THANK YOU!

Awesome as always!

For me, the #PirateSummit was probably the most extraordinary startup event I have attended. Yes okay, there weren’t that many yet, but I ask myself: How can you top that? 🤩

In an incredibly cool location, networking took place on a completely different level this time. 🙂 Why? Because somehow it was all so casual… very different from the usual exhibition halls. The old junkyard was simply brilliant as an event location: shorts, shirt, drink… that’s almost everything. Much more approachable, more relaxed. 😎 #event #startup #team Okay, the weather was just terrific for an open air event. ☀️ 🥤

Strong was on the #breakfastforchampions of neoteq ventures, xdeck, Capnamic and taavas GmbH WPG as a side event on the morning of the second day 😊 Thank you very much for that!!!

I’ll definitely be back next year, as it’s just a huge change from all the usual events. 😊 Thank you dear team of PirateSummit for the organization. 💪🏼

⏩ How did you find that #PIRATEsummit? Did you like it that way?

See you next year #pirates
Arrrrrr 🏴 ☠️ 🏴 ☠️

🌍 Can and should climate tech funds commit to a specific CO2 reduction target? And if so, what should that target be?

At this week’s PIRATE Summit, I had insightful discussion with Tobias Faupel about the role and responsibility of climate tech funds in combating climate change.

At Contrarian Ventures, I see many pitch decks targeting 1 gigaton of CO2/yr.

A gigaton (1,000,000,000 tons) is roughly equivalent to the mass of all land mammals (except humans) in the world or twice the mass of all humans in the world.
In 2010 about 9 Giga-tons of Carbon (GtC) were emitted from burning fossil fuels only. ….9 Giga-tons is the weight of about 132 billion people. The amount of carbon we are putting into the atmosphere each year is equal to 20 times the weight of the current world population.

I discussed with Merit Valdsalu the difficulty to calculate the carbon sink potential of our ocean not to mention the ownership problem.

How do we measure the potential of innovations that preserve our carbon sinks? Or technologies that support consumer shifts?

So what is the right framework or the right metric for climate tech funds when evaluating climate tech startups?

Source*: https://lnkd.in/ebjaYbBv

2 years of waiting have come to an end – finally PIRATE Summit in #Köln again! 🤩
Of course, our co-captain ✯ Nathan Evans ✯ is also there.

Meet him live and get inspired to boost your #eCommerce! 💪

Or come on board and become part of our fulfin crew. Together we enter the business of e-commerce financing. 😜

Networking is so easy when you’re a pirate. 🏴‍☠️We look forward to the second day at the PIRATE Summit with even more adventures and stories from from Pirates all over the world.
Our Railslove Camper is right opposite the Meeting Point – talk to us 😉

This week, part of our team experienced two adventurous days in the Odonien in Cologne, where the PIRATE Summit took place.

These exciting days once again brought us great connections, inspiring sessions, good conversations and the opportunity to network in an ever-growing ecosystem.

Our participation in the event can be excellently summarized by our startup ecosystem manager, Rebekka Bracht: The Pirate Summit was AAAAAAAR! This event is unique in so many aspects.

We were very happy that we were part of the summit and look forward to being there again next year! 🏴‍☠️ ☠️🔥

My first time at PIRATE Summit 🏴‍☠️🔥
– How do you feel, REALLY?

I am not an #Entrepreneur – not yet!
But I’ve got an entrepreneurial #mindset
I loved the atmosphere and the speeches
– Authentic – Inspiring – Candid

#RaiseYourself puts the individuals in the centre and I could really feel that #founders with their thoughts and #feelings matter.

📍My take away for all of us, is easy and hard at the same time:

Ask your colleagues weekly:
🔥How do you feel, REALLY?
+
Create a #culture where everyone is able to answer this question honestly without beeing afraid of judgement.
Be a Role Model in answering honestly first!

Thanks for your words Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️

Pirate summit is this: overjump issues thanks to a tiny cable-network of innovators,
leaving jurassic mindset behind you while flying to the future

Once you have been in a summit, you think the second time will not surprise you again.
But the Pirate Summit is always unforgettable

Yesterday we were able to take a look at the exciting start-up trade fair PIRATE Summit. 🏴 ☠️

A highlight was the OUT OF THE BOX. NRW Award, which was won by none other than our scale-up ACCURE Battery Intelligence! 📈

Congratulations!🥳

Click here for the article:
https://lnkd.in/eRzYn2Ny

The most unbelievable entrepreneurship conference.

Epic win for the planet and female entrepreneurship!

Congratulations to Karolina Attspodina 🇺🇦, founder of We Do Solar and Greentech Alliance member, who became the winner of the Walk the Plank competition at PIRATE Summit!

I am so incredibly proud to have seen her and her team’s hard work pay off! It makes me even more sentimental given at the last edition of this pitch competition, 3 years ago, Plan A was the winner.

What was also incredible was that at the end of the competitions after 25 startups pitched, 4 out of the 5 finalists were female-led companies and 3 out of 5 were climate tech companies.

Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️, Chief Pirate at the Pirate Summit summed it up well as part of his closing speech: The future is green and female!

Well done again! And if you need solar self-installable privacy screen for your balcony, check out We Do Solar!

It was my first time at PIRATE Summit and it was more than I could ve ever imagined. Came with an idea; leaving with few more to work on and lots of memories. This event was sensational! Well done and thank you! ♥️

PIRATE Summit 🏴‍☠️, what a blast! 💣

I am speechless about the great atmosphere that was created for networking and personal development. ✨

It was a pleasure to meet so many smart, interesting and motivated people who are either being #startups themselves or see their purpose to develop startups or individual entrepreneurs by sharing the knowledge, supporting with investment, or just giving great advice (for free 😱, huge thanks to Rasmus Basilier 😉).

#Femfounders is not only a fancy hashtag to me but something powerful. Ladies, you rock Alexandra Axt Alexandra Felde @ankeschmidt Claudia Froehling Madeleine Heuts Palina Kavalchuk and will achieve so much. 💪

I am super motivated and empowered to continue my entrepreneurial journey together with Qizify Learning team and help more and more universities in the digitalization of study 🦉

Thank you so much Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ and Co. for orga 👏

THE highlight of the event season!

Two amazing days at the PIRATE Summit last week.

The first day started strong by meeting with female founders speakers for breakfast, it was so inspiring. 😍

The energy stayed the same with even more people and sessions during the summit. I particularly enjoyed the free time in between that allowed me to meet and talk to so many talented people.

Kudos to the amazing team behind this unique gathering Michelle George, Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️❤️

not only technical contents but real emotions and meaningful connections

My first time at @piratesummit has been amazing. Met so many kind and skilled people who told me their stories, and who gave me support and inspiration.

I met an old friend, and found new ones! It’s been great ♥️ See you next yeARRRR! 🦜🏴‍☠️

A tone of inspiration and amazing vibe at the PIRATE Summit in Cologne, together with Moldovan greatest startups
Shortly about each of them: https://lnkd.in/d8P5yXdS
Who else is here?

Huge respect

In the past days we were at the PIRATE Summit Cologne celebrating their 10th anniversary. Amygdala Health was part of the walk the plank the challenge which we loved.

It was joyful to be a part of the event that celebrated female entrepreneurship and real problem solvers. Let us use technology and science to solve real problems, starting from our own habits and behaviour.

Die Techniker goes PIRATE Summit

I can still remember pretty well my first contact with the crew of the Pirate Summit – and now we are part of ARRRRRRRR!?

At the beginning of August, I had an excellent opportunity to demystify blockchain technologies and show that web3 has a bright future for a group of MBA students from Imperial College Business School.
Next, I’ll be doing the same on the following stages:
– Data Natives 2022 – Guide to the Galaxy (Berlin, September 2)
– PIRATE Summit (Cologne, September 6)
– Supplain Summit (Tallinn, September 20)
– Estonian Business School (Tallinn, September 30)
– NFT.London by NFT.NYC (London, November 3/4)
As we’re still early, getting the information out through as many events and lectures as possible is essential. Come and join me!

This year’s edition of PIRATE Summit was a blast!

Thanks to Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ and the whole team for bringing this unique and extraordinary event to my hometown 10 years ago.

I hope the show will go on for at least the next 10 years.

Also big props to Eko Fresh for his talk A Rapper’s Delight – Rhymes in Entrepreneurship and his very personal, emotional story.

Hopefully see you next year again!

Arrr!

ARRRsome

Let’s be authentic!
Sometimes we’re unable to say how we feel.
But we can show it with pictures.

We had a late night metafox session with their magic cards.
By choosing a card, #people explain their thoughts and feelings differently.

We #share information, we normally wouldn’t talk about. 💫

You could ask:
💬 How do you feel, really?
💬 What card shows your PIRATE Summit experience?
💬 Or what do you want to achieve in the next year? (Creative goal setting for my #OKR friends)

Be authentic – Talk about how you really feel, what you really think and want to achieve! 🔥

Thanks to Tobias Weghorn, Laura Buchholz, Christoph Finkel, Bruno E.M. Smulders and the whole 🏴‍☠️ Pirate Team🏴‍☠️

Our captain Olga Barreto Gonçalves is sailing to Germany to take part in the PIRATE Summit! 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️
Founded in 2010, PIRATE Summit is a conference specifically designed for entrepreneurs on their journey. It is about connecting, debating and learning. Focused on real-life experiences, learning from failure and success. It’s about the messy reality of the entrepreneurial roller coaster. Raw and authentic.
Olga will be a keynote speaker on the “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday, tech community overboard!” panel. You will hear stories about adaptability, human power, and what is possible despite (or maybe in spite) of obstacles. Sometimes these obstacles are so unbearably hard that it feels like the world is collapsing and burning and sometimes it is what is literally happening. In those moments more than ever community comes to help, but sometimes whole communities are in the need of support. In those moments it’s important to recognize what is and what is not meaningful. As well as give sustainable support that won’t just be a short-term fix, but make it stronger than ever.
👋 See her in Cologne, Sept 6-7!

Give everything without expecting anything in return.
That is what the PIRATE Summit is about — an attitude, a set of value that makes the world a better place.

More comments and insights after PIRATE Summit – 5 main discoveries, opinions on the quality of organization and impressions after the Piligree report:

https://lnkd.in/gnugZ2RW

An event where you can pitch in front of well-known investors wearing shorts is rare, but there is one place where it is common, the PIRATE Summit

What fascinated me, even more, was the amount of climate tech startups, such as the well-deserved winner We Do Solar and the diversity of founders. Most specific, the number of female founders, who came to pitch their great ideas.

