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Seed Forum has helped us to create a great international network of investors and key-persons for access to capital for further finance and internationalization says Erland Wulf-Johansson, CEO of NetDesk. – NetDesk is a Danish start-up company which was nominated to Seed Forum by Connect Denmark. We have so far presented in 4 Seed Forum International Forums in Copenhagen, Hamburg, Stockholm and Riga. I would like to underline that Seed Forum is an important, and a very professional arena, that provides their participants from born global start-up companies, with a lot of tools, and helping them by letting us represent our companies, in forums where there are access to international and domestic private equity, says Mr. Wulf-Johansson 
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We at Carbon Recycling International benefited greatly from participating in Seed Forum. Although, we all have great experience in presetting to the business community the practice and the concise message we were trained on at the pitch training has been to our great benefit, because no matter what you know already, your delivery will not get great without practice, and the common sense is not that common when not applied. We gained a lot from our Seed Forum experience, which had much more application than in just Seed Forum setting. Truly a great program.
Andri Ottesen, Ph.D. Director of Business Operation, Carbon Recycling International
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Finance Cube is a software company working out of Norway. We provide an internet based software for a niche in the finance market called "Private Banking" and "Financial Advisor". The company started in 2003, and after 3 years of software development we started selling our software in summer 2006. By October 2007 we are marked leaders in Norway, we have a market share of 20 % of the Swedish market and we have customers in 9 countries. Our strategy is to become the market leader in Europe by 2012. We have offices in Oslo, London, New York City, Stockholm and Cyprus. The Seed Forum process has been good for us and we have gained a much larger network of business partners and contacts. As an example the New York office has been opened based on contacts from presenting in Seed Forum in New York City.
Lasse Meholm, CEO Finance Cube
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Through our participating in the Seed Forums in Tallinn, in Shanghai and in Beijing, we have become aware of the responce on our technology abroad.
This has strengthened our belief in the international market. You may safely say that the world has become smaller in a very positive way with Seed Forum.
Jens Maage, CEO
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We have participated in several Seed-Forums, and everything from the initial training through the forum and the round-up sessions are thoroughly professional and well organized. The Seed Forum staff and partners did a good job of coaching us into making our company "investor-ready". The forums are very interesting, and the number of real investors in the forums are high. The thing we found to be very important is that most of the investors are partners, CEO's or high-level investment managers. This makes it possible to get a quick access to the real decision makers. We would highly recommend the Seed Forum Process for those who have a good product that they would like to expand into the international market.
Runar Lie, Chief Operating Officer
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Participating at Seed Forum made all the difference for 24SevenOffice in our seek for capital. It was especially great to be nominated and chosen to be the company of the year by Seed Forum.
Stian Rustad, CEO 24SevenOffice ASA
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Conveneer has participated three times in the Seed Forum process and made valuable contacts within the investment community, which facilitated the process of raising venture capital. The representatives at Seed Forum were very actively involved in helping us to prepare in the right way in order to succeed at our investor presentations, especially in how to convey a message as succinctly as possible. Most of all, we appreciated the way the investor forums were structured, specifically the many opportunities to mingle with investors in inspiring backdrops. Going through the Seed Forum process is an activity that we recommend to any startup wishing to make a professional presentation to the global investment theatre.
Richard Lindberg Co-Founder, Conveneer AB
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Seed Forum has been important to bMenu. All the way from the brainstorming in the beginning - and being an Entrepreneur, Seed Forum have aided bMenu along to meet quite a few investors. This support has been even more than we could have hoped for. bMenu is now a successful start-up, and we are continuously getting new users and clients. bMenu has participated in the Oslo forum and in New York City forum. By using Seed Forum we managed to make a good business plan, improve our presentation skills and last but not least, we have met a lot of investors in Norway and in the US.
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Seed Forum was a very important arena for us when we needed capital for growth.
We have built a strong network of the right investors that really was the turning point for us to raise the capital we needed. Not only did we meet investors, but the ones we met also gave us contacts with their nettworks. Sonitor has been presenting in Seed Forums in London and in New York City.
Ragnar Bo, CEO Sonitor Technologies
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