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Amazing atmosphere, speakers, and connections!

The Pirate Summit offered one last time an extraordinary atmosphere for the start-up scene to come together.

PIRATE Summit you were absolutely amazing!

PIRATE Summit is something you must experience and is hard to describe. The whole setup is built for participants’ engagement, and it was such a great, well-curated group of people who care; before asking what you do, they will want to know how your day is running. A really great event. I liked it so much that the No BS rule was adhered to really well and you had great and above all real conversations. I am happy about every new contact I have made and now follow the respective journeys very excitedly.

I don’t often get a chance to attend a conference, network with amazing founders & investors AND do two fire shows all at one event. Gotta love PIRATE Summit for that!!

Thank you for having us and making us part of your VC jury – it was a blast 🏴‍☠️

Best conference I’ve been to in ages.

What a stunning event!!!

A really refreshing and unconventional startup conference in Cologne with lots of interesting insights and connections.

This conference is for those who understand that they are the captains of their own lives.

The atmosphere, the talks, the networking, everything was perfect.

Crazy conference

My experience at PIRATE Summit was unique: I met amazing founders and investors, made new friends, and got to know myself better.

Yesterday night, someone asked me how PIRATE Summit feels to me. It took me a moment to think, but in the end it was pretty simple. It feels like #home. Thank you to everyone for creating such a wonderful event once again.

We have ARRRived at PIRATE Summit and are discovering the surreal Odonien venue! The long journey from Montréal was surely worth it!

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!

Pirates of uncertain times, #raiseyourself What a fantastic slogan of this years´ PIRATE Summit!❤️

Easily the best conference for founders in Europe.

PIRATE Summit is going to be an absolutely amazing event! I’m so glad I have the opportunity to be there 😊

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.

Be authentic – Talk about how you really feel, what you really think and want to achieve! 🔥 Thanks to the whole 🏴‍☠️ Pirate Team🏴‍☠️

Great vibes at this year’s PIRATE Summit! The festival atmosphere is truly unique.

Had an amazing time!

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

PIRATE Summit for me was a life-changing event! I can travel to many places and conferences, but only at PIRATE Summit I feel I´m home, among like-minded pirates with whom I share values and mindsets.

What an amazing event! I was particularly pleased to see the large number of female founders.

Community-led, curated, intimate, not for profit, raw.

What an amazing summit thus far meeting and hearing stories from startup founders. I’m looking forward to meeting more people well into the night. 🏴‍☠️🚀

Two incredible days at the PIRATE Summit!

An epic event full of emotions!

Pirate Summit is a great place to meet people in an informal way but also to lay the foundation for a potential business partnership.

PIRATE Summit offered an excellent mix of start-ups, corporates, investors, a captivating internationality and intimacy in industrial romance: a bit hippie, a bit alternative, and always close to the basic idea of ​​”meaningful exchange”.

As always, it was an amazing experience. A place where you are invited to come as you are, where the individual human being comes first – business after.

It was an incredible and unique gathering, where in an informal atmosphere, I could interact with participants from all over Europe.

Raise Yourself puts the individuals in the center and I could feel that founders with their thoughts and feelings matter.

PIRATE Summit is already one of the best events of the year for us!

The PIRATE Summit is not just a conference. It is a fun opportunity to live in an out-of-the-box, creative and inclusive context.

Glad to have been part of the journey!

Hell yeah!!! 🔥🔥🔥 PIRATE Summit 2022.

Totally unique. An amazing venue!

The PIRATE Summit was an excellent reboot for the mind(set)! Such events connect you to the people who think, look and act differently. And you learn from them. C’mon, when you listen to a strip dancer who is an investor now – that’s awesome! You hear other people’s ideas and they bring new ones to your own head. You can’t get this sitting in your own shell. Even when you have an established business, opening your mind to new opportunities and living a startup life is always a breathtaking idea.

I was impressed by the quality of all the pitches, as well as the number of women joining in.

“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.”

Startup spirit that inspires!

Awesome event! Enjoying the german startup ecosystem!

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

Awesome few days judging and mentoring at PIRATE Summit.

Great speeches, super networking and an incredible special atmosphere. This PIRATE Summit rocked! 🔥Thank you for being ARRR part of it!

Love that at PIRATE Summit everyone is a VIP.

ast week our founder Ieva Felman took over PIRATE Summit stage for 1h to tell stories from Ukraine, Belarus, Balkans and Iran as well as to discuss how grass-root communities are some of the most important pieces for building healthy ecosystems, especially in places where founders face unusual challenges. Longer post about lessons learned coming soon, here is a short insight. Thanks again to amazing speakers who joined and shared their sometimes very personal stories.