See you in 2023
Untold stories
conference
A founder-centric gathering of the CEE startup scene in the heart of Budapest
Untold stories
800+
Attendees
200+
Startups
50+
Investors
50+
speakers
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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Zoltán Györkő
Co-Founder and Member of the Supervisory Board at Startup Hungary
entrepreneur turned angel, Co-Founder and Member of the Supervisory Board at Startup Hungary.
Zoltán Györkő
Co-Founder and Member of the Supervisory Board at Startup Hungary
Zoltán Györkő and his colleagues founded Balabit in 2000, right after graduating. The company has gone international as a large enterprise cyber security software manufacturer. It had customers in fifty countries, served with the help of 100 reseller partners, and had offices in 8 countries. Balabit received $8 million in growth capital in 2014, and was acquired by One Identity in 2018. Zoltán won the E&Y Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2014 and the Tibor Gyúros Award. Currently an angel, Co-Founder and Member of the Supervisory Board at Startup Hungary.
Zsolt Weiszbart
Partner at Day One Capital
Partner 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 -
Petra Kaiser
Consultant, Ex Klarna
Petra Kaiser
Consultant, Ex Klarna
Petra has extensive sales and venture acceleration experience gained in the tech startup/scaleup industry in the past 12 years. She was leading the global GTM tooling & sales operations at fintech unicorn, Klarna during its peak valuation period of $45bn in Sweden. She is currently fully focusing on her consultancy, helping companies grow in a smart, sustainable, and predictable way.
She started to work as a sales advisor for companies with investors from i.e. BlaBlaCar and Banco Sabadell in Spain after she bootstrapped tech startups on a European & global scale as European VP of Sales in Hungary, up till one successful exit.
She has a background in STEM and studied Engineering and Management at BME, which provided her with a great base for her current "sales as a science" approach in her business. She's a multicultural commercial lead - having lived in 4 countries, and counting - passionate about art, science, social enterprises, and mentoring younger peers.
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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Gyula Fehér
General Partner at Oktogon Ventures
Early stage investor in CEE-based startups and entrepreneur
Gyula Fehér
General Partner at Oktogon Ventures
Gyula is the Managing Partner at Oktogon Ventures, an early-stage investor focusing on CEE-based startups with global ambition. Before turning to the other side of the table, Gyula was the Co-Founder of Ustream, which was acquired by IBM in 2016László Kishonti
Founder and Chief Executive Officer at aiMotive
László Kishonti
Founder and Chief Executive Officer at aiMotive
Laszlo is a serial entrepreneur. Founder and Chief Executive Officer at AImotive, evolved from his first venture, Kishonti Ltd., which quickly became a leading high-performance graphics and computing solutions company. The firm then turned its focus to automotive as artificial intelligence, and autonomous driving started to gain global momentum. AImotive has been recently acquired by Stellantis in 2022 Nov.
Stellantis, a top 5 global automotive player and the maker of Fiat, Opel, Chrysler, Peugeot, Maserati among others will keep and develop Aimotive as a separate entity within their group. -
Sheel Mohnot
GP at Better Tomorrow Ventures and Seed Stage Fintech Investor
Sheel Mohnot
GP at Better Tomorrow Ventures and Seed Stage Fintech Investor
Sheel is a Seed-stage Fintech investor and Co-founder and GP at Better Tomorrow Ventures, a seed-focused venture capital firm investing in exceptional founders building transformative fintech companies around the world. Sheel has been exclusively investing in fintech companies in the past 6 years and has 2 exits in the FinTech space, FeeFighters and Innovative Auctions.
Sheel is also the co-founder of Thistle, a food company serving tens of thousands of customers every week. And he co-founded the podcast “The Pitch” which was acquired by Gimlet Media/Spotify, reaching around 100k listeners weekly.
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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Balazs Vinnai
Serial Entrepreneur, Startup Hungary Co-Founder, ICT Association President
Balazs Vinnai
Serial Entrepreneur, Startup Hungary Co-Founder, ICT Association President
Balazs is a serial entrepreneur, local fintech legend turned angel investor. He was the cofounder of IND which was acquired by IND.
He invested in many startups including Codecool, Finshape and he is also a president of ICT Association and a co-founder in Startup Hungary.
He is one of the key successful entrepreneurs who give back.
Jose Roca
VP of Product and Engineering at Prezi
Jose Roca
VP of Product and Engineering at Prezi
Jose is the VP of Product and Engineering at Prezi, the online virtual presentation tool that brings hybrid teams closer together like never before.
As a product and engineering leader he has built and led multiple platform and experience teams. He has experience working with public and private sector companies, from startups to fortune 500. He also contributes to communities by organizing, talking and even MCing in conferences and meetups.
