“Silicon Valley” Brochure PDF

May 2016

ABC SILICON VALLEY is the headquarters of the ABC Group and

it offers a unique approach for startups

and corporations. All along, it provides

investment and global exposure as well as

improving the social responsibility aspect.

Copywriting: Edina Dyachenko, Jakob Gajšek, Ana LuknerEditing: Dejan Roljič, Urška JežProofreading: Jakob GajšekPhotography: Siniša KanižajDesign & Cover Illustration: Petra FonPrint: Tiskarna DTP d.o.oMay 2016

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VIRTUAL PRE-ACCELERATOR PLATFORM

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Focusing at strong, globally ambitious teams with a finished product, ABC accelerates two generations of startups every year. It sources startups through a global network of institutions such as incubators, uni-versities, and co-working spaces, and brings them to-wards its network of investors and corporations. Their main uniqueness is that they want to disrupt physical accelerators around the world with their unique virtual accelerator program accessible anytime, anywhere, to anyone. ABC is strategically connected to large, multinational enterprises like IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Siemens, and BMW. It is also supported by Berkeley, Harvard, and Stanford Universities. Through this collaboration, ABC can offer its accelerated companies a very wide network and unique access to potential customers, as well as ensuring investment and a push to the global market.Opening offices worldwide and connecting all the play-ers in the startup ecosystem is crucial. ABC accelerator proved that an ecosystem that already exists, needs to be connected in order to create a rev-olutionary movement of improvement and attract the best startups and investors. To increase this effect, we are also offering unique programs where we connect the worlds of startups and corporates.

ABC (Acceleration Business City) is the private accelerator dedicated to the bestentrepreneurs from all over the world.

ABC accelerator Ljubljana grew from nobody to one of the

TOP 25 accelerators in the world in the last year. There are

more than 2,500 accelerators and incubators in the world.

IT ALL BEGAN INSLOVENIA


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We have created a WHOLE CONNECTED ECOSYSTEM for common future development.

ABC ACCELERATOR LJUBLJANA is, with a strong academic, partnership, and team lineup thus becoming an ACCELERA-TOR for early stage startups with direct access to global mar-kets and financial institutions – investors in Europe and Silicon Valley. It’s focusing on startups that are searching up to 1 mil-lion EUR of capital.ABC Accelerator Ljubljana has also established its own 8 mil-lion EUR Venture fund called ABC First Growth that is focusing on increasing the success rate of early stage startups coming to Ljubljana.

DIRECTION AND POSITIONING OF ABC ACCELERATOR

ABC’s main focus is to bring investments to startups and push them globally in the

shortest possible period of time.

We have focused on credibility and attaining knowledge in 2015. Together, we have formed concepts and sought real needs of startups. Because of that, we can say that we are on the right way. We are creating a long-term, sustainable develop-ment concept of development and acceleration of startups and innovative SMEs.

ABC ACCELERATOR BECOMING A GLOBAL

COMPANY

Business model: 8% equity for 15k + convertible loan 35k + later VC investment

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ABC VIRTUAL PLATFORMIt is a mobile-first online startup accelerator platform that con-nects four stages of growth to increase the success rate of startups all around the world.It’s used as a pre-selection platform but at the same time a big disruptor of existing accelerator programs and educational business platforms.

ABC GLOBAL HOME SILICON VALLEYABC Silicon Valley will offer the following:

• it will select the best startups from the world that already went through an accelerator program and have a finished product

• for startups, ABC will focus on its global spread-out and increasing investment opportunities

• it will offer intensive training programs for international corporations allowing them to implement innovation pro-grams in their home companies

• the ABC corporate program will encourage European en-

ABC VENTURE GATES MUNICH connects the largest market within the EU to ABC Accelerator Ljubljana.

ABC VENTURE GATES helps funding-ready startups eliminate the cumbersome process of fundraising by connecting them with active VCs through a streamlined introduction and invest-ment process. We use a tailor-made ABC process to bring the right start-ups to the right VCs, thereby increasing the success rate of invest-ments. It’s focusing on startups that are searching up to 15 million EUR of seed capital.