Btw, the question which led to this video was:
„who came up with the name ‚voltfang‘?“
Often people think, after hearing our company’s name for the first time, that it is called ‚wolfgang‘. But to make it clear, we did not name our company after a white German fellow. For the English speakers, it’s more like, catching the volt. But I might have some good ad campaigns in mind, Sorry in advance Indeed.com. 😉
Credits to Roman Alberti for coming up with the name.
Thanks to Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ for the great event, we will see each other next year.
It was a lot of fun!

ARRR, what has been a crazy week 😁 so far

Our first PIRATE Summit totally flashed us, because this mixture of #Startup #Conference and #Festival is really something very special.

⭐️ Were you there too? What were your highlights?

So many impressions in a very short time, I had to sort my head first to process everything. My highlights definitely:

🔸 Networking and reunion with many other startups from Cologne, for example ama mind, Scobees, Pilzling, MINDZEIT, RAKETENSTART, cosmotura®,…

🔸 #FemaleFounder evening event at the Creators Loft, organized by NRWalley e.V., and #FemaleSpeaker breakfast with mega inspiring women!

🔸 Karaoke with a lot of crazy mood, thanks for your support, dear ZOMBIES, eh, eh, eh 🧡

🔸 Celebrate until late into the night and pitch your own company in Zoom at 8 in the morning? No problem at all, haha, that’s the spirit! #workhardplayhard

🔸 Finale of the OOTB Award: Guys, I told you that I pitch in a techno outfit when I already own 😎 the stage in Odonia

We didn’t win anything this time except experience, but it was awesome – THANKS to the whole team Deutschfuchs 🦊 and congratulations to ACCURE Battery Intelligence, Companyon Analytics GmbH and everwave!

And of course another shout out to the other finalists – I think we were all terrific: KNOWBODY, VanSite, anny, Recommendy, tl;dv, CUREosity GmbH ✨

See you next year, pirates 🏴 ☠️

I was super excited to be speaking at the PIRATE Summit in Germany today. I found this event 5 years ago and truly admire their curation and values.
It is unfortunate that I’m unable to attend due to visa delays by German Embassy Islamabad but I’m happy that some amazing people are representing Pakistan:
– Zain Naqvi, Co-founder / Creative Director Ape Harbour
– Kanzul Fatima Arif, CEO Kanzul Fatima Films
– Arslan Ali, CEO Shayan Solutions
– Farrukh Zaman Kayani, Country Manager KUCOIN
Pirate Summit is a conference specifically designed for entrepreneurs on their journey. It focuses on real life experiences, authentic connections, peer learning, and is characterized by its festival-like atmosphere.
An environment for people to let their guard down, engage in meaningful ways, renew old friendships, start new ones, and just be themselves. Every year, 1,000 curated participants from around the world join.
Kudos to Manuel Koelman for creating this, Michelle George for curating this year’s agenda and Veronica Castellano for the support.

Great to see that sustainability was the overarching topic on this years PIRATE Summit! From #netzero to #esgreporting, #plasticpollution or #foodwaste, many startup teams are building solution to the most pressing issues of our time.

One investor from the US even said the German startup ecosystem seems to really differentiating itself from others by fostering social and ecological business models.

When my passion for sustainable entrepreneurship sparked in 2009 at the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg this was a nerdy niche topic. Fascinating to see such development, although it means I am old…

We had a blast at the #PIRATEsummit 2022 🚀🏴‍☠️!!
Two amazing days of authentic connections, real life experiences from people who love to solve real problems, peer learning and hot topics from a business perspective.
The theme of this year at PIRATE Summit was ’#RAISEYOURSELF’ but to raise ourselves we needed to put our guard down and engage in meaningful conversations, workshops and talks, to absorb all that peer knowledge and all the insights that everyone there had to offer.
‘It’s all about people, it’s all about the community’ was one of the most common things we could listen from the attendees and during those two days, people just follow the rules of the house and treated vulnerability as the major pirate strength!
From standing on the plank, burning insecurities and doubts on a gigantic scarecrow bonfire to meeting VCs and founders, We could say that, is the coolest and authentic B2B event for entrepreneurs with festival vibes.
Thank you PIRATE Summit for this great experience! ARRR! 🏴‍☠️🙌🦜

This year’s edition of PIRATE Summit was a blast!
Thanks to Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ and the whole team for bringing this unique and extraordinary event to my hometown 10 years ago.
I hope the show will go on for at least the next 10 years.
Also big props to Eko Fresh for his talk “A Rapper’s Delight – Rhymes in Entrepreneurship” and his very personal, emotional story.
Hopefully see you next year again!
Arrr!

#StandWithUkraine🇺🇦
⚡️Last week we visited Cologne to attend the 10th PIRATE Summit – Europe’s largest invitation-only conference for early-stage startups, investors, and corporate executives.
On the first day of the Summit, 3 Ukrainian founders participated in the walk-the-plank pitch competition: Alyona Mysko from Fuelfinance, Karolina Attspodina from We Do Solar, and Julia Ovcharenko from Numo ADHD. And Karolina Attspodina became the winner of the 2022! Congrats!🏆
During the second day, our tech ambassadors presented how they tackled the wartime challenges, scaling up, and also discussed “What are the best ways to support the Ukrainian tech ecosystem right now?”: Ihor Ovcharenko, Olga Afanasyeva, Lyubov Guk, Alyona Mysko, Anastasia Sylenok.
Insights by the participants:
🎙Lyubov Guk, London-based Blue Lake VC: “My message to the investment community was simple – invest in Ukrainian founders today, do not wait until ‘after the war’. Some of the founders fled, and some stayed in the country, but all of them have something in common – they keep building and delivering incredible results regardless of what is happening in their home country.”
🎙Andrii Degeler, Head of Media at TNW Events: “Ukraine definitely had a significant presence in the agenda at this year’s Pirate Summit, including a side event and several great talks and campfires. An issue I’ve noticed is that the Ukrainian tech ecosystem is becoming just another element in the long list of “endangered” ones, and in doing so loses the nuance and distinctiveness.”
TechUkraine personally thanks Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ and all PIRATE Summit team for partnership, special invitations, attention, and support for Ukraine!🇺🇦
👉Read more via the reportage: https://lnkd.in/dhNBbSNb

Arrrr… Ahoi PIRATES! 🏴 ☠️

What a bombastic event with many incredible impressions and great moments. The #PirateSummit celebrated its 10th anniversary this year.
We want to thank you PIRATE Summit that we could present this fabulous event!
We Die Techniker are very proud to be the Official Health Partner by your side – an amazing cooperation with a wonderful team of people PIRATEx 🏴‍☠️☠️🥳

On Tuesday and Wednesday we were able to get in contact with many great new #startups, #founders, #keyplayers and #Investores at this exceptional location, the #Odonien. Thanks all for the great #Network and the interesting #pitches ☺️ … we`ve seen once again that #NRW is GREAT!

Our big thanks also go to our colleagues from the #Ruhrgebiet Martin Sommer, Lars Boermann, Jonathan Wasner, who supported us greatful on both days.
#wirsindNRW

In addition to an INFUSED WATER BIKE with different tastes of fresh fruits 🍑🍓🍇🍉, we also offered the VR-supported motion module called ICAROS. The ICAROS combines effective workouts with breathtaking virtual reality – giving you exciting and effective training experiences.

Of course, our #SocialPizza at the event could not be missing.
On the homepage especially for startups, founders will find a lot of valuable information about social security. Have a look www.socialpizza.de

We are already looking forward to next year, when it will be called again: Arrr.. you ready? Come on Board Pirates! 🏴 ☠️🦜

PIRATE Summit 2022 🏴 ☠️
Today and tomorrow this year’s PIRATE Summit will take place in Odonia and we are very happy about the invitation of Manuel Koelman.
We are especially happy that this year as many women are at the start like never before. Miriam Mertens from DeepSkill will also give a “Campfire-Talk” titled “Emotional skill gap – is it the biggest threat to our economy and how do we tackle it? ” give.
On Wednesday evening, the Out Of The Box Award 2022 will also take place, where ten start-ups will pitch for prize money of a total of €50,000. Michala Rudorfer of the investor network encourageventures e.V. will be on the jury.
Will I see you there?

ARRR 🖤🏴‍☠️thank you so much for creating this special place in the world where true human connections are possible, where raw stories can be shared, where being vulnerable is encouraged…. I am still overwhelmed by all the emotions from all what happened and keep happening when people I brought to PS for first time are sharing how special and amazing their experience was.
Thank you 🖤 for creating this safe harbour for us, pirates of rough seas.

All I can say. If PIRATE Summit wouldn’t exist we should invent it ❤️🖤🙌
ARRR!!!! And see you next time 🏴‍☠️

Thank you Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ Michelle George Felix Josephi Veronica Castellano and many others from Pirate crew who made this possible. I am overflowing with emotions and will need some time to collect my thoughts to reflect once I am back from all the travels.

We’re very proud of Pakistani🇵🇰 representation at the IFA Berlin & PIRATE Summit in Germany🇩🇪! These wonderful digipreneurs will have the opportunity to network & form partnerships with tech firms from all around the EU🇪🇺. We look forward to working with our friends here to further expand such 🇩🇪-🇵🇰 collaborations!

Our team is roaming at the PIRATE Summit now!
They prepared a really cool pitch for our product Dely.io and are ready to face new challenges.
So, hit them with your best shot! ARRRR!

The PIRATE Summit was an excellent reboot for the mind(set)!
Such events connect you to the people who think, look and act differently. And you learn from them. C’mon, when you listen to a strip dancer who is an investor now – that’s awesome! You hear other people’s ideas and they bring new ones to your own head. You can’t get this sitting in your own shell. Even when you have an established business, opening your mind to new opportunities and living a startup life is always a breathtaking idea.
I won’t list here all the outcomes from the Summit here. Not because I don’t have them – visa versa, the phone is fully packed with hand-written notes. But they need digestion and implementation in real life. That’s why the next day after the event we are sitting with Stanislav Gladysh, sharing thoughts, refactoring pitch decks, changing plans and taking action. Love this process.
Our journey continues, this Autumn we’ll showcase our products at Web Summit, Moldova Business Week 2022 and even more 😉
Dely.io, Viar.Live, FusionWorks, ARRR!