At Prezi he is responsible for building and scaling the data, security, growth, editing API and reliability platform that serve millions of users.
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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.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.
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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.
Mike Reiner
General Partner Acrobator Ventures
Early stage investor in B2B data intensive startups
Mike Reiner
General Partner Acrobator Ventures
Mike is an early stage investor in B2B data intensive startups and invested in around 40 companies. Previously he co-founded several ventures and built a global AI community. With Amsterdam based Acrobator Ventures he is investing pre-seed to seed stage and he is primarily interested in machine learning or Saas type of companies.
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Péter Halácsy
CEO at Budapest School & co-founder at Prezi
Péter Halácsy
CEO at Budapest School & co-founder at Prezi
Peter is an engineering manager, entrepreneur, software engineer, scientist and teacher. Today he fills several positions: Founder and CEO of Budapest School, a network of community-funded microschools. Co-Founder and ex-CTO at Prezi, where he built the engineering team from 0 to 70 - before that he was Head of Product and helped the company develop and polish its product that is loved by millions today. Last but not least, Founding Father and Board Member at Startup Hungary.
Karol Szubstarski
Partner at OTB Ventures
Investing in deep tech Series A/B from Europe, especially CEE
Karol Szubstarski
Partner at OTB Ventures
Karol is currently a Partner at OTB Ventures, deep tech Series A/B VC fund focused on opportunities in Europe (especially CEE). He has joined OTB after 5 years spent in Intel Capital, the corporate VC arm of Intel. Prior to this role he was involved in the Insight & Market Research team in Intel and has taken part in the Talent Development Program in L’Oreal. Karol holds a double major from Warsaw School of Economics & Poznan University of Economics.
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Karol Lasota
Principal at Inovo Venture Partners
Principal at Inovo Venture Partners. Ex-startup founder and operator.
Karol Lasota
Principal at Inovo Venture Partners
Principal at Inovo Venture Partners. Ex-startup founder and operator. Before joining Inovo, he was the VP of Venture Building at Daftcode, responsible for launching new data science and deep tech startups as Interim CEO/COO. Before that, he co-founded a B2B marketplace startup, raised a seed round, and scaled it to over 15 people and over 200 enterprise customers. He has a tech M&A and VC background, he participated in over ten investments and M&A deals totalling over $100M.Peter Szekeres
CEO, co-founder at Neticle
Peter Szekeres
CEO, co-founder at Neticle
Peter graduated as a Business Information Technologist from Corvinus University of Budapest (BCE). In 2012, he founded the text and media analysis company Neticle. During his studies, he realized that providing solutions to businesses with a lot of textual data was something that he could be good at. That’s how Neticle came to be. Neticle is now one of the fastest-growing B2B SaaS scale-ups in Hungary, providing text analytics solutions in 19 countries, mostly in the CEE and DACH region. Their clientele ranges from SMEs to large enterprises, as the company boosts business decisions with two major products. Neticle Media Intelligence is a smart social listening tool that collects and analyses an enormous amount of publicly available online content – including the text’s underlying sentiments – in real-time. Another flagship product is Zurvey.io, a professional survey maker and feedback analyzer geared for a better customer and employee experience.
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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.
Kate McGinn
Analyst at Seedcamp
Kate works across both the investment and operations team to support Seedcamp's portfolio companies
Kate McGinn
Analyst at Seedcamp
Kate is part of the investment team at Seedcamp, Europe's seed fund. Now on its fifth fund, Seedcamp has invested in over 450 companies including publicly listed Romanian-founded, UiPath, Wise (formerly TransferWise) and unicorns Revolut, wefox, Pleo, Sorare, Hopin, Grover and viz.ai. Kate graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in finance before doing a brief stint in Journalism and eventually finding her way to startups. Kate is half-Hungarian and few things bring her more joy than podcasts and a mountain to hike. -
Robert Zawiasa
Founder at ZGEN
Robert Zawiasa
Founder at ZGEN
Robert started ZGEN to create a forward-thinking work environment for gen Z. Their first project with significant traction is Guild.xyz
He is an angel investor and early supporter of the DeFi, NFT and DAO ecosystems on Ethereum.
Andrea Skaliczki
CFO, Tresorit
Andrea Skaliczki
CFO, Tresorit
Andrea is a passionate and results-driven finance leader with over 15 years of experience in building up and leading successful finance teams. Currently she is the CFO at Tresorit, a Swiss-Hungarian SaaS company that provides an end-to-end encrypted productivity solution for ultra-secure collaboration. She accompanied the company through fundraisings, became a shareholder and played a key part in the acquisition in 2021.
