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In this episode, Robbie chats with Oliver Holle, the founder of Speedinvest - a Seed Venture Fund based in Vienna. Oliver was a successful founder before he became an investor. However he came very close to failing with his startup and went through long periods of difficult times. He tells us what he took away from that time and how it helps him with supporting founders today.

A week before our big event Pirate Summit, Robbie sits down with Nia for a short interview ahead of the event. Nia is responsible for all things around the agenda and speakers at the conference and tells us what highlights we can expect this year!

Our Managing Director Robbie chats with Philipp, the founder of VIRE.co, a native mobile, VR & AR ad platform startup from Cologne. We cover a range of topics and Philipp tells the story of his path from being an online editor and writer, Youtuber and Social Media influencer to starting his own company. 

 This episode is brought to you by… ourselves and our upcoming conference Pirate Summit. Now in its 7th year, we’ll again bring more than a thousand entrepreneurs, investors and corporates together for deep discussions, intense networking and overall a lot of fun. You won’t want to miss this edition! Apply to participate at Piratesummit.com and if you use the code “podcast”, you’ll get an additional 15% off your tickets.

We spoke with Erik Podzuweit, the founder of Scalable Capital. He tells the story of how the startup went from humble beginnings with their first revenue being prize money at our Fintech conference EXEC to now being one of the biggest robo-advisors worldwide.

We sat down with Christoph Auer-Welsbach to discuss the state of AI. Christoph is a partner at IBM Ventures and co-founder of City.AI, a global AI community. Please excuse the quality. Something wasn't right with the Mic.

RIOT is our newest event (http://riot.berlin). It features 100 startups from IoT, AI, VR/AR showcasing and demoing their innovations. Manuel and Robbie discuss what participants can expect on June 8th in Berlin.

Tim Kunde is CEO of Friendsurance and pioneered the P2P insurance model. He gives insights into the ups and downs of building Friendsurance, how he secured millions in funding and built an international team.

Valentin Stalf, CEO of N26, describes how he build N26 - one of the fastest growing so called NEO Banks - the challenges he faced along the way and his lessons learned as a startup founder. We met at the second day of EXEC in the N26 offices and they had just received the fintech of the year award the day before.

In this episode of the PIRATE Talks, PIRATE Co-Founder Manuel speaks with Robbie, the head of EXEC - PIRATE's conference on Fintech and Insurtech about the event in Berlin and current developments in the Fintech and Insurtech market. What topics are hot right now? Which startups should you follow?