I’m still thinking about the last two days.
I went to the PIRATE Summit without any expectations.
Besides an overwhelming number of incredibly exciting #female #founders (not standard in the startup scene), I was able to take away many great impulses.
I met so many exciting and inspiring #people from all over #Europe and completely without the usual buzzwording and bullshitting.
You really did a great job, dear PIRATE, especially Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️. I’m still very inspired by the, partly very deep, conversations of the last days.
All the positive energy of people who really want to make a difference and are full of drive will certainly carry me through the next few days.

It was really great meeting you all!

Participated at the PIRATE Summit and met some great minds having pure startup entrepreneurial spirit. Dug deep into #metaverse with Mike Butcher MBE Great efforts by Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ who is consistently organising this super summit from past 10 years. We need more of such summits. Would love to host you in Pakistan. ARRR…
Thanks to Rafael Schultz for moderating a great discussion panel on NFTs, Metaverse and Web 3.0 along with fellow panelists Mahum Khan and Zain Naqvi
Special thanks to Arzish Azam and Dr. Muhammad Faisal- Pakistan’s Ambassador in Germany for making it possible and providing us an opportunity to represent #pakistan on an international platform.
Looking forward to have more of these in future.

Catch Index’s co-founder Mihai Sochirca at #PirateSummit in Cologne on September 6-7th for new experiences, authentic connections, peer learning, and a festival-like atmosphere.
Let your guard down by meeting inspiring leaders and speakers sharing their insights on tech trends, distributed teams, remote work, and many more.
✅50+ speakers
✅20+ countries
✅100+ curated participants
Drop by to say hi👋
🔝 PIRATE Summit is a yearly conference about #entrepreneurship, #technology, exploring the world, and shaping it into something better.

Pirates of uncertain times, #raiseyourself

What a fantastic slogan of this years´ PIRATE Summit!❤️

I had the chance to pitch and discuss the emergence of the huge emotional skill gap in business and society and how we tackle it. I was super excited to see the big interest in human-centric leadership and emotional skill development!

My four most important points:
👉🏼 We currently face a huge emotional skill gap in business!
👉🏼 This results in numerous open job positions, unmotivated employees and frustrated managers >> thus less innovation and solutions for our urgent problems.
👉🏼 The further rise of AI will increase the need for emotional skills as simple, repetitive, and purely analytical skills are taken over by machines.
👉🏼 Digital learning methods with a focus on emotional skills help companies build a people-centric, emotionally intelligent work culture and close the emotional skill gap.

A special thanks to Antje Lienert and Oscar Escalante from Wirtschaftsförderung Köln for giving us the opportunity!

Best. Startup. Summit. Ever.

Earlier this week, I spoke on 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐏𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 & 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎𝐗𝐈𝐂 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 at PIRATE Summit 🏴‍☠️ in Cologne, Germany. It was inspiring to meet future world business leaders, hear their pitches, and see their latest innovations. I enjoyed letting go and had so much FUN. I’ve never experienced a conference quite like it. The last couple of days have been filled with meaningful conversations and teachings relating to the future of work in a diverse world. There was a great deal of focus on caring for our beautiful planet as well.

I was deeply touched by the presence of Ukrainian startups and I met new friends my own age building the democracy of Kosovo. Blerta Thaçi is one of them. She is a brilliant speaker and social entrepreneur working with the leaders of her country to embrace a system for open data. (Goosebumps)

I’m grateful to Darya Kamkalova and my fellow female speakers who had an impact on me the very first morning, Mia Maja Hansson, Ece Taşkınçay, Melinda Jacobs, Aija Pope, Simonetta Batteiger, Lyubov Guk, Pauline Eveno 🎷, Lilith Brockhaus and Caro Aschemeier.

…and to so many more.

I am now back in Sweden: my legs are sleepy, my voice is sore and my heart is full.

Thank you Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️, Michelle George and the brilliant PIRATE Summit team for inviting me to speak at this very powerful event!

Von der Unternehmenswelt in die Start-up-Welt – vor 2 Jahren hätte ich nie gedacht, dass ich einmal einen Workshop zum Thema „Mindful Leadership“ auf dem @piratesummit geben würde.

Wenn ich daran denke, erfüllt es mich mit unglaublicher Dankbarkeit und Stolz!

2020 war ich noch in einem Unternehmen in einem klassischen 9-to-5-Job angestellt.

Heute bin ich selbständiger Coach und Trainer, arbeite frei und selbstbestimmt von München, Teneriffa und überall dort, wo es Internet gibt. Ich begleite ambitionierte Coachees und arbeite mit Start-Ups wie @_myndway_ und Unternehmen wie rpc zusammen, um Menschen in Organisationen zu stärken.

Wenn mir jemand vor 2 Jahren gesagt hätte, dass ich das alles mal machen werde, hätte ich ihn für total verrückt erklärt. 😝

An alle, die sich derzeit nach Veränderung sehnen:
➜ Ich weiß, es ist beängstigend, aber hinter der Angst liegt Freiheit und Selbstvertrauen
➜ Auch wenn Veränderung anstrengend ist, wirst du lernen und wachsen und neue Energie daraus schöpfen
➜ Vertraue darauf, dass du das (Arbeits-)Leben schaffen kannst, das du dir wünschst, auch wenn du es dir noch nicht vorstellen kannst
➜ Du musst nicht alles alleine machen, schließe dich mit Gleichgesinnten zusammen, die dir Energie geben und dich inspirieren

Das zeigen mir die Geschichten der mutigen Unternehmer auf dem PIRATE Summit, aber auch die Veränderungen meiner Coachees und meine eigene Geschichte. 💪

PIRATE Summit is an ideal conference for everyone that wants to create or take his startup to the next level!💯

I’ve had a great two days of connecting with creators who are passionate 🎯 about their startups.
Driven by their ideas to change the world towards a better and sustainable place.

🔥All attendees had the chance to meet and exchange experiences with incredible innovators, mentors, and business experts!

At the workshops, we had great conversations about leadership, doing things differently, and breaking our barriers.
One topic that struck me was failure and success.💥

⚡️But what is success really, and how is it defined by everyone?
Drop me a line if you want to discuss this topic further.

Thank you to PIRATE Summit, and a big Arrr to all the Crew for the unique and unforgettable experience!🚀

I will see you next year.🙌

I’m upping my game as a keynote. Less apologetic, more authentic, stepping into and owning my power more than ever before. Watch this space world! 🔥
Here are some snippets from Captain’s Deck at PIRATE Summit earlier today.

How many events do you want to attend in a week? – BRYCK: YEAH! 💪

PIRATE Summit x BRYCK
“You are lured out of your comfort zone, get to know yourself in a different way again and meet people there in a completely different way than you usually do at events” Sarah told us at lunch, still flashed from 2 days of intense Pirate Experience at PIRATE Summit.

Israeli delegation & city of Essen at BRYCK
The future is smart! Some amazing Israeli startups presented their innovative ideas on #smartcities to the city of Essen in our BRYCK Tower – and what better place to do so than in the middle of downtown Essen? 😉Tobias accompanied the event: “I was really impressed by the deep technological foundation of the startups products”.

Alex and Kevin at Demo Night
#Digitalization & #ClimateProtection – Kevin Kessler and Alexander Fromm were both thrilled by the pitches they saw on these present and future topics at the Demo Night of garage DU in the beautiful Theater Am Marientor. Soeren Link, Lord Mayor of Duisburg, also emphasized that the Ruhr region is united and shares a passion for working together to create something great.

Circular Valley today!
Lastly, Julian is visiting the Circular Valley in Wuppertal today – we can’t wait to hear about all the innovative technologies of the future!

What a week… #tgif 😮‍💨 Happy weekend to all out there at LinkedIn!

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Back home after an amazing two days at PIRATE Summit. I had no idea what to expect and there was no way I can imagine such a great, meaningful and different event!
Unusual location, great set of people all willing to share knowledge and help each other! Meaningful speeches, inspiring conversations and a lot of great quality connections! Meeting old friends and starting new friendships..

A big applause to Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️and his team for creating more than an event – an experience we will not forget!

See you next year, ARRRRR!

Carefully crafted for connection, inspiration and learning – this was the motto of the PIRATE Summit, which we were able to experience up close. In the midst of an inspiring and creative atmosphere, the winners of the OUT OF THE BOX Award, which we have been accompanying for 3 years with our partner TAS Emotional Marketing GmbH, were announced.

The #OOTBNRW is sponsored by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the #boxontour sponsored by the NRW.BANK.

The start-ups ACCURE Battery Intelligence, Companyon Analytics GmbH and everwave received the prize money totalling 50,000 euros from the NRW Minister of Economic Affairs Mona Neubaur. Congratulations!

As visitors, we followed the exciting pitches live and were also able to enjoy good music, delicious food and the rousing atmosphere.

Out of the comfort zone and talk to a lot of strangers…🏴‍☠️

Besides great workshops, pitches and lectures, there was one thing in particular at the PIRATE Summit: the opportunity to talk to many people in person. This, I really enjoyed! Especially because one thing led to another, I was continually surprised and new paths opened up.

In the end, I sat in the car heading back home with three founders with whom I got into conversation solely because they were wearing a t-shirt with the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn 🚟 (overhead railway) and the little elephant Tuffi 🐘. It turned out that they were invited by Circular Valley from the most diverse corners of the world to present their ideas. It made me a bit proud of Wuppertal and the ever-growing startup network in our region!

I really missed the lively, varied, sometimes hectic and emotionally charged hustle and bustle of real life start up events. All the more, I am now looking forward to the next upcoming events, such as Bits & Pretzels at the end of the month.

Amazing days and culture at PIRATE Summit 🔥

Marvin Liao is right now kicking off PIRATE Summit in Cologne, Germany 🥳
Talking about #tech trends to expect, drawing from his 400+ #startup investments.
He is a BADideas.fund member and was my investor for my 1st startup while at 500Startups, so especially great to meet again.
But the whole vibe here at PIRATE Summit is just awesome! The 30° C helps as well ☀️
awesome place to meet #startup #founders and #investors

Freaking arrrrsome

Piracy is a fundamental part of the way I do business.
It is difficult to explain exactly what it is and can best be explained through numerous examples.
In short, I usually say that piracy is about: Speaking one’s own agenda into one’s of collaborators. It’s all about playing each other good. Pirates take risks, talk over talk, meet people with trust and remember to be generous – ALWAYS generous.
Now I’ve reached quite a bit of a milestone as a pirate. I’ll be the keynote speaker at the so-called PIRATE Summit .
PIRATE Summit brings together 1000 pirates from all over the world in Cologne on the 6th. – September 7th.
I am now starting my preparation and I actually find it hard to know what I want to talk about since I am surrounded by like-minded people.
If I am brave enough I will touch on the great paradox of loneliness in the midst of great and good communities
This year’s theme for the PIRATE Summit:
Better humans are better leaders, and better leaders create better businesses.
That’s why this year’s PIRATE Summit will focus not only on what makes businesses better, but also on how people can grow as human beings.
Are you ready to #RaiseYourself?

