29-30 November 2022, Budapest
Untold stories
conference
A founder-centric gathering of the CEE startup scene in the heart of Budapest
Untold stories
Untold Speakers
We invite top-caliber speakers, so our community can learn from the best. Founders, operators and investors join us from all around Europe and beyond to share their untold stories.
More speakers to be announced soon!
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Lars Jörnov
Partner at EQT Ventures, focusing on consumer startups in Europe
Led the casual gaming revolution and King from startup phase to global giant since 2009.
Lars Jörnov
Partner at EQT Ventures, focusing on consumer startups in Europe
A gamer at heart, Lars joined King in 2009 and spent his first year there playing more than 10,000 different flash games. As VP of Mobile, Lars led the team that went on to develop and launch the global, cross-platform phenomenon Candy Crush Saga - the most downloaded and top grossing mobile game in history.
With his track record, Lars has been at the forefront of the casual gaming revolution, opening up gaming to people that had never played (or even thought of playing) games before.
Hendrik Haandrikman
VP of Growth at Bitrise
Accelerating growth for Bitrise, and powering mobile unicorn startups.
Hendrik Haandrikman
VP of Growth at Bitrise
Hendrik is VP of Growth Marketing at Bitrise, accelerating growth for the mobile development platforming, powering close to 50% of mobile unicorn startups and over 20% of Fortune Global 500 companies. Bitrise helps clients build better mobile applications, sparing time and resources for clients. Besides having a top-notch CI/CD process, Bitrise is also known for being the first and yet only Hungarian startup to make it into Y Combinator and has raised a total of $83.5M in funding over 5 rounds.
He previously founded an e-commerce lifestyle business and has 10+ years of growth marketing experience.
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Zosia Wanat
Sifted journalist covering CEE
CEE tech and startup stories at Sifted. Previously published in Polish and international media.
Zosia Wanat
Sifted journalist covering CEE
Zosia Wanat is Sifted’s Central and Eastern Europe reporter. Before Sifted, Zosia was a POLITICO Europe’s policy reporter, covering agriculture and food safety.
Previously she worked for MLex in Brussels as a Brexit correspondent and for the Financial Times as a reporter in London, Paris and Warsaw.
She has also published in various Polish and international media, including Polityka Insight, Visegrad Insight and fDi Magazine, covering mainly developments in Central Eastern Europe.
Jared Schrieber
Unicorn Founder turned Angel Investor
Serial founder, Board Director and Investor, uncovering the secrets of brand growth.
Jared Schrieber
Unicorn Founder turned Angel Investor
In 2011 Jared founded InfoScout, a marketing intelligence company providing household purchase information by item across all retailers. They went through every type of investment round, including a 2017 merger with Market Track whereby the 2 companies rebranded themselves as Numerator. After integrating the two companies, Jared stepped down from the company’s CEO position, moved to Hungary as a “love-refugee” and started focusing more on his angel investment activity. Now he’s here to stay and to shake up the Hungarian startup world.
His continuously growing portfolio of 25 angel investments has him well on his way to becoming Hungary’s first super angel.
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Marvin Liao
Early stage investor, prev 500 Startups
Marvin invested in and worked with over 414 pre-seed and seed stage startups.
Marvin Liao
Early stage investor, prev 500 Startups
Marvin is an investor, executive coach and ex-Operator, who invested in and worked with over 414 pre-seed and seed stage startups.
He is currently Partner at Diaspora VC and Board Member/Partner at GameGroove Capital, and invests in Digital Media, Enterprise SAAS, Marketplace, Mobile, AdTech/MarketingTech, Digital Health, Internet of Things & Fintech startups.
Marvin is a former partner of 500 Startups, with over 19 years of experience in venture capital, technology businesses, and startups in Silicon Valley. Previously, he was an executive at Yahoo! for over a decade.
Jimmy Fong
Chief Commercial Officer at SEON
Advocate for democratising fraud prevention and passionate about tech, Jimmy will share with us his extensive knowledge about Product Led Growth and GTM strategies.
Jimmy Fong
Chief Commercial Officer at SEON
SEON has always been about delivering the best anti-fraud tools into everyone’s hands motivating individuals and businesses of all sizes to combat fraud with the same diligence and commitment as fraudsters display. Recently, SEON raised $94M for their Series B, putting them on the road to become better, faster and bringing in new key clients from the ecosystem and beyond.
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Ondrej Bartos
Partner at Credo Ventures
Serial entrepreneur since 1996, co-founder and GP of Credo Ventures since 2009.
Ondrej Bartos
Partner at Credo Ventures
An entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Ondrej experienced his first successful business endeavor before he graduated from college in 1996.
Several business enterprises later, he is now managing the early stage venture capital firm Credo Ventures, which he co-founded in January 2009. Based in Prague, Credo Ventures is a venture capital company focused on early-stage investments in Central and Eastern Europe. Since it was founded in 2009, the VC has invested in 45 startups, its most successful being the Romanian-founded unicorn UiPath that became the shiniest decacorn of the region.
Until December 2008 he served as the Senior Investment Director of MCI Management S.A., where he was responsible for managing investments in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, and former Yugoslavia.
Tamás Kádár
CEO and Co-Founder at SEON
On a mission to create a fraud-free world.
Tamás Kádár
CEO and Co-Founder at SEON
SEON was born out of a real necessity, developing fraud detection and prevention solutions to protect online businesses. Fast-forward a few years, and SEON is on track to becoming the Internet’s fraud prevention of choice, being spotted by investors who previously had taken interest in companies like Bolt or Spotify. Recently, SEON raised $94M for their Series B bringing them one step closer to the goal of democratizing fraud-fighting.