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Tom McGinn
Legal Counsel at Northzone
Tom McGinn
Legal Counsel at Northzone
Sam Eisenberg
Co-founder of Design for Decks
Sam Eisenberg
Co-founder of Design for Decks
Sam Eisenberg is co-founder of Design for Decks, a boutique pitch-deck firm that has helped founders and investors build pitch decks raising upwards of $1B dollars. Sam is active in the start-up scene as a consultant, mentor, and founder.
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Tereza Machackova
Head of Talent at Deepnote
Talks about #hiring, #people, #community, #datascience, and #interviewing
Tereza Machackova
Head of Talent at Deepnote
Tereza Machackova has experience advising founders being a talent partner in a VC fund or an operating Head of Talent at high growth startups such as Deepnote, Productboard or Around. Her specialty is to make heads or tails of hiring plans, organizational design, building HR & talent functions, compensation, culture and creating a foundation to support all the founders in scaling their startups. In her spare time she's helping to build educational communities such as Hiring On Ramp or Reactgirls.Tamas Abraham
Co-founder of DevQuarterly
Tamas Abraham
Co-founder of DevQuarterly
Tamas is the co-founder of DevQuarterly, an early-stage tech careers research platform, which provides transparency, data and insights for career-savvy developers.
DevQuarterly has been tracking tech job posts and analyzing hiring companies for the last two years and the global platform launches in early 2023.
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Steve MacDonald
Founder of MacDonald Ventures
Thrill-Seeker, Disrupter, Angel
Steve MacDonald
Founder of MacDonald Ventures
MacDonald is a titan angel investor and serial entrepreneur who is committed to nurturing, mentoring, and investing the next generation of world-changing tech startups. With more than $400 million in exits in companies he founded, his rise to success began with the founding of TechHealth in 1999 and myMatrixx, his pharmacy benefits firm, in 2001. Together with his wife, Lindsay MacDonald, Steve formed MacDonald Ventures following the 2017 sale of myMatrixx. MacDonald Ventures focuses primarily on the most promising early-stage tech startups who are disrupting industries plagued by paper-and-human-based legacy problems with innovative solutions. An active angel, Steve has invested in more than 130 startups, among them seven tech unicorns.
Steve’s depth of experience in early-stage tech, healthcare tech, and pharmaceuticals make him uniquely suited to providing a critical source of funding and mentorship to a range of startup sectors including cannabusiness, DeFi, fintech, crypto, and more. He actively serves on the board of many of his investments, including Softwear Automation, HealthSnap, Ideal Agent and Chattr.
A Tampa Bay native and current resident, Steve is heavily invested in the local startup ecosystem and his portfolio, having been named the 2020 Tampa Bay Tech ‘Community Dedication and Leadership Award’ Winner and serving as an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Tampa Bay Wave, Florida’s #1 accelerator. Steve is also an important board member of Florida Funders, the state’s most active angel network, and part of the Founders Circle for Tampa’s Embarc Collective, Florida’s fastest-growing startup hub. In 2022, he was a founding sponsor and advisor to Tampa Bay Wave’s highly-specialized 90-day FinTech|X Accelerator. In 2019, he was named Catalyst’s TiETAN Super Entrepreneur, which recognized his decades of work as one of Florida’s tech pioneers. He is frequently asked to speak on investing, entrepreneurship, and successful startups and is featured in Bloomberg, FinTech Magazine, SUCCESS, The Business Journal, and many more.
Janos Matyasfalvi
CFO at SEON
As CFO at SEON, Janos is a big believer Finance being an enabler of growth.
Janos Matyasfalvi
CFO at SEON
Janos has been helping founders scale their businesses through organisational development and data driven decision making. He is a big believer Finance being an enabler of growth.
He is currently the CFO at SEON the go-to fraud prevention solution for any online business. By offering rapid integration and pay-as-you-go flexibility, SEON is able to offer a simplified, modern way to fight fraud.
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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.Peter Balogh
Territory Manager of Google Cloud Platform
Peter Balogh
Territory Manager of Google Cloud Platform
Peter is a Territory Manager of Google Cloud Platform in Hungary. His goal is to help Startups to move forward with Cloud Technologies and encourage Startups to use the Google Cloud funding program.
