Wolves Summit Year 2022 in Review

46470

1:1 Meetings
29653

Attendees
9355

Startups
5426

Executives
3445

Investors
40000

Active followers

Wolves Summit 2022

Total attendees: 2138
Startups: 1022
Investors & corporates: 525
Meetings: 4102

Alpha Wolves

Total attendees: 500+
Scaleups: 186
Investors & corporates: 282
Meetings: 702

Wolves Summit Vienna

Total attendees: 1136
Startups: 799
Investors & corporates: 307
Meetings: 3932

Introducing WolvesX,
Wolves Summit’s new startup and innovation arm

Following numerous scouting and innovation projects with some of the world’s leading brands and government agencies including LG Electronics, PwC, Department of International Trade, Garage+, and Economic Development Board in Singapore, among others, we spun out WolvesX - our innovation arm to identify growth opportunities and address corporate and government challenges in collaboration with startups and strategic partners.

Wolves Summit launches Ventures Thrive

A new venture building programme to invest €1.5M equity-free to address funding shortages and growth difficulties among deeptech startups in CEE. Ventures Thrive will accelerate 32 European startups with equity-free funding, specialised masterclasses, and strategic partners. First cycle will start in March 2023 and focuses on climate-tech solutions.

Applications are now open. If you are an investor looking to diversify your portfolio or you have innovation in your title and wish to collaborate with ambitious founders, let's get in touch!

"At Wolves Summit, we heard from dozens of aspiring entrepreneurs from Central and Eastern Europe and are excited at partnering them to grow their companies in Singapore and across Southeast Asia."

YC Choy

VP and Head of Region (Europe), Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB)

"After attending Wolves Summit for the first time, I am very impressed with the topics discussed at the conference and the quality of attendance. It was a great opportunity to learn even more about what is happening at the Startup & VCs market in CEE and speak directly to the VCs that we, as an LP, invest in."

David Dana

Head of VC Investment, European Investment Fund (EIF)

"Wolves Summit should be a must for all startups due to its high emphasis on networking and the valuable people that attend and that you can meet and get inspired by. there's also an amazing Pitching Contest and really cool workshops that you should check out."

Mihai Cata

Co-Founder, COO at Synaptiq

UNDP Moldova Grant

Wolves Summit was selected by the Polish Challenge Fund - Innovative Solution for the SDGs, implemented by UNDP IRH. We are going to deliver MoldoInnova - a unique growth programme that helps Moldovan startups to scale abroad and Ukrainian tech ventures to relocate to the country through learning and networking opportunities in the local ecosystem.The project aims to boost Moldova's innovation ecosystem and increase local startups resilience by creating learning and networking opportunities, and bringing international exposure and expertise.

Diana Florescu, Forbes 30under30

The Wolves Summit team is 67% female and our achievements show just how important divrsity is to a company’s growth. This year Diana Florescu, Partner and Co-Lead at WolvesX made it onto the Forbes #30under30 in the Media and Marketing category! Diana joined us two years ago spearheading our strategic #comms and growing our innovation and scouting offerings.

PwC and Wolves Summit Report

We mapped the Central Eastern Europe Climate Tech ecosystem together with PwC to advance collaboration between stakeholders. In less than 10 weeks, Wolves X team sourced 183 applications from 20+ countries following a rigorous scouting methodology agreed with PwC.

LG’s Global Future Home Innovation Challenge

This year we partners with LG’s Future Home Venture Client Unit identify 130+ start-ups and start a commercial pilot with 3 of them in less than 16 weeks.

CEO of Wolves Summit, Michael Chaffe and Invest Austria’s interview

Tune in to listen to Wolves Summit’s Michael Chaffe and Invest Austria’s Laura Egg talking about

the potentials and benefits of an increased cooperation in the #CEE region
collaboration in the CEE region changed in recent years
the differences between the ecosystem in Poland and Austria
how do Wolves Summit and invest austria cooperate and why should people definitely join?

Unwrapping the best of 2022
Wolves Summit Year in Review

From humble beginnings in 2016
to reaching innovators across 90+ countries

€2.5bn+ total capital raised by
startups attending Wolves Summit*

Wolves Summit's Great Pitch Contest Finalists have
raised €232m+ in cumulative funding

*1767 startups out of 5466 that participated in Wolves Summit events 2016-2021

In 2022 we put our foot on the gas
with accelerated strategy to scaling Wolves
into CEE’s most active event and startup operator

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