| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.11.2020 | How Vattenfall worked together with 3 startups to create an AI-based heating solution |
Vattenfall, one of the largest Energy providers in Europe, is driving innovation with startups through several vehicles. green:field, a team of startup enthusiasts, is one of these vehicles and it supports internal units to drive innovati... |
| - | ALPS Programs hits its target with Pioneers |
The goal of connecting delegates with Austria’s business community and representatives from public administration and politics, while opening their eyes to the country’s role as a major business gateway to Central & Eastern Europe, wa... |
| - | A design sprint can't be run remotely: 10 tips to make the impossible work |
Design sprints have gained a lot of traction and refinement as a design process during the last few years. It is possible to do a one-day design sprint or an equally daunting 5-day sprint that cycles through ideation, prototyping and test... |
| - | The Million Euro Funding Tip: How Mentorship Learnings Can Launch Your Founder Journey |
Munich-based startup Smokeless has developed a smart e-cigarette, which is designed to wean people off nicotine in personalised fashion, according to their smoking habits. Combined with a competitive gamification element that tackles the ... |
| - | From Neurotech To Superpowered Protein: The Final Health.Pioneers Mix |
Having already announced our first few speakers in an
article earlier this month
, we’re excited to announce a few more names who’ll take the spotlight on our non-stop-action single stage at Health.Pioneers in Vienna on October 10th.
... |
| - | Video & Audio: Getting Intimate with Tech |
The three forward-thinking and open-minded women who shared their industry knowledge on the Academy Stage at the Hofburg were Kate Devlin of Goldsmiths University London; author, broadcaster and former Men's Health sex columnist Nichi Hod... |
| - | Driverless cars go wheel to wheel in Buenos Aires |
Okay, so you couldn’t call it a race. But still, seeing two self-driving cars circulating a track at an FIA-sanctioned motorsport event is another reminder of just how fast (if you’ll excuse the pun) autonomous driving technology is mov... |
| - | Home Team Leads The Way At Energy Blockchain Hack |
Swiss startup
Papers.ch
was the overall winner of the
Energy Blockchain Hack
in Bern last week. The ‘Current’ app they pitched after 48 hours of prototyping in Switzerland’s capital earned them €2,500 and tickets to Pioneers ’19 in Vi... |
| - | Interview: Health.Pioneers Speaker Vishal Gulati On Reinventing Healthcare |
“If we invented the healthcare system fresh today, would it look the way it does now?”
That’s a question Vishal is passionate about answering - and one of the key themes he’ll be tackling during his talk in Amsterdam. He believes healt... |
| - | EU Digital Leaders, Pitching Startups Confirmed for GovTech.Pioneers |
Pioneers is pleased to announce the former Italian Government Commissioner for Digital Transformation Diego Piacentini will be speaking at GovTech.Pioneers in Vienna next week. His talk is entitled
Innovative States
.
Piacentini brin... |
| - | Pioneers Ventures: Pioneers, Speedinvest and startup300 restructure cooperation |
Pre-seed Venture Capital Fund Pioneers Ventures, founded in 2015 by Pioneers and Speedinvest, has a new structure. Following startup300 AG’s recent acquisition of JFDI GmbH, the company behind the Pioneers brand, a reorganization became n... |
| - | Pioneers Ventures Adds Doctorly to Growing Health Tech Portfolio |
Founded in the second half of last year by a quintet that includes an established neurosurgeon who put his career on hold to lend the startup his medical experience, doctorly’s primary product will be a SaaS (software as a service) soluti... |
| - | Pioneers Insights: Reaching Sustainable Development Targets Through Open Innovation |
Ongoing issues in society, the economy and the environment have drawn a huge amount of attention to the topic of sustainable development. It’s becoming an essential part of how we live. The concept of sustainable development centers aroun... |
| - | Why low-tech schnitzels rule |
I’m just back from a long weekend holed up in a small village in South Moravia. Offering very little in the way of disturbances (apart from one street broadcast to the populace, which came across as quite Orwellian, but might have been ab... |
| - | International Startup Opportunities Worth Over €1m Opening...and Closing! |
The latest major international company to begin working with Pioneers Discover is Visa, a name most of our readers around the world will probably be able to find in their wallets! We’re scouting startups for the first
Visa's Everywhere I... |
| - | Pioneers Celebrates Its First Estonian E-Resident |
When Estonia gained a sudden freedom to think creatively on GovTech as they went from being part of the world’s largest state (the USSR) to independently governing their own relatively tiny population in 1991, it was the start of great th... |
| - | This city has Google Maps stumped. Can its own citizens do better? |
I’d like to invite you to head over to Varanasi with me today. I don’t mean actually going to the most hectic place in India (nobody should go without several days of meditation to prepare) but rather a virtual visit. We’ll travel to the ... |
| - | How Habegger Blurs Frontiers With Stage, Sound And Lighting |
Regular visitors to our flagship event might well wonder how we come up with new stage, lighting and AV concepts every year. And with the unique challenges of our 500-year-old imperial palace venue thrown in? The truth is, it’s not entire... |
| - | Alpine Tourism Hackathon |
Sudbünden is one of the oldest and most renowned winter tourism areas located in the mountains of Switzerland, and includes top ski resorts such as St. Moritz.
