Looking for funding or licensing opportunities for your startup or project? The Investment BioRegion Portal specializes in promoting and showcasing Catalan startups and projects to both national and international investors. We'll facilitate valuable connections with private investors and companies, helping you establish crucial licensing agreements, co-development opportunities, and financing arrangements. Register now to take your startup or project to the next level.
How to proceed:
1) Registration
Register via the Register button. Use your professional address.
2) Publish a business profile to showcase your needs
Create a clear and concise business profile to raise your visibility on the b2match platform: Complete your personal and organization information and select the Areas of Activity, that makes it easier for other participants to find you and makes your profile more expressive.
3) Create your Opportunities
Your Project's Profile must include the following minimum information:
- Title
- Description:
- A brief introduction to your project, team, institution, stage of development...
- OnePager (mandatory). File Upload as an attached pdf, which must contain the information shown in the following models::
- Labels/Tags:
- Project Stage (Startup/Academic project & Stage of development)
- Topic/Indication
- Sector
- Type of cooperation sought
Optionally you can add other files, logos, images and videos to make the profile more attractive
A good profile will generate significantly more meeting requests.
4) Get your meeting requests
5) Matchmaking Event
Access your meetings in My Agenda, where you have your complete schedule for the event and the list of your meetings. Check your camera and microphone and don't be late!
How to initiate a Virtual Meeting?
- Identify promising participants on the Participants list or the Marketplace page on the event's website. Once you found a suitable meeting partner, click on the participant's card in order to access their profile
- Use the Messages functionality to chat about common interests and availability.
- Click on the participant's preview if the participant is marked as Available
- Click Request Meeting, under the participant's photo, to request a meeting
- Check My agenda and Meetings for your schedule and your list of confirmed meetings.
- At the time of the meeting, go to the Meetings page and click on Start Meeting
- You can invite guests through the Invite guests button, or share your screen through the screen sharing button
- A virtual meeting can be started at any given time before its ending time and it won't stop automatically, one of the participants has to end it
- The remaining time will be displayed on the top left corner
- The next meeting card will be displayed with one minute before the next meeting
- Clicking on Start Next Meeting will end the current meeting and will start the next one
Technical requirements for Virtual meetings
The virtual meetings take place through the b2match video tool, which is integrated in the b2match platform and it doesn’t need to/it can't be downloaded.
- install the latest version of your browser
Use a device with an incorporated webcam or a webcam. Without the camera, the meeting can still take place in the audio mode.
Microphone and camera
You can test your microphone and camera in your Meetings list, once you are logged in to your b2match profile. In order to do this, you need to click the blue Camera and microphone test and follow the instructions.
If there are issues, the system will indicate the browser's documentation's regarding the microphone and camera usage
- browser's permissions to use the microphone and camera
- system's permissions for the microphone and camera
Additionally, you can do the following checks:
- test your microphone with other apps, such as Google Meet, Skype, Zoom, etc.
- run Twilio's network test, which will start an automatic diagnosis to check if Twilio has permission to use your microphone and camera
- Twilio is the name of the software we use for online meetings
Happy matchmaking!