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Martin Rehak
CEO & Founder of Resistant AI
Martin Rehak
CEO & Founder of Resistant AI
Martin is the CEO & Founder of Resistant AI, which applies machine learning to stop serial onboarding fraud, automated aplication fraud, claims fraud, money laundering and a broad range of other financial crimes. A serial entrepreneur, Martin was previously CEO & Founder of Cognitive Security, which was acquired by Cisco in 2013 and became the basis of Cisco’s Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) team which provided advanced threat detection by analysis of network traffic for more than 25 million users worldwide. A passionate educator, Martin has been lecturing on cybersecurity at the Czech Technical University in Prague for the past 18 years. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris and a Ph.D. in AI from CTU in Prague.Shiri Granot
Global Head of Accelerator, Citi Global Innovation Labs
Shiri Granot
Global Head of Accelerator, Citi Global Innovation Labs
Shiri Granot from Citi’s Tel-Aviv innovation lab team. Passionate about innovation, financial industry, fintech, investments, startups, strategy and everything in between. Over 14 years of managerial positions in Capital markets, Venture Capital, Innovation Banking, Credit Insurance, Fintech and Digital Payments.
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Petar Tsachev
VC Investor at LAUNCHub Ventures
Petar Tsachev
VC Investor at LAUNCHub Ventures
Petar is an Investor at LAUNCHub Ventures- a leading early-stage venture capital fund, investing in tech startups in the Seed and Series A funding stages.
Prior to joining LAUNCHub Ventures, Petar was a part of the EMEA Go-to-market team of BitTitan - a scale-up company and a market leader in the field of productivity cloud migration space. He was responsible for all aspects of commercial sales, account management, and business development across France, Scandinavia, and South Africa. Before BitTitan, Petar was responsible for the new business development of Metrilo - a LAUNCHub Venture portfolio company providing engagement and analytics tools in the eCommerce space.
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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Daniel Vallas
VP of Finance at Shapr3d
Daniel Vallas
VP of Finance at Shapr3d
Senior leader with 12+ years of experience within the finance arena including startup, big4 and large corporation experience.
Petra Mo
VC Investor @3VC
Petra Mo
VC Investor @3VC
Petra Mo is – in her own words – a queen of pivots - an architect gone techie, gone VC investor. Currently, she is part of the 3VC investment team working closely with companies such as Tatum and RapidCompact by DGG. She used to be a freelancer working with various startups based in Europe, China, and Silicon Valley and later took on multiple product-oriented roles in cybersecurity European unicorn Avast. As a product enthusiast, Petra loves to challenge product roadmaps and gets easily excited about delightful UX and product demos.
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Ábel Galácz
CEO of Lead Ventures
Ábel Galácz
CEO of Lead Ventures
Founder and CEO of Lead Ventures. He started his career in 2000 in corporate M&A at MOL, in 2006-2007 he worked in Investment Banking of Morgan Stanley International.
Between 2008 and 2011 he was the Vice President of Corporate Business Development at MOL being responsible for all acquisitions and divestments of the Group.
Between 2011 and 2017 he was Commercial Senior Vice President of MOL running the global commercial operations, later the Downstream business in Hungary. He has been in the boards of INA d.d. (Croatia), Slovnaft a.s. (Slovakia), IES s.p.a. (Italy), MSZKSZ (Hungary).
He graduated from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and earned his MBA at the University of California at Berkeley.
Lars Jörnow
Partner at EQT Ventures
Led the casual gaming revolution and King from startup phase to global giant since 2009.
Lars Jörnow
Partner at EQT Ventures
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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Csaba Kakosy
Managing Partner, CEO at Day1
Csaba Kakosy
Managing Partner, CEO at Day1
Csaba brings over 12 years regulatory and financial experience, a strategic mindset and an extensive international network to our Fund. Csaba was a regulatory expert in the Hungarian banking sector representing the Hungarian central bank at the Permanent Mission of Hungary to the OECD in Paris for 5 years. In 2004 Csaba moved to become chief of staff at the Ministry of Economy and Transport where he played a key role in its operations and rationalization. In 2007 he became Minister of Economy and Transport in Hungary where he served until the break-up of the coalition in 2008. Since then, Csaba has been a Founding Partner at Reservoir Strategies, a strategy consulting firm with a strong focus on the energy, transport and telecommunications industries.
Stewart Oldroyd
Head of Sales at UiPath
Stewart Oldroyd
Head of Sales at UiPath
Stewart is the head of sales as UiPath, having extensive experienced in sales and general management, as well as international experience, while being very passionate about the CEE region. He is currently working with UiPath to deliver successful automation projects.
UiPath is leading the “Automation First” era – championing a robot for every person, delivering open and free collaboration and enabling robots to learn new skills through Artificial Intelligence. Led by a commitment to bring digital era skills to more than a million people, the company’s enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) platform has already automated millions of repetitive, mind-numbing tasks for business and government organizations all over the world, improving productivity, customer experience and employee job satisfaction. -
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.
