Gambling event and expos organizer Clarion Events has signed a two-year content and event partnership, which has a renewal option, with GamCrowd.

Under the deal, gambling crowd-funding site GamCrowd will reprise Pitch ICE at ICE 2016 and will host Start-Up LaunchPad competition at GiGse and EiG 2015.

GiGse 2015, which takes place at Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, from April 20-22, will be the first edition covered by the new partnership.

In Start-Up LaunchPad competition, similar to Pitch ICE, will see companies pitch their business propositions in front of investors and a room full of top-level executives and will be judge by a panel led by Chairman Ian Hogg.