Basic explanation of the organisation

William Stevens is founder and current executive chairman of Europe Unlimited. He was Secretary General of the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) from 1991 to 1996 laying the basic of its strong growth. He founded Europe Unlimited in 1998 to launch a community for high-tech entrepreneurs.

It started by organizing events and with over fifteen years of experience in a competitive market in Europe, the company has a firm position. Those events give entrepreneurs the opportunity to find investors and vice versa. The organisation wants to stimulate innovation by assisting in finding funding for new and promising ideas.

The company is active in a high-technology industries across (mainly Northern and Western) Europe. This could be divided in the following sectors:

-         Life Science[1],

-         ICT[2],

-         Energy[3],

-         Clean & Green and Technology[4].

For these events the company needs to find the right (or relevant) investors and the most promising entrepreneurs. There are plenty of other participants but they support the main role (which is stimulating entrepreneurship in the high-technology industry). Examples of those other participants, in the industry described as delegates, are experts from the industry, consultants, media and government representatives.

In addition to organizing events the company has successfully been active in European Commission Projects, has its own investors network club (the International Venture Club) and has acquainted Tech Tour, a similar company active in the same High Tech industries but with a focus on companies in the growth stage.

[1] Any of several branches of science, such as biology, medicine, anthropology, or ecology, that deal with living organisms and their organization, life processes, and relationships to each other and their environment

[2] Information and Communications Technology

[3] The energy industry is the totality of all of the industries involved in the production and sale of energy, including fuel extraction, manufacturing, refining and distribution

[4] Clean technology (clean tech) is a general term used to describe products, processes or services that reduce waste and require as few non-renewable resources as possible