Michal Koor
Co-Founder and CEO of Vectary
Building the most accessible 3D and Augmented Reality design platform
Michal Koor
Co-Founder and CEO of Vectary
Michal Koor is the co-founder and CEO of Vectary, a leading platform for creating and sharing interactive 3D and AR experiences. Vectary is a no-code design platform that is entirely web-based, making it accessible from any device, including Chromebooks and SmartGlasses. Built entirely from the ground up over the course of eight years, Vectary has collected millions of users, with the free and pro plans being used by thousands of schools and businesses. Michal is an industrial designer with over 14 years of experience bringing designs and concepts to life. He designed over 50 products, that are manufactured and sold in millions each year. Michal has also co-founded several companies, including FORMLAB, one of the first design and prototyping studios in CEE.
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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
Enis Hulli
General Partner at 500
Enis aims to cultivate and grow the startup ecosystems 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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Guillaume Fournier
General Partner at Credo Ventures
Guillaume Fournier
General Partner at Credo Ventures
Guillaume is a General Partner at Credo Ventures. He started his career with Goldman Sachs in Boston facilitating securities lending transactions. After a move to London, he spent three years as a management consultant working for various Fortune 500 companies, mainly on healthcare and FMCG projects. In 2014, he made the jump to Venture Capital, initially at Athene Capital, then joining Credo in 2016 after a move to Prague. After a good amount of travelling across CEE and leading or co-leading 9 investments, he jumped to the other side of the table. He joined his own portfolio company, Pricefx to help navigate its first acquisition, Series C fundraise and budgeting exercise through COVID. He wrapped his operational experience with a product strategy role to help inform the product roadmap of the company's complex enterprise SaaS pricing optimization solution. In the second half of 2021, he rejoined Credo as a partner ahead of the fourth fundraise to resume his investment role.
Aurél Pásztor
Partner at PortfoLion
Early-stage investor focused on sustainable businesses.
Aurél Pásztor
Partner at PortfoLion
Aurel handles early-stage investments at PortfoLion and his specialties include EduTech, AgriTech, Future of Work, and Robotics. He is now focused on Sustaniable businesses and in the past two years alone, he has closed transactions with Novakid, OneSoil, Mindgram and Deligo Vision.
He first transitioned into the venture capital world in 2011, as an Investment Director and later became Partner at Day one Capital. He will tell you all about his journey in Budapest!
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Xenia Muntean
CEO and Co-Founder of Planable
Xenia Muntean
CEO and Co-Founder of Planable
Xenia is the CEO and Co-Founder of Planable, a content review and marketing collaboration platform used by over 5,000 teams behind brands such as Hyundai, Christian Louboutin, Viber, and United Nations. Prior to launching Planable, at 20 y.o. she built a digital marketing agency and led social for clients such as Coca-Cola. Xenia has been recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and she spoke on the Innovation Stage at Cannes Lions in 2018. Xenia graduated Tim Draper's startup academy in Silicon Valley and took Planable through the Techstars London accelerator in 2017. She has also published a book – The Manifesto on Content Marketing Teams, and has launched her own podcast – People of Marketing.
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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Angelo Burgarello
Partner at AI Startup Incubator
Talks about #ai, #startups, #fundraising, #investments, and #venturecapital
Angelo Burgarello
Partner at AI Startup Incubator
Angelo is one of the partners at AI Startup Incubator (AISI, Prague) and AISI's newly built Ventures Fund SICAV, called LOOK AI VENTURES. He is also a partner in PragueMorning, the most popular online news site for foreigners living in the Czech Republic, and a private investor in a number of European startups. Angelo recently joined The Recursive as part of a deal with PragueMorning to make The Recursive the largest English-language media outlet in Central and Eastern Europe that focuses on startups, innovation, and investment.
He has been a manager in a number of different roles, like business development, project management, and planning for the implementation of IT solutions. With an engineering educational background and further specialization in early stage ventures, Angelo's job at AISI and LOOK AI Ventures is to find promising startups during AISI's evaluation process and to negotiate investment contracts.
Michał Mroczkowski
Principal @ Market One Capital
Michał Mroczkowski
Principal @ Market One Capital
Michał graduated from Ross School of Business at University of Michigan, Warsaw School of Economics and Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. During his student years he co-founded and developed the i-sgh platform, a calendar for students with schedule of their courses and other events. Additionally, tried and failed in developing P2P carsharing marketplace. After graduation, associated with Microsoft Corporation and Protos VC where he started his journey in VC. Michal is a Business Associate at Market One Capital where he is responsible for startups sourcing and evaluation, market analysis and product/marketing support for portfolio companies . Michal specializes in the fields of marketplace mechanics, developing business models, strategies and tactics. Currently interested in decentralized networks, network effects, sharing economy, proptech and edtech categories. Privately, enthusiast of architecture, art, football, Real Madrid, tennis and backpack travelling. -
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.
