business ideas. The judges Karolina Korth (Roche), Iolanda Marchueta (Astrazeneca) and Àlex Casta (Caixa Capital Risk) decided among 10 startups to give the first place to MJN Neuroserveis: a wearable solution to prevent epilepsy seizures. Now MJN Neuroserveis has access to the global final, to be held onaaa
Read moreThis October 11th, Innovation Forum Barcelona will present Barcelona Demo Day, the event organized year by year to present the startups of IMAGINE IF! 2017, the Accelerator for Science Ventures. Ten projects related to health science and innovation will be competing for a place in the Global Final in Oxford this December 2017. Barcelona’s IMAGINE IF! winner joinaaa
Read moreMeet the 10 startups selected for IMAGINE IF! 2017 10 startups have been chosen to enter in our acceleration program IMAGINE IF! which will start next Tuesday, September 5th in Barcelona. The election was conducted by an evaluation committee, coordinated by the Innovation Forum. These teams will receive 6 months of workplace in Barcelona, one personalized mentoringaaa
Read moreWe are really proud to announce the mentors confirmed for IMAGINE IF! 2017: The Accelerator for Science Ventures. This Mentoring group is formed by local and international leaders (mentors from leading pharmaceutical and professional services companies). Check out the rockstar mentors that will guide you in the following months! Marc Serra (Partner BGlobal.CAT, Entrepreneur andaaa
Read moreToday we bring you the 10 selected teams that will participate in the local part of IMAGINE IF! in Barcelona. These teams will be engaged in the tailored workshops and mentoring prepared by the Innovation Forum Barcelona team and partners. Selecting them was a very difficult task due to the high quality of all participants but hereaaa
Read moreInnovation Forum Barcelona, in collaboration with IQS Tech Factory is proud to announce that registration for the IMAGINE IF! Barcelona Accelerator is now open! IMAGINE IF! is the first truly global competition and accelerator program for deep technology* organised by the Innovation Forum across our international branches.*deep technology is based on a scientific concept whichaaa
Read moreInnovation Forum Barcelona: Oriol, tell us a bit about your background and why did you accept the challenge to move back to Barcelona to create IQS Tech Factory from scratch. Oriol Pascual: My background is as environmental engineer, although I spent most of my professional career as a business developer, working on bringing cleantech productsaaa
Read moreIn the last 15 years, Barcelona has become one of the most important cities in life sciences and technology research. Sustained funding from the Catalan government and many talent recruitment programs brought top-class researchers and research facilities to the city. Currently, Barcelona is ranked 8th worldwide, in the production of high impact peer-review research articles (per capita),aaa
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