TechBBQ

#TechBBQ - the home of founders, builders, and bold ideas

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TechBBQ 2025 - this is what happens when builders meet 🔥

Founders. Investors. Operators.
Real conversations. Real signals.

Now we go again.
→ 26–27 Aug 2026
→ Bella Center, Copenhagen

Be there.
Tickets in comments
#TechBBQ #Startups #Builders #Copenhagen

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A year ago on the TechBBQ stage, Novo Holdings' Kasim Kutay called it a wake-up call: Europe realising what it takes to compete.
This week, €5B answered — the Scaleup Europe Fund launched in Brussels, Novo among the founders.
Naming it to funding it in one year. 🎥👇

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Building the next breakthrough in Life Science or Deep Tech?
TechBBQ 2026 offers 45 FREE exhibition booths in its Life Science x Deep Tech Exhibit Area.
Applications are open now 👉️ https://t.co/H65yB06F0r
Copenhagen | 26-27 August 2026
#TechBBQ #LifeScience #DeepTech

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European startup scaling fails not at ideation it fails at procurement. Jakob Riis (CEO, Falck) says it plainly: great ideas don't move anything if you can't scale them. Watch the full clip to hear the specific fix he's proposing

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Martin built 40 companies. His #1 founder trait isn't intelligence. It's urgency. 'I'd rather invest in someone less smart who just builds, crashes, builds again — than a smart founder who needs a week to decide.' #EuropeanStartups

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European startup ecosystem advantage — compounding founder knowledge across generations. That's the argument Compass Bank's Michael Andersen made at TechBBQ, and it's the clearest explanation of why Silicon Valley still leads that I've heard this year.

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@siliconvikings @Siftedeu 🔥

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TechBBQ partner Novo Holdings invests €500M in the €5B Scaleup Europe Fund. The question we'll be debating in August in Copenhagen: Is €5B enough to reverse a decade of capital flight and keep unicorns in Europe?
#TechBBQ2026 #EmergingFromAgency #Copenhagen

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The 20% early-bird sold out.
10% discount is live now.
TechBBQ 2026 · 26–27 August · Bella Center, Copenhagen
Get your ticket 👉 https://t.co/yJa1aM0gsz

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Designers shipping code, this is the new normal.
#TechBBQ #ProductivityHacks

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GDPR was supposed to protect European consumers from data exploitation. Instead, it created a compliance wall so expensive that only Facebook and Google could absorb it and locked out every challenger trying to compete. Are we about to make the same mistake twice?´

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We co-hosted the release of "Strengthening Europe's Resilience" with @WorldFund, Kaya Partners & the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The conversation continues at TechBBQ 2026. #TechBBQ2026

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This is the line people should sit with.
Europe has the savings.

But it doesn’t turn them into returns the way the US does.

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Two engineers. Five years building. Then they try to leave… and get taxed on money they haven’t even received.
Europe wants talent.
But systems like this push it away.
What would you do?
We open the floor for this discussion on 26-27 August

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EU pension funds hold €2.7T. They contribute 5% of European VC capital. In the US: 50%+. The Draghi report named it. We put the allocators in a room.
Round two: 25 August, Copenhagen. Pension Summit · TechBBQ 2026.

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Early-bird boarding closes in 5 days. ✈️
Save 20% on your TechBBQ 2026 pass before midnight, May 31st.
Startup · Scale-up · Investor passes available.
10,000 tech leaders. Bella Center Copenhagen. 26–27 August.
Secure your seat → https://t.co/WZLJALDcDw
#TechBBQ2026 #Copenhagen

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EUDIS Business Accelerator closes Saturday, 30 May. €120k per company. No equity. 20 spots. 8 months inside Europe's defence industrial ecosystem. This is the window and it shuts in 3 days.

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Synthesia: $4B valuation. $100M+ ARR. Built in Europe. Riparbelli's take: "We're putting so many stupid barriers in front of ourselves." The founders who stayed and won are now the loudest voices in the room. #TechBBQ2026

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The TechBBQ 2026 stage is still being shaped. Who should be on it? Tag a founder or investor whose take the ecosystem needs to hear. Box closes May 31. 👇

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We planned for 1,500 investors at TechBBQ 2025. 1,731 showed up - 204 LPs, 700 VCs and angels. In 2026 the LP Forum runs on two parallel stages. The room keeps outgrowing the ambition.
#TechBBQ2026 #LPForum #NordicVC

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Modi + Frederiksen in Oslo. India-Nordic ties upgraded to a Green Tech & Innovation Strategic Partnership. AI, deep tech, pension capital all named. The corridor is live. #TechBBQ #NordicIndic