Business model: 2% equity guaranteed & addition of 3% based on success. Start of ABC Munich is 16th of May 2016.

Start of ABC Silicon Valley is 5th of August 2016.

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terprises to move their innovation labs into Silicon Valley and increase access to innovations

• it will provide international C-Level executives the opportu-nity to change their mindsets by experiencing the dynamic creativity and exceptional driving forces at work in Silicon Valley

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ABC Global Home is a Silicon Valley-based home, where we connect theworlds of startups and corporations. We are mixing them in one single space!

We recruit the finest international startups to an accel-eration program that exposes them to Silicon Valley’s wealth of resources and capital. We offer intensive training programs for international corporations, allow-ing them to implement innovation programs in their home companies. We provide international C-Level executives the opportunity to change their mind-sets by experiencing the dynamic creativity and exceptional driving forces at work in Silicon Valley.

With our worldwide exposure and innovative approach, we bring the best personalized program based on our know-how, experience, connections, positive attitude, and socially responsible view. ABC Global Home is your home, where we change your mindset, prepare you for a bright future, and increase the success rate of invest-ments as well as global expansion.

ABC Global Home elevates you.

ABC Silicon Valley will also become the headquarters office of the ABC Group. With its unique approach and program, it will become a global home for startups and corporations.

ABC Silicon Valley will also have notable board members, lecturers, mentors, and partners – both local and global.


• Start-up Accelerator Program (SAP): for the best startups that already went through an accel-erator program and have a finished product / focus on their global expansion and increasing investment

• Corporation Accelerator Program (CAP): offering intensive training programs for international corporations, which will allow them to implement innovation programs in their home compa-nies / increasing their access to innovations and encouraging them to move their innovation labs into Silicon Valley

• CEO Tour Guides Program: taking international CEOs on a short 2-3 week eye-opening op-portunity to change their mindsets by experiencing the dynamic creativity and exceptional driving forces at work in Silicon Valley

WELCOME

HOME!

• Connecting you with investors

• Networking events

• Excellent mentors and lecturers

• Access to contacts you need

• Strong community integration

• Amazing office

• We help you get a nice home

• Get to know the Silicon Valley culture, become local but

stay global

• Access to other acceleration networks

• Great board members

• Exchange programs

• Business development and marketing consulting

• Team-building

• Inspirational / motivational speeches

• ... and of course some fun - work hard, play harder!

• We push you beyond your limits in every simple aspect

… but …

• We are always there for you!

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FORSTARTUPS

1. 15.000€ investment (we call this pizza money but let’s face it. would you spend 15k on pizza? Unless the extra toppings are diamonds, we strongly advise you not to )

2. 35.000€ convertible loan (if you want it)

3. 300.000€ loan (for the selected startups)

ABCSo that’s 15.000+35.000+300.000 = TOTAL of 350.000€. HOLY MOLEY!

4. We push you out of the building – onto the market – through the window (joking) to test your product on the most solid testing ground: with 4500 businesses and 21 million yearly visitors.

5. Testing ground for B2B, B2C, C2C, C2B, To be or not to be

6. Mentor sessions with 100+ Technology and Industry Experts, Corporate Partners, Serial Entrepreneurs, Business Angels, and VCs.

7. Free office space with full infrastructure and other perks

8. Demo Day Pitch before strategic investors (corporations) and financial investors (VCs and BAs)

9. Up to 310K€ in bonuses, including free cloud services from any provider - IBM, Microsoft, or AWS

10. Events - we get you places. Pack your belongings because when you join ABC you are always on the road

11. Then the magic starts: spread out and sales (and we are the best at it!)

12. Connecting you with investors: In house, local, global

13. One on one approach: we take it personally

14. Free basic accommodation for foreign teams during the 3+3 program

15. Access to global and European acceleration networks (Such as Global Accelerator Network)

16. Extras: All sorts of discounts in the BTC area, Free Fitness (because we want you to stay healthy). Small treats from Lidl (because we want you to eat healthy)


ABC is quickly moving to being not just an accelerator, but a whole ecosystem. We have realized, that no matter the stage, many startups still need advice and help in handling business, especially in raising new investment rounds and closing large corporate partnership or client deals.

