Plresent Your Startup is proud to announce the five finalists of PYS Alkmaar 2020 will show and pitch their bright ideas via NH Media every Tuesday of September. The episodes will be available at our website. Read more in the following article.
After a successful halve-finale livestream, the best way to keep supporting the startups ecosystem and our entrepreneurs is to help them be seen and heard. Therefore, every Tuesday of September at 5 p.m., the finalists of our program Present Your Startup Alkmaar 2020 will present their ideas via NH Media explaining how their startups contribute to the society and their progress.
As audience, you will be able to vote for your favorite after every episode is transmitted. And at the finals of our program on October 6th, the startup who gets the most votes, will be awarded with the Public Choice Awards. In addition, we will present a jury panel from our network, who will listen to all the pitches and make questions to the contestants, after an individual and group evaluation, the jury will choose who becomes the winner of Present Your Startup Alkmaar 2020.
Hereby, the schedule of the episodes:
September 1st: DeMonth
Gideon Boadu & Max de Groot.
DeMonth: “Your Period is Our Problem!”, stands for sustainable, convenience and luxury for the hard-working women of the Netherlands. This company of four men believe in a transparent production and products that contribute to a better world. This startup is already a finalist, selected as the people’s favorite and they are looking for an investment of €150.000 to develop their product further, create Native iOS & Android apps and build marketing campaigns.
September 8th: Airchip
Daniel van Drunen and Jan ten Kate.
Airchip solves waiting lines by rethinking the way people order and pay at events or venues. This startup has seven members and they believe that people shouldn’t waste time waiting. That’s how they created this app to top up your balance, order your products on the screen and pre-order for easy pick-up or even get it delivered, right on the dancefloor. They are looking for a funding of €500.000 to hire a customer success team and expand their engineering staff.
September 15th: Pepperfield
Maarten Strootman.
Pepperfield is a young, fast, reliable, securely growing web hosting provider that takes a different approach to turbulent growth. This startup takes over small web hosting providers who often struggle to survive, which have sky-high costs or do not have the required technical knowledge. Pepperfield has grown to a turnover of € 100,000 and 900 customers in 1 year and has three people on the team. They ask € 425K to finance 12 acquisitions.
September 22nd:
Circuvorm
Sander van Doorn.
Strict purchasing requirements and regulations mean, there are fewer circular interior products available for Government, Healthcare, Education and companies at home and abroad. Circuvorm intends to solve this by developing and distributing interior products. They have three circular project chairs and they are currently seeking funding for the Pluz-chair and the Rex-product series (chair & table).
September 29th: Aleeza
Selima Ajaoun.
It’s the first Dutch online customized skin care brand based on 100% sustainable and unique ingredients which come from plantations in Marrakech and support women's cooperations. This startup believes that everyone deserves a personal and transparent skin care product. The team has five members who are asking for a funding of €250,000. This investment would help them in their branding and marketing advertising, production of 15 products and team growth.
Present Your Startup (PYS)
PYS is a program and competition event happening each year, enabling entrepreneurs to make a better future. Customized training, specific investor matchmaking and an innovative community are examples of the features the program offers.
For this year’s edition in The Netherlands, we had 35 innovate startups in our Introduction Day in Alkmaar. Only 10 startups were admitted at the Academy, which took place in the Hotel Golden Tulip from the 2nd until the 6th of March. Our experts provided constant feedback, the entrepreneurs went throw evaluations and were able to practice their pitch. At the end of the week, they presented their business to a jury panel.
Due to the corona situation, we decided to make the halve-finale livestream via NHNext. The entrepreneurs were able to pitch their ideas, they received live questions from the audience and also from a panel of jury members. At the end of the program, the jury chose the five finalists. If you could not watch this program, we have it available at our website, click here.
Afterwards, we organized an exclusive dinner between investors, experts from our network and the finalists of our program. They got to pitch and be listened, received feedback and proposals.
Now, it is time to show the best at the episodes and afterwards, at the finals of October 6th. We invite you all to be part of this great project listening to bright ideas every Tuesday of September.
Remember, you can support your favorite startup at the end of every episode. Follow us in our social media channels to get more updates!