CHALLENGE
Position Südbünden as one of the most innovative tourism areas... |
| - | Pioneers Insights: Growing Female Entrepreneurship In Israel |
With the recent Booking.com Booster Lab in Tel Aviv having concluded on International Women’s Day, it was fitting that all-female startup accessibleGO won one of the two €25,000 grants on offer at the event, for which Pioneers Discover dr... |
| - | Video: Highlights from GovTech.Pioneers |
Europe’s first GovTech event, GovTech.Pioneers, which took place at the Palais Wertheim in Vienna last week, was the ultimate meeting point for tech innovators in the public sector, bringing leading politicians, public CIOs, corporations ... |
| - | Pioneers’18 News: Extra Pitching Challenges And Another California Trip on Offer! |
Kicking off with the latest opportunities for startups at Pioneers'18, the second day on 25th will see more than just the Pioneers Challenge Top 8 finalists fighting it out on the Arena Stage. Honda and Bosch will lend their weight to add... |
| - | Exclusive Interview With Betsy Ziegler and Nicolas Colin: Why Size Matters For Innovation Communities |
Whilst Betsy Ziegler and Nicolas Colin both lead organizations that help develop and nurture startups, it’s fair to say there are a few points of difference between the entities they lead. 1871, of which Ziegler is CEO, is an internationa... |
| - | Introducing The Business Model Canvas For GovTech Startups |
Frederik’s nine-step process is packed with the GovTech-specific questions startups should ask themselves as they assess their viability. And it draws heavily on his specialist knowledge of how the ‘B2G’ space differs from the B2B.
Fre... |
| - | Pioneers Discover Open Call: Henkel Innovation Day |
The event will consist partly of keynote speeches and workshops targeted towards innovation within the company’s three business units, which are Laundry & Home Care, Adhesive Technologies and Beauty Care. But with technology showcases... |
| - | Pioneers Insights: Assessing The Risk Of Entering A New Market |
When you as a startup or a corporate spin-off start operations, you’re entering a new ecosystem. An ecosystem in this sense is the aggregation of companies, institutions and other players inevitably connected through their shared goal or ... |
| - | Qiue's Hot Idea Wins VC CultTech Hackathon |
Despite the challenge of competing in their very first hackathon,
Qiue
impressed the judges with their ‘emotional heat map’, a true hack that was conceived and built during the 48 hours of the hackathon - which began on Tuesday, Septemb... |
| - | Mobility.Pioneers Interview: Assaf Harel on Automotive Cyber Security |
While most of us have a concept of a worst-case scenario when it comes to our data getting hacked, it’s probably fair to say that ‘mobility hacking’ is a subject that remains on the fringes of our thoughts. But that doesn’t make the threa... |
| - | Video & Interview: Plenty to celebrate for Gustav and Pioneers Ventures in Silicon Valley |
Highlights of the trip to San Francisco included the group of early-stage startups meeting
Y Combinator
CEO Michael Seibel and a group workshop with communications expert Nancy Duarte and her team at
Duarte
. The startups also spent t... |
| - | Taken for a ride in Bratislava: A curious tale of startup-employee synergy |
Michal is one of those high-energy guys who works three jobs. But he doesn’t always wear a smile, he admits in perfect English as he drives me through the slushy streets of Bratislava earlier this week. I must say I find that hard to be... |
| - | Working with startups: Hardly any sustainable results, but there is usually a good reason for this! |
Having worked on numerous startup-corporate collaboration projects, our innovation consultant
Erik Muckenschnabel
summarized his thoughts on why many collaboration activities do not deliver the expected results and shows how to design a... |