For investors, our offer is very straightforward:

• Providing a strong, multi-stage deal flow• De-risking companies by getting to know them in-depth during our programs, which build on their strengths and bridge over

their weaknesses• Co-investment as part of our programs, through the VC fund, or with our associated investors

FORINVESTORSABC

We know that for every investor, there is a perfect startup, and very importantly, the reverse is also true. We are striving to help both sides, and actively work on expand-ing both our investor and startup networks.To advance the regional ecosystem further, we don’t work only with ABC startups, but are more than happy to help others, too. Any stage of the ABC ecosystem is also open for non-ABC startups.Through all this, we can effectively provide a strong, multi-stage deal flow to inves-tors. By gaining more investors to our network, we become more efficient at helping startups, which is increasing the deal flow significantly.This effectively creates a positive feedback loop, enabling us to grow.

ENTITY

ABC HUB(the first one is in Ljubljana, Slovenia)

ABC VIRTUAL PRE-ACCELERATOR(global focus)

ABC ACCELERATOR(the first one is in Ljubljana, Slovenia)

ABC FIRST GROWTH VC FUND

ABC VENTURE GATES(opening in May 2016 in Munich, Germany)

ABC GLOBAL HOME(opening in 2016 in Silicon Valley)

STAGE

Pre-product, pre-seed, product development

Pre-seed, product development, preparation for accelerator

Seed to late-seed(up to approx. 1M € sought)

Co-investment and follow-on funding in seed and A round stages

Growth(approx. 1-5M € sought)

Any stage(if the startup is truly ready)

ABC is actively connecting startups of all stages to the right investors through A GROUP OF ECOSYSTEM ENTITIES

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IN THE ACCELERATORS

We are looking for qualities: Be a prob-lem solver, not a problem maker. The equation is quite simple: creativity. Think outside of the box. Dedication, commit-ment, focus, risk taking, enthusiasm - If you recognize yourself make sure to ap-ply.

The market is the true judge of business and the real accelerator starts outside of the office. Here our location comes in handy. We are located in the middle of a unique testing grounds. Our location is in the largest retail, entertainment, busi-ness, and logistics center in South-East Europe.

We will conduct Skype calls if our selec-tion committee sees a great deal of po-tential in your product. The best among you will be invited to the selection days in Ljubljana, Slovenia. After the selection phase, we will invite you to move into AB-C´s apartments. We will discuss details and take care of your stay. The journey begins!

The moment your startup gets traction, everyone wants to know what you are up to. By everyone we think investors, part-ners, buyers, users. Your value goes up, so we encurage you to go in action and get traction!

The first 3 months are dedicated to adapting your business model, building the strategy, validating everything on the testing market, and connecting with the enterprise world. During the program, you will work hard and basically live in the accelerator.

From the very first selection stage, we will begin searching for the right busi-ness partners for you. We will come pre-pared starting from day one, already pre-senting you to several companies. They can take you under their wing and help you fly. We will train you for negotiating with investors.

APPLY

CONNECTION

SELECTION DAY

GET TRACTIONVALIDATE

ACCELERATE


ABC SILICON VALLEY, USAABC MUNICH, GERMANY

GOGLOBAL!

The times when you had to go from one workshop to another, traveling to differ-ent locations, paying costly lectures are over. We have amazing speakers on dif-ferent subjects, from funding to motiva-tion. We take education seriously.

Our initial investment is €15k per start-up + a €35k convertible loan.Then, our VC comes in, and offers up to 300k€ possible extra investment.Our goal is to also get other investors to support your business. We do that through the Demo Day, where we invite the right investors to help you build up your company.

The “D” day. At this stage, your product has been validated on the market, you are gaining traction, and the engine is running. You are ready for the biggest event of the accelerator program. You have worked for this day, and in the last stage, repeated your pitch on almost a daily basis. You are ready and you are unstoppable. You are a go getter!

At this stage, you will be meeting your potential partners, maybe even signing contracts before the demo day. We will help you find the right fit and make sure that you get the best deal. Once the part-nership was established, we will be mov-ing towards the investment phase.