Marvin Liao
Partner at Diaspora, ex 500 startups
Marvin invested in and worked with over 414 pre-seed and seed stage startups.
Marvin Liao
Partner at Diaspora, ex 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.
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Balázs Haszonics
Partner at Lead Ventures Zrt.
Lead Ventures is a Budapest-based VC fund focusing on scaleups in the CEE region.
Balázs Haszonics
Partner at Lead Ventures Zrt.
Balazs started his career in the finance sector, working at ING Bank, MSCI Barra and PwC M&A.
After joining MOL Group in 2011, he held various advisory and managerial roles in Strategy and Finance areas, including being the CFO of trading and retail operations, before joining Lead Ventures, as Chief Financial Officer.
Lead Ventures is a Budapest-based VC fund focusing on scaleups in the CEE region.
Ágnes Gólya
Journalist at Forbes Hungary
Ágnes Gólya
Journalist at Forbes Hungary
Ági is a journalist at Forbes Hungary. She covers stories about the champions of the Hungarian startup ecosystem. She always comes across some truly remarkable people and ideas. Besides keeping a close eye on investments, acquisitions and other developments, she is also the editor of the 30 under 30 and The Most Influential Hungarian Women lists at Forbes Hungary. -
Szabolcs Nagy
Co-founder and CEO Turbine
Szabolcs Nagy
Co-founder and CEO Turbine
Szabplcs used to consult for The Medical Futurist and is the former Head of Marketing for Tresorit, a leading, global, secure cloud technology startup. With his understanding of molecular biology, oncology and AI, he translates simulated biology into real world impact by pinpointing the most challenging aspects of the current drug development workflow. Today, he is responsible for building a team dedicated both to sound science and delivering results, and for turning Turbine's disruptive technology into a ground-breaking business.
Jiří Nečas
Employer Branding Manager at Productboard
Talks about #hiring, #branding, #marketing, #employerbranding, and #talentacquisition
Jiří Nečas
Employer Branding Manager at Productboard
Jirka helps companies grow faster by building powerful employer brands, meaningful communities, and driving PR and communications. He helped scale Kiwi.com from 1,000 employees to 2,500 in three years and Productboard from 100 to 500+ in two years and become a unicorn.
Educational projects are close to his heart. He is the co-founder of Hiring On Ramp, an educational platform where he helps startup founders and HR professionals enter the modern hiring ecosystem, and build a solid and stable foundation for scaling their startups.
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Zosia Wanat
Journalist at Sifted
CEE tech and startup stories at Sifted. Previously published in Polish and international media.
Zosia Wanat
Journalist at Sifted
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.
Karolina Mrozkova
General Partner at Credo Ventures
Karolina Mrozkova
General Partner at Credo Ventures
Karolina is a General Partner at Credo Ventures. She was born and raised in Prague before moving to New York in her early 20s. She began her professional life at 18, building a successful career as a fashion model. While modeling, Karolina graduated cum laude from NYU Stern School of Business with a dual degree in Finance and Marketing. In 2018, she joined White Star Capital where she spent five years investing in North America with focus on consumer internet and marketplace businesses across different verticals.
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Borys Musielak
Founding Partner at SMOK Ventures
Borys Musielak
Founding Partner at SMOK Ventures
Borys is a founding partner at SMOK Ventures, a VC fund bridging Silicon Valley to Poland and CEE. Previously he co-founded Filmaster, a personalization service acquired in 2015 by Samba TV.
He also co-founded ReaktorX, a startup acceleration program for first-time founders from CEE, and Startup Poland, a foundation that became a voice of Polish startups.
Diana Koziarska
Founding partner at SMOK Ventures
Founding partner at SMOK Ventures. Co-founder of accelerator ReaktorX. Forbes 30 under 30. Ambassador of Startup Poland.
Diana Koziarska
Founding partner at SMOK Ventures
Founding partner at SMOK Ventures. Co-founder of accelerator ReaktorX. Forbes 30 under 30. Ambassador of Startup Poland.
SMOK Ventures is a US/Polish venture capital fund. We invest between 50k USD and 1M USD in early stage startups in Poland. Our primary focus is software and gaming. We love to work with serial entrepreneurs with a global vision who aim to build global leaders in their industries.
