October 12, 2011 from 16:00 to 18:00

School of Economics in Riga, Strēlnieku Street 4a

The aim of event: to inform businessmen about the alternative financing instruments for the development of business, and to provide opportunity to meet specialists and entrepreneurs with experience in attraction of alternative financing.

Potential participants:
-potential businessmen, planning to start their business,
-businessmen, developing new directions of products/business activities,
-companies developing their business,
-companies in problems that cannot attain bank financing,
-Connest network companies,
-anybody interested in information on attraction of alternative financing for their companies, projects, ideas.

Programme:

 16:00 Introduction – Elmārs Baltiņš, CONNECT Latvia

16:05 THE INSTRUMENTS OF ALTERNATIVE FINANCING

• State support programme of Mortgage Bank – “Starta porgramma”, Microcredits, Development loans |Aleksejs Kaņējevs, Latvia Mortgage Bank
• Non-bank loans for companies |Juris Grišins, Capital
• Investments of private investor and venture capital |Gatis Kokins, “Zaļās gaismas investīcijas”
• Attraction of private investors |Aiva Vīksna, “Latvijas Privāto investor asociācija”

 17:05 THE EXPERIENCE OF INVESTORS in attaining alternative financing

• Andrejs Strods, Blue Bridge Technologies
• Gunārs Grundštoks/Valdis Pornieks, RentMama

17:35 Questions, summary

17:40 NETWORK ACTIONS AND COFFEE (an opportunity to meet with each presenter)

FREE PARTICIPATION

More information:
www.capitalia.lv, pa info [at] connectlatvia [dot] lv (e-mail), tel. 28800880 (Laura).