| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.11.2020 | How Vattenfall worked together with 3 startups to create an ... |
Vattenfall, one of the largest Energy providers in Europe, is driving innovation with startups thr... |
| - | Pioneers Insights: Six Steps To Open Innovation With Startup... |
Incumbent companies are facing ultra-fast and unstoppable technological trends such as AI, big dat... |
| - | Office Hours with Pioneers Ventures Starts 2018 Roadshow Str... |
With almost 30 highly promising pre-seed startups from across Europe already in its portfolio, Pio... |
| - | What Makes a Winning Startup? |
By Jasmina Henniova, Head of Startups & Community Partnerships at Pioneers
When
Storyball
... |
| - | ALPS Programs hits its target with Pioneers |
The goal of connecting delegates with Austria’s business community and representatives from public... |
| - | Pride of Pioneers: How B2B Pay Grabbed Their Big Chance |
Pioneers Discover played an important scouting role for both the Fintech for Companies and Global ... |
| - | The Art Of Gathering Feedback: Seven Tips For Making It Coun... |
Today we’ll tackle a trend that’s not only growing in startups, but also in corporate product deve... |
| - | Humanizing Hosting: Getting Real With New Pioneers ’19 MC Pa... |
In keeping with the ‘technological walk through human life’ storyline driving Pioneers ’19, it see... |
| - | How Mobility.Pioneers Sparked Good Times For Electrification... |
When we talked to ChargeX Co-Founder Tobias Wagner via video interview, we couldn’t help noticing ... |
| - | Video: Future of European Deep Tech |
Pioneers’17 (previously Pioneers Festival) sought to address issues around human augmentation this... |
| - | Building Our Tomorrow Land |
Today, on Tuesday, November 10, 2015, I shared this with our Pioneers community. I decided to publ... |
| - | Can You and Your Phone Match Mozart? |
Of all the places to interview COOLJAMM founder David Choi, Vienna is about as fitting as it could... |
| - | Introducing The Business Model Canvas For GovTech Startups |
Frederik’s nine-step process is packed with the GovTech-specific questions startups should ask the... |
| - | Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger to Speak at Pioneers ’19 |
We’re excited to announce that Wikipedia Co-Founder
Larry Sanger
will star on the Arena Stage at... |
| - | This city has Google Maps stumped. Can its own citizens do b... |
I’d like to invite you to head over to Varanasi with me today. I don’t mean actually going to the ... |
| - | Pioneers’18 Audience To Choose Eighth Pioneers Challenge Fin... |
In a new twist for our flagship event later this week, attendees at the Pioneers Challenge Top 50 ... |
| - | RUNNING A REMOTE OPEN INNOVATION PROGRAM: A look back on imp... |
2020 just turned into the year of remote working and it’s no secret: distributing team work remote... |
| - | Universal Basic Income — Is It Time? |
50% unemployment. Millions jobless. These are the kinds of alarming numbers we keep hearing. And g... |
| - | The Million Euro Funding Tip: How Mentorship Learnings Can L... |
Munich-based startup Smokeless has developed a smart e-cigarette, which is designed to wean people... |
| - | How Habegger Blurs Frontiers With Stage, Sound And Lighting |
Regular visitors to our flagship event might well wonder how we come up with new stage, lighting a... |
| - | Pioneers Ventures Seals Its First Exit |
Atmosplay met Pioneers Ventures at Pioneers’ annual flagship event back in 2015, after which a dea... |
| - | Baumgaertel: Five reasons why 'Made in Germany' still steals... |
As a startup, you face customer decisions even before you have a product. On a very basic level, t... |
| - | From a face in the crowd to leader of the pack |
When Valentin went to his first
Pioneers Festival
with his co-founder in 2013, he was just a kid... |
| - | Hardware Startups: To Succeed You Have to Sleep in a Factory... |
Silicon Valley – the world’s leading hub for innovation and development – is probably
the
place ... |
| - | Pioneers Insights: Opportunity Amidst the Global Water Crisi... |
If ever there was a graphic illustration of just how serious it can be to ignore innovation, then ... |
| - | LEGO innovation with Stiven Kirestegian |
