TechChill 2019
| title | author | length |
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| teaser | 01m | |
Transcript contains nothing but applause and music and a one-line promise that startups will "make winters hot," so there are no methods, numbers, demos, or… | ||
| Doing the wrong things in the right way | Joshua Slayton | 20m |
Built from a single email list into a platform with over $1B AUM, 1,000+ startups funded across 38 countries and 20+ unicorns, the company grows by moving fast… | ||
| Awaken the entrepreneur within: 5 proven startup mantras | Oscar Kneppers | 20m |
Oscar Kneppers, Founder of Rockstart joining the agenda block ''Build for Impact: Creating ideas and culture that lasts''.
Rockstart, ‘The Global Startup… | ||
| Lessons in building great teams | Jennifer Kanyamibwa | 17m |
Six concrete lessons with examples and outcomes make this useful not vague career fluff. Resilience comes from a life story that survived genocide and refugee… | ||
| Change or be ready for a quick death: The journey of Vinted | Milda Mitkute, Espree Devora | 20m |
Founded as a hobby in 2008, Vinted grows into a global peer‑to‑peer clothing marketplace that hits 30 million members and scales to about 300 employees after… | ||
| Index Ventures' playbook for rewarding talent with stock options | Dominic Jacquesson | 20m |
Index Ventures compiles benchmarks from 22 countries, publishes a 150‑page playbook and a web app (optionplan.com) used ~150 unique users/day, and runs an… | ||
| Fighting for talent: how cities, countries and ecosystems compete | Kat Borlongan, Carlos Eduardo Espinal, Elizabeth Varley, Līva Pērkone, Gian Volpicelli | 30m |
Panelists name concrete gaps and moves: France tracks 110 startups (each >$20M) and says senior execs, product leads and senior engineers are hardest to hire… | ||
| What is going wrong with mental health in the tech industry? | Stewart Rogers | 20m |
Founders in tech report twice the rate of suicidal thoughts, three times more substance abuse and ten times more bipolar disorder than the general population… | ||
| The Holy Grail: Balancing Life and Entrepreneurship | Lujza Bubanova, Stewart Rogers | 28m |
Claims that most people only do 3–4 hours of deep work daily, and that scheduling around those bursts beats hackneyed hustle. Offers concrete habits: make your… | ||
| Life of a flying CEO | Cristobal Alonso | 18m |
One person logs 170 flights in 2018 (168 and 165 in earlier years) and turns travel into structured productivity: use long-haul thinking time to download files… | ||
| Founder's Dilemma: Relinquishing the CEO title | Kristel Kruustük | 20m |
Company built a tester marketplace that grows to 60 people across three offices and a community of 15,000 testers, raises seed and Series A, and lands… | ||
| Evolution of mobility from first to last mile | Rokas Peciulaitis | 19m |
Investor view maps mobility into three ranges: micro (≤5 miles), ride‑hailing, and long‑range autonomy. Micro mobility already claims 60% of daily commutes up… | ||
| Opportunities and Challenges for Start-ups | Arturs Lindenbergs, Paul Swaak, Mark Frequin, Ton Van’t Noordende | 26m |
Claims that mobility startups can scale by wiring vehicles and infrastructure together, with pilots that stitch smart parking, shuttle-as-a-service and… | ||
| Future of Mobility hackathon pitches | Ton Van’t Noordende | 16m |
Three winning hackathon projects built working prototypes and measurable pilots: a one-click webshop plugin that triggers last‑mile robot delivery, backed by… | ||
| Do it, like they do it in Skype, Pipedrive, Põhjala and Veriff! | Tiit Paananen | 17m |
Case studies of product focus and ruthless execution: Skype grows to 2,500 people after solving free voice/video across borders and adding video in 2006… | ||
| Cross border investing with the leading Baltic investors | Andris K. Berzins, Marili Merendi, Donatas Keras | 26m |
Three leading Baltic VCs describe how they source deals across Estonia Latvia and Lithuania, co-invest locally and follow founders abroad, claim the region’s… | ||
| Adyen’s journey from start-up to IPO | Jussi Lindberg | 10m |
Claims that one out of ten payments fail and that scaling globally needs a single connection drive the story, with a concrete pivot in 2011 when Adyen adds a… | ||
| This is not the fin of fintech hype | Roberts Lasovskis, Jussi Lindberg, Tristan Thomas | 33m |
Panel reports fintech moving into the background with PSD2 and biometrics making card flows smoother while open banking forces partnerships; peer‑to‑peer… | ||
| Closing of Day 1 | Marija Rucevska, Ernests Stals | 06m |
Announces the 50 Founders Battle finalists after screening 200 applications from 40 countries: FinTech hive identity (Ukraine), Jeff app (Latvia), Insus/zits… | ||
| Manifesting dreams into reality: Finding personal purpose as an entrepreneur | Adeo Ressi | 22m |
Claims purpose originates from love and clears only after forgiveness and gratitude, and that a racing heart marks genuine purpose rather than mere interest… | ||
| How the EU drives startups and innovation | Valdis Dombrovskis | 10m |
Valdis Dombrovskis, Vice President at European Commission joining the agenda block "The State of Innovation".
