MEMORY WALL

It’s sorry to say goodbye to such a phenomenon as Pirate Summit. The community, the vibe, everything felt so warm and welcoming.

My first time at PIRATE Summit 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! 🦜🏴‍☠️

Thank you to PIRATE Summit for creating such a collaborative environment and encouraging innovative ideas, ARRR!

Congrats to this amazing PIRATE Summit 2018, Pirates!

Back to business filled up with good energy from PIRATE Summit! We had such a great time sharing with entrepreneurs and tech professionals.

Wow, what a performance at PIRATE Summit in Odonien. 🏴‍☠️🔥 We were all a bit nervous, but we had a great audience.🫶🏽

My 7th PIRATE Summit - out of 7 since 2011! Awesome as always!

One of the best events I have ever attended.

What a blast!

Top content, many new contacts, and a great atmosphere.

So PIRATE Summit absolutely rrrrocked – will be back next year to walk the plank!

My favorite startup conference because the community and the team are incredible!

Thanks for the inspiring insights and valuable connections.

Thank you for 7 years of PIRATE Summit, glad to have been at all of them.

Best startup event ever! Passionate team, great crowd, amazing location! Thanks to the PIRATE Summit team!

Burning man of the tech industry 🚀🚀🚀Proud to be a part of it! Amazing experience!

We look back on the last Burn with one laughing and one crying eye, especially thanking Manuel and the whole PIRATE crew for organizing it and hope that the unique spirit of the Pirate Summit lives on. ARRRRR.

Last week we attended the impressing PIRATE Summit! 🦜🏴‍☠️

ARRR 🔥 You rock: #piratesummit @ben\_gruemer @ekofreezy 🚀

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!

Speed dating, barbecue sessions, pitch competition at the captain’s deck, networking to the end and the burn ceremony at night. What a PIRATE Summit 🤙🏻

Love that at PIRATE Summit everyone is a VIP.

My first time as a PIRATE, I did not really know what to expect, and I am shocked…. In the best possible way. It was a fun, social, extraordinary, beautiful experience. Great people, great content in the most relaxed atmosphere you can think of. I’m sure I will be back.

The last Pirate Summit was spectacular and I met a lot of amazing people.

Just arrived at PIRATE Summit – definitely one of the top tech conferences in Europe.

Very refreshing and laid back event dedicated only for startups and VCs. We connected with a banking accelerator there! We would never expect that, taking into consideration that the whole concept of the show was super relaxed and the founders were pitching in shorts and t-shirts.

Amazing vibe at the PIRATE Summit in Cologne, together with founders and VCs around the world. From NFC to Web3 and human approach on leadership, I learnt how people across the world are doing great things using technology and having great impact in this wonderful world we are living. Met great people with great mindset. Couldn’t be more exiting to see what future holds!

Awesome as always!

For me a perfect combination of adventurousness, humour, and new insights.

Pitching Fuel, promoting Ukraine & first time crying on the stage On the first day of @piratesummit, I was pitching Fuelfinance. 3 minutes for pitch and 2 min for questions from investors. It was a great new experience for me.

PIRATE Summit was excellent, truly a special event with great people.

At PIRATE Summit it’s all about meaningful connections. Through various formats and activities they’ll ensure your personal networking experience. If you are looking to connect and learn from likeminded founders or are looking for capital/early stage startups, then PIRATE Summit is for you.

Two amazing days at the PIRATE Summit.

A big ARRR to all volunteers and organisers of PIRATE Summit. You rock!!

PIRATE Summit disrupts the (hierarchy) distance between startups and investors and brings them to eye level.

PIRATE Summit is such an amazing event. The entrepreneurial dream lives here.

Attending Pirate Summit is quite an extraordinary experience - participants from 60 different countries, unique location, interesting expert sessions, well coordinated pirate theme and relaxed atmosphere all add up to make this Europe’s largest invitation-only conference for early-stage startups, investors and corporate executives feel like a festival.

As I bid farewell to the electrifying PIRATE Summit and head back to Budapest, I’m fueled with an unwavering determination to craft products that redefine the norms.

Indeed, an essential part of Cologne will be missing. You have moved so much for start-ups in the area and all over the world.

This conference is ARRRmazing! Nothing to do with those 5000 people corporate conferences where you barely can meet the relevant people you want!

Thank you everyone for the amazing experience at the PIRATE Summit!

The most unbelievable entrepreneurship conference.

Thanks for all your hard work over the last decade to keep it alive. We basically grew our entrepreneurial life along PIRATE Summit and it’s tough to imagine a world without it. I’m sure we weren’t as far if PIRATE Summit wasn’t there. It created a lot of great connections and community that helped over the years.

Good energy, meaningful conversations, and a very chill, casual vibe overall.

“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!”

Hold on, we’re invited to be vulnerable at a tech conference?!

PIRATE Summit is an incredible opportunity to get up close and personal with a great audience.

Thank you Manuel for your dedication and the many fantastic PIRATE Summits I had the opportunity to attend.

It has been funny, intense, amazing. We met new people, laughed and cried, and told our life stories over and over again while learning something new every time we were in touch with some other person’s humanity.

“PIRATE Summit has always been my place to talk to people I would have never met and mostly are still connected to even after several years.”