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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.Sergei Zunajev
Business development coordinator for the Estonian e-Residency
Sergei Zunajev
Business development coordinator for the Estonian e-Residency
Sergei works at the Estonian Business and Innovation Agency and is responsible for the expansion of the Estonian e-Residency programme to Italy, Poland, Ukraine, Slovenia, Croatia and Bulgaria. He helps to grow the network of e-Residency’s service providers while raising awareness about the Estonian business environment. -
Miklós Máder
Strategy and Innovation Management Consultant at Frontira Strategy Design Agency
Miklós Máder
Strategy and Innovation Management Consultant at Frontira Strategy Design Agency
Miklós Máder, PhD strategy and innovation management consultant at Frontira Strategy Design Agency. Decades of experience of innovation management in large enterprises.
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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Ratko Mutavdzic
Digital Natives Lead at Microsoft
Ratko Mutavdzic
Digital Natives Lead at Microsoft
Ratko Mutavdzic is Digital Natives, Late Stage Startups and Unicorns lead for Central Eastern Europe, with Microsoft. He was working on several position in Microsoft starting in a consulting practice, driving startup developments and then leading several different sales and technology teams. He also spent some time running his own ventures and startups, from just-in-time learning to artificial intelligence use for event management. Founder and cofounder of Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Intrapreneurship communities in the region. He frequently speaks on conferences, meetings, workshops, coffee shops and generally at every place where people like to explore, challenge, investigate, think and innovate.
Myladie Stoumbou
Senior Regional Director CEE at Microsoft
Senior Regional Director CEE - Partner Development for ISVs, Innovation & ScaleUps
Myladie Stoumbou
Senior Regional Director CEE at Microsoft
Myladie Stoumbou is an experienced digital executive, leader and strategist. She specializes in building and transforming global and diverse high performance teams, as well as in assisting businesses to leverage opportunities from 4th industrial revolution and current exponential technologies. She has worn many hats in her professional career – started as systems engineer and a programmer, developing into a digital technology and innovation evangelist and later into a regional executive. She has been working in multinational environments for many years and has a unique ability to manage multi-disciplinary projects, to navigate non-standard challenges and to solve complex problems. She is currently working as a regional director for Microsoft, and she goes beyond that. She supports digital entrepreneurship as a mentor for MIT Enterprise Forum in Greece, The People's Trust and Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub. She is a women leadership advocate. Chair of Women in Business committee for Hellenic American Chamber of Commerce, and a mentor for Women Leadership Programme in European Innovation Council. She is an international keynote speaker addressing topics like leadership, future of work, diversity and inclusion, artificial intelligence and digital entrepreneurship. She has 2 TEDx talks and she is the author of many articles in LinkedΙn as well as many prestigious sites, incl. Huffpost.
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Irina Obushtarova
Co-founder & CEO at The Recursive
An aspiring leader responsible for the long-term vision of The Recursive.
Irina Obushtarova
Co-founder & CEO at The Recursive
Irina began her professional career in media at popular Viennese transcultural magazine Biber. Later on, she joined the sales team of Kobza Media, formerly one of the largest groups of media & communication agencies in Austria.
In 2016, Irina makes her first attempt as an entrepreneur and co-founds WelcomeBuddy, a platform serving the needs of expats when relocating to Austria. In the course of her work, she observes more closely the migration trends in Europe resulting in massive brain drain in Bulgaria and Romania and decides to switch directions. In the same period, Irina develops her passion for the startup world and new disruptive business models.
Irina gained experience in digital marketing and sales working for various tech product companies in DACH. In 2018, Irina decides to move back to Bulgaria and the media sector, founding the first international outlet of Trending Topics in Sofia. Later on, she launches her own media project The Recursive. As an aspiring leader, Irina is currently responsible for the long-term vision of The Recursive as a sustainably growing media for the innovation ecosystems and emerging new economy in Southeast Europe.Peter Szlavik
Founder and CEO of EDUardo Business Simulation
Peter Szlavik
Founder and CEO of EDUardo Business Simulation
Peter is the Founder and CEO of EDUardo Business Simulation, an online business simulation platform which helps the learning and understanding of business and management topics.
The EDUardo platform offers a vast sandbox of real-world scenarios that push learners to solve comprehensive problems with real-time feedback.
The company provides services for both the corporate and academic sectors in 20+ countries like Chile, Colombia, Egypt, Germany, Spain or Singapore. EDUardo’s reference clients include OTP Group and is an active member of the Microsoft Partner Program.
Prior to his current role, Peter worked at the corporate sector (MOL, Hungarocamion / Waberer’s) and worked as the managing partner and management consultant at Boda & Partners.
