A N D R E A S T S C H A S C E O & C O - F O U N D E R P I O N E E R S @ P I O N E E R S @ A N D R E A S T S C H A S

B U I L D I N G A S T A R T U P E C O S Y S T E M I N E U R O P E A N D A R O U N D T H E G L O B E

E U R O P E A N E N T R E P R E N E U R S H I P & I N N O V A T I O N , S T A N F O R D E N G I N E E R I N G

F E B 2 1 S T 2 0 1 6

VIENNA – THE MOST LIVABLE CITY IN THE WORLD

Funding

Talent Corporate Environment

is preferred

Too few big funds No Community

Support

Market Fragmented Markets

Government Understanding is missing No entrepreneurial

aspiration

Education

Universities Theoretical teaching No fail culture

Culture

THE CEE STARTUP ECOSYSTEM IN 2009

VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS

THE WORLD IS FACING MANY CHALLENGES Global Warming, Poverty, Diseases, Youth Unemployment, Public Depts,

Lack of Vision and Perspectives

…but we are more

empowered than ever

before

GRAND CHALLENGES

5 B I L L I O N + I N 2 0 2 0

The supercomputer in our pocket

E m p o w e r i n g I n n o v a t i o n

PRINTING HOUSES

R e a c h i n g m i l l i o n s i n s e c o n d s

1 I N D I V I D U A L C A N C H A N G E T H E I N D U S T R Y

THIS PERSON IS CHANGING THREE INDUSTRIES

MAKE PEOPLE PIONEER

EVOLUTION OF PIONEERS 2009

40 people at our first event

EVOLUTION OF PIONEERS 2009

40 people at our first event

2015 A crucial point in the global startup

ecosystem

IDEAS THAT CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER

Our motivation and the fuel that drives Pioneers.

Unlimited Tomorrow

AEROMOBIL

SPOTTING THE STARTUP HOTSPOTS 2015

Brilliant start-ups, big thinkers, and a finely tuned program make Pioneers the ideas festival to beat today. If you want to understand the future, this is stop number one.

Pioneers Challenge Partners

THE 500 YEAR OLD IMPERIAL PALACE -HOME OF EMPEROR FRANZ JOSEF I (1830-1916)

A world where tech innovators have the NETWORK TO SUCCEED.

Hermann Hauser

2500 Invite only participants

98 Countries (2015)

1000 Early-Stage

Entrepreneurs

Community & Partners

400

Growth-Stage Entrepreneurs

150

200 Juried Media

100 Governmentals

Investors

300 Executives

350

Probably the highest density of game changers in tech per m².

Adam Cheyer Co-founder

SIRI

Hilton Romanski Chief Strategy Officer

CISCO

Daniel Kraft Chair of Medicine & Exponential Medicine

SINGULARITY UNIVERSITY

Bobak Ferdowsi Systems Engineer

NASA

Easton LaChappelle Co-founder

UNLIMITED TOMORROW

Esther Dyson Investor

EDVENTURE HOLDINGS

The inspiring DOERS & GAME CHANGERS.

150,000 LIVE STREAM online viewers

100+ Hours of hand-crafted content

Speakers 70 5 Stages

Match-making Application at venue

Exclusive networking spaces

Hand-picked entrepreneurs and experts

Inspire. Empower. Connect.

Dirk Ahlborn CEO

HYPERLOOP

Manoj Bhargava Founder & CEO

Living Essentials®

Tim Draper Founder

DFJ

Pioneers Festival STARTUP HEROES & EXPERTS.

Financial Services

Business & Productivity

Materials & Manufacturing

Energy & Utilities

Lifestyle & Entertainment

Mobility & Transportation

Life Sciences & Agriculture

Something we need more of in Europe.

The Pioneers500 is an annual selection of the 500 most promising early-stage tech start-ups identified in cooperation with the global tech community and selected key players. Once approved, Pioneers will cover the costs of 2 Pioneers Festival passes for each of the Pioneers500. That’s how much we believe in our start-ups.

THE 500 MOST PROMISING EARLY-STAGE START-UPS.

Start-ups look to Vienna as next big thing.

THE PIONEERS 500 PARTNERS

FINDING THE NEXT BIG THING.

Meet the Pioneers500 start-ups and witness the winners of the seven ecosystems (Top7) present at the Arena stage of Pioneers Festival for the award "Pioneer of the Year".

Start-ups that matter, inspiring minds, great fun. An epic event! -- Michael Seibel

PIONEERS500

TOP70

TOP7

Start-ups applying from 7 ecosystems

PIONEERS DISCOVER Connecting Corporations and Start-ups

OUR PRODUCTS TO MAKE START-UPS SUCCEED

PIONEERS EVENTS The Marketplace for Corporations Investors Start-ups

PIONEERS VENTURES $10 Million Fund For early stage Start-ups

STAKEHOLDER TRACTION

Weekly average deal-flow x5 in last 14 months

Adding +200 Start-ups/ week on average and growing

Deal-flow is becoming more International 50% EUROPE

26% ASIA

10% NORTH AMERICA

START-UPS

+45 client projects since Q4 2013 Clients include CISCO | WORLD BANK | KONICA RED BULL | MICROSOFT | POST KUKA | VODAFONE | PWC | CMS NIKKEI | NOMURA | T-MOBILE | WIRECARD BBVA | BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM OR MANY OTHER …

CORPORATIONS

+1200 Investors in database +50 quality Deal-flow partnerships

Investments triggered by Pioneers (among others) BELLABEAT MYSUGR RAINBIRD SHPOCK (exit $200M) RUNTASTIC (exit $220M MAMMOTH DB

INVESTORS

BUSINESS MODEL

EVENTS DISCOVER VENTURES

CORPORATIONS START-UPS INVESTORS

EVENT BUSINESS

Ticketing Sponsoring

CORPORATIONS

CONSULTING BUSINESS

Service

START-UPS

VENTURE CAPITAL BUSINESS

Exit IPO

Funding

Talent Good Tech Talent

More funds Active Community

Support

Market Founders Think

international

Government Understanding is missing No entrepreneurial

aspiration

Education

Universities Theoretical teaching Knowledge is growing

Culture

THE CEE STARTUP ECOSYSTEM IN 2016

COMING TO TOKYO ON MARCH 23rd 2016

Nikkei Inc., one of the world‘s largest business news publishing houses, and the team of Pioneers Festival, Europe‘s leading conference on entrepreneurship, science, and future technologies

teamed up to provide new impulses for the startup ecosystem of Japan & Asia.

P I O N E E R I N G I S A N A T T I T U D E O F L I F E

ANDREAS TSCHAS A N D R E A S @ P I O N E E R S . I O

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