EVENTS

DEMO DAY

PARTNERSHIP

INVESTMENTS

long hours of coaching, workshops, and general education – to help startups engage with the most important and relevant contacts from their industry.

To present their business model in the best possible manner, they must get the much needed information first and be at their best. And not just for the Demo Day. During the first three months it’s all about the pitch. They literary pitch to everyone because with each pitch, they get better. Our policy is to get them prepared because you never know when an opportunity presents itself.

ABC Accelerator’s 2nd Demo Day

expansion of their business, meaning that the teams still have full access to everything: the infrastructure, mentors, external partners, and technical support – everything that will help them grow and target new markets. Even after the Demo Day, ABC’s investors, mentors and part-ners are actively engaged with the startups, checking the pro-gress of our teams on a daily basis, providing on-point advice and guidelines. It’s in our mutual interest for the startups to succeed and working together is the key to growth in the de-sired direction.

Available at any time to share their broad knowledge or help out with their skills and experience, the ABC team is here to assist and help by organizing specific workshops in each technology field, many of them on a weekly basis.

JOURNEY BEGINSYOUR

BY JOINING


AMONG THE BEST,

VALLEY.

Their new skillsets are all much needed when they present themselves on the Demo Day, or as we like to call it, the “D” Day, where they pitch to a room full of international and local investors.

The success of the first and the second Demo Day was remarkable. Their polished pitches could be heard not only at the original Demo Day, but virtual as well. Investors from Italy, Russia, the USA, Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, United Kingdom, Slovenia… all came in search of new busi-ness for invest. The Demo Day process in the last two pro-grams made an impact – a total of 6 million was sought by the startups, and it is soon to be exceeded.

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oUr CUrrEnT STArT UpS

facility is making hotels operate more efficiently and makes their customers satisfied

fACility IS ALrEAdY IMpLEMEnTEd In 9 hoTELS And IS EXpAndInG ConTInUoUSLY. ThE nEXT STEp IS A BIG InTErnATIonAL hoTEL ChAIn.

Facility scraps all the manual hotel operations management and replaces it with an user friendly and customizable management platform for smartphones and tablets.

facility as the main communication channel:

puts managers in absolute control

Cuts work process costs

Improves staff efficiency

fACility TEAM

More than

50.000 messages communicated

each month More than

1000 rooms managed

each day platform between citizens and waste utilities. With Zero Waste Future Lab they can manage:

the waste through the “Waste App”

they inform people individually abou their personal waste collection and more

Team:

Waterloo is an all-in-one tool for water utilities and their citizens.

With Waterloo they can manage:

- meter data readings

- user data acquisition

- water meter exchange and much more

Symvaro has already over 25 paying national water utilities as customers in Austria.

Zero Waste Future Lab is an interactive platform between citizens and waste utilities.

With Zero Waste Future Lab they can manage:

- the waste through the “Waste App”

- they inform people individually about their personal waste collection and more

Symvaro has already more than 300 paying Cities and Communities for the “Waste App” in Austria

“Symvaro is developing Smart City solutions with the focus on water & waste management”

Symvaro made over 300.000 Euro last year, although they only took 0,50 for a service that usually costs almost 50 Euro in the process. The company is expanding with ABC’s help to Slovenia and Germany and can become the #1 utilities service in Europe.

Rudolf BallCEO

Philip KozenyCTO

Gernot FleissHead of Sales

A great team7 Developers and 1 Backoffice Team:














Rudolf BallCEO

Philip KozenyCTO


A great team7 Developers and 1 Backoffice

Symvaro made over 300.000 Euro last year, although they only took 0,50 for a service that usually costs almost 50 Euro in the process. the company is expanding with ABC’s help to Slovenia and germany and can become the #1 utilities service in Europe.

SymvAro hAS ALrEAdY ovEr 25 pAYInG nATIonAL WATEr UTILI-TIES AS CUSToMErS In AUSTrIA.