TechChill 2019 took place on February 21-22, in… | ||
| The state of innovation in Europe | Valdis Dombrovskis, Bindi Karia, Ieva Ilves, Adeo Ressi, Robin Wauters | 32m |
Europe shows growing deal volume but still has no European company in the top‑20 internet valuations, and scaling — not idea creation — is the bottleneck… | ||
| The coming disruption of the disruption | Paul Papadimitriou | 21m |
Forecasts that matter: Europe faces demographic aging and tougher regulation but fintech gains from PSD2/open banking; AI replaces many current jobs over 30… | ||
| Technology and education: Skills for the digital age | Voitto Kangas, Linda Sinka, Janis Strods, Janis Kreilis | 29m |
Panel argues schools must teach metacognition skills and self‑regulation, not just facts, because exams and multiple choice cannot measure critical thinking or… | ||
| How a circular economy aims to redefine the linear growth of today's companies | Jaimy Nijnens | 20m |
Claims that humanity uses resources 1.7 times faster than regeneration and that only 9% of the economy is circular frame the urgency; circular strategies… | ||
| Decision Intelligence: The Next Phase in AI | Cassie Kozyrkov | 20m |
Argues that applied AI or decision intelligence focuses on using ready-made models and tools (for example Google Cloud Platform) to automate concrete labeling… | ||
| The difficult tradeoffs with fighting hate speech and misinformation online | David Ryan Polgar | 21m |
Argues that platforms carrying 2.2 billion accounts now hold speech power once reserved for governments, protected by Section 230 and enforced via Terms of… | ||
| From science to startup, to scale up: A deeptech playbook | Sonny Vu | 20m |
Defines deeptech as science-driven hardware or biology with long premarket timelines, argues for ship an MVP in 18 months and aim for at least a two‑year… | ||
| Build for impact & empower people at scale | Paul Duan, Natalie Novick | 19m |
Nonprofit accepted to Y Combinator in 2014 builds data‑driven tools that actually scale: an AI that uses labor market data and past job‑seeker pathways to… | ||
| Sustainability status quo & Creation of new type of economy | Gilad Regev, Raph Crouan | 19m |
Quro Protocol issues a digital reward currency called Kuro that pays people for measurable sustainable actions: 1 Kuro per 1,000 steps or 1 Kuro per kWh… | ||
| The harsh truth behind waste damage | Sauli Bohm, Marija Rucevska | 21m |
Claims that roughly 30% of food produced is wasted (contributing ~8% of global GHGs) and that 7.2 million tonnes are thrown away with over half still edible… | ||
| Future of food | Jonathan Breemhaar, Mariliis Holm, Jordan French | 28m |
Mosa Meat describes producing a first-ever lab hamburger from Belgian Blue cells that four people taste-tested: texture and beefiness pass but it’s 100% muscle… | ||
| Power Imbalances in VC Fundraising | Ginny Fahs | 26m |
Venture capital has measurable imbalances: about 17% of startups have a female co‑founder (11% by stricter counts), women take ~7–8% of late‑stage dollars… | ||
| The role of social entrepreneurs, government and corporates | Linda Vermaat | 27m |
Chivas Venture runs a $1,000,000 grant program across 20 countries and reports supporting ~100 startups that reach ~1 million lives; winners like Change Please… | ||
| The funding landscape in 2019 | Chris Brown, Ginny Fahs, Andrus Oks, Jerry Yang, Juuso Koskinen | 26m |
Panel summarizes 2018→2019 funding as concrete shifts: 4,000 founders join Founders for Change & #movingforward, global VC money concentrates into larger… | ||
| Fifty Founders Battle: The 7 final pitches | Marija Rucevska, Ernests Stals | 43m |
Seven startups give concrete claims, prototypes and traction: Hive Identity offers a blockchain-backed one-time verified ID to cut fraud and avoid storing PII… | ||
| Fifty Founders Battle winner announcement | Kristine Kornilova, Marija Rucevska, Ernests Stals | 24m |
More than 200 applications compete across five verticals—FinTech, deep tech, hardware & IoT and impact—then a jury picks winners live. Bitwise wins the Next… | ||
| Fifty Founders Battle: Fintech | Cameron McLain, Lauri Lehtmaa, Triin Linamagi, Marite Aleksandra Silava, Michele Foradori, Sandra Golbreich | 56m |
Ten startups give three-minute pitches about what they built, who’s using it and what they want. CryptoPolice ships a Chrome extension and a token reward model… | ||
| Fintech x Banking: Saying “I do” in the era of collaboration | Marite Aleksandra Silava | 20m |
Banks and fintechs move from enemies to partners but the talk gives concrete numbers and tactics: collaboration interest is 90% of banks, 75% of fintechs… | ||
| Fifty Founders Battle: SaaS | Alexey Sidorov, Rémi Prunier, Mikael Petersen, Juuso Koskinen | 38m |
A fast-paced lineup of SaaS startups gives clear metrics, traction and product demos: 42-minute deliveries by a crowdsourced courier platform (40… | ||
| Levels of Superhero analytics | Kasper Suomalainen | 23m |
