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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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.
Barnabas Birmacher
Co-founder and CEO of Bitrise
Providing mobile unicorns with its world class CD/CI service and DevOps platform.
Barnabas Birmacher
Co-founder and CEO of Bitrise
Barnabas is the Co-Founder & CEO of Bitrise, one of the most successful tech companies ever started from Hungary, serving more than half of the world's mobile unicorns with its world class CD/CI service and DevOps platform.
The company was founded by Barnabás, Dániel Balla and Viktor Benei back in 2014, after trying to solve their own problem with manual and time consuming mobile app deployment.
To this date, Bitrise has been the only company from Hungary that went through Y Combinator. They raised $60 million in Series C funding, led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors, including Partech, OpenOcean, Zobito, Fiedler Capital and Y Combinator.
In 2021, Bitrise transitioned towards a talent first remote approach so currently it has team members across continents. Before Bitrise, Barnabas was also a CEO of Bitfall, a software developer company focusing on mobile app development for the iOS, Android and Windows Phone platforms. -
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.
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.
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Daniel Balla
Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Bitrise
Daniel scaled Product Management, Design & UX along with Data since 2017
Daniel Balla
Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Bitrise
Daniel, Barnabas Birmacher and Viktor Benei founded Bitrise back in 2014, after trying to solve their own problem with manual and time-consuming mobile app deployment. Bitrise is now one of the most successful tech companies ever launched from Hungary, and the only Hungarian team to graduate from Y Combinator. Daniel started off as a designer and later transitioned into product and as CPO he scaled Bitrise's Product Management, Design & UX functions along with Data since 2017. This year, as Bitrise reached its next growth stage, he moved into focusing more on long-term strategy, partnerships, and M&A as Chief Strategy Officer.Lars Jörnow
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 Jörnow
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.
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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.
Zach Coelius
Founder-turned-angel & Syndicate leader
A four-time founder, a full-time angel investor and advisor to startups
Zach Coelius
Founder-turned-angel & Syndicate leader
Zach is a four-time founder, including founder and CEO of Triggit, which was acquired by LinkedIn.
Today, he's a full-time angel investor (Coelius Capital) and advisor to startups.
One of his first investments in Cruise Automation turned into the first billion-dollar exit on AngelList.
He’s invested and advised many startups including HelloSign, Bare Metrics, Booksy.
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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.
Adam Springer
Startup B2B Sales Strategy at Startup Sales
Talks about #b2b, #sales, #startups, and #leadership
Adam Springer
Startup B2B Sales Strategy at Startup Sales
Adam has been the first sales person for four B2B startups. He has worked with over 100 startups to build their sales processes and structure to grow from zero to one million in less than a year then scale to 10+ million in revenue. Adam is also VP of Sales for Trusstor, and Advisor for Kaholo, Copilot.cx and many others.
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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.
Bálint Orosz
Founder & CEO at Craft Docs
Product design expert & serial entrepreneur, creating intuitive software innovations.
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.
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Klára Losert
Co-founder & CEO at Talkbase
Klára co-founded Talkbase to empower teams to build world-changing communities.
Klára Losert
Co-founder & CEO at Talkbase
After leading Community, People Ops, and Customer Success teams in multiple US-based startups, Klára co-founded Talkbase with a single mission - to empower teams to build world-changing communities. Talkbase is a community operations platform specially designed to help automate the process of launching and scaling community programs.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. -
Dora Palfi
Co-founder and CEO at imagiLabs
Forbes 30U30. Bringing tech closer to girls and mindfulness closer to engineers.
Dora Palfi
Co-founder and CEO at imagiLabs
Dora is co-founder and CEO of imagiLabs, an edtech gaming company making products that empower girls with the skills, confidence, and community to create with technology.
Dora has a bachelor's degree in Neuroscience with a minor in Computer Science from New York University Abu Dhabi and has studied Human Computer Interaction at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm, as part of the European Union’s EIT Digital Master School, receiving merit based scholarships for both of these programs. She has worked as a developer at Morgan Stanley and as a UX Designer at Cisco, and has substantial experience teaching programming to children and teenagers as well as advocating for women in technology. Dora is Hungarian, and true to her fictional namesake Dora the Explorer, has lived, studied, and worked in 10 countries across four continents. In addition to her work to bring technology closer to girls, Dora is also a yoga instructor, bringing mindfulness closer to engineers.
Dora has been recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 2021 list as one of Europe’s leading social entrepreneurs and serves as a Cartier Women’s Initiative Fellow.
Enis Hulli
General Partner at 500
Enis aims to cultivate and grow the satrtupecosystems in Emerging Europe.