Waterloo is an all-in-one tool for water utilities and their citizens. With Waterloo they can manage:

meter data readingsuser data acquisitionwater meter exchange and much more

Zero Waste future lab is an interactive SymvAro hAS ALrEAdY MorE ThAn 300 pAYInG CITIES And CoMMUnITIES For ThE “WASTE App” In AUSTrIA

SymvAro TEAM

team of

12yearly revenue of

300kmore than

300 customers from 2 countries

on the market since

2010

+9

Symvaro is developing Smart City solutions with the focus on water & waste management

45HC.com is a simple to use online booking tool with superb unique features for clients. It allows them to book their container FOB shipments in under 60 seconds. They can place a booking across different carriers and can insure the shipment on the same page.

45HC.com is the only logistics or e-logistics company, whose cli-ents pay rates on the day of de-parture, not at the time of book-ing. In average, clients saved 32% of shipping costs because of this feature.

Drobio is a place where social networks meet fashion; it allows you to follow trends and others’ styles whilst allowing interaction through likes and comments. It also satisfies a customer’s curios-ity: every clothing item has the name of the brand and if available online, a link that directs you to where it can be bought!

Drobio makes organising your wardrobe easy, it allows you to follow the latest trends and clothes from celebrities or your best friends, and clothing from a continuously growing database of nearly a million items already, and it gives you the opportunity to share your latest pur-chases and outfits.

Facility scraps all the manual hotel operations management and replaces it with a user friendly and customizable management platform for smartphones and tablets.

Facility as the main communication channel:• Puts managers in absolute control • Cuts work process costs • Improves staff eficiency

App Ray, a research institute spin-off taken over by a serial entre-preneur, scans smartphone applications and searches for prob-lems and potential threats for your personal or corporate data stored on the device. It is a fully automated process, can scan apps without accessing source code, and it is able to highlight vulnerabilities, data leaks and privacy breaches.

App Ray puts apps through a static and dynamic sandbox check procedure, looking for privacy violations, data leaks or circumven-tions of the company’s security standards.

An online container booking platform allowing our clients to be more effective and efficient.

Drobio lets you create your wardrobe and share your outfit with the world.

Facility is making hotels operate more eficiently and makes their customers satisfed.

What do your mobile phone apps know about you?Maybe more than you think.

drobio

CHECK SOME OF OUR STARTUPS


FruttaWeb is an e-commerce shop that allows people to buy among more than 1.500 fresh fruits and vegetables, and receive them directly to their doorstep. It combines the highest quality with the ease of buying the products online.Quality should never be a compromise! This is why all FruttaWeb’s fruits and vegetables are always meticulously selected by our partners that take care of each aspect right to the smallest detail.

No more compromise due to little time or long distances, no more compromise due to limited access to different products, no more compro-mising the highest quality!

Mothers have to do all the work at home. They are frustrated that other family members don’t participate equally. They use chore-charts to organize the work, but they are not always convenient and they can’t check the progress. It’s hard to reach the children, they are on their phones all the time.

Homey enables a fast and easy way for families to communicate about household chores. Cre-ate, assign and complete chores with one click by taking a photo. A knowledge base enables everyone to complete even the most difficult chores. Gamification makes chores fun and promotes competitiveness.

FruttaWeb is an e-commerce shop for fresh fruit with deliveries anywhere in Europe.

A mobile app for families that takes chores to another level - with snapshots!

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oUr CUrrEnT STArT UpS

facility is making hotels operate more efficiently and makes their customers satisfied

fACility IS ALrEAdY IMpLEMEnTEd In 9 hoTELS And IS EXpAndInG ConTInUoUSLY. ThE nEXT STEp IS A BIG InTErnATIonAL hoTEL ChAIn.

Facility scraps all the manual hotel operations management and replaces it with an user friendly and customizable management platform for smartphones and tablets.

facility as the main communication channel:

puts managers in absolute control

Cuts work process costs

Improves staff efficiency

fACility TEAM

More than

50.000 messages communicated

each month More than

1000 rooms managed

each day platform between citizens and waste utilities. With Zero Waste Future Lab they can manage:

the waste through the “Waste App”

they inform people individually abou their personal waste collection and more

Team:














Rudolf BallCEO

Philip KozenyCTO


A great team7 Developers and 1 Backoffice Team:














Rudolf BallCEO

Philip KozenyCTO


A great team7 Developers and 1 Backoffice

Symvaro made over 300.000 Euro last year, although they only took 0,50 for a service that usually costs almost 50 Euro in the process. the company is expanding with ABC’s help to Slovenia and germany and can become the #1 utilities service in Europe.

