#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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📢 NEW DEADLINE for the Startup Showcase application: 3 July. This is your chance to get a branded booth at TechBBQ 2026, 3 full-access tickets and exposure to international investors and the Nordic ecosystem. Apply now 👉 eu1.hubs.ly/H0w4XQB0 #TechBBQ2026 #StartupShowcase
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Compass Bank's Michael Andersen on building sustainable growth from TechBBQ. Follow TechBBQ for the sharpest startup signal from Europe #TechBBQ #StartupGrowth
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The Fuuture of Fintech is coming to TechBBQ! 🔥Sander Janca Jensen, Co-Founder & CEO of Flatpay brings his perspective on what it takes to build & scale fintech companies in Europe. Join the conversation – 27 Aug ∙ 9.30-12:00 ∙ Bella Center, CPH 👉eu1.hubs.ly/H0w2-140
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European startup ecosystem per capita unicorn output already matches the US. The VC who backed Spotify and Klarna just said it out loud at TechBBQ, and it's worth hearing. What's your take? Drop it below ↓
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📢 Taking over Maersk Tower for Investor Day 2026! In collaboration with Innovation District Copenhagen (IDC), we bring our investor community at the heart of Life Science, Deep Tech, and Quantum Technology . Secure your ticket 👉 eu1.hubs.ly/H0w1rP60 #TechBBQ2026 #InvestorDay
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97% cheaper to run a data center in space than on Earth. Energy solved. Land solved. Cooling solved. The AI infrastructure crisis has a fix — it's just 400km up. #TechBBQ #AIInfrastructure #SpaceTech
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📢 40 new speakers just joined the #TechBBQ2026 programme. • Linnéa Kornehed Falck • Gabriel Hubert • Ritika Pai • Philipp Schröder • Bettina Curtze …and many more. See the full lineup and grab your ticket to hear them live: bit.ly/43WkSyw 26–27 Aug · 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 👉️ bit.ly/4e5dNAk 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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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 👉 bit.ly/3PW4tH6
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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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