Stiven Kirestegian, Senior Manager of Open Innovation and Technology Innovation at the LEGO Group,... |
| - | From Genome Sequencing To Longevity Biotech: Pioneers ’19 Sp... |
With the event agenda at Pioneers ’19 taking the form of a
technological walk through human life
... |
| - | Pioneers Ventures: Pioneers, Speedinvest and startup300 rest... |
Pre-seed Venture Capital Fund Pioneers Ventures, founded in 2015 by Pioneers and Speedinvest, has ... |
| - | Home Team Leads The Way At Energy Blockchain Hack |
Swiss startup
Papers.ch
was the overall winner of the
Energy Blockchain Hack
in Bern last week... |
| - | How do you run a Hackathon to innovate successfully with ext... |
Hackathons, which effectively give partners hundreds of hours of R&D time from hand-picked inn... |
| - | Making Bill Payments a Breeze with Pioneers Challenge Award ... |
If you’re reading this blog in somewhere like Western Europe or North America, the concept of an a... |
| - | Startup Bootcamps: Your Gateway To A High-Value Open Innovat... |
With our
Startup Bootcamps
running everywhere from Hamburg to Vienna to Bangalore during this se... |
| - | Surviving the Startup Life: Q&A with Jerry Colonna |
At Pioneers Festival 2014, Jerry Colonna had an incredible session on the Academy Stage, where he ... |
| - | 10 Crowdfunding Projects That Take the ‘Fiction’ out of ‘Sci... |
Web crowdfunding has shortened launch times for innovative, exciting and helpful products. Recentl... |
| - | Why Rust Could Be Your Gold Dust: Corporate Tech Wish List #... |
Large corporations need great tech ideas — fact! But, as even the most optimistic founder knows, i... |
| - | Kapsch Announces Factory1 Global Accelerator Finalists |
Pioneers Discover is pleased to share the names of the 15 finalists chosen by
Kapsch
for its
Fa... |
| - | Working with startups: Hardly any sustainable results, but t... |
Having worked on numerous startup-corporate collaboration projects, our innovation consultant
Eri... |
| - | Oradian wins Pioneers Challenge 2014 |
Croatian based startup
Oradian
is the winner of the
Pioneers Challenge 2014
- decided by this ... |
| - | ‘We want to make using Blockchain as easy as sending an emai... |
Jörg von Minckwitz didn’t have to travel far to pick up the latest of several accolades for Bitw... |
| - | Only the paranoid survive: An interview with Roman Stanek |
Can you tell us what a typical day in the life of Roman Stanek looks like?
I’m in the office ar... |
| - | Deep Dive Into Open Innovation Insights at Pioneers’18 with ... |
Today we’re pleased to unveil our Pioneers500 Report, a limited publication exclusive to Pioneers’... |
| - | Pioneers Discover Joins University of St Gallen on Business ... |
Pioneers Discover is excited to announce that it will contribute its experience to a major two-yea... |
| - | Five Mobility Startups to Watch |
Nobody can say for sure how we’re going to get ourselves around town in years to come. One thing... |
| - | Solutions Aplenty at Alpine Tourism Hack |
What springs to mind when you think about the glorious Swiss Alps? The old-school pleasures of stu... |
| - | The Power of Genuine AI...Why contextflow Deserves More Than... |
If you’ve ever had a medical scan, you probably know what it’s like to receive a big brown envelop... |
| - | Fund Twenty8 closes: now watch its tech get to work |
Hands up if you like the idea of investing your money in deserving startups that promise to change... |
| - | Metalab Vienna: Birthplace of the MakerBot |
We visited the Viennese hackerspace
Metalab
and spotted a prototype of the MakerBot, one of the ... |
| - | Reshaping the Asian Credit Landscape: Pioneers '19 Interview |
“97% of shopping in our markets is offline,” says
Oriente Co-Founder Geoffrey Prentice
. “70% of... |
| - | The Story of Pioneers ’19: Day Two |
After an intensely insightful first day at Pioneers ’19 (which you can read about
here
), day tw... |
| - | Taken for a ride in Bratislava: A curious tale of startup-em... |
Michal is one of those high-energy guys who works three jobs. But he doesn’t always wear a smile... |
| - | 100+ DACH Corporations Reveal Their Innovation Approaches: F... |
By Antonia Frizberg, Verena Judmayer, Michael Wlaschitz and Richard Asher.
