Venture Forum

Present your company, discuss your ideas and win the Bosch Group as investor, partner or customer. At the Bosch Venture Forum we connect you with highly relevant decision makers within the Bosch Group to discuss potential synergies and collaboration opportunities.

If your company is offering products, solutions and/or services addressing the future of mobility or urban living, we encourage you to apply online for the upcoming forum. You will get the opportunity to present your case in front of investment professionals of Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC) and delegates from R&D, innovation and business as well as product development departments of the Bosch Group.

Fifteen finalists will be selected and invited to join the forum. On the first day, the invited finalists will get an individual briefing on potential collaborations through our open innovation team as well as feedback on their pitch presentation by our investment professionals. Pitch presentations and one-on-one meetings with high level Bosch representatives will take place on the second day.

If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact our cooperation partner BLUMORPHO.

Your opportunities to collaborate with the Bosch Group:

• Minority equity investment by Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH
• Partnering with the Bosch Group and its tier suppliers
• Development cooperation
• Building customer-supplier relationships
• Marketing & support for national / international roll-out

Technology Areas and Business Sectors

This year's edition of the Bosch Venture Forum will focus on Hardware and Software solutions for Next Generation Computing, from the exploitation of the limits of semiconductor technology to disruptive approaches for future computing incl. connectivity and advanced human machine interfaces.

The applications has to be in the business sectors of the Bosch Group:

• Mobile Solutions
• Industrial Technology
• Energy and Building Technology
• Consumer Goods

• Excellent innovation in terms of technology and/or business model
• Technical maturity in form of a functioning prototype and/or product trials
• Business contact with partners and customers
• Generation of sales revenues in the near future and realistic above-average growth expectations
• Management team with high level of technical know-how, market expertise and leadership experience

Application

Please use our application form to apply for the Bosch Venture Forum. We will ask you to submit your contact details as well as a detailed description of your products, solutions or services. Please also specify how you envision cooperation or synergies with the Bosch Group.

• Application due date is 28 April 2019
• Official conference language is English
• Finalists selected by Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH get the opportunity to join the Bosch Venture Forum free of charge. You only need to cover the cost of your travel and accommodation.

Registration

A steering committee from Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH will review your application, select the most suitable companies and invite them to meet at the Bosch Venture Forum. In case your company is selected, you will receive a direct invitation by mid-May to bindingly register for the event.

The application and registration process is managed by our cooperation partner BLUMORPHO .

BLUMORPHO
Ramona Landgraf
Phone: +49 175 9108923
landgraf@blumorpho.com
Website

Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC) advises you that it will not enter a non-disclosure agreement during the first application stage (step 1: application). Any written or oral information of any kind that BLUMORPHO receives from you will be regarded as general knowledge in public property and will therefore without any restrictions be forwarded to and used by RBVC. In your own interest we recommend at that stage not to send any secret or confidential information in your initial application.

In the case that Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH would be interested in receiving more detailed information regarding your innovation as part of the second application stage (step 2: registration) you will have the possibility to stipulate a written non-disclosure agreement. The personal and corporate information you submit when applying or registering will be collected by BLUMORPHO and will be exclusively used for the purpose of organising the Bosch Venture Forum. Except for Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH, your data will not be forwarded to third parties.