BUILDIT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

MOBILEMONDAY TARTU

27 JULY 2015

 MA Cultural & Creative Industries  5 years of work with different designers, EST & UK  Music buff (even if I can’t carry a decent tune myself)

MAARJA PEHK

 Hardware accelerator  Intense 3-month programme  100+ world-renown mentors  25 000 EUR seed investment  Free office space  Prototyping facilites

RECAP BUILDIT

 3 batches  Applications from 48 countries  26 participants / 21 investments / 10 countries  Meetups in 10 cities

 Ljubljana, Riga, Zagreb, Tallinn, Helsinki, Tbilisi, Tartu, Berlin, Vienna, Berlin

Keynotes at events in 9 countries Belgrade, Kiev, Warsaw, Helsinki, Tallinn, Tbilisi, Nantes, Berlin, London

Going global OR WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO BE IN TARTU

“Economic sector based on individual and collective creativity, skills and talent, and is capable of creating welfare and jobs

through the generation and use of intellectual property.”

Cultural and Creative Industries QU’EST-CE QUE C’EST?

 Architecture  Audiovisual field  Design  Performing arts  (Entertainment) IT

 Publishing  Cultural Heritage  Arts  Music  Advertising

Cultural and Creative Industries QU’EST-CE QUE C’EST?

 Estonia:  Nearly 3% of Estonian GDP  Ca. 5000 institutions and companies  Over 28 000 people employed

www.kul.ee/en/activities/creative-industries

 United Kingdom:  5% of UK Economy  Over 2 800 000 people employed

www.thecreativeindustries.co.uk

Buildit Creative Industries HUH?

 team? skills? relevant experience? prototype? is something working?   is there a market? is it innovative?  who else is considering investing? is this team able to raise the next round?  valuation?

Watch: The Next Black – A film about the future of clothing

https://youtu.be/XCsGLWrfE4Y

Buildit Creative Industries WEARABLE TECH – SMART TEXTILES – AUDIOVISUAL SOLUTIONS

Maarja Pehk – Project Manager Buildit Creative Industries

maarja@buildit.ee

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