My experience at PIRATE Summit was unique: I met amazing founders and investors, made new friends, and got to know myself better.

Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ , thank you for creating this wonderful opportunity.

A big shoutout for Eleonore Eisath Jacqueline Plaster Martin Deborah Thomas Hartwig Jan Klosterhalfen Marie Hemmis Gizem Bulut, unfortunately you could not be there => We celebrated for you!🌊

1 is a good number, but together we can do more 😉.
The 3rd place at the Out of the Box .NRW award 🏆
at PIRATE Summit 2022 also goes out to all our supporters!
Simply thank you.

A unique Location and a crazy Event. Great organisation and an inspireful Mindset Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ and team PIRATEx.

Proud of everwave

Events that help me to maintain networks and to get in touch with exciting founders. My now 7th PIRATE Summit. Thank you Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ and crew for putting this event on its feet 🫵❤️. Arrrrrr.

PIRATE Summit 2022 is over🦜
10 years of ARRR! 🏴‍☠️ and hangover 🤪

But most importantly, 10 years of deep commitment et efforts to bring this experience to the tech cummunity. Thank you Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ and your current and past teams and partners.

Having the chance to reconnect with the community and finally physically meet my friends who I have missed since 2019 was incredible.
I met also so many people who were coming for the first time and where were enthused by this unique event which is so unique.
This is the place where people really discuss all the topics, where listening, humour and empathy prevail. Where it feels more like a festival than an entrepreneurial event and yet where the exchanges are very professional, where you can meet your future investors and clients and even friends.

I’m curious to see what will come out of these meetings in a few months. In any case, for me, it is the desire to continue to build and develop this incredible community of passionate and exciting people so that we can meet again in 2023.

Many, many thanks and ARRR! 🏴‍☠️

With joy we still think about our 3rd place at the 🏆 Out of the Box Award 2022! A team achievement we are proud of! We didn’t just win 10,000 euros. Clemens Feigl & Dr. Tilman Flöhr were also able to successfully present our vision several times & inspire everyone present for sustainability. Great audience, interested questions, many smiling faces – what more do we want?

A big thank you to Manuel Koelman and everyone who contributed to this unique PIRATE Summit 2022. From the Ministry of Economy, Industry, Climate Policy and Energy to the musical background by the Veedelperlen. A super job by all involved! 👏

We are also happy that Aachen played such an extraordinary role, congratulate ACCURE Battery Intelligence from the bottom of our hearts for the victory & also greet anny! Already last year, Clinomic, a start-up from the region, was able to take the win! 💪

Shoutout to all other nominated finalists: Companyon Analytics GmbH, CUREosity GmbH, Deutschfuchs, KNOWBODY, Recommendy, tl;dv and VanSite – all your pitches were inspiring!

🏴‍☠️ I represented APX at PIRATE Summit 2022, Europe’s largest invitation-only conference for early-stage startups, investors and corporate executives

🔥An archery range, a massage booth and a giant bonfire (some call it the “Burning Man” of the startup conferences)

⭐Key takeaway: #GenZ VC investors are changing the VC industry, not accepting the status quo, being values-focused and unafraid of breaking into untapped (emerging) markets

PIRATE Summit absolutely rrrrocked

Wow, what an incredible two days at PIRATE Summit 🏴‍☠️🔥

I have been to this event numerous times but this year was special ✨ I was responsible for a few parts of the programm and could not be more thankful! 🙏

I was given the chance to organise the karaoke session as well as sing with our biggest girlband of the world – die Veedelperlen – and do our very first flashmob during the #OOTB award 🎤

Further, I supported my colleague Sebastian Walter in his session about how we at Mooncamp are bootstrapping a calm, durable and profitable startup. As it was a campfire session, we opened it with a short welcome song 🤩🎸🔥

What I noticed during the event was, that singing is such a powerful thing to bring crowds back from the minds to the hearts, from the external to the inside, to themselves 🎶 And I feel it was such a great match with the general theme this year… #RaiseYourself

Huge thanks to Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ for your trust, to Sebastian Walter for your lighthearted competence and authenticity, to Farhoud Cheraghi for the fun on stage, to everyone who sang karaoke as well as cheered in the crowd for the singers and the Veedelperlen, to Melanie Stöcker for your wholehearted and fun support, to Dustin Preick for your tireless snapshot dedication and to Hannah Berkemeier and Josephine Beutnagel as well as the rest of this wonderful PIRATE team for your all-time warmhearted and positive vibes, such a smooth organisation and an absolutely incredible time 💚

🦜 Arrrrrrrrrrrrr Pirates 🏴 ☠️

The PIRATE Summit has been over for 2 days now and I am still overwhelmed by how pleasant and familiar the atmosphere was. # #

As locals, we were able to walk relaxed from our office in the MediaPark to the Pirate Summit. If that’s not sustainable!

In this sense to all those who could not participate, here are some insights in the form of video and image. I’m looking forward to next year!

Thank you for the great conversations with Lukas Ramroth Claudio B. Michael Suliman Timoor Taufig Mateo Freudenthal Christoph Paulus Axel von Leitner Sven Sester Marcel Banmann Oscar Escalante Fritz Fried Sascha Theismann Ekrem Bora (Eko Fresh) & everyone I forgot!

The Metaverse highlights of the year are just around the corner!

🫂 Do you think you can help shape what the metaverse will look like in the future? Magnus Wood, co-founder of Kindness Corporation and initiator of the Metaverse Coalition, believes so. And his method is, among other things, Kindness. I met him at the PIRATE Summit last week and asked him at Europe’s craziest startup conference how he imagines it. In my opinion, the best talk on the topic at the Summit. (Sorry, Mike Butcher MBE ) [en]

🧖 It is hard to deny that avatars will probably play a role in the metaverse, as this should also be one of the business models. That’s why I spoke to Markus Peuler about NeXR Technologies SE. You may know the company from another context: These were the ones who 3D scanned you in department stores and printed out a copy. Those days are over and Markus gives us an idea of how they are adapting to the Metaverse age: with high-quality scanning technology that you can use for fitness, fashion but also as an avatar in your business VR app in the future.

And these are the news in this episode:
🍏 During the penultimate Apple event of the year, there was an update to Apple’s spatial audio hardware
♾️ The date for Meta’s most important event of the year, Meta Connect, is set!
🤖 Meta continues to work with Qualcomm, for example on custom chips for their headsets
👀 HTC Vive has launched eye & face tracking before anyone else! Price: 260 + 100 Euro.

all this and much more, you can find in the current episode of the Metaverse Podcast:
➡️ https://lnkd.in/eRuXG34c

ARRRsome conference! Loved every minute of PIRATE Summit.
Brilliant content, great company and superb organisation.
The pictures speak for themselves… #PirateSummit

🇺🇦2 days at the 10th 🇩🇪 PIRATE Summit in Cologne, Germany, a conference specifically designed for entrepreneurs focusing on real-life experiences, authentic connections, and peer learning. The unique perspective of thinking out of the box, inspiration (even during wartime), and insights from global enablers.
Proud of our tech leaders who represented the country’s resilience and startup’s firmness for global audience (Alyona Mysko 🇺🇦) how tech helps in the battlefield (Olga Afanasyeva) spreading the word about the war and the ways to #StandWithUkraine and support Ukrainian tech (Lyubov Guk, Igor Ovcharenko).
At the walk-the-plank pitch competition 3 brave female founders from Ukraine took the stage, became the finalists and won – bravo, Karolina Attspodina 🇺🇦! They are unstoppable and as courageous as our defenders🇺🇦
▪️Karolina Attspodina from We Do Solar 🏆
▪️Julia Ovcharenko 🇺🇦 from Numo ADHD
▪️Alyona Mysko from Fuelfinance
…All of us do all we can during the hardest times of these months: fighting on all possible frontiers, supporting our army via donations, growing, developing, scaling, and enhancing our products and services.
The tech industry demonstrates remarkable fortitude, leadership and it’s all about people: Oleksandr Kosovan, MacPaw, Aleksandr Konotopskyi, Ajax Systems, Yaroslav Azhnyuk, Petcube, Stepan Veselovskyi, Lviv ІТ Cluster, Artem Borodatyuk, Netpeak Group, Oleg Gorokhovskyi, Monobank, Dima Shvets, Reface, Valery Krasovsky, Sigma Software Group, Yegor Aushev, Cyber Unit Technologies, and many others absolutely outstanding Ukrainian founders who keep working, driven by a passion for supporting the teams and country in the toughest times.
We haven’t another choice – just to double the efforts to protect our people, defend the values of democracy, save the country, defeat the enemy and gain victory to become a successful example of improvement and leading innovative nation worldwide.
We must overcome the russian devil and win! Staying strong and keeping on track!
PS. Was glad to see Andrii Degeler, Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️, Mike Butcher MBE (metaverse & business) and all great people who #StandWithUkraine

Saved by an #eResident! Yesterday I was rushing before my talk at the most awesome PIRATE Summit!

As it happens, when most in a hurry, sometimes ridehailing apps do not function, taxis do not turn up fast enough either.

But there was a smiling young lady who asked me if I was going to the same conference as her and offered to take me.

She turned out to be Olga Afanasyeva, an #eResident of Estonia from the beautiful country of #Ukraine. Olga’s own talk this year was about the successful use of ‘NTF and AI on the battlefield’ to keep freedom afloat in Ukraine.

🏴 ☠️🦜🔥Thank you Cologne 🦜🔥🏴 ☠️
I met a lot of great people and had interesting conversations.

Special thanks to you Madeleine – You gave 🍻 an inspiring start on Monday evening and enriched the PIRATE Summit for me very much.

What I take with me: Cologne is already beckoning; Spontaneity is key and Kiez = Veedel
Means for us: Your Veedel beckons and Winkt – The new Veedel app 😉 I am already looking forward to our roll-out📍👋🚀

I would like to sincerely thank all participants, speakers, and peers for making the PIRATE Summit star-studded with impactful yet inspiring conversations.

Every speech exceeded all the bars and expectations 🔝💯
Mary Nemciuc Olea Graur Traian Chivriga it was really fun to hang out with you guys!