SymvAro hAS ALrEAdY ovEr 25 pAYInG nATIonAL WATEr UTILI-TIES AS CUSToMErS In AUSTrIA.

Waterloo is an all-in-one tool for water utilities and their citizens. With Waterloo they can manage:

meter data readingsuser data acquisitionwater meter exchange and much more

Zero Waste future lab is an interactive SymvAro hAS ALrEAdY MorE ThAn 300 pAYInG CITIES And CoMMUnITIES For ThE “WASTE App” In AUSTrIA

SymvAro TEAM

team of

12yearly revenue of

300kmore than

300 customers from 2 countries

on the market since

2010

+9

Symvaro is developing Smart City solutions with the focus on water & waste management

NERVteh is a technology based behavioural consultancy that provides its clients in the automotive, aerospace, educational and gaming industries with biometric evaluation and neurologi-cal information so that they can place the driver or trainee of any vehicle in a real life environment and collect relevant biometrical and neurological information for evaluation, education, training, re-search & development, market-ing and medical purposes.

Waterloo is an all-in-one tool for water utilities and their citizens. With Waterloo they can manage meter data readings, user data acquisition, water meter exchange and much more.

Zero Waste Future Lab is an interactive platform between citizens and waste utilities. With Zero Waste Future Lab they can manage the waste through the “Waste App”. They inform people indi-vidually about their personal waste collection.

A service (website, mobile app) for real time statistics in music. We are linked to various relevant on-line sources, such as social media, streaming and multimedia web-sites, music stores etc., collecting big amounts of data and trans-forming them into useful statisti-cal insights, business intelligence and a set of decision making tools for millions of music profession-als.

Styliff is the missing link between offline and online shopping. It combines the experience and fun of real shopping with simplicity and speed of online shopping.

Styliff solves the lack of fitting and visualizing that online shops cannot offer and will change the way fashion ecommerce works by combining fashion with technolo-gy.

An advanced 4DOF motion driving simulator delivering a real life experience for multiple applications.

Developing Smart City solutions with the focus on water & waste management. We analyze big data to back decision-making in music.

A virtual dressing App that will change the way we shop

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ABC Accelerator’s Alumni Club is a place where the accelerated generations of startups can foster con-nections and communications between each other as well as with the new generations attending ABC programs.

We are creating a strong community and stressing the importance of building a network for further business development. We believe that alone, we are strong, but together, we are stronger.

ABC’s alumni list is truly diverse. From a cloud based telemedicine platform, automated arbitrage for cryptocurrencies, a mobile app for

families that takes chores to another level, to a virtual clothes sizing app, and Smart City solutions with focus on water &waste management.

We went through hell.

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We went through hell.

WE HAVE INVESTED IN NUMEROUS STARTUPS:

Enrich with movement.

ALIANGELsmart sourcing

drobioHotailor.com

“You know, I’m not an expert of many things, but I know how fruit grows. I know that as every fruit needs the right compost and the right treatment to grow healthy and fast, so startups need the ABC team as the best solution to grow in the right and quick way.

It’s not just a question of a single aspect. It’s a sum of small but super relevant features that make the difference and make me think every day that getting the help of these bunch of crazy guys was the right choice for me, for my team, and the project itself!”

Marco BiasinCEO of FruttaWeb

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URŠKA JEŽ

ALEŠ PUSTOVRH

Co-Founder, Director of ABC Slovenia

Co-Founder, Program Manager

JULIEN COUSTAURYCo-Founder, Entrepreneur-in-residence

“As a sales manager and traveler I have met many people in my life. But such a bunch of amazing people I haven’t seen before. If you are looking for people with passion, devotion, hard-working but partying even harder - there is only one place. It’s ABC Accelerator!!!”