| - | Pioneers Ventures Seals Its First Exit |
Atmosplay met Pioneers Ventures at Pioneers’ annual flagship event back in 2015, after which a deal for a €125K investment was struck. The startup joined other Pioneers Ventures portfolio companies on the annual tour to Silicon Valley las... |
| - | Stromkind Founder Talks Pioneers'17 Success |
This year, at Pioneers’17, it was aquatic drone manufacturer Stromkind that struck gold. And their founder Andreas Desch was as surprised about that as anybody. But it wasn’t down to luck, says the 41-year-old father from Upper Austria. V... |
| - | Showcasing Innovation at Pioneers'18: Introducing PwC’s BXT Approach and the Experience Center |
With digitization a key challenge facing startups and corporates alike, our partner PwC will offer a glimpse into its BXT approach by bringing together Business, eXperience and Technology. PwC will also present its Experience Center to th... |
| - | Pioneers Tests: Carv's Digital Ski Coach |
If there was any doubting just what a buzz
Carv
has built up in ski circles, it evaporated moments after we arrived in the car park at
Stubaier Glacier
. When the guys who pulled up next to us spotted Carv CCO Ross Murray-Jones in his... |
| - | Life Sciences and Translation Meet Artificial Intelligence At Pioneers’18 |
Undoubtedly one of the headline acts on the first day of Pioneers’18 will be geneticist Josef Penninger, who will dissect some of the life sciences’ extreme potential in a keynote entitled:
The Age of Impact: Why Curiosity Leads The Way
... |
| - | Hardware Startups: To Succeed You Have to Sleep in a Factory in China |
Silicon Valley – the world’s leading hub for innovation and development – is probably
the
place to be for young, aspiring entrepreneurs. The Valley has an incredible ecosystem ranging from the world’s most high-tech companies and startu... |
| - | Blockchain in the Spotlight at Mobility.Pioneers |
With blockchain (and various interpretations thereof) currently taking the world of innovation by storm, it’s no surprise that the mobility sector is eyeing its potential closely. While we’ll examine numerous use cases in Munich, two of t... |
| - | These Creatives Are Saying Goodbye to Their Laptops |
I have a confession to make. As a writer, I’ve long had a snooty habit of looking down on anyone who owns a tablet, but doesn’t feel the need for a laptop. “They’re obviously mere watchers and readers,” I’ve thought dismissively. “Their c... |
| - | 10 Crowdfunding Projects That Take the ‘Fiction’ out of ‘Science-Fiction’ |
Web crowdfunding has shortened launch times for innovative, exciting and helpful products. Recently, a method allowing plants to glow was funded on Kickstarter. And medical device Scanadu outdid its $100,000 funding goal by reaching close... |
| - | Championing Gender Diversity in Tech |
At Pioneers we want to see more women in tech. Gender diversity is one area this sector has plenty of room for improvement, and that’s why we’re giving 100 Pioneers Festival tickets to female entrepreneurs for free. Are you a female found... |
| - | GovTech at Pioneers’17: Shaping the Future of Governments |
And it proved to be quite the success. GovTech Pioneers’17, a gathering of decision makers, city representatives, politicians and carefully selected startups, kicked off our initiative to foster the implementation of governmental technolo... |
| - | Office Hours with Pioneers Ventures Starts 2018 Roadshow Strong in Slovenia |
With almost 30 highly promising pre-seed startups from across Europe already in its portfolio, Pioneers Ventures has long understood the importance of staying close to communities of pioneering entrepreneurs. That’s why it has committed t... |
| - | Hardware is the New Software: An Interview with Chris Anderson |
Pioneers
met up with
Chris Anderson
, CEO of
3D Robotics
and Founder of
DIYDrones.com
at his
Berkley
Office.