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István Csanády
Founder and CEO at Shapr3D
Taking CAD to the 21st century.
István Csanády
Founder and CEO at Shapr3D
Shapr3D, backed by top investors such as Point9 Capital and Creandum, is revolutionizing the CAD industry with not just their Apple Design Award-winning product, but their bottom-up distribution strategy as well.Max Gurvits
Partner at Vitosha Ventures Partners
Partner at Vitosha Ventures Partners & Chief Host at Summit Summit
Max Gurvits
Partner at Vitosha Ventures Partners
Max Gurvits is a US/European entrepreneur and investor. Graduated as a lawyer, Max founded an online legal services company in Amsterdam in 2008. In 2011, he sold the business and moved to Bulgaria, where he co-founded one of the biggest regional tech acceleration programs and seed funds (Eleven Startup Accelerator and EUR 12m seed fund), and later an angel investment syndicate, called Teres Angels. Active in Europe and the Middle East as startup advisor and investor, Max is particularly focused on Eastern Europe and the Balkans. In 2014, Max co-founded CCC Startups, a partnership focused on investments and ecosystem-building across Europe and the Middle East, producing Startup AddVenture events with leading speakers from Silicon Valley and launching a new regional investment fund in 2015. Also, Max runs TRACTION Camp, a series of three-day workshops with Silicon Valley operators, for top founders in the Balkans and Eastern Europe.
Max Gurvits is the chief host of Summit Summit- invite-only event for good people doing great things in the venture industry.
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Bálint Orosz
Founder & CEO at Craft Docs
Founder & CEO at Craft Docs
Bálint Orosz
Founder & CEO at Craft Docs
Bálint Orosz is the CEO and founder of Craft Docs, an interactive note-taking app supporting writers and researchers with a frictionless sharing and collaboration platform.
Since Craft’s launch in 2019, the startup has already secured an $8M Series A round investment led by Creandum and many ex-Skyscanner tech entrepreneurs.
Super Early Bird Tickets Are Out
We have great news for you! Tickets are out for this year’s Untold Stories Conference and it’s high time you mark
your calendars and meet us in Budapest on November 29-30.
Take advantage of our limited Super Early Bird discounts and save up to 40% on the ticket price this month! Prices will increase starting 1st September.
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Take advantage of our limited Super Early Bird discounts and save up to 40% on the ticket price this month! Prices will increase starting 1st September.
Why you should attend
Get in the same room as the region's most successful startup entrepreneurs
Startups
Connect & learn to accelerate your startup's growth
- Learn hands-on tactics from globally recognized startup leaders
- Scale your growth by expanding your network with investors and potential business partners
- Pitch your startup for a lightning round of focused feedback by the conference speakers
- Participate in group office hours to swap stories and get customized advice from our speakers and mentors.
Investors
Meet the region’s brightest and most ambitious teams:
- Meet the CEE region’s most promising startup founders
- Learn about top trends from the frontlines of venture capital
- Make connections with international investors to expand your network.
Business leaders
Recruit your future innovation partners:
- Meet teams creating B2B solutions that can successfully accelerate your organization
- Swap stories with fellow corporate innovation leaders to evolve your innovation program
- Discover new trends and solutions in tech and organizational culture
- Build relationships with successful VCs, founders, and executive leaders for future collaborations
Everyday innovators
Expand your horizon of possibilities:
- Meet and greet the biggest founders, VCs, and corporate executives on the scene
- Get a first-hand understanding of the success and trials behind venture building
- Learn mental and emotional techniques for cultivating resilience while building new things
- Explore new trends and solutions in tech and organizational culture
Never a dull moment
Learn, grow, and have fun at a conference with unforgettable events and sessions
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Keynotes
Focused presentations by well-known speakers from CEE, Western Europe and the US
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Panel and fireside chats
Unfiltered conversations between startup founders, operators and investors who have been-there-done-that
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Office hours
Your chance to book group office hours with our speakers and mentors
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Networking
Unbarred access to growth-minded startup founders
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Pitch slam
Make a name for yourself in the elite world of venture capital and angel investment
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Side events
After-parties, meetups, and countless serendipitous conversations
Final
countdown
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"Untold Stories Conference gives future founders the chance to hear the stories they won’t read anywhere else, with access to founders with a no filtered approach who are willing to give a hand up the ladder to the generations following them."
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"The Untold Stories Conference is packed with insights from Silicon Valley seasoned entrepreneurs on how to start a company in 2020."
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"A group of dreamers who had the opportunity to meet those who turned their dreams into reality."
A large amount of growth is happening here in Budapest, so this is a very exciting spot.
Zach coelius, managing partner at coelius capital
There’s a lot of talent here, and with the right access to capital I think startups can emerge to anyplace in the world.
Sriram Krishnan, Silicon Valley angel investor
You get inspired by meeting as many people as possible and learning from each other.
John Bonten, Angel Investor, prev. Growth at Spotify
Co-organizers
Untold Stories is a collaborative event by the region's biggest ecosystem builders. Each year we expand on the success
of the previous year. New formats, boundary-pushing topics, and seasoned startup entrepreneurs help new teams get closer
to the truth behind the ventures that have made it.
Calling all volunteers
Take part in organizing and hosting Untold Stories for a free ticket. For students and first-time entrepreneurs diving
into the deep end, this is an invaluable opportunity to ask questions and get ahead. Come hungry.
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