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Category: Founder & Investor Talk Series

i²c Founder & Investor Talk on March 7th: “Learnings from mySugr to make your life as a start-up founder suck less” by Fredrik Debong

Success not guaranteed, long hours, uncertain outcomes, probably a severe lack of personal time and vacation – welcome to the life as an entrepreneur. Fredrik Debong has been fortunate to…
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i²c Founder & Investor Talk on April 11th: “Everyone said it was impossible, but I did not know that and did it” by Andreas Kern

Prior to founding wikifolio.com in 2012, Andreas Kern gained his professional experience in the Financial and Payment Industries. As COO of paybox Austria GmbH he managed the positive turnaround with…
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i²c Founder & Investor Talk on April 25th: “Bootstrapping – The long road to success” by Peter Steinberger

Peter Steinberger will talk about his road from a freelancer to CEO of a successful, growing international company with a deliberate choice of not taking VC money. This talk is…
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i²c Founder & Investor Talk on May 2nd: “XARION: A laser acoustic sensor start-up. The role of intellectual property” by Balthasar Fischer

Since its founding in 2012, XARION has raised several million euros of risk capital and funding. A member of the Porsche family became a shareholder in 2014, the machine tools…
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i²c Founder & Investor Talk on June 6th: “Lessons learned while scaling a B2D start-up from Austria” by Christopher Müller

Scaling a company from Austria is not easy. Finding product market fit, attracting VC funding, entering different markets like the US, APAC, LATAM etc. needs some special tactics. In his…
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Selma Prodanovic

In this talk, you can expect an experienced-based story about the ups and downs of being an entrepreneur told by Startup-Grande-Dame Selma Prodanovic. Selma failed & succeeded in launching her…
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Michael Eisler

With seven company foundations and a mixture of success and failure, Michael is a “minefield of experience” in many areas. In his talk, he will share his learnings of the…
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Niko Alm

Founder of Super-Fi, General Counsel of VICE CEE, Nano Business Angel Niko Alm, born in Vienna 1975, holds a master’s degree in philosophy and communication science and is founder of…
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Felix Krause

Felix will talk about how it got started with mobile app development, how he started his first companies before starting “fastlane”, which got acquired by Twitter and later Google. Felix…
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Mario Herger

Silicon Valley is the most innovative region in the world, with many companies such as Facebook, Google, Apple, Uber, Airbnb or Tesla conquering markets and disrupting whole industries in our…
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