“
Atoms are the new bits
”, says Chris Anderson. Hardware started to take along similar dynamics as software: low b... |
| - | A talk with Adam Cheyer: Startups are the greatest change agent in the world |
We've spoken to Adam Cheyer about the power of startups and entrepreneurs. Adam tells us why he got into computing, how he built his first prototype of Siri and what he learnt from Steve Jobs during his time at Apple. Adam was keynote spe... |
| - | Of bicycles, horses and dodgy ticket machines |
The first thing you notice is the number of bicycles. They’re everywhere. It’s quite hard to find a spot in Munich where you can’t see one. Right now, I’m working in a café just off the Isartorplatz, and I can see nine of them huddled a... |
| - | Corporate Tech Wish List #2: Bring European SME Banking Back To Europe! |
Considering that a vast swathe of Europe’s economic wealth is created by the SME sector, isn’t it something of a surprise that there’s no go-to SME Banking platform for the continent?
In our latest answer to the ‘what corporates want’ ... |
| - | ‘We want to make using Blockchain as easy as sending an email’ |
Jörg von Minckwitz didn’t have to travel far to pick up the latest of several accolades for Bitwala. In fact, the pitching stage at the recent Fintech.Pioneers was just a few minutes’ walk from his home in Kreuzberg.
But home ground ... |
| - | Bringing startups into RLB ÖÖ |
RLB OÖ
is Austria’s leading regional bank, with over 18 branches supporting small and medium-sized enterprises and more than 80,000 private customers.
CHALLENGE
Learn about the fundamentals of the startup world and meet FinTech s... |
| - | Ever Seen A Cyborg Drummer? Pioneers ’19 Is Your Chance! |
Photo Credit: Michael Sharkey
Our flagship event might be all about future technology, but we love it when we can find an entertaining way to showcase just what the latest innovations make possible. Our always-memorable opening and clo... |
| - | Taiwanese Takeaways: What We Learned On Innovation Island |
While Taiwan is known for its economic achievements and companies such as Foxconn and TSMC, its startup scene tends to get far fewer column inches. That’s starting to change, however, as we discovered on a visit there this September. Some... |
| - | The paper-thin line between selling bathtubs and building supercars |
When one of your personal heroes gives you their card, it’s a good idea to file it away with extreme care. Which is exactly what Kristjan Maruste didn’t get right at Pioneers Festival two years ago.
The mistake could have had life-ch... |
| - | The Ultimate Entrepreneur's Movie Guide |
Here's our selection of essential business, startup and entrepreneurship films. Find a comfy sofa and start learning!
1. Something Ventured (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRmFQ3Jm1aw
The
documentary about the history of S... |
| - | A Peek Behind The Scenes At Pioneers’18 |
If you’ve been to our flagship event at the Hofburg before, you might have some idea of just what an undertaking it must be to transform a 500-year-old palace into the venue for a cutting-edge innovation event, including four stages, netw... |
| - | Ubuntu Edge: Putting the Desktop in Your Pocket |
"Convergence is the future of computing."
With this statement Mark Shuttleworth opens Canonical's crowdfunding campaign-video. It’s quite a statement, but Canonical seems to have managed "to combine the mobility of a sma... |
| - | embotech’s Autonomous Driving Tech Takes Startup Victory at Mobility.Pioneers |
After an event in which autonomous and shared driving emerged as perhaps the most dominant talking points, it’s perhaps no surprise that the overall winner was the finalist that emerged from the Autonomous Pitching Track Powered by Magna.... |
| - | Pioneers Challenge Winner 2011 closes $4.8M Funding Round! |
400 million people are suffering from diabetes worldwide and it is estimated that this number is going to increase rapidly within the next years. We spoke to its founder Fredrik Debong...