Begins with concrete levels from level 0 to level 3 and what each actually measures: level 0 is vanity MAU/DAU, level 1 breaks MRR into… | ||
| Fifty Founders Battle: Hardware & IoT | Sander Gansen, Māris Daija, Matīss Neimanis, Juha Ruohonen, Oliver Weimann | 44m |
Rapid-fire pitches with concrete claims: wearable sports tracker HackMotion is profitable since August and sells in 25+ countries; mobile air sensors… | ||
| Fifty Founders Battle: Hardware & IoT | Sander Gansen, Māris Daija, Matīss Neimanis, Juha Ruohonen, Oliver Weimann | 44m |
A rapid-fire lineup shows concrete hardware bets and traction: a golf wearable that is profitable since August and sells in 25+ countries; bus-mounted air… | ||
| AI’s Next Great Challenge: How to create AI that truly understands us? | Andrejs Vasiljevs | 28m |
Tilde shifts from rule-based pipelines to neural machine translation models trained on large parallel corpora and GPU clusters, winning a European MT contest… | ||
| Fifty Founders Battle: Impact | Jerome Wittamer, Kaja Kirstine Lilleng, Agnieszka Meller, Peder L'orange, Leah Volger | 37m |
Ten impact startups present concrete traction and asks: CastPrint sells 3D-printed casts to 100+ patients, 7 clinics, fundraising €250k; E-volta pilots… | ||
| Impact investing from North to South | Rita Casimiro, Kaja Kirstine Lilleng, Espree Devora | 27m |
Discussion lays out concrete vehicles: an accelerator placing €150k ticket checks, a planned €120M catapult fund and an operational €40M fund in Portugal, plus… | ||
| From inception to 500Startups | Raimonds Kulbergs | 25m |
Five-year build of Funderful explains how an AI-driven conversational virtual assistant for alumni and prospective students actually gets traction: channels… | ||
| How following my passion for illegal street art got me to Silicon Valley | Sir la | 20m |
A wall-climbing robot and startup called Sprayprinter actually prints art with spray paint and scales by building more robots; one unit prints ~15 murals/month… | ||
| Building a heavy-lifting Drone: The story of Aerones | Dainis Kruze | 20m |
Claims a heavy‑lift, tethered drone system that shifts from a 20 kg test prototype to a production cleaning platform, using 28 propellers and 16 batteries with… | ||
| Quality comes first | Ervins Grinfelds, Avery Schrader | 26m |
Ervins Grinfelds, Co-founder of TestDevLab joining the agenda block "How To: Build the Product".
Moderated by Avery Schrader, Founder & CEO of Modash.
When two… | ||
| PR for startups: How to stand out from the crowd | Craig Corbett | 29m |
Argues that traditional announcement PR is broken for startups and prescribes PR for growth: tie media work to a clear business goal (raise, hire, acquire… | ||
| The founder with a thousand faces | Gleb Maltsev | 31m |
Analyzes 215,000 words from 290 Slush pitches and 1,042 investor questions and finds concrete patterns: Slush 100 companies account for over $100M raised, one… | ||
| Create a brand that will grow your business | Alex Antolino | 21m |
Typeform grows from 30 to 200 people in four years while launching a new product and a new brand; the creative team scales from zero to 12 to turn product-led… | ||
| The importance of investor communication | Pekka Viilto | 19m |
Starts from the claim that regular investor communication reduces heavy LP reporting and builds wise money relationships, backed by a built product: Rundit… | ||
| Lessons learned in raising a seed round: cap tables, term sheets & more.... | Mikus Opelts, Rolands Mesters, Andris K. Berzins | 25m |
Nordigen reports €900,000 seed and Giraffe360 lists €1.5 million total raised, and both stress fundraising as a numbers game — expect ~50 investor meetings and… | ||
| Growth ideas for early-stage startup founders | Lauri Haav | 22m |
Monese starts from a 2013 idea and ships a mobile bank account in 2015 with 11 people after €1.6M pre-product seed, runs infrastructure on AWS credits, grows… | ||
| How to create a working culture where everyone wants to work? | Raitis Purins | 20m |
Printful reports rapid scale—200+ in Riga, ~500 worldwide, almost 5 million items printed last year and aiming for 10 million—backed by concrete policies… | ||
| Founder's mindset affecting the venture, the community, and the world | Kevin Koym | 33m |
Argues that founder mindset changes outcomes with concrete harms and fixes: cites Purdue Pharma making 35 billion dollars while causing 200,000 deaths (about… | ||
| Code you can hold: Making your first IoT wearable | Charlyn Gonda | 28m |
Builds a wearable shark hat that lights for different Uber ride states using a cellular microcontroller and addressable LEDs, proving a one-line cloud hook… | ||
| Fifty Founders Battle: Deeptech | NeoSound OU, Oppi AI, You Are My Guide, Eva Arh, Ton Van’t Noordende, Tuomas Kosonen, Toby Moore, Sabine Fleischmann | 31m |
A boxed medical kit claims to let surgeons harvest skin stem cells at bedside, process them within 30 minutes, and trigger healing within 24 hours to speed… | ||
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