Media startup ecosystem
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3TS Capital Partners
Founded in 2000, 3TS Capital Partners is a Vienna-based VC and growth equity firm investing EUR 5-20M at Series B and beyond in technology, media, and telecom companies across Central and Eastern Europe. The firm manages over EUR 500M and has completed 70+ investments with 30+ exits. Notable portfolio companies include SALESmanago (acquired by Bain Capital), Evrotrust, and Emarsys (acquired by SAP). 3TS focuses on profitable, scaling B2B software and digital media businesses in the DACH and CEE regions.
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4GAMECHANGERS Festival 2026
Vienna's multi-stage innovation festival organized by ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4, bringing 10,000+ attendees across media, tech, sustainability, and politics tracks. Features a startup expo, pitch competition, and keynotes from European tech leaders. Free to EUR 99.
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Alexander Wrabetz
Alexander Wrabetz is Vienna's Commissioner for AI in Media and the former long-serving Director General of ORF, Austria's public broadcasting corporation. He is a prominent figure in Austrian and European media policy, having led ORF through major digital transformation phases over multiple terms. At the 4GAMECHANGERS AI-Day 2026, he argued for cross-sector cooperation among public and private broadcasters to address economic pressures from advertising losses and accelerate AI adoption.
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Bernhard Albrecht
Bernhard Albrecht is Co-CEO of ProSiebenSat.1 PULS 4, Austria's leading commercial broadcaster and digital entertainment group. He drives the company's AI strategy and digital transformation agenda across its portfolio of TV and digital channels. At the 4GAMECHANGERS AI-Day 2026, he emphasized moving from AI buzzwords toward genuine practical implementations in media production and marketing.
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Cory Doctorow
British-Canadian author, journalist and digital-rights activist, a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and prolific commentator on technology, platforms and the open internet. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference.
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CultTech Summit 2026
A summit at the intersection of culture, technology, and business, gathering founders, investors, and cultural institutions in Vienna. Useful for founders building at the culture-tech edge.
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DLD Munich 2027
DLD Munich 2027 brings together 1,500+ pioneers from tech, business, science, and culture for three days of ideas and connections in Munich. The annual flagship conference runs immediately before the World Economic Forum in Davos, making it a key gathering point for global leaders. The 2027 edition dates are publicly announced on the official site with attendee notifications opening shortly.
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Edinburgh International Festival 2026
The world's largest arts festival includes a significant digital-arts and creative-technology strand, with immersive installations, AI-generated art exhibitions, and creative-tech showcases. Edinburgh during August is also a magnet for informal tech-community meetups and founder dinners organized by the Scottish startup ecosystem. While not a pure tech event, it's a key cultural moment for creative-tech, content-tech, and entertainment startups looking to connect with media buyers and cultural institutions.
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Forbes Ukraine
Ukrainian edition of the global Forbes business media brand, which beyond its publishing work runs a portfolio of flagship business conferences and forums in Kyiv, including the annual Forbes Entrepreneurs Forum that convenes founders, CEOs and investors for case studies and networking.
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Forward Creatives Network
Creative network and event company behind the Forward Festival series, a touring two-day conference for design, branding, motion design and creative leadership that has run since 2015 across cities including Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Zurich and Hamburg, drawing thousands of designers and agencies.
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Forward Festival Berlin 2026 (August 2026)
Forward Festival is a two-day creative conference bringing thought leaders across design, motion design, typography, branding and art onto multiple stages with talks, workshops and networking. It draws over a thousand creatives and industry professionals from across Europe. For founders it is a strong venue for brand and design inspiration, creative talent sourcing, and connecting with agencies and studios.
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Future Week 2026
Media City Bergen's annual innovation week, anchored by the mcb tech conference for C-level and tech leaders, with workshops and open sessions. Relevant for media-tech and AI founders in western Norway.
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Hoi Internet
Liechtenstein telecommunications provider based in Gamprin-Bendern, supplying internet, television, landline and mobile services across the principality. It builds on fibre-optic connectivity offering speeds up to 10 Gbit per second to homes and businesses, and competes on price in one of the smallest telecoms markets in Europe.
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IMH (International Management House)
One of Cyprus's leading business event and media organisations, running a large calendar of conferences, forums and summits across finance, technology, shipping and entrepreneurship. Its flagship gatherings include the INSPIRE entrepreneurial festival and the Digital Assets and the Future of Finance Summit.
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Inkitt
Inkitt is a Berlin-based reader-powered book publishing platform founded in 2014 by Ali Albazaz. The platform uses AI and reader engagement data to identify commercially promising stories from independent authors and offers publishing deals to the most successful ones. Inkitt also operates GALATEA, a mobile storytelling app that has reached significant consumer traction globally. The company has raised multiple funding rounds including a Series C led by Khosla Ventures.
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IntechOpen
IntechOpen is a London-based open access scientific publisher, founded by two scientists to make research more accessible, that publishes peer-reviewed books, book chapters and journals spanning engineering, medicine, and the physical and life sciences. The platform lets authors publish under open access terms so their work reaches a global research audience and earns more citations. IntechOpen is a portfolio company of Croatian investor Prosperus Invest.
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Media City Bergen
Norwegian media cluster based in Bergen, describing itself as a world leader in augmented reality, graphics, AI, virtual studios, broadcast and IP-based video, robotics and tools for workflow and visual storytelling. It brings together established media houses, technology companies and startups, and runs a members programme alongside events and a jobs board for the cluster.
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Nalden (Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten)
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, known by his online moniker Nalden, is a Dutch entrepreneur and angel investor who co-founded The Next Web (TNW), one of the world's most influential tech media platforms and conference series. Starting as a blogger in the early 2000s, Nalden built TNW into a global brand with millions of readers and an annual conference in Amsterdam attracting thousands of founders and investors. Through his media network and personal investments, Nalden has backed dozens of early-stage European startups, especially in media, creative tech, and consumer internet. He is known for investing in founders with strong brand sensibility and storytelling ability, and his network across European tech journalism and event organizing gives his portfolio companies exceptional visibility.
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Nicholas Thompson
American journalist and media executive serving as Chief Executive Officer of The Atlantic, former editor-in-chief of WIRED, and a frequent commentator on technology, AI and society. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and safety.
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OMR Festival 2026
One of Europe's largest digital marketing and technology festivals, attracting 70,000+ attendees to Hamburg Messe. Features masterclasses, expo stages, and side events covering MarTech, creator economy, D2C, and AI-powered marketing tools.