What problem is mySugr solving?
Our mission ... |
| - | Scouting The World’s Best Fintech Startups: Two Years And Counting! |
When Pioneers Discover took on the task of scouting startups for RBI’s inaugural Elevator Lab program, which was announced at Pioneers’17 last June, they promised to deliver at least 150 innovative Fintech companies with which the Vienna-... |
| - | Universal Basic Income — Is It Time? |
50% unemployment. Millions jobless. These are the kinds of alarming numbers we keep hearing. And given the ongoing rise of work-stealing robots, that’s no real surprise.
Some say the world of work will undergo a major transformation ov... |
| - | When’s the Uber of Hong Kong coming? |
If you stop and think about it, isn’t it strange that Hong Kong hasn’t yet produced a startup that’s become a global household name? Considering what a vibrant commercial hub the territory is, it might come as a surprise that it hasn’t pr... |
| - | How Videos Can Take Your Startup To €200K In Revenues...Fast! |
Rok Starič, a former member of our team at Pioneers, is right up there with the most visibly enthusiastic founders in our community. The passion he has for his product - all-natural peanut butter - is totally fitting for someone who has p... |
| - | Calling Health Startups: See You In Amsterdam? |
Ahead of this dedicated health industry event on October 25, we’re looking for medical startups in the widest sense of the word. That means not only companies working on Personalized Medicine, Pharmacogenomics, Life Sciences, Biotech, Gen... |
| - | Unleashing internal innovation: A success Story of ÖBB |
How the biggest Austrian mobility provider succeeds with their intrapreneurship program
The second batch of the ÖBB innovation program ended with a demo day on Dec. 9th, making it the perfect timing to recap the key program highlights ... |
| - | Pioneers Insights: How Blockchain Will Drive FinTech Innovation in 2018 |
Most people see Italy as the home of love and romance, thanks mainly to movies like La Dolce Vita from Federico Fellini. But for a long time it’s also been a center of banking and finance. Indeed, the oldest bank in the world was founded ... |
| - | United Nations Speakers To Star At GovTech.Pioneers and Pioneers’18 |
Pioneers is excited to welcome speakers from the biggest international body of them all, the United Nations, to our back-to-back events in Vienna in May. First, at GovTech.Pioneers on May 23rd, Irakli Beridze of the UNICRI agency will spe... |
| - | Pioneers Selects Sean Swarner as its Astronaut! |
What were you doing when you got the news and what were your first emotions?
I got the message at 3am! It’s weird, actually, because I randomly woke up in the middle of the night and thought ‘I wonder what’s going on with the whole Pio... |
| - | A Fireside Chat With Evernote's Phil Libin |
Day one of Pioneers Festival 2013 proved to be full of entrepreneurship, cutting edge tech, innovation and those all-important connections. One of the highlights was Phil Libin's fireside chat entitled 'Technology, growing your startup an... |
| - | Magic Meets Tech at Pioneers '17 |
Back in the summer of 2012, serial entrepreneur Adam Cheyer ran into the remarkable Till Haunschild at Pioneers Festival. While the American creator of Siri and the breathtakingly good magician might not, at first glance, have had much in... |
| - | The Story of Pioneers ’19: Day Two |
After an intensely insightful first day at Pioneers ’19 (which you can read about
here
), day two in Vienna saw plenty of action as our flagship event built towards its traditional climax - the Pioneers Challenge Top 8 finals.
Few wi... |
| - | Go Big or Go Home: 5 Commands from Mozilla's West Wing |
Attention startups! Here's your game plan
Shoot for the moon
Cooperate with big brands
Phones and tablets now, but Ubiquitous Computing is next
If Europe doesn‘t work, go Valley
Stand by your national identity
Earlier ... |
| - | Hustling as my superhuman power: A chat with Close.io founder Steli Efti |
Why did you become an entrepreneur?