See you next year 🚀

Maybe it’s the imperfect location that people don’t have to present themselves perfectly

In the last two days I had many conversations – very good, open and intense. In a junkyard.
Because at the PIRATE Summit 10 Years of Arrrr were celebrated in the Odonien in Cologne – and with BRYCK we were there for the first time: From rum bar to fortune teller, we could channel our inner Jack Sparrows at the booth and let off steam with the design (huge probs on Laura Profanter-Sonnenschein for the whole organization & decoration: I’ll drive a mast buy)

But in addition to a lot of action, fun and fire, the Pirate Summit has also managed to build an event that is not only about party, sales, crass speakers and new LinkedIn contacts – but about honest encounters in which you also talk about what is not going well, what you are struggling with and where you have fears and insecurities.
And that was nice!

So thanks to Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ and the Pirate Team for creating an event where space is just for that! A place where the question can be honestly asked and answered: How are you – really?

We are happy and grateful to 🖤 🏴 ☠️ have been a part of it
#bryckxpirates

Holy cow!

That was a premiere, and a very nice one!

Yesterday I did a very special edition of my #hackingmydepression speech on the fantastic PIRATE Summit out of an icebath! I wondered: Did anyone ever do a speech out of an icebath before?

Years ago, ever since Kasper van der Meulen showed me a glimpse of the world he’d gotten to know from the iceman Wim Hof, I’ve been mesmerized by what the cold can do for you.

The cold centers you, it forces you to accept what’s happening in the very moment and feel what you need to feel. You cannot act or fake in the cold, you are really you.
Sometimes that’s painful, but it helps you grow.

I will be updating my website soon with lots of new dates to come by and jump in my icebath, or swim outside with me in winter.

Will I see you there?

After PIRATE Summit and #DigitalX, another highlight of the business events will take place next week – the legendary OMClub party!

#OMClub is the unofficial business party of the DMEXCO – Digital Marketing Expo & Conference and is organized by the PIRATEx team. This guarantees the #Pirate spirit! If you haven’t had the pleasure of being there yet, you should watch the after-movie of the last event (before Corona) – see below.

Many thanks to Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ and his RockStar team, who make a very valuable contribution to #Köln and the entire #NRW ecosystem with their events.

I look forward to meeting you on site! Who else is there?

Another PIRATE Summit post – for the time being the last one for the next few weeks, promised 😉

PIRATE is my entrepreneurial home. It was there that I first came into contact with startups, tech and entrepreneurship.

2017 was my first PIRATE Summit, which I was able to co-organize alongside the Startup SAFARI Cologne. Last week I was at the summit for the first time with my own startup, with VisualMakers and was allowed to hold my own session.

The feeling that describes my innermost being (besides an indescribable feeling of happiness) is gratitude. To be able to do exactly what we are currently doing with VisualMakers – to be able to work with such great people, to realize that we can really fundamentally help people, inspire and motivate them.

Gratitude, for such a great network, for such a great community.

It was a feast for me to see you again and talk to you again – or to get to know so many of you.

I can’t get out 😬 of my grin since last week

Thanks for the great photos Jurij!!

“PIRATE Summit is the place for meaningful connections, openness and lasting friendships.
Besides the location, it’s the special, valuable community that makes it outstanding!”

🐱‍🏍 #raiseyourself – The theme of this year’s amazing PIRATE Summit organized by Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ Koelmann and his wonderful team.

🏃‍♀️ And some of the words Manuel shared with us stuck with me. Entrepreneurship is a tough journey, we all know it, but often we tell the story of the perfect startup, masks we put on, and talk about how everything is going well.

🙌 Corona has been tough, and the next months will likely be a challenge for many companies. Startups have to prove themselves in the market and survive the recession. And what better way to prepare for it then by raising yourself and others. And isn’t that a key part of why we come together for startup events such as the Pirate Summit?

🗣 Next time you meet someone in person you can ask them the question Manuel suggested: “How are you REALLY?”

🤩 Was amazing meeting so many incredible people and catching up with old friends, talking about the startup ecosystem, our work and impact at DueDash and already looking forward to the next Pirate Summit. Was great seeing you all!

Last week, I spent two days in Cologne on the PIRATE Summit discussing business models, ideas and visions with founders, investors and networkers. I am still enthusiastic about the different impressions and look forward to the next events in the Cologne ecosystem.

But also the view to Europe. how we deal with data in various projects for stakeholders from different industries has led to interesting discussions at GXFS Connect 2022 as part of the Gaia-X funding projects in Berlin.

I am very much looking forward to the next events, impressions and encounters!

The PIRATE Summit was an excellent reboot for the mind(set)!

Such events connect you to the people who think, look and act differently. And you learn from them. C’mon, when you listen to a strip dancer who is an investor now – that’s awesome! You hear other people’s ideas and they bring new ones to your own head. You can’t get this sitting in your own shell. Even when you have an established business, opening your mind to new opportunities and living a startup life is always a breathtaking idea.

I won’t list here all the outcomes from the Summit here. Not because I don’t have them – visa versa, the phone is fully packed with hand-written notes. But they need digestion and implementation in real life. That’s why the next day after the event we are sitting with Stanislav G., sharing thoughts, refactoring pitch decks, changing plans and taking action. Love this process.

Our journey continues, this Autumn we’ll showcase our products at Web Summit, Moldova Business Week 2022 and even more 😉

Dely.IO, Viar.Live, FusionWorks, ARRR!

PIRATE Summit kicks off today! And while we are waiting for news and insights from Tomas Lekavičius , we are sharing a video about how the preparations for this event went 🏴 ☠️
What is special about this event? How was the selection for speakers? How is the preparation for the announcement coming along?
Tom will hold a practical workshop tomorrow on the future of learning from managers, business owners, perspectives – how to manage the human factor in your organization, how to have more strategic and daily clarity and prepare for an unpredictable bye for the duck?

One of the best events of the year!

#StandWithUkraine🇺🇦
⚡️Last week we visited Cologne to attend the 10th PIRATE Summit – Europe’s largest invitation-only conference for early-stage startups, investors, and corporate executives.

On the first day of the Summit, 3 Ukrainian founders participated in the walk-the-plank pitch competition: Alyona Mysko 🇺🇦 from Fuelfinance, Karolina Attspodina 🇺🇦 from We Do Solar, and Julia Ovcharenko 🇺🇦 from Numo ADHD. And Karolina Attspodina became the winner of the 2022! Congrats!

During the second day, our tech ambassadors presented how they tackled the wartime challenges, scaling up, and also discussed “What are the best ways to support the Ukrainian tech ecosystem right now?”: Ihor Ovcharenko, Olga Afanasyeva, Lyubov Guk, Alyona Mysko 🇺🇦, Anastasia Sylenok.

Insights by the participants:
🎙Lyubov Guk, London-based Blue Lake VC: My message to the investment community was simple – invest in Ukrainian founders today, do not wait until ‘after the war’. Some of the founders fled, and some stayed in the country, but all of them have something in common – they keep building and delivering incredible results regardless of what is happening in their home country.

🎙Andrii Degeler, Head of Media at TNW: Ukraine definitely had a significant presence in the agenda at this year’s Pirate Summit, including a side event and several great talks and campfires. An issue I’ve noticed is that the Ukrainian tech ecosystem is becoming just another element in the long list of “endangered” ones, and in doing so loses the nuance and distinctiveness.

TechUkraine personally thanks Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ and all PIRATE Summit team for partnership, special invitations, attention, and support for Ukraine!🇺🇦

👉Read more via the reportage: https://lnkd.in/dhNBbSNb

With Oleksandra Samokhina Ivan Kychatyi Nikita Overchyk Vlady Berezina Dimitriy Kukharev

I just finished my workshop for an international group of entrepreneurs, investors and innovators.

We dove deeper into topics such as leadership, learning, future-proofing our companies and making the world a better place to live for generations to come.

PIRATE Summit is truly an experience to remember.

Carefully crafted for connection, inspiration, and learning, this summit is just a different breed.

So excited and happy to be able to share my insights and create space for others to build more clarity and certainty in their lives and business.

If you are looking for more clarity in your daily actions towards the things that truly matter to you as a leader, entrepreneur or high performer – I’m your guy.

Passion. That’s what drives me as a founder and keeps me pushing to have an #impact. For years, I have been following my passion and gut feeling – whether it’s choosing my educational career, doing music and sports or building businesses.

At this year’s PIRATE Summit, I have met many #founders and #investors that are here for a higher purpose, to tackle the most pressing needs of our society, from climate over social to educational problems. Sometimes, people complain that as an individual, you can’t have an impact. Well, as founders and investors, we are in a great position to actually make a difference on scale by building on multiplicator effects to create an impact.

What I love about entrepreneurship is that there is not just this 1 way of doing it and getting into it. When you follow your #passion, you can make things work. Don’t be scared of taking risks. That’s what I also talked about with Eko Fresh, a German rapper with a passion for music turning into an entrepreneur to support the own roots with their Cologne-based startup Liefertürke. It may only take one inspiration to light the fires in others.

It’s already been a week! I’m glad to participate with Ondrej Svoboda and Vincent Chauvet at the PIRATE Summit in Cologne.

It was a great two days, I got to meet great entrepreneurs in a fantastic environment!

During the event, I was able to confirm that there is a real need that Start in France can meet.

I’m proud to have been part of the Pirate Summit staff for this 10th edition and a big thanks to the whole team! 👏🏴‍☠️

PIRATE Summit, thank you for the chance to speak to your tribe, Thank you for accumulating such brave, mindful souls in one place.

Thank you for doing it differently — for having conversations that we all need to have, for breaking open doors that we need to if we not just only want to raise ourselves, but use our leadership to improve communities around the world.

We need to talk about the inner leadership, the mental health aspect of entrepreneurship, the regeneration of our communities, and the responsibility of each of us to find ways to give back to mother nature.

On another note, it felt incredible to be back on stage after the pandemic and nurturing newborns for a few years. Excited to bring more somatic leadership and nervous system health for leaders workshops to communities near and far soon.

Onward!

cc Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ – all the love and respect to you for continuously showing up and bringing people together.

Here we go again! 🏴‍☠️ Our next stop is PIRATE Summit!
10 years of ARRR! 💥
🕛 6-7th September 2022
📍 Cologne, Germany
🤝 Stanislav and Eamonn will be there
📩 Get it touch: stanislav@tera.vc or eamonn@tera.vc

Schüttflix is there when the startup association stops at cologne on the PIRATE Summit on its tour through Germany. Are you guys too? Don’t miss out when Dr. Niklas Helleman NOMOO , Rebecca Göckel SoSafe and Nils Klose of Schüttflix tell their startup stories and look forward to extensive networking over delicious drinks.
We look forward to meeting you there. Go here to register:

We were happy to be part of this year’s PIRATE Summit with our Venture Services by KPMG team in the good old tradition. As always, it was an awesome celebration of entrepreneurship and a truly unique event with creative minds and a very relaxed atmosphere.

