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First PODIM 2020 speakers and investors are announced!

Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Aaron Ross, Natalie W. Nixon, Gyula Feher, ... are just a few of the top experts that will share their knowledge and experience on this year's Podim. Besides the first ten speakers, we are also announcing the first investors that will be looking for their next investment opportunities on Podim between 18th and 20th May. Among them are Speedinvest, Techstars, 500 Startups, Fil Rouge Capital, Startup Wise Guys, Day One Capital, South Central Ventures, ...


Startups and scaleups, hurry up, apply until March 15th

Startups and scaleups, you have time only until March 15th to apply and to ensure your participation on Podim, as well as the opportunity to be among top 10 selected startups that will receive an all-inclusive free participation package, including tickets, accommodation and company presentation at Podim Marketplac as well as product launch at Podim Demo Studio.


Learn from the best

The first 10 speakers that will step on PODIM stage are announced. Among many others you will have opportunity to learn from:
  • Aaron Ross, SaaS's master of sales and author of the award-winning, best-selling book Predictible Revenue.
  • Natalie Nixon, creative strategist, whose clients include Bloomberg and Comcast.
  • Gyula Feher the founder of the Hungarian venture capital fund Oktogon Ventures, who sold his company Ustream to IBM.
  • Adam Berke cofounder and CEO at WorkPatterns, he was also a member of the founding team at AdRoll, that became one of the largest independent marketing technology companies worldwide.
  • Robin Wauters, editor of Tech.eu and former editor of TechCrunch and The Next Web.
  • David Mack, co-founder and CTO at SketchDeck, a Y-Combinator backed technology startup providing design as a service, where he raised 2,3 million dollars of investment.  
  • A former CEO of Techstars Marko Sršan is today a COO at Memgraph, which solves the problem of real-time data processing.
  • Anuj Adhiya, an experienced growth marketer, a professional in extracting growth insights from qualitative and quantitative data, is also a mentor for growth at Seedstars.
  • Noah Heller, partner at 3Rodeo, evangelist for frontier technologies who is COO at Community.com.
  • Digital marketing expert Francesco Cracolici is General Manager at Nomadic Minds, the world's largest network of Silicon Valley CEOs & top execs.


Want to attend PODIM?


Early Bird tickets till March 15th

Investors, corporate representatives and enthusiasts of entrepreneurship and innovation, you can get Early Bird tickets for this year's 40th Podim only until March 15th. Podim is a great opportunity to fill your investment portfolio with the most promising startups and scaleups from the region, or to find your next lean and agile business partner.
 

Investors focused on the best startups from the region

Also highly motivated investors that are looking for startups from the region will attend Podim 2020. Among well known investors looking for the most promising startups in the region you will have opportunity to meet at Podim the following: Speedinvest, Techstars, Day One Capital, Fil Rouge Capital, Rockstart, APX, South Central Ventures, ...


Opportunity for meetings and valuable feedback

Podim Deal Room, where more than 900 1:1 meetings took place in just two days last year, will again be a great opportunity for targeted networking of startups and scaleups with investors and corporate representatives.