It was a mix of personality and talents and mostly lack of options. Growing up I didn't know what entrepreneurship meant, I didn't know how business worked. For the longest time I didn't know it was ... |
| - | Growth Hacking: Q&A with Neil Patel |
As the co-founder of two SaaS analytics companies, CrazyEgg and KISSmetrics, Neil has vast knowledge and experience in Marketing 2.0.
Here Neil Patel answers the
community's questions
: in other words all the questions that Neil didn... |
| - | ‘This will be as big as Bitcoin’ |
Is it fair to say that the Blockchain space is still in its infancy? Probably not. It might arguably be more fitting to say it’s in its adolescence. After all, it’s in undergoing rapid changes and thrives on undermining (if you’ll pardon ... |
| - | Exclusive Interview: The Guardians of Truth on the Blockchain! |
Short, sharp statements really wake up an audience. Catchy lines like ‘We’re the guardians of truth on the Blockchain,’ for example. When Anton Gerunov came up with that gem during the final round at GovTech.Pioneers earlier this month - ... |
| - | Start Small, Think Big: How To Win Clients For Your Startup |
Any startup will tell you that making your first sales can be a tough, slow process. But, as we hear from Civocracy co-founder Benjamin Snow, beginning with smaller sales targets can have a long-term payoff.
Civocracy is a burgeoning c... |
| - | Fleksy Secures Startup Honours At GovTech.Pioneers |
Communications security startup Fleksy was today crowned winner of the first full-day Govtech innovation event in Europe, as we staged GovTech.Pioneers in Vienna. The Barcelona-based company was the champion of the 100 startups from as fa... |
| - | Video: Highlights From Health.Pioneers 2018 |
The time has come for our highlights video from Health.Pioneers! The second edition of this industry-focused event took place in Vienna on October 10th, and you can check out our brief film to get a glimpse of the innovative vibe at Vienn... |
| - | Pioneers Challenge Winner Will Get €100,000 |
We are super excited at Pioneers to announce – in cooperation with our partner
Speedinvest
– a €100,000 seed investment for the Pioneers Challenge winner at Pioneers Festival 2015.
In case you missed it and/or want further details on... |
| - | Fighting Autism With Tech at Pioneers'17 |
“If I told him to go outside and play ball, he’d have refused. But because his sidekick told him to put his jacket on and shoot hoops, he did it. And he came back with a big smile on his face.”
These happy words come from a mother usin... |
| - | Live Stage Demo of Potential Water Crisis Fix at Pioneers’18 |
With water among the most critical issues facing the planet in over the next decade, one of the prime speakers at Pioneers’18 will undoubtedly be Jonathan Risley, the CEO & Co-founder of
ThinAir
. A startup taking the extraction of ... |
| - | Pioneers Insights: How Predictive Analytics Will Change The Health Care Industry |
Predictive analytics has been around as long as data has been available on this planet. It’s been widely applied in several industries already, but the Health Care sector has long been characterized by a lack of data due to paper-based pr... |
| - | Wienerberger and Fronius join Keba as Industry 4.0 Hackathon Partners |
Pioneers Discover is inviting
single developers
and
students
, as well as
startups
, to answer any of our partners’ challenges during 48 hours of problem-solving. We’re looking for those well-acquainted with big data, remote mainten... |
| - | GovTech Interview: Scottish Youth Seek (And Find!) New Tech For Mental Health |
As we start counting the days to
GovTech.Pioneers
on April 2nd, a recent demo day in Edinburgh underlined the power of citizens (as well as startups) to help governments innovate on service delivery.
Artificial Intelligence was one o... |
| - | Could Your Next Intern be a Chatbot? |
Picture this. You’ve got a task or a problem at work. You’re pretty sure
someone
has dealt with it before...but you don’t know who. Or where. Or when. It might be that weird guy sitting three metres away from you. Or it might have been ... |
| - | Pioneers ’19 Founder Guide Part 2: More Pitching Lessons From the Past |
In this second article in a two-part series ahead of the Pioneers ’19 pitching contest on May 9th-10th, we continue to look at what it was that set the winning startups apart in previous editions of our flagship event. If you missed part ... |
| - | Technology: What's The Endgame? |
Getting excited about future technology is a terribly easy thing to do. Especially when you’re surrounded by the latest innovations, as we are in the Pioneers office. And big events like
Pioneers’17
, of course, are like our office run ... |
| - | Emily Brooke: I spent my first year absolutely paranoid |
What do you tell people when you are asked what you do?