Enis Hulli
General Partner at 500
Enis Hulli is a General Partner at 500. Educated as an engineer he has a firm grasp of the technological aspect of the startup world and the ambition and knowledge to see the global potential in the regional startup scene. That is why, rather than venturing on the civil engineer path, he founded firstseed, a network of investors focusing on early stage investments. He aims to cultivate and grow the startup ecosystems in Emerging Europe, help talented entrepreneurs of the broader region and the diaspora in building explosive businesses that will integrate with Silicon Valley. His goal is to position 500 as the leading actor in the region in order to re-shape the future of innovation at Emerging Europe.
500 Istanbul is an early-stage fund within the 500 Global network, a leading global venture capital seed fund and startup accelerator with over 2,600 investments in more than 75 countries and venture partners in more than 25 countries. 500 Istanbul's mission is to back seed-stage technology companies targeting sizable markets and help them scale globally. Launched in August of 2016, 500 Istanbul has 50 portfolio companies that have collectively raised more than $1B from international investors.
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Dorka Horváth
CEO and Co-Founder of BOOKR Kids
Creator and innovator to educate
Dorka Horváth
CEO and Co-Founder of BOOKR Kids
Dorka is the CEO and Co-Founder of BOOKR Kids, the award-winner Kids reading App, which provides a combination of beloved children’s stories and interactive tools that support literacy development. Building on the success of BOOKR Kids, Dorka and her team launched BOOKR Class, which platform allows teachers to bring BOOKR to the classroom and introduce reading and literature in an inspiring and interactive way. Their apps now inspire more than 200 000 children to read and learn in countries like the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Greece, Spain, Turkey, Germany, Singapore.
Over the last few years the BOOKR Kids won numerous awards ranging from Toy of the Year to Central European Startup Awards.
Besides her true passion for publishing and education, she is also engaged in women's entrepreneurship by encouraging young girls and women to make a difference
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.
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Zoltan Vardy
Startup Mentor, Founder @ The Launch Code
Startup mentor who guides entrepreneurs on how to build a successful global business.
Zoltan Vardy
Startup Mentor, Founder @ The Launch Code
Zoltan Vardy is a startup mentor, trainer and speaker who guides entrepreneurs on how to build a successful global business by combining his 30 years of experience as a senior corporate executive (SVP/Global Ad Sales @NBCUniversal, CEO @ TV2 Group), entrepreneur, investor, and advisor.
As a startup mentor, Zoltan helps B2B startup founders generate predictable, recurring revenues globally by applying his three-pillar business development system called The Launch Code. As a trainer and speaker, he shares the principles, tools, and techniques he’s used to close $2 billion in B2B sales over his career and educates and inspires audiences with stories about entrepreneurship, leadership, and international business development. Zoltan’s purpose is to integrate corporate and entrepreneurial thinking to help entrepreneurs experience the personal satisfaction and rewards of building a successful global business.
Zsolt Weiszbart
Partner at Day One Capital
PArtenr at Day One Capital, active angel investor. His investment includes: Shapr3D, Craft, Recart, Colossyan, Nowtechnologies, Webshippy
Zsolt Weiszbart
Partner at Day One Capital
Zsolt joined Day One Capital as a Partner in 2020, following his involvement as Venture Partner the year before. He has been an active angel investor in the Budapest tech scene since 2011, when he finished his studies at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His investment includes: Shapr3D, Craft, Recart, Colossyan, Nowtechnologies, Webshippy -
Bogdan Iordache
General Partner of Underline Ventures
Solo General Partner of Underline Ventures, also founder of How to Web Conference, one of Europe’s leading startup and innovation events.
Bogdan Iordache
General Partner of Underline Ventures
Bogdan is the solo General Partner of Underline Ventures, a venture capital firm which partners at the earliest stages with Eastern European founders building high-growth startups with global ambitions.
Also founder of the How to Web Conference, one of Europe’s leading startup and innovation events, Bogdan is advising early stage startups on raising capital, building useful products, or crafting great pitch decks.
Previously Partner with Gecad Ventures, entrepreneur (founded and exited Conectoo, an enterprise email marketing service), he was involved with MVP Academy, MVP Angels, TechHub Bucharest, and 3TS Capital Partners.
Grab your Super Early Bird Tickets while you can!
Untold Stories Conference 2022:Super Early Bird Tickets are available
After two years of meeting digitally, we’re more excited than ever to host Untold Stories Conference again! Our mission, as always, is bringing together ambitious, CEE-based startups with globally successful founders, investors and operators, right here, in downtown Budapest.
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
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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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