Our colleagues Simon Arsenidis and Julian Gockel hosted the Masterclass Looking for gold – A treasure map to successful business planning. They showed how founders can professionalize their business plan and enhance investor reporting. Feel free to check this out under the following link:

https://lnkd.in/dEUc-79T

A big #ARRR goes to the whole PIRATEx crew and of course, to Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ for making this happen for the 10th time now – congratulations!

Dr. Ian Maywald, Dr. Frank Kafka, Florian Merkel, Simon Arsenidis, Julian Gockel, Julia Joy Fey, Lena Weidenbusch, Sophie Diczig, Alexandra Marchl, Ehsan Allahyar Parsa, Stefan T., Tanja Oswald

Wow! 10 years of PIRATE Summit

I am very happy that I will be there at least on the second day or evening.

The people and the atmosphere are really great and I get to know great people every time!

Probs and a strong Aaaaarrrr go out to the whole organization team!

In the last 10 years, I’ve mostly seen a very dull picture at industry events: primarily male speakers, primarily male crowd of attendees. This has been changing but not fast enough.

The agenda of PIRATE Summit looks refreshing: so many wonderful female speakers will share their expertise, stories and wisdom. I wish more conferences would go an extra mile and curate such a diverse agenda!

I couldn’t help celebrate this and organised a female speaker breakfast to kick off the summit.

It was a pleasure meeting & exploring collaboration opportunities with hundreds of tech entrepreneurs, thought leaders at PIRATE Summit, Cologne. Thanks to the entire PIRATE Summit Crew for inviting us and for organizing the brilliant event. It was amazing event for the entire Person8.ai team.

🏴 ☠️♥️ #GIVEGIVEGIVEASK

On my way to Cologne 🔜 #PirateSummit 💪🏼

#FemaleEntrepreneurs are underrepresented in the #Tech & #Startup scene. For this reason, the PIRATE Summit team has launched a #FemaleFounders Program: 25 female founders are given the opportunity to participate in Cologne, to network and to represent 🔥 their startup.

With nuwo., I am also lucky enough to be 🙏🏻🙃 part of the program this year Thank you, PIRATE Summit

See you in Cologne!

P.S. Which of the house rules do you like best? 😜
🏴 ☠️ Everyone is a VIP
🏴 ☠️ No BS
🏴 ☠️ GiveGiveGiveAsk
🏴 ☠️ ARRR

Pitching Fuel, promoting Ukraine & first time crying on the stage

On the first day of PIRATE Summit I was pitching Fuelfinance. 3 minutes for pitch and 2 min for questions from investors. It was a great new experience for me.

On the second day, I was a speaker and shared the story about Fuel rebuilding in tough times. We made a great presentation with our marketing team. We combined all practical lessons learned about financial and team management during the crisis. I shared our secrets on how to boost revenue 2x times in several months and increase the runway up to 9-12 months.

In the end, I had a slide that the main reason we could do all these things is the bravery of the Ukrainian Armed Forces 🇺🇦. They are fighting for the freedom of Europe. And on that slide, I unexpectedly started to cry. After 6 months of staying strong, this emotion was like a splash. And I suddenly realized that I was on that stage also because of their bravery. I was able to stop only because the next slides were about the way to support Ukraine.

Huge gratitude to our Ukrainian Armed Forces who pushing russian troops back these days. You are the bravest people in the world. And an example for me of how to fight for what you love.

Stand with Ukraine. Слава Україні🇺🇦

We – well represented by our Maximilian – are currently at a great event in Cologne – the PIRATE Summit.

This year, the focus is not only on what makes companies better, but also on how people can grow as people. #RaiseYourself

We are here in an environment where people can engage in meaningful ways, renew old friendships, start new ones, and simply be themselves.

In order to be able to maintain new friendships even after the event, we of course share our contact details very quickly with each other through our digital business cards. This saves us the tedious typing of contact data and allows us to focus on the people and on our further education and enjoy the event to the fullest.
Maximilian, how many times have you shown our beautiful cards? 🙂

What #Events are you facing in the near future?

Celine, Janna and I are today the second day at the PIRATE Summit 🏴 ☠️ 2022 🥳 We are really looking forward to it, because the kick-off yesterday was already really strong! 🔥🔥

My highlights PIRATE Summit #RaiseYourself so far:

– Kristina Walcker-Mayer on the topic Staying sane during crisis. So authentic and really impressive to hear from the side, thank you 🙏
– The BURN🔥 What a show!! Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️
– A lot of startup power from Ostwestfalen-Lippe: Marcel (saasmetrix ), Sina (FINDIQ ), Lena & Anna (inngo GmbH ), Melvin (Recommendy ). 🔥
– Founders Foundation gGmbH Love ❤️ : Stephan, Joyce, Anna-Luisa, Leo, Simon, Selena, Dana, Marius, Emilia, Nils, Annika

I definitely take some inspiration and motivation from day 1 with me. And now: Let Day 2 begin! 🧘🏽‍♀️

P.S. To all Future Founders: This afternoon from 5:30 p.m. we will continue in Bielefeld with the next highlight: Our Tech Lab with Sebastian Kortmann. 🚀🚀

Now it’s been a few days and I hope to find the right words to describe this great event.
The PIRATE Summit 2022!

The hopeful expectations of my first participation in the #PirateSummit were blown up🔥 excessively.
I am still overwhelmed by such a colorful range of input, discussions, #Pitches, music, wellness, action, #Netzwerken and the mass of exciting people from #startups and around!
Thank you, PirateSummit and speakers, for the inspiring lectures on topics such as #inclusiveness in companies, #creativity and #resilience, #deepwork, #financing and and and ..
Amazing was the supporting program 😁 !
I am so happy about the many new contacts and great conversations 🥰
I leave the event with a big smile, with many valuable thoughts and ideas, contacts and the huge desire to be there again next year!
Possibly, Alexandra Petrikat, it means #walktheplank 🏴 ☠️ for us!

PS: Tim Schumacher, thank you for bringing the event to our attention 🙏

„Carefully crafted for connection, inspiration and learning” – so lautete das Motto des @piratesummit , den wir hautnah miterleben durften. Inmitten inspirierender und kreativer Atmosphäre wurden dort die Sieger des OUT OF THE BOX-Awards, den wir seit 3 Jahren mit unserem Partner @tas_agentur begleiten, bekannt gegeben.

Der #OOTBNRW wird von @wirtschaftnrw ausgelobt, die #boxontour von der @nrw.bank gesponsert.

Den Gewinn der Preisgelder in Höhe von insgesamt 50.000 Euro durften die Start-ups Accure Battery Intelligence, @companyon_analytics und @everwave.official von der NRW-Wirtschaftsministerin @monaneubaur entgegennehmen. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🥳

Wir als Besucher:innen haben die spannenden Pitches live mitverfolgt und konnten uns zudem an guter Musik, an leckerem Essen und an der mitreißenden Stimmung erfreuen.

What a night! 🥳
We made the 3rd place at the OUT OF THE BOX.NRW award. This was the fantastic ending to an inspiring PIRATE Summit 2022.

Pitching there, is the easiest part of what everwave is doing, so our whole team should stand on that stage!🌊

Thanks to the fantastic #PIRATESummit team around Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️. Year by year, you guys create a special place to come together.

And of course, congrats to the well deserved winner Dr. Kai-Philipp Kairies – great job!

Unique location, great atmosphere and authentic exchange – the PIRATE Summit is a great startup conference! 🏴‍☠️

It was with great pleasure that I gave a Masterclass on Business Planning together with Julian Gockel and introduced the founders to how they are supported by the KPMG Startup Finance App.

Congratulations to Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ and the whole PIRATEx team for the successful event. You have created a real market for doers!

A big #ARRR to my pirates Florian Merkel Dr. Ian Maywald Lena Weidenbusch Julia Joy Fey Julian Gockel Tanja Oswald Sophie Diczig Ehsan Allahyar Parsa Stefan, Alexandra and the team of Venture Services by KPMG 🏴 ☠️

I don’t have time for that, I always thought. As a #solopreneur, you are the entire team yourself and have to use your own capacities effectively. So I didn’t participate in any networking or pitching events for almost a year and worked in silence. That was a mistake.

Start-ups need attention and founders need the exchange with like-minded people.

On the #xathon of Henkel dx I got input & feedback from Dr. Jeremy Schönwälder Dr. Salima Douven Louisa Verch Jutta Jakobi (thank you💚) got to know one of my idols Tijen Onaran and meet founders who like to try out every Margarita in Kreuzberg as much as I 🥂 🥂🥂like Cheers to Selina R. Ochsner Caitlin Rozario Will Webster Sara Wach Marta Łącka 🥂🥂🥂

David Oudsandji & other start-ups pitching at the PIRATE Summit finally gave me the necessary impulse to sit down on my own slides and become more visible.

So much inspiration and exciting new contacts console over the fact that the inbox explodes and the work of a whole week piles up on the desk (insert nervously smiling emoji here).

Attending the PIRATE Summit 2022….most chilled out event of my life!😁🥳🥳
AAAARRRRR!😉😁😉😁😉😁😉

In a few days the 10th edition of PIRATE Summit will take place in Cologne, Germany
Big brother of the #StartupSafariParis event for which we managed Press Relations in 2019, it’s a 2-day meeting of business leaders and #investors.
The goal is to create a community where #entrepreneurs help each other.
On the agenda: Fire Camp (small group discussion), Clinics (peer feedback on a specific issue) and Masterclass.
An opportunity to create interesting collaborations while having a friendly time in a Rock’n Roll atmosphere! 🤝
Register here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dqPWQiwA
et September 6 and 7, 2022
📍 Cologne
💲 from €250 (everything is taken care of on site)
👍 Write to Ondrej Svodoba to get a discount code: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osvoboda/
rend How to get there? Take the 3:40 train from Paris.

A huge passion of mine to tell our founder story and to share my previous experiences and learnings with others. 🍦💚

Thank you Startup-Verband Association for the invitation to 10 years PIRATE Summit. 🔥

Also present were Niklas Hellemann from SoSafe and Nils Klose from Schüttflix – two incredibly strong entrepreneurs. ✌🏻

Both entrepreneurs conduct incredible scale-ups in the middle of Cologne and have developed solutions that are of international relevance. 🚀

SoSafe is committed to more safety in companies, against cybercrime and Schüttflix is starting to digitize the entire construction industry, starting with the topic (matching the name) bulk goods: sand, gravel, gravel.