Emily Brooke
: I say I have a crazy little startup called Blaze and we make innovative products for urban cyclists. I usually get a raised eyebrow and a confused look. [laughs]
... |
| - | Intrapreneurship? It’s a trap! — 8 tips on how to make corporate innovation work |
Intrapreneurship. It feels like every corporate tries hard to make it work, but almost no one seems to manage it that well. There are a few simple reasons why intrapreneurship is really not cutting it in most cases.
After being involve... |
| - | Time To Change Your Core Product? |
It’s remarkable how fast everything happened for Urška Sršen and her co-founder Sandro Mur. The duo - Slovenian artist and Croatian scientist respectively - launched Babywatch in 2013. The wearable pregnancy health tracker proved a hit, a... |
| - | Ready to Help us Out at Mobility.Pioneers? Volunteers Wanted! |
Mobility.Pioneers will once again be the ultimate meeting point for tech innovators, where OEMs, manufacturers and mobility providers meet the 120 most promising seed and Series A Startups working on truly game changing technologies. But,... |
| - | Pioneers ’19: A Technological Walk Through Human Life |
Our annual flagship event is known for exploding into life in spectacular fashion. Just like the universe did, actually - at least if you’re into the theory of the Big Bang.
Where do we come from? Where are we heading?
This year our... |
| - | Diversity in Tech Initiative To Kick Off at Pioneers’18 and GovTech.Pioneers |
At Pioneers we’re conscious of some of the ongoing imbalances inherent in the world of tech innovation. This is the inspiration behind the Diversity in Tech initiative, which will aim to inspire the broader tech innovation community acros... |
| - | 10 Reasons Why Corporates Should Attend Pioneers Festival 2015 |
1. See the Future
Whether you are part of a big global player or just joined a small and sweet company - it’s crucial to keep an eye on upcoming trends and developments. Pioneers Festival will serve you a glimpse into the future on a... |
| - | The Story of Pioneers ’19: Day One |
Photo Credit: Aron Suveg/Pioneers
As the dust settles on Storyball’s startup victory at Pioneers ’19, which took place in Vienna last week (May 9th-10th), it's time to reflect on the first of two magic days at the Hofburg.
Our flags... |
| - | Pioneers Community News: Skymatic Secures Deal with German Cloud Giants |
Less than two years old and still with only four full-time employees - the quartet of co-founders, to be precise, Skymatic can be proud that its Cryptomator software has been chosen to bring unprecedented end-to-end encryption to cloud se... |
| - | The Pioneers Hall Of Fame: All Our Winners |
Pioneers has now developed a rich history stretching all the way back to 2011. That being so, the time seems right for a full run-down of all our flagship, regional and industry-focused event winners since we were known as Startup Week. M... |
| - | Pioneers Tests: The Latest In VR Sports Training |
The outcome of a sports contest can depend on decisions taken in a fraction of a second. These moments can define a player’s entire career, not to mention break or lift the hearts of legions of fans. And in the big business that is profes... |
| - | Alistair Croll Talks GovTech: The Infinite Potential of Digital Government |
Following the huge success of the
first GovTech.Pioneers
in 2018, which exceeded even our own expectations, it’s clear that the increased role of digital technology in government is a subject for which there’s plenty of appetite.
As ... |
| - | Pioneers Discover announces two new opportunities for startups |
Pioneers Discover, together with two of Austria’s most established corporations, is looking for quality startups to take part in two recently launched international programs. The programs cover Fintech, mobility, work-life balance, nutrit... |
| - | A Founder’s Guide to Pioneers ’19: How Do You Really Win Our Flagship Event? |
With our Top 50 startups for Pioneers ’19
now announced
, there are fifty entrepreneurs out there getting their pitches ready for our flagship event on May 9th-10th. And, as they plan the words they hope will take them to victory at the... |