Stefan Kukman, CEO of 45HC.com

Visionary, entrepreneur, innovator. Words which best describe 28 year-old Dejan Roljic. Whether he is founding a company or help-ing others establish theirs, Dejan Roljič is not “just another suit” in the business world. He started early - with only 16, he founded his first business and found his entrepre-neurial passion hands-on. Soon he joined a team of entrepreneurs and developers that started a company from San Francisco and got involved into the startup scene with all of its pains and gains. He spent a lot of time in China closing business deals, which got him accustomed to that region’s business culture. Based on his experience and contin-uous drive, he founded Shanghai Summer School, taking students across the globe to

Shanghai and teaching them how to start and succeed in business.His next company Formtaste Innovations quickly grew beyond national borders and took him to Amsterdam to be accelerated by what was then the best European accel-erator Startupbootcamp, where he got fund-ing and business support. In 2014, hungering innovation, he decided to establish ABC Accelerator in Ljubljana with a goal to connect the region and po-sition Slovenia on the entrepreneurial map. Today, ABC Accelerator is growing, estab-lishing offices in Munich and Silicon Valley, and starting in 2017, opening its branches in Bangalore India and Chile.

ANA LUKNER Head of ABC Silicon Valley

Ana Lukner is an internationally respected visionary and inspirational speaker. A strate-gist at heart, Ms. Lukner is passionate about people and frequently addresses large au-diences, including TEDx, in the U.S. and throughout Europe to share insights into business success and philanthropic leader-ship. Educated at San Jose State Universi-ty with emphasis in international business, Ms. Lukner went on to receive her MBA with emphasis in Marketing. In 2012, Slovenian National Newspaper named Ms. Lukner Na-tional Person of the Year, and in 2013 she

was named National Woman of the Year by a respected Slovenian national lifestyle magazine. Among her top honors, Sloveni-an President Borut Pahor recognized Ms. Lukner in 2012 for her outstanding achieve-ment in philanthropy and ethical leadership. Most recently in 2015, she received the Ethics & Social Responsibility award from the European Union Association. As ceo of BE-EL, Ms. Lukner founded her non-profit organization Ana’s little star and is now also Head of ABC Silicon Valley.

DEJAN ROLJIČ Founder, CEO Global


JAKOB GAJŠEK

GREGA POTOKAR

Co-Founder, Head of Venture Relations

Co-Founder, Startup Scout

BERNARD GRUMFounder, Business Development

KSENJA JAKLIČ

BORIS JURIĆ

JULIJ BOŽIČ

LUKA PLANINC

PETRA FON SINIŠA KANIŽAJ

MILAN LAZAREVIČ

PETER ROLJIČ

EDINA DYACHENKO

NINA PIUZI

Manager of European Funds

International Connections

Co-Founder, Corpo Accelerator Program

Business Partners Manager

Art Director Director of Photography

Technical Director

ABC Hub Manager

Chief Creative Officer, PR

Startup Manager

DANTEOffice Dog

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Nicholas Adams is an international award winning publicist and strategist. As president of public relations and ad-vertising agency NINICO Communica-tions, he oversees the San Jose and Los Angeles operations of the firm. In addition to serving as an ABC Silicon Valley board member, Mr. Adams is a voting member of the Academy of Inter-active & Visual Arts and an active mem-ber of Silicon Valley Capital Club, Rotary Club of San Jose and Public Relations Society of America.

Bill Wiles is an Executive and Entrepre-neur with more than thirty years of ex-perience in global business including founding and running corporations, cre-ating and implementing business devel-opment and strategic plans, developing key strategic relationships, raising pri-vate and venture funding and mergers & acquisitions. He is focused on startups, growth phase businesses and companies in transition primarily in evolving technology sectors. Bill has a proven record of growing busi-nesses and building teams both in the

BILL WILES

ABC Silicon Valley Board Member


NICHOLAS ADAMS

US and Internationally. Previously Bill held executive roles at WFW International, ORG Corporation, Scent Sciences Corporation, Heitz Tech-nologies, SyberSay, Veridicom and XETI, as well as U.S. and international sales and management roles at Silicon Graph-ics, Apple Computer and 3M. Bill holds a J.D. from University of Pacif-ic, McGeorge School of Law; and a B.S. in Business from West Virginia University; He is a member of the District of Colum-bia Bar and Hawaii Bar.