I am totally inspired by these now so big scale-ups and that gives me once again motivation to go forward, according to the motto: Go big or go home! 🔥💃🏻🚀

As I’m packing my bags to board the train to Amsterdam, I just wanted to share the adventure I’ve had in Cologne at PIRATE Summit 10-Year Anniversary! 🏴‍☠️

Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️, Michelle George, Daniel Lösch & the whole team behind this – THANK YOU! This was not a conference, it was an opportunity to reconnect, learn & grow! 🖤

The most magical thing about the event is the give, give, give, get mindset everyone joins it with. During the event, I (and everyone I met) were all ears for opportunities to lift up and support fellow pirates, and that’s not your typical conference mindset…

It’s an adventure that will encourage to breathe deeper, open up, feel vulnerable, cry a bit, share your journey, make new friends, get a back massage and then shoot some rubber ducks 😅

Filled with love and gratefulness to have had the opportunity to be part of it! So, here are some snaps of the adventures we’ve had 🖤🖤🖤

Last week I had the great honour to give the closing keynote at PIRATE Summit, the event at which the Plan A journey kicked off three years ago, and to celebrate 10 years of Pirate Summit.

And such a celebration couldn’t have been possible without the one and only Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️.

I have continuously been impressed by the humility, kindness, dedication he has demonstrated throughout the years, in effort to continue pushing for the tech industry to be more inclusive, diverse and human.

Congratulations on yet another year where the future of tech defined!

🇺🇦2 days at the 10th 🇩🇪PIRATE Summit in Cologne, Germany, a conference specifically designed for entrepreneurs focusing on real-life experiences, authentic connections, and peer learning. The unique perspective of thinking out of the box, inspiration (even during wartime), and insights from global enablers.

Proud of our tech leaders who represented the country’s resilience and startup’s firmness for global audience (Alyona Mysko 🇺🇦) how tech helps in the battlefield (Olga Afanasyeva) spreading the word about the war and the ways to #StandWithUkraine and support Ukrainian tech (Lyubov Guk, Igor Ovcharenko).

At the walk-the-plank pitch competition 3 brave female founders from Ukraine took the stage, became the finalists and won – bravo, Karolina Attspodina 🇺🇦! They are unstoppable and as courageous as our defenders🇺🇦

▪️Karolina Attspodina from We Do Solar 🏆
▪️Julia Ovcharenko 🇺🇦 from Numo ADHD
▪️Alyona Mysko from Fuelfinance

…All of us do all we can during the hardest times of these months: fighting on all possible frontiers, supporting our army via donations, growing, developing, scaling, and enhancing our products and services.

The tech industry demonstrates remarkable fortitude, leadership and it’s all about people: Oleksandr Kosovan Aleksandr Konotopskyi Yaroslav Azhnyuk Stepan Veselovskyi Artem Borodatyuk Oleg Gorokhovskyi Dima Shvets Valery Krasovsky Dr. Yegor Aushev and many others absolutely outstanding Ukrainian founders who keep working, driven by a passion for supporting the teams and country in the toughest times.

We haven’t another choice – just to double the efforts to protect our people, defend the values of democracy, save the country, defeat the enemy and gain victory to become a successful example of improvement and leading innovative nation worldwide.

We must overcome the russian devil and win! Staying strong and keeping on track!

PS. Was glad to see Andrii Degeler Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ Mike Butcher MBE (metaverse & business) and all great people who #StandWithUkraine

Exactly a week ago, the PIRATE Summit started.

As always it was an amazing experience. A place where you are invited to come as you are, where the individual human being comes first – business after.

It’s hard to pack everything in words, you have to feel it, to really understand.
This year we had a chance:
– To icebath with Maarten Hemmen, feeling the cold, letting go of masks and seeing to the bottom of your true self.
– To learn with Ben Grümer about benefits of barefoot walking and the impact on our health.
– To listen to inspiring leaders about resilience, handling chaos and your inner resources Zivile Einikyte Péter Kovács Kristina Walcker-Mayer
– To discuss topics around inclusion with Rachel Dowling, Theo Smith – The ND Evangelist and Christophe Bruchansky
– To learn from Genna Elvin and Krish Subramanian some insights on how to set your startup for success

It was also great to have the Luxembourgish delegation present! Mikael Da Silva Ivo Silva Andra Fola Silicon Luxembourg Matias Mäenpää Genna Elvin

There’s been a ton of other things to do, discuss and take-away.
It was amazing to meet so many like-minded people and I am looking forward to next year’s edition!

Thanks one more time to the whole team and all the supporters, it was amazing to work towards the PIRATE Summit together! Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️Lisa Büscher Daniel Lösch Veronica Castellano Hannah Berkemeier Christina Bauer Sandro Santini Linda Bozzi

A really great event this PIRATE Summit. I liked it so much that the No BS rule was adhered to really well and you had great and above all real conversations. I am happy about every new contact I have made and now follow the respective journeys very excitedly. for me, #raiseyourself and #livablefuture are two things that absolutely belong together. In order to shape a future worth living, we have to develop personally for the most part and in return we should also develop further in order to be able to enjoy such a livable future appropriately. Thank you Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ for the great speech on Tuesday, I just let myself be carried away. And thanks to the whole BRYCK.COM team, those were two real good days

2 days spent on the PIRATE Summit and I have to say… I am excited. 🔥

My colleague Eugen Tschernov from STARTPLATZ I think summed it up well: The event found a good balance between professionalism and looseness. I only agree with that. 👏

I was not only able to get to know many inspiring people, great stories and interesting #startups during the last 2 days, but also to be able to take a lot of content with me through the keynotes and workshops. ✨

Thank you dear Pirate #team and see you next year. 😎

AAAAAAR! Two days of inspiring panels, lots of input and just really nice people have come to an end. Thank you, PIRATE Summit for this experience.

It was my very first time at Odonien and I literally had no idea what to expect. I’ve never been to an business event, where networking was that easy and where l you could literally wait in line for a massage and get in contact with startups from all over the world.

Thank you and see you next year, pirates!

NRW – the land of coal? Not for a long time. Founders have long been taking off here with their business ideas. And we are right in the middle of it. For the finale of the OUT OF THE BOX Award of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, we were on the road yesterday at the PIRATE Summit in Cologne. There, the 10 best start-ups from #NRW pitched for the coveted #OOTBAward and thrilled the audience with their #digitalbusiness. In the end, ACCURE Battery Intelligence secured 1st place ahead of Companyon Analytics GmbH and everwave a prize money of € 25,000. As part of the application phase for the final, we accompanied the award and the preliminary round of the finalists with our partners from vE&K Werbeagentur GmbH & Co. KG communicatively.

Great lectures, amazing location and lots of Arrr.

Finally I have time to look back over the two days of the PIRATE Summit
It was my first time and I am very happy that the Università di Trento made it possible for us to participate.
The Pirate Summit is not just a conference, it is much more.

It is a fun opportunity to live in an out-of-the-box, creative and inclusive context.

I would like to thank all the PEOPLE (experts) who allowed me to gain new knowledge and discover realities about one of my favourite fields, entrepreneurship.

I was impressed by the way the staff organised talks and sessions; even as a student, I had the pleasure of following them as part of a common environment. Indeed, it has been extremely easy doing what I love, interacting with people.

Thank you to everyone for sharing your experiences, advice and for the conversations we had.

I look forward to the next one… with the aim of participating as an entrepreneur ☠️🏴‍☠️

About last week.. turtle moments at the pirate summit 2022 in Cologne 🏴 ☠️🫶 As a startup, the exchange with others is super important for us – and the best thing is: at the Pirate Summit, as you can see, we also had a lot of fun!

We were also able TO TELL YOU THANK YOU that things are going very well with us and that the turtle family continues to grow ❤️ every month We were and are really incredibly proud of this! Thank you for everything!

The PIRATE Summit was a very inspiring experience 🏴 ☠️

In addition to valuable keynotes and impressive pitches, there was ice bathing, meditation, drumming, singing lessons and lots of interesting people! I even met a musician colleague. I’m already looking forward to the next time ✌🏼

This month we continue with Bits & Pretzels and Hands On Data (HOD). I’m looking forward to seeing old and new faces!

As it’s now almost a tradition, I’m so proud to lead the comms efforts for our Social Ventures Program and support our 2022 winner, We Do Solar. Looking at the fantastic (solar☀️😆) energy of this great team, I have great hopes for our future energy transition process!

On top of this great kick-off, yesterday We Do Solar and their inspiring CEO Karolina Attspodina 🇺🇦 won the pitch competition at PIRATE Summit. I mean, speaking of having a busy week 🔥🔥

This takes me back to 2020 when BCGDV supported Plan A and their team headed by the incredible Lubomila Jordanova had recently won Pirate Summit. And look where they are now! 👏

This event was really OUT OF THE BOX and thus the perfect setting for the #OOTBNRW Award final at the 10th anniversary of the PIRATE Summit. A very special event that attracts international audiences and top speakers with its individuality: inside from all over the world and brings them to #Nrw.

Big compliments to Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ and Felix Josephi for the courage to bring this event back to this size after 3 years! Great pitches and speakers combined in a program that not only had a lot of #impactthatmatters this year, but also a lot of great #femalefounders to offer.

After three years it was finally time yesterday and we were able to experience the first final finally live in Cologne. Together with our partners from vE&K Werbeagentur GmbH & Co. KG, with whom we have developed the out-of-the-box concept as well as the associated communication, brand and website and accompanied them over the last three years, we were finally able to get personally carried away by this event!!!

Many thanks to Christian Dinnus and his great team around Katja Morawitz and Dennis Zachau who make this project possible in the first place and for the once again very trusting cooperation on the way to this year’s final!

Many thanks also to the NRW.BANK, who supported this special award format for the best digital #startups from NRW from the very beginning.

I would like to congratulate the three winners of ACCURE Battery Intelligence (1st), Companyon Analytics GmbH (2nd), and everwave (3rd), who deserved to be ahead this year and with whom we were able 😉 to make the dance floor unsafe at the crowning finale #OOTB #AAAR

About last week… turtle moments at the pirate summit 2022 in cologne 🏴 ☠️ richtig As a startup, the exchange with others is super important for us – and the best part is: at the Pirate Summit we had a lot of fun, as you can see! We could also say THANK YOU that things are going very well with us and the turtle family continues to grow every month ❤️ We were and are really incredibly proud of it! Thank you guys for everything! #mitwachsendesfotoalbum #fotoabo #köln with @koelnbusiness #odonien sponsored by @piratesummit #femalefounder – thank you also for this great opportunity!

