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33entrepreneurs Startup Pitch Contest – North America Tour

Travel Massive is teaming up with 33entrepreneurs to help connect our talented community of changemakers to investors looking for new innovative startups. The Bordeaux-based venture capital and accelerator is giving you a chance to take your big idea to the next level during their startup North America tour and startup pitch contest. To learn more, we caught up with Vincent Prêtet, CEO and Founder of 33entrepreneurs and his travel partner Florian Mesny before taking off for their US-Canada tour.

What is 33entrepreneurs about?

33entrepreneurs aims to reveal and grow startups with the ambition to bring tech innovation to the Wine & Spirits, Food and Travel industries. We’re an open startup accelerator and a global seed fund investor.

Thousands of unique startups are mapped around the world so to meet these promising entrepreneurs we will run a series of 35 startup contests globally – 25 in Europe and Middle East and 10 in North America. This year we will cross 5000 miles in our #33USTour bus and cover 9 Cities: NYC, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, Austin, Boulder, Los Angeles and San Francisco. 

bus

Is there a unique story of how 33entrepreneurs came to be?

I was flying from Montreal to Boston in 2013 when I met my friend Ethan who inspired me to leverage our legacy in food, travel and wine. Bordeaux is the world capital of wine and has been elected best European destination in 2015. I decided to use 33entrepreneurs to build on our 3 French strengths – food, wine, and travel to deliver value to world.

Why did you choose to focus on the food-wine-travel sector?

Food, wine, and travel stand for 33% of the world GDP yet only13% of global VC investment each year is injected in food, wine and travel industries. We realized there is a great market opportunity for startups and investors.

How could startups benefit by participating?

This year 33entrepreneurs is committing 2 million Euros to invest in the best ideas. Any startup joining the program also gets a safe investment of up to 5% equity. There is a 3-month acceleration program offering state of the art techniques and guidance from our team of mentors including Techstars & Ycombinator then a chance to present the final product at Demo Day. Our startups finish with a clear playbook on how to ramp-up their food-wine-travel product in the market and how to optimize the perfect cost per acquisition.

Vincent Prêtet with Chicago winners, Trytn

How does it work?

We will host first-round pitch contests in various cities. From there, one winner in each city will win a ticket to attend & make their final pitch at the Travel Innovation Summit at Phoscuswright, to be amongst the 3 final winners. 33entrepreneurs will invest $100k, a 3-month acceleration program in France, and offer access to valuable EMEA market opportunities.

Lokafy presents in Toronto

Travel Massive is about empowering change in travel. How does your initiative create change or empower changemakers?

We want to help empower big ideas from innovative startups and entrepreneurs by investing in them and helping to get them off the ground. Of course, they too need to put forward the willingness to change and make travel easier with their ideas. These are the kinds of startups we invest in and which will ultimately drive change.

Is there anything else you look for in the food, wine, and travel startups you want to invest in?

The startups we are looking for need to be innovative and scalable in various markets particularly USA & EMEA.

33entrepreneurs panel deliberation
33entrepreneurs panel deliberation with Vincent Prêtet.

What do you think are the biggest challenges facing start ups today? 

In my opinion, the biggest challenge is getting those first customers. Once you’ve convinced some people, you know you can make it. I would also recommend to startups is to always strive to bring something new in value.

Do you have any tips for new entrepreneurs who want to create a successful start-up?

Play to your strengths especially when you are creating your team.


For a list of cities and dates or to pitch your big idea, go to 33entrepreneurs.co or connect with 33entrepreneurs on Travel Massive.

 

 


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