ALJOŠA DOMIJANOwner at Aguatera d.o.o.

JULIEN COUSTAURYFounding Partner at Fil Rouge

Capital

ROGER BLOTTPartner, Fil Rouge Capital

JEFF BURTONGlobal Partner

JULIJ BOŽIČChief Innovation and Digital

Officer, BTC

Josh Burroughs is a real estate develop-ment professional, leader and strategist focusing on high-density transit orient-ed development in Silicon Valley. As a Senior Development Manager for SWEN-SON, principle-centered values have dovetailed into the many hats he's worn in his career, and as a result he maintains the unique ability to manage multidisci-plinary projects and navigate complex challenges. Josh supervises and directs all aspects of land acquisitions, entitlements, for-ward planning, and land development including project underwriting, broker re-lationship management, obtaining nec-

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essary permits and approvals, partner-ship / joint venture formations, debt and equity placement, management of con-sultants, and project / asset disposition.Josh serves on the Board of Directors for the Rotary Club of San Jose, the Bellarm-ine College Preparatory Alumni Council, Board of Governors for the Silicon Valley Capital Club, Silicon Valley Board of the Urban Land Institute, Board of Directors for the San Jose Downtown Association, St James Park Advisory Board, Advisory Board for BE-EL GmbH, and as Chair of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Wheel-chair Foundation.

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The startup boom is happening right now and it’s spreading out way too fast. Accelerators are ex-tremely important for its success. Time is the biggest threat to every startup, which is why ac-celerators accelerate startups to be on time with development of their solutions and spreading into the market. The virtual pre-accelerator platform is an online ac-celerator program that takes a startup through a 60 day program that is separated into 4 stages. It will be accessible from all around the world and it will target startups that are mature for entering the physical accelerators.

ABC accelerator is now investing into building the first virtual pre-accelerator program that will change the startup/accelerator industry.

1. It’s accessible. Anywhere, anytime! You don’t have to physically move because everything is on-line.

2. You have all the knowledge and worldwide con-nections in one spot. Get totally prepared for the physical accelerator program, if you are even going to need one after the virtual.

3. You don’t have to give any shares of your compa-ny! Keep it for the real investors.

4. You can improve or put away your product and team for good faster so that you don’t waste time!

5. You will work with your competition so you know exactly where you stand!

WHY VIRTUAL?

OUR NEXT BIG

THING!


YOU SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THE VIRTUAL PRE-ACCELERATOR PROGRAM

AND NOW YOU’RE READY FOR THE GLOBAL STORY!

1. SELECTION POOL

Apply your startup for the virtual pre-accelerator program and we will select 200 startups, which will go through the first 60 days long program in 2016.

2. YOU'RE IN! GOOD JOB!

Now let’s see your strenghts and weaknesses. We will show you how it’s done and power up your team.You will get one professional remote mentor, who will be your wingman.

3. SHOWROOM

Your mentor decided you’re ready to move forward. Everything is ready: you, your team, your business model, documentation, the pitch, the traction.This stage is your hockey stick.All the big names in your industry will see you, follow you and rate you.

4. INVESTMENTS

Now that you got rates from really big clients and we know what your market potential is, you’re ready to be introduced to investors all around the world. They will give you feed-back on what to improve, but more importanty, they will invest or track your future growth.

That’s more than enough information for two pages. If you want to know more feel free to visit www.abc-accelerator.com or even better, give us a Skype call.

In 60 days you achieved what would normally take you 18 months You improved your team and productYou created and tested a business model that works All the big names saw you and rated you.You’re now ready to go to a physical accelerator if you really need it!

OUR NEXT BIG

THING!

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“If you think you can make an impact

on the world, it’s time to start it by

joining ABC Accelerator”

Jeff Burton, Co-Founder of Electronic Arts

“If you have blindfolded me and put me into a room I would never guess that I am in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It all felt very much like Silicon Valley, California and that is very exciting!”

Patrick MullaneExecutive Director at HBX, Harvard Business School.

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