This week, I had the great pleasure to attend the one and only PIRATE Summit in Cologne again – my favourite startup conference because the community and the team are incredible! The 10th edition should have happened in 2020 already, now it was finally time and it was fantastic to meet old and new friends, reflect about everything which has happened since the last event in 2019 and what the future might bring.

Thank you Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ and the whole fabulous PIRATE Summit crew! You made a lot of people very happy – it means a lot to the community that you did this again, against all odds and difficulties. We love you!

🏴 ☠️☠🦜 ARRRRRR!!! 🏝 Pirates in #Köln? But yes! 🏴‍☠️☠🦜

The PIRATE Summit celebrates its 10th anniversary and Die Techniker is present at probably one of the most exciting startup events in #NRW.With ❤🤍💚 the Cologne Odonien, the artist Odo Rumpf has created a unique combination of open-air studio, workshop, venue and cultural center. Perfect for a two-day late summer event where #Startup pioneering spirit meets international #Networking opportunity. 🎉

My Bochum startup consultant colleague Lars Boermann and I supported our Rhinelander colleagues Katharina Gerkum Gerkum and Kirsten Bahr on site at the #Summit kick-off on 6 September 2022. On September 7, 2022, my Essen colleague Jonathan Wasner will also be at the start.

At the Men/Women-Power on site and at over 30 degrees, the founders and #Startups have the opportunity to inform themselves about the topics Legal #Krankenversicherung and #Sozialversicherung for founders. 🤓

It goes without saying that our TK-SocialPizza should not be missing. 🍕🍕🍕🍕

But that’s not all! A TK brewerage bike 🚲 invited the guests to try out Infused Water 🍇🥭🍍🍉 in a variety of flavors. A great and healthy alternative to soft drinks.

If you wanted to do something for the sporty #Fitness 💪 and are #VR-affine, you had the chance to prove yourself on the ICAROS 🛩 , the virtual flight simulator controlled by #Muskelkraft and #Balance.

It was a lot of fun for all of us and even better: Valuable contacts were made in the #Startupszene NRW.

Many thanks to the valuable conversations, exchanges and for getting to know each other😃: Ersin Üstün from BRYCK.COM, Lisa Rosa Bräutigam from nuwo. and Mattis Kloepper from SipTogether

By the way: If you still have an appetite for #Pizza, you are welcome to visit our startup founders offer on: https://socialpizza.tk.de/
You couldn’t be there and still have questions for us? Then feel free to send us a DM! 📬 We are looking forward to it! 💙

Greetings from your Die Techniker startup team 🙋 ♂️🙋 ♂️🙋 ♂️: Lars Boermann, Jonathan Wasner and Martin Sommer

#Abgeräumt: Dr. Kai-Philipp Kairies from startup ACCURE Battery Intelligence has brought the Out of the Box Award to Aachen! 🏆
And: 3 of the four best-placed startups come from #Aachen! 🥳🥳🥳

The Düsseldorf-based startup Companyon Analytics GmbH secured 2nd place – everwave and anny from Aachen took 3rd and 4th place. 🎉

Congratulations to the teams!

ARRR 🔥 — I really like being on the road again in the #startupszene I was out and about today for @lxrckt and @piratesummit on the @muydozo in cologne and I met a few familiar faces and many new inspiring founders. You rock: #piratesummit @ben_gruemer @ekofreezy 🚀 And pizza first — cheers to @dropfriends.app and happy happy birthday from me! Thank you! 💛

Crazy conference

What a week in the #STARTPLATZ! From Startup Breakfast to Female Modern Work Tour to Startup BBQ! Well, who was there for everything? 😉

🥐 On Tuesday we were able to host the Web de Cologne Startup Breakfast & welcome many companies, startups & people of the #Digitalwirtschaft from the Cologne region, and as a special guest the SBC – Slovenian Business Club, in the STARTPLATZ.
To this end, Jan Hecker from SipTogether & Tom Simon from hyfive lab shared their startups & #Gründungserfahrungen with us.
Thanks to our loyal STARTPLATZ supporter Richard C. Geibel for the moderation & to Nesrin Nazik for the great organization. As always, an extremely valuable exchange!

🌍 On Wednesday we went on Female Modern Work Tour! After the stimulating interview between founder Lea Kötschau and the author Anna Schnell about her book The Modern Work Tour – A World Tour into the Future of Our Work, the more than 60 participants exchanged views on Modern Work principles in small groups. Finally, a lively panel discussion on the topics of #ModernWork & #FemaleEntrepreneurship followed with Anna Schnell, gender scientist & founder Dr. Marie-Christine Frank (Drei Brueder Kommunikation und Beratung & #MACHERINNEN_CGN Netzwerk ) & TIGGES Rechtsanwälte partner Micaela Schork, LL.M. Schork – led by Synnous Consulting GmbH founder & VdU – Landesverband Rheinland | Verband deutscher Unternehmerinnen e.V. board member Martha Giannakoudi.

We would like to thank the organizer Verband deutscher Unternehmerinnen e.V. (VdU) & the supporters Synnous Consulting GmbH & TIGGES Rechtsanwälte for the successful cooperation!
A very special thank you goes to the numerous participants who made an inspiring exchange possible and lived. We look forward to welcoming you back to THE STARTING PLACE! 💚

🍻 After part of the team also got to know exciting startups & people at the PIRATE Summit, we kicked off the well-deserved end of the week yesterday at the monthly startup BBQ.

We wish you a well-deserved relaxing weekend!

Best summit ever!

#StandWithUkraine🇺🇦
⚡️Large Ukrainian delegation at the 10th PIRATE Summit in 🇩🇪Cologne, Germany!
During the second day of the conference, Ukrainian tech ambassadors presented the resilience and potential of the country’s innovation sector:
🎙Lyubov Guk, Founding partner of London-based Blue Lake VC, shared the opinion of why it’s so important to invest in Ukrainian startups now: “it’s actual impact investments for the future.”
🎙Alyona Mysko shared insights about the hard-earned lessons from growing Fuelfinance X2 in three months during wartime: “Priorities: safety of the team; help Ukraine win the war; keep growing and build company.”
🎙Olga Afanasyeva, Head of Kyiv Branch Office at ELEKS, overviewed the technologies that helps Ukraine during wartime: drone army, meta history museum of war, sirens gallery, etc.
🎙Ihor Ovcharenko, Founder & CEO at Scal8R, during the discussion “What are the best ways to support the Ukrainian tech ecosystem right now?” said: “Keep investing in Ukrainuan startups, Spend With Ukraine – buy products and services by Ukrainian creative minds, support founders, spread the word about war.”
Huge thanks to Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ and all team for special invitations, attention and support for Ukraine!
Everything is TECHable with Ukraine!
We will definitely win!🇺🇦

Wow what a great event it was, thanks PIRATE Summit i.e. Manuel Koelman 🏴‍☠️ & team for making this possible!

Met amazing founders from Ukraine🇺🇦, Latvia🇱🇻, Romania🇷🇴, Kosovo🇽🇰, Moldova🇲🇩, Poland🇵🇱.

CEE is taking over!

It was great to catch up Mike Butcher MBE Martin Olczyk Ana Wolsztajn Marvin Liao Igor Ovcharenko Mendim Avdyli Mary Nemciuc, Marta Łącka

and spend extra time with our SMOK Ventures portfolio founders Dorota Rymaszewska Paulina Wardęga Piotr Chomczyk Leszek Wolany Maciej Lotkowski

Till next time!

Here are some interesting highlights from our workshop at PIRATE Summit. 🏴‍☠️

Thank you to #PIRATESummit for creating such a collaborative environment and encouraging innovative ideas, ARRR! Also to those who came to our workshop to learn about wondder’s vision of Empowering people through #VirtualReality training.

When was the last time you were YOURSELF? 😳 In a world where we encounter so much ‘fake’ every day, we long for #Authentizität & #Echtheit 🙇🏼 ♀️ Just being yourself is often easier said than done. On social media, in exchange with the supervisor, at the job interview we want to show our best side. Even in our private lives, we often take on a role, often unconsciously. zusammen As a place for people to connect & bring together, away from superficialities, this is what @piratesummit looks like ✨ A place to truly connect people ,🏼 Exactly this claim, makes the PIRATE Summit a #Konferenz, that feels somehow different. 🙃 Thanks for a great event with exciting connections & the great organization dear 🏴 ☠️ Pirate-Team 👏🏼 #RaiseYourself @nuwo.co #FemaleFounder 🚀

PIRATE Summit 2022 was awesome. Amygdala Health pitched and walked the plank, met some great founders and expanded our network . A big thank you to the organizers celebrating their 10 year anniversary. It was fantastic to be a part of the the group of 24 startups that were part of the walk the plank challenge. We are looking forward to some deals in the German market.

PIRATE Summit was a great celebration of female entrepreneurship and real problem solver.
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The PIRATE Summit 2022 was inspiring. I had interesting discussions and met interesting companies and made new contacts.

One thing I realized, the focus on sustainability is all around, which is necessary. A lot of amazing product ideas I discovered at this event.

I am looking forward to follow up with people I connected here.

The 🏴 ☠️ #PIRATESummit is by far the most extraordinary startup event in NRW, which impresses me every year again and again. Here a real exchange takes place in a special atmosphere. And at #10YearsOfArrr, the large number of #FemaleFounders and startups in the field of #Sustainability and #Impact was very noticeable, which shows a very clear positive trend! 🌱👏🏽

🥞 The #BREAKFASTFORCHAMPIONS, hosted by Capnamic, xdeck & neoteq ventures, was also a great opportunity to exchange ideas with other investors and VCs.

🚀 #StartupVerbandonTour: As a Startup-Verband, we were also allowed to make a program contribution and brought three really strong startups from #NRW. Many thanks to the exciting stories of SoSafe, NOMOO and Schüttflix – we are very proud of your rapid ascent, keep it up!

🏆 At the #OOTBAward, ten more great start-ups were presented, which are just a small sample of what North Rhine-Westphalia actually has to offer!

📑 If only we would finally manage to overcome the bureaucratic & long-winded hurdles in Germany, imagine how many #Startups could be created even more and be successful… – in my opinion a very nice thought! 😳