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Peter Szabo
Country Manager of Microsoft Hungary
Peter Szabo
Country Manager of Microsoft Hungary
Peter Szabo, Country Manager of Microsoft Hungary, is responsible for managing the local subsidiary and driving digital transformation of the company’s customers and business partners. Peter has joined Microsoft 6 years ago, first taking over the Customer and Devices Sales division in the Hungary-Czech-Slovakia region and later, leading the development of Microsoft Hungary’s Partner ecosystem and safeguarding compliant partner operations in Hungary.
Peter is also an advisory board member in Startup Hungary and has worked with the organization over the past two years to support the growth and international competitiveness of Hungarian Startups.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Peter spent 17 years in the FMCG industry, working for Unilever, where he has assumed a variety of marketing, sales and general management roles.
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. -
Kristóf Székely
Partner at Lead Ventures
Kristóf Székely
Partner at Lead Ventures
In 2010 Mr. Szekely joined the M&A team of MOL as an analyst, then a project manager. Later he worked at the Commercial Department of MOL Group where he participated in developing two new business lines (natural gas trading and renewables).
He earned his Finance degree at Corvinus University, Budapest and his MBA at the University of Warwick, UK.
Imre Branyiczki
HR Director at EPAM Systems
Talks about business and human behavior, organizational learning and change.
Imre Branyiczki
HR Director at EPAM Systems
Imre has led people/HR teams in financial institutions and in the IT sector. Introduced several business specific workable people management solutions combining behavioral science research and HR practices. Active (part-time) also in the academic sphere with a current interest in knowledge-seeking and knowledge-sharing behavior. Mentored start-ups in their earliest founding phase, including social enterprise start-ups. -
Bernat Nacsa
Co-founder of Guild.xyz
Bernat Nacsa
Co-founder of Guild.xyz
Bernat is a co-founder of Guild.xyz, working on product, growth and community. Previously he was a VC investing in early stage Eastern European founders with Day One Capital. He has a background in quantitative finance and game theory.
Daniel Farkas
Co-Founder, Drops
Daniel Farkas
Co-Founder, Drops
Daniel Farkas is co-founder of Drops, where he helps people all around the world learn languages in a new, enjoyable way. Following an epiphany that most of us are never actually taught how to learn, Daniel spent over a decade researching how to do it right and created a language learning app (Drops) that really worked. In 2020, and after hitting 20 million users and a $10M revenue run rate, the company was acquired by Kahoot! for $50 million. Drops has not raised any VC funding.
Dani recently stepped down from leading the team of Drops.
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Alex George
Principal at Point Nine
Alex is a Principal at Point Nine, a seed-stage fund focused on B2B SaaS/B2B marketplaces
Alex George
Principal at Point Nine
Alex is a Principal at Point Nine, a seed-stage fund focused on B2B SaaS/B2B marketplaces and early backer of Shapr3D in Hungary as well as companies like Algolia, Chainalysis, Contentful, Delivery Hero, Docplanner, Mambu, Loom, Typeform, Revolut, and Zendesk.Jenny Dreier
Venture Lead at EQT Ventures Berlin
Focusing on DACH and CEE future of work space and deeptech software startups
Jenny Dreier
Venture Lead at EQT Ventures Berlin
As part of the Berlin team at EQT Ventures, Jenny focuses on investing in, and working with, startups in the DACH and CEE region. She works with software companies, especially in the design and future of work space, and loves digging into deeptech and industrial products. Her podcast, tabula rasa focuses on the future of education and interviews people working on the cutting-edge of the field. Prior to joining EQT Ventures, Jenny worked in startups in Berlin and Sao Paolo and helped corporates on innovation and digital business building as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in Berlin. -
Kálmán Kiss
Consultant at Day One Capital
Ex-BCG trainer and freelance consultant, startup/VC hobbyist
Kálmán Kiss
Consultant at Day One Capital
Kalman has spent 8 years each in consulting (BCG) and banking (Erste Bank), before becoming the Hungarian GM and EMEA Head of Delivery of Accedo, a Swedish startup. Before concluding his career as an employee, he spent 2 years as a Consultant at Egon Zehnder, searching for and assessing top managers in EMEA. Subsequently, he made himself independent as a freelance consultant and trainer working across Europe, helping others bring clarity to unstructured business information.Robert Hegedüs
Founding Partner at Fiedler Capital
Robert Hegedüs
Founding Partner at Fiedler Capital
Robert is a Founding Partner at Fiedler Capital, a first check fund helping overlooked founders from peripheral European ecosystems. Robert started doing pre-seed investments in 2014, following a decade-long career in Management Consulting across Europe, Middle-East and Asia, and he was instrumental in getting companies such as Bitrise & SEON off the ground as their first investor.
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Ambitious and globally successful founders, investors and operators gathered in the heart of Budapest, and we loved
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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
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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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