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Pale Blue Dot
Pale Blue Dot is a Swedish venture capital firm dedicated exclusively to investing in early-stage climate tech companies across the Nordic region and Europe. Founded to accelerate decarbonization through technology-driven solutions, the fund backs startups working on energy transition, carbon capture, sustainable food systems, and related sectors. It is one of the most prominent climate-focused VC funds operating in Scandinavia and a partner organization at NORDEEP 2026.
Pär-Jörgen Pärson
General Partner at Northzone, the pan-European venture firm, splitting time between Stockholm and New York. A long-standing fixture of Nordic venture, he led Northzone's landmark investments in Spotify and iZettle and has shaped the firm's growth into a multi-billion-euro platform.
Paweł Michalski
Paweł Michalski is a Warsaw-based VC educator and angel investor, best known as co-founder and CEO of VCLeaders, a training platform for venture professionals, and as a Managing Partner and Head of Advisory Services at COBIN Angels, Poland's largest business-angel community. He is also a Venture Partner at the Berlin climate-tech fund World Fund, and previously served as Chief Growth Officer at equity-crowdfunding platform Beesfund and Head of Business Development at hardware startup First11, following a project-finance career at PKO Bank Polski. Through VCLeaders' newsletter he regularly publishes analysis on the European venture ecosystem.
PG Connects Nordics 2026
An international games-industry B2B conference within Finnish Games Week, connecting Nordic indies, developers, publishers, and investors, with indie pitch competitions and investor matchmaking.
PGC Summit Malmö 2026
Pocket Gamer Connects' first dedicated Sweden event, a focused two-day games-industry networking and dealmaking conference with an indie developer pitch competition.
Philippe Botteri
Partner at Accel investing in cloud, SaaS, AI and security across Europe and Israel. He authors Accel's influential annual Euroscape report tracking the region's cloud and AI momentum.
Pierre Limouzin
Pierre Limouzin leads venture capital investment activities for the EIC Fund at the European Investment Bank (EIB), focusing on breakthrough and deep tech companies across Europe including in the space sector. The EIC Fund is the equity arm of the European Innovation Council, deploying equity and quasi-equity investments into high-potential European startups and scale-ups commercializing frontier technologies. His role makes him a key figure in the European public venture ecosystem and a significant source of institutional capital for space entrepreneurship and new space ventures.
Pieter Welten
Partner at Newion focused on early-stage B2B software companies in Europe. He works with technical founders building enterprise SaaS, supporting go-to-market and scaling from first institutional capital through growth.
Pioneers Festival 2026
Deep-tech and innovation conference at the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna, bringing together 2,500+ founders, investors, and corporate innovators. Known for its startup pitch competition, investor matchmaking, and focus on frontier technologies.
Pitch Me Baby, Warsaw vol. 37
Edition 37 of Warsaw's free founder pitching night, hosted at PKO Bank Polski (Strategic Partner, Let's Fintech program). Up to 8 startups pitch for 5 minutes each to an audience of mentors, investors, VC funds and business angels, followed by instant, honest feedback. Strong fit for early-stage founders practicing their pitch and seeking pre-seed connections across Poland and CEE; ~100 attendees per edition.
Pledge Ventures
Pledge Ventures is the venture capital arm of Founders Pledge, launched in 2023 to invest in high-growth technology companies whose founders have made binding philanthropic commitments. The fund operates on a rules-based model across sectors and geographies, aiming to create a self-reinforcing flywheel between entrepreneurial financial success and positive social impact. Co-founded by Niki Buys and David Goldberg, the fund backs a broad portfolio of technology companies and is a featured partner at Nordic Tech Week 2026.
Plug and Play Expo Batch 3 (July 2026)
Demo-day expo showcasing the third Armenian startup cohort of the Plug and Play International Pre-Accelerator, powered by Armenia's Ministry of High-Tech Industry. The evening brings together government officials, founders, corporates, investors and VCs for startup pitches and networking. Plug and Play's third Armenia program launched in Yerevan in April 2026.
PreSeed Ventures
PreSeed Ventures (PSV) is a Copenhagen-area venture house rooted in the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), and Denmark's most active pre-seed investor. It operates three vehicles: PSV Tech (early-stage software, AI and digital-infrastructure fund), PSV Hafnium (Denmark's first dedicated deep-tech fund) and PSV Foundry (DTU's investment and incubation arm). PSV provides the first institutional capital to university spin-outs and technical founders, typically at idea or prototype stage, writing tickets of roughly €0.1–1.5M. PSV Tech's first independent fund closed at DKK 412M (~€55M) in 2022, backed by Denmark's ATP pension fund, EIFO and Vækstfonden, with a €70M Fund II in fundraising. PSV Hafnium closed an oversubscribed €60M in December 2025, anchored by the European Investment Fund and EIFO, to back around 25 science-rooted spin-outs across quantum computing, cleantech, new materials, biotech and new space. PSV has backed early Danish successes including Trustpilot (LSE IPO, 2021), Glycom (acquired by DSM), Vivino, Lunar and Labster, and remains a crucial bridge from Nordic research to venture.
Ricardo Torgal
General Partner and CFO of Indico Capital Partners, which he co-founded after a career at Caixa Capital. He leads fund operations and investments across enterprise software, fintech and deep tech in Portugal, Spain and Italy.
Riga EVO VC & Startups 2026 (July 2026)
Riga EVO VC & Startups is an evening networking social run by the global EVO VC & Startups community, hosted at PILS Bar in the Grand Palace Hotel in Riga's old town. It connects investors and tech founders — including micro-cap and deep-tech founders — for informal conversations around finding co-founders, team, funding or scaling partners.
Riga Startup Nights (Autumn 2026)
Monthly community evening organized by Startup Latvia and the Riga TechHub at the MadCity coworking space. Each edition features 3 founder talks, a pitch session with local VCs (Change Ventures, Overkill Ventures), and drinks. Autumn 2026 edition focuses on seed fundraising in a difficult climate. Free with registration.
Rise of AI
Organizer of the Rise of AI conference, a curated annual summit in Berlin connecting AI founders, researchers, policymakers, and investors. Founded by Fabian Westerheide, the event has run since 2014 and brings together 1,000+ participants to discuss applied AI, ethics, and emerging business models in the European AI ecosystem.
Rodrigo Ferreira
Investment Director at Vinthera, focused on venture investment and technology growth across emerging markets. He is an announced speaker at Eurasia Tech Week 2026 in Istanbul.
SaaStanak 2026
Central and Eastern Europe's largest SaaS conference, run as an immersive format where 300-600 founders, operators, and investors stay together at a single Adriatic resort for three days of talks, dealmaking, and side events. Strong fit for early-to-growth-stage B2B SaaS teams.
SaaStanak 2027
SaaStanak 2027 runs 24-26 May at Amadria Park Hotel Ivan in Sibenik, Croatia. The SaaS-focused conference draws founders, operators and venture capital investors from the CEE startup ecosystem, with tickets in past years selling out during the early bird phase.
