Judges & Reverse Pitch VCs at PIRATE Summit 2017
It’s time to introduce the jury members, that will be judging the pitches of our Walk-the-Plank pitch competition. The pitches will start at 10:30am and will continue the whole day until 6:45pm on Sept. 6th at PIRATE Summit. The day after, startups will compete against each other in our semi finals, fighting for the grand pitch prize.
Up to five jury members will judge each pitch session (10 Startups per session) — all of them are actively looking for hot deals and are investing from seed to series A (incl. follow-ups).
- Alex Spain, Atomico
- Alexander Lüttge, Coparion
- Andrew Scott, 7percent Ventures
- Andrii Degeler, Rockstart
- Axel Nitsch, HTGF
- Barbara Belvisi, Hardware Club
- Bastian Weske, Tengelmann Ventures
- Benedikt Kronberger, btov vc
- Chris Kobylecki, Innovation Nest
- Christian Lindener, Wayra
- Christian Weiss, Creathor
- Christopher Steinau, Northzone
- Clément Vouillon, Point Nine Capital
- Colin Hanna, Balderton Capital
- Constantin von Bergmann Korn, Axel Springer
- Corne Jansen, INKEF Capital
- Daria Batukhtina, startup4city
- Florian Schmitt, Lexware
- Franziska Schäfermeyer, Tengelmann Ventures
- Hans Heinrich Kleuker, TWL
- Heidi Lindvall, The Open Data Institute
- Hugo Amsellem, The Family
- Hussein Kanji, Hoxton VC
- Jan Alberti, BMP Ventures
- Johannes Rohde, Capnamic Ventures
- Julia Qiu, Mosaic Ventures
- Julius Bachmann, Redstone VC
- Kristin Isabelle Müller, HTGF
- Louis Papaemmanuel, EYIF
- Luise Gruner, GMPVC
- Markus Grundmann, Senovo
- Moritz Kaminski, Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners
- Olivier Mougenot, numa
- Otto Birnbaum, Partech Ventures
- Peter Langmar, Smartware.tech
- Raph Crouan, Startup Bootcamp
- Raphael Schewe, Flyeralarm Grow & Fly
- Sabine Rudolph, Freischwimmer
- Stephane Gantchev, LAUNCHub
- Stephan Schubert, STS Ventures
- Stephan Wirries, Ventech
- Steven Sudy, Sparklab by NN
- Tobias Schulz, HTGF
- Vinay Solanki, Channel 4

To top it all off, we also added two sessions of “Reverse Pitches” on Sept. 6th (Crow’s Nest, 10:00am — 10:30am) and Sept. 7th (Captain’s Deck, 11:00am — 11:30am). Join these stages to see how startups and investors switch sides. Seven to eight investors in each session will present themselves, the industries and stages they’re interested in for 3–5 minutes, like a regular startup pitch. The reverse pitchers are:
- Benedikt Kronberger, btov vc
- Christian Meermann, Cherry VC
- Christian Schulte, Coparion
- Christian Weiss, Creathor
- Colin Hanna, Balderton Capital
- Daniel Höpfner, building10
- Heidi Lindvall, The Open Data Institute
- Hussein Kanji, Hoxton VC
- Jan Alberti, bmp Ventures
- Julius Bachmann, Redstone VC
- Luise Gruner, GMPVC
- Marie-Helene Ametsreiter, Speedinvest
- Oliver Schuepbach, Partech Ventures
- Sarah Gill, Founders
- Stephan Wirries, Ventech
“I got 99 problems, but a pitch ain’t one.” — We’re looking forward to some incredible pitches. For the pitching startup who would like to practice their pitch before walking the plank, we have an ARRRsome opportunity for you. On September 5th, you will have the opportunity to get a Pitch Coaching with our Instructor and long-time PIRATE Vidar Andersen.
ARRR and see you soon!

