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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

We planned for 1,500 investors at TechBBQ 2025. 1,731 showed up - 204 LPs, 700 VCs and angels. In 2026 the LP Forum runs on two parallel stages. The room keeps outgrowing the ambition. #TechBBQ2026 #LPForum #NordicVC

Modi + Frederiksen in Oslo. India-Nordic ties upgraded to a Green Tech & Innovation Strategic Partnership. AI, deep tech, pension capital all named. The corridor is live. #TechBBQ #NordicIndic

Free to apply. 3 pitch competitions. 10,000+ attendees. TechBBQ Startup Program closes this Friday. Most founders will scroll past this. #TechBBQ

EU picks EQT to run the new €5B Scaleup Europe Fund. AI, quantum, biotech, clean energy, Series B+.The stat behind it: 73% of European AI companies' late-stage lead investors are American.Can commercial discipline survive pressure to back "European champions"? See you in CPH!

60M DKK. The biggest single AI initiative in Danish history — and it's not aimed at compute. Industriens Fond → Bioinnovation Institute → AI Lab. The frame from Thomas Hofman-Bang: "Co-creator, not consumer." Not catching the US. Building a model that travels. #TechBBQ2026

57 founders. First topic: failure. Hero Academy 2026 is live and it opened exactly how it should. 🔥 Save this if you believe founder craft starts before the pitch deck. #TechBBQ #HeroAcademy #FounderReality

Give yourself permission to stop. TechBBQ 2026 — 26–27 August, Bella Center, Copenhagen. More on what we're building this year, soon. #TechBBQ2026 #EmergingFromAgency

Founders rarely exhale. Building a company is constant pressure pitch decks, fundraising, hiring, the 11pm doubt. At TechBBQ 2025, we built a room where they finally could.

Float beds. Sound-mapped audio.Cortisol –39%. Focus +24%.This is what we mean when we say innovation.

The Longevity Lounge. Not a wellness corner. Real practitioners, real protocols, real recovery science.

Europe builds the best open-source AI models. No one uses them. The founder who just sold Silo AI to AMD on what's actually broken. #TechBBQ

Anton Osika's talent thesis at Lovable: Young people don't lack ability. They lack ownership. Ownership shortens the feedback loop. The feedback loop is the moat. #TechBBQ

"The next unicorn will probably be one person." Not 50,000 employees. Not 100,000. AI changed the math of scale — and the Nordics were already built for it. #TechBBQ

Honest question for the timeline: Who's the most underbooked speaker in European tech right now? Drop names, especially ones we don't already know.

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Compass Bank's Michael Andersen on the AI risk calculus nobody talks about at TechBBQ. Follow TechBBQ for the sharpest startup signal from Europe #TechBBQ #AIStrategy #FintechLeaders

Europe doesn't have an innovation problem. It has a scaling problem. The ideas stay. The companies leave. #TechBBQ #StageConversations

We get a lot of good ideas, but they leave Europe when they start scaling.' — Microsoft Denmark CEO Mette Kaagaard. Europe's real tech problem isn't innovation. It's retention.