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Here it is. The speech at the Last Burn. The video is made by our friends of Interactive Pioneers. The digital brand studio has been […]
Ahoy! We invite you to a playground – a pirate ship! Let’s sail into a deep ocean, overcoming fear, turning curiosity into action to make […]
This is it. It’s time to bid farewell to PIRATE Summit. For over a decade, we’ve brought entrepreneurs from all over Europe and beyond to […]
After an intensive selection process, we are happy to announce that from all the applications, we have 25 startups from 16 different countries around the […]
🏴☠️PIRATE Summit 2023 is coming up. 🏴☠️ ⏳ It is less than 60 days left to the Burn. 🔥🔥 Here’s a sneak peek into what […]
Remember Hyperjob, the startup from Latvia that was a finalist at last year’s Walk-The-Plank pitch competition? Well, it turns out that Hyperjob received funding from […]
Last PIRATE Summit, we finally got an opera singer to perform right before the Burn. The mood was a bit different from what we had […]
One of our biggest misses over the years was that we only had very few recap videos of the events themselves. One video we still […]
In three weeks, the infamous Cologne Carnival starts again. For five days, the city will go completely crazy. Over 1 million people will come to […]
How are you? How often did you hear that phrase today? What did you answer? “Good”? “Not bad”? “I am fine”? “Doing all right”? Something […]
We’re thrilled to announce the founders & startups that will Walk the Plank on Sept. 6th at PIRATE Summit 2022! 🏴☠️ The line-up is very […]
Who is PIRATE Summit for? You are the captain of your life. After all, life is a possibility. It is what you make of […]
At the beginning of the year we wrote down some thoughts about the place of PIRATE Summit in the startup event world. This is what […]
What makes PIRATE Summit unique? 😎 Here are some things we have heard. 👇 🛤️ The location, our beloved Odonien! Some would say it’s […]
Beginning of this year, we sat down to reimagine PIRATE Summit in the twenties. 🤔 This slide probably visualizes best the shift we are […]
In the beginning of this year we discussed how we imagined an ideal description of PIRATE Summit. Here is what we wrote. 👇 You […]
At the beginning of the year we wrote down some guidelines for this year’s PIRATE Summit content. ✍️ We want to present fresh and […]
What a decade, huh? It’s 2022, and this already feels like one of the most tumultuous decades of our generation. PIRATE Summit last took place […]
Our house rules for the past 10 years have been: 🤝 First Name 😎 Everyone is a VIP (rephrasing this one from “VIP = […]
We finally settled on a theme for the 10th edition of PIRATE Summit: #SolveRealProblems. Why? Time is a limited resource, and we’d love to encourage […]
With a heavy heart but in the end inevitably we have to announce: Our 10th anniversary will be postponed to 2022! The world is probably […]
Diversity creates business opportunities. Therefore, since the beginning, we wanted the participants of PIRATE Summit to be united in their journey of entrepreneurship but diverse […]
Walk the Plank, Matey! – PIRATE Summit Pitch Competition It won’t be long before we celebrate the 10th edition at Odonien. Together we want to […]
PIRATE Week 2020 An entire week of ARRR! 22.06.–26.06.2020 In 2020 we will celebrate PIRATE Summit’s 10th edition. We will celebrate 10 years of meaningful connections, […]
#intheblack — Building a business on your own terms Why did you decide to become an entrepreneur? This simple question is harder to answer than it seems. There […]
*Important* message to our PIRATE community We never thought we’d have to write this post At PIRATE Summit we celebrate and encourage deep personal relationships. The […]
House Rules at PIRATE Summit Our motivation, which is consistent to the vision that shaped the very first PIRATE Summit in 2011, was and is to […]
tl;dr We’re launching our call for content: Propose experts, speaker and/or sessions for the upcoming PIRATE Summit here. To find out more about the changes […]
No PIRATE Christmas cards & presents this year Over the last years we have sent hundreds of Christmas cards and presents all across Europe. While it’s […]
The rise of local startup ecosystems or why we acquired Startup SAFARI In June we announced the acquisition of Startup SAFARI. Here is the backstory […]
