In 2019, Germany finally saw the birth of its first fintech unicorn. Only six years after its launch, N26 is now the leading mobile bank in almost every European market and aiming to enter the US later this year. In …
Parkbob organizes the world’s parking-related data and transforms it into actionable information to enable better mobility decisions. They are a VC-funded, quickly growing startup founded in 2015 with an international team that thinks and acts globally. CEO Christian Adelsberger gained a lot …
If you watch the various pitching shows on TV, you could get the feeling that an investment in a start-up is fixed after 5 minutes. Or even not. Investors don’t need any longer to make their decision. Start-ups don’t anyway. …
Runtastic is one of the world’s number one health and fitness apps and managed to put Austria on the big-money tech acquisitions map after they were acquired by sportswear brand Adidas Group for €220 Mio. In his talk Alfred will …
“Ideas don’t make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.” is a famous quote by billionaire Felix Dennis. Most young entrepreneurs are driven by the great passion for their ideas, some love the vibrant spirit of a startup-culture and …
Dejan Stojanovic will talk about his journey of leaving a promising career in a corporate and law firm and creating his own entrepreneurial world. He will share the fuckups and learnings he took away from founding his first start-up crowd-o-moto. …
Starting and scaling companies is probably one of the most difficult experiences you will ever have in your life. Nicholas Trieb, a TU Wien Alumni, has first-hand experience of failure (losing a startup before even starting), successfully exiting the startup …
Lithoz is system provider for additive manufacturing of high-performance ceramics and is a spin-off of the TU Wien. Johannes Benedikt and Johannes Homa have developed the technology during their PhD time at the TU Wien and founded Lithoz in 2011. …
Barbara Ondrisek will talk about her road from a freelancer to CEO of a successful company. This talk is about upsides/downsides and many lessons learned, the transition from being an engineer to a manager, about teaming up with other people, …
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 talk, Christopher Müller will describe how the Bitmovin team found …