Pioneers Discover ha... |
| - | Pioneers Discover announces two new opportunities for startu... |
Pioneers Discover, together with two of Austria’s most established corporations, is looking for qu... |
| - | Pioneers Ventures Portfolio Gains Sixth Health Tech Company ... |
We all know that a successful startup needs a real problem to solve. When you consider that Deep V... |
| - | What Do Millennials Really Want? |
“Market research sucks. Nobody wants to take part in it. We all know it’s a pain.”
If you work ... |
| - | Pioneers Challenge Winner Will Get €100,000 |
We are super excited at Pioneers to announce – in cooperation with our partner
Speedinvest
– a €... |
| - | Ever Seen A Cyborg Drummer? Pioneers ’19 Is Your Chance! |
Photo Credit: Michael Sharkey
Our flagship event might be all about future technology, but we l... |
| - | Purpose, BANG, Relevance, Stories and Hook: Five Tips For Su... |
The memory of my first pitch still haunts my dreams from time to time. I can still remember the fo... |
| - | Pioneers ’19 Winner Interview: Storyball’s Inner Workings... |
“Storyball is basically a bluetooth speaker,” says
Meir Biton
, one of four men behind the produ... |
| - | Video: Highlights From Pioneers’18 |
Our flagship event, which went ahead on May 24th-25th at the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna, br... |
| - | Explore Open Innovation with the Pioneers500 Report at Pione... |
We’re pleased to announce that visitors to our flagship event will once again get exclusive access... |
| - | Pioneers ’19 Speaker Interview: Destination Alpha Centauri!... |
“I think we are not alone. I think we are going to find that life is everywhere. But I also think ... |
| - | Corporate Innovation Open Calls: Apply for Investments, Gran... |
Pioneers Discover is inviting startups from around the world to apply for several incubator, hacka... |
| - | Industry Pioneers Hackathon: Calling Startups & Corporat... |
Industry Pioneers offers interested corporates the chance to solve a real-life business challenge,... |
| - | Meet The Startups We Sent To BBVA Open Talent Glory |
Last week, when the winners of the
BBVA Open Talent
contest were announced in Madrid, we were pl... |
| - | Launching Your Startup In Two Countries: Tips from a Pioneer... |
Protera Bio are living proof that no matter where your idea might be born (and Chile is far-flung ... |
| - | Pioneers Insights: Talking Trends With the Israel Innovation... |
No matter where you’re from, visiting Israel for the first time is usually a big surprise. And if ... |
| - | Mobility.Pioneers Top Startups & Jurors Revealed: Let th... |
If ever you wanted an illustration of why a startup might want to attend an event like Mobility.Pi... |
| - | Time For Art And Tech Innovation To Come Together: Introduci... |
The time for art and tech innovation to meet has well and truly come, says the successful Russian ... |
| - | ONO Hits The Streets of Berlin! |
We're proud to see that one of our Pioneers '19 finalist startups, ONO, has taken the next big ste... |
| - | 3D Bioprinted Organs, AI Powered Diagnostics And Health-Enha... |
The second edition of Health.Pioneers, headlined
Catalyzing Innovation: from prevention to person... |
| - | GovTech: Why Europe Needs to Catch Up |
GovTech. The word’s been popping up more and more in the media of late. Like other relatively nove... |
| - | Govtech:Pioneers: What We Learned For Next Year! |
Pioneers has been organizing startup programs and innovation technology events for the better part... |
| - | Pioneers Insights: Reaching Sustainable Development Targets ... |
Ongoing issues in society, the economy and the environment have drawn a huge amount of attention t... |
| - | Unleashing internal innovation: A success Story of ÖBB |
How the biggest Austrian mobility provider succeeds with their intrapreneurship program
The sec... |
| - | Knowing Your Target Audience: Communication That Resonates |
Having covered the general essentials required to deliver an impactful pitch in
part one
of this... |
