“SevenVentures Pitch Day”: ProSiebenSat.1 to hold start-up contest together with Hubert Burda Media for the first time

Munich, May 4, 2016. For the first time, this year's SevenVentures Pitch Day (7VPD) will be held as part of Hubert Burda Media's DLDsummer Conference at the home location of both media companies. With this move SevenVentures, the investment arm of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group, is taking its founders' contest to a new level. The common goal of this partnership is to promote Germany as an economic center of digital transformation.

As a prize, SevenVentures is offering a full-service media package composed of €3 million in the form of TV media, an online advertising volume of €200,000, and for the first time a digital-out-of-home campaign valued at €70,000. In addition, SevenVentures will facilitate the production of a custom-tailored TV spot to enable the winning company to reach customers in a targeted manner on the TV group's channels.

Sascha van Holt, SevenVentures managing director, remarked: 'Global orientation, international network, and all of that at our home location in Munich: the DLDsummer Conference is an absolutely ideal partner for our founders' contest. I look forward to unconventional and one-of-a-kind ideas, insightful founders and personalities, and most of all an exciting competition.'

Dominik Wichmann, DLD managing director and editor-in-chief, said, 'This cooperation enriches everyone involved and will boost the DLD Munich summer conference. We are excited to see what companies will be on stage this summer. I'm already looking forward to an exciting competition.'

The contest is aimed at innovative companies whose products or services are already successfully established on the market, but feel ready to take the critical next step towards growth with a tailored marketing strategy. German companies seeking to promote their products on ProSiebenSat.1's TV channels, and international companies that are not yet active on the German market and wish to change this, are both eligible to compete.

Founders from around the world can register to win the media package worth millions at www.sevenventures.de by May 25, 2016.

A total of six companies will qualify to compete live on the stage of DLDsummer on June 16 and 17 to win over an expert panel and the select audience at the venue with their business model.

SevenVentures Pitch Day has been held each year since 2012. Past winners include Withings, Cashboard, GetYourGuide, and Popsa.

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About SevenVentures

SevenVentures is the leading TV media investor worldwide. As the investment arm of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group, SevenVentures is the ideal partner for fast-growing B2C companies, particularly in the consumer goods, retail, and services sector, with the potential to achieve sustainable success through the use of TV advertising. The example of Zalando has shown how a company can rapidly become a market leader or familiar brand. SevenVentures also supports companies seeking international growth with media power, capital, and all the other services of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group. Together with the group network consisting of leading European media companies, they always find the right path to growth.

About DLD Media GmbH

DLD is the international conference and innovation platform of Hubert Burda Media. DLD Media organizes Europe's leading digital conference DLD and the summer conference DLDsummer in Munich, DLDnyc in New York City, DLDeurope in Brussels, and DLDtelaviv, Israel's largest tech festival, in Tel Aviv. In addition, with the format DLDsalons, DLD organizes networking events around the world, for instance in Palo Alto, London, Istanbul, Barcelona, Moscow, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, and Beijing. Over DLD's ten-year history, its many prominent speakers have included Reid Hastings (Netflix), Jan Koum (WhatsApp), Travis Kalanick (Uber), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Eric Schmidt (Google), Sean Parker (Napster), Marissa Mayer (Yahoo!), Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook), and many more. The company's managing directors are Stephanie Czerny, who co-founded the DLD conference in 2005, and Dominik Wichmann, who has served as managing director and editor-in-chief since September 2015.