| - | Download: Pioneers500 Report |
If you weren’t able to grab one of the 500 printed copies of our Pioneers500 Report during Pioneer... |
| - | Pioneers Ventures invests in hiMoment |
In April this year we introduced the intriguing
hiMoment
concept to our readers, in a blog post,... |
| - | Model Collaborations: Growing the Government Community |
Once upon a time, the only time governments got feedback from their citizens would come at the mom... |
| - | Interview: Health.Pioneers Speaker Krzysztof Chylinski Talks... |
With CRISPR/Cas9 among the most powerful of emerging health technologies, hearing Krzysztof speak ... |
| - | Pioneers Insights: Plastic And The Power Of Printed Electron... |
Like it or not, plastic is woven into the fabric of our lives. But it took a visit to the
Greiner... |
| - | 10 Reasons Why Investors Should Attend Pioneers Festival 201... |
1. Ok, maybe this GIF is slightly exaggerating
It won’t get any easier for you to pimp your d... |
| - | How We Went Online Dating to Create Match & Meet |
If you want to get good at online dating, doesn’t it make rather a lot of sense to set up a fake p... |
| - | How Videos Can Take Your Startup To €200K In Revenues...Fast... |
Rok Starič, a former member of our team at Pioneers, is right up there with the most visibly enthu... |
| - | Six Founder Lessons You Need to Hear |
Best known for founding Zipcar and her thought leadership on a wide range of topics, serial entrep... |
| - | Pioneers Insights: A guide for corporate-startup collaborati... |
Innovation is the key to long-term business success. Innovative companies grow faster than the res... |
| - | Video & Interview: Making Space Accessible |
It’s tempting to say that few topics on earth are as emotive and inspirational as space travel w... |
| - | Storyball Takes Startup Victory at Pioneers ’19 |
Photo Credit: Mark Somay/Pioneers
Storyball
beat 50 top-notch challengers to emerge as the win... |
| - | Interview: Speech Therapy Goes Digital With BlubBlub |
Every startup, no matter what field it’s working in, sets out to solve a problem. But none of thos... |
| - | Interview & Video: Stromkind Makes Waves in the USA |
The Austrian startup’s week-long trip to San Francisco with Pioneers, their prize for coming out o... |
| - | SolCold: The Cooling's Hottest Story |
Storyball may have been the
best startup
in a tightly-contested final round at Pioneers ’19 - bu... |
| - | Video & Audio: Getting Intimate with Tech |
The three forward-thinking and open-minded women who shared their industry knowledge on the Academ... |
| - | City, Space and DNA Data: In focus at Pioneers Festival 2017 |
In the world of tech innovation, standing still is going backwards. Thanks to pioneers everywhere,... |
| - | Your Health Takes Center Stage At Pioneers Festival 2017 |
Flying cars are fascinating. Blockchain is brilliant. Drones are delicious. But all of this exciti... |
| - | Pioneers ’19 Founder Guide Part 2: More Pitching Lessons Fro... |
In this second article in a two-part series ahead of the Pioneers ’19 pitching contest on May 9th-... |
| - | Video: Automation & The Future of Work |
Moderated by CNBC's Technology Reporter Arjun Kharpal, the panel of experts featured Dr Markus Bra... |
| - | Pioneers Ventures Celebrates €20m in Follow-On Investment at... |
As always, the week around our flagship event in Vienna was an annual highlight for the Pioneers V... |
| - | MOTIONTAG and Baze Celebrate Investment Deals |
We’re pleased to report that our 2019 Mobility.Pioneers winners MOTIONTAG have landed a six-figure... |
| - | Blockchain in the Spotlight at Mobility.Pioneers |
With blockchain (and various interpretations thereof) currently taking the world of innovation by ... |
| - | Pioneers Case Study: Testing a Startup Market |
First up, if you missed part one of this series and are wondering what this is all about, head
he... |
| - | The 1st Closing: €58 Million of Venture Capital |
New Venture Capital for Startups
Together with Speedinvest, Pioneers is pushing Austria's ventu... |
