7th November 2022, Vienna | On 20-21st October 2022, another successful Wolves Summit was held, organized with the Cooperation Partner, Vienna Business Agency and City of Vienna. For the first time, the event brought the CEE ecosystem players to Austria, ending up with 1136 attendees & 3932 scheduled 1:1 meetings in the span of 2 days.   Wolves Summit Vienna in numbers 1136 - attendees  3932 - scheduled 1:1 meetings 799 - selected startup representatives 2172 - startup applications 307 - Investors and Business representatives

Climate tech investments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are rising rapidly, from US$10.6m in 2013 to US$398m in 2020, and over US$502m in the first half of 2021 alone. More than US$1.758 bn has been invested in climate tech in CEE between 2013 and the first half of 2021. The CEE region contributes to approximately 3.73% of all GHG emissions, but currently attracts only 0.79% of global climate tech investment. Mobility start-ups attract the most climate tech funding in CEE with 54.4% of the total in the last year. Start-ups in Estonia and Lithuania raised 83% of total climate tech investment in the region. Despite being the largest economy, Poland has raised only 4.65% of total climate tech funding in CEE between 2013 and the first half of 2021. Energy sector start-ups only attracted 1.29% of total CEE climate tech funding during the same period. The CEE edition of PwC’s Net Zero Future50 report, produced in partnership with Wolves Summit, presents the state of climate tech investments in 27 countries across the region and profiles a selection of 50 innovative start-ups working in this sector. 

With Wolves Summit Vienna about to kick off, we’re excited to announce a final call to register to our FREE OF CHARGE workshops for all attendees prepared by world-class experts to help you grow and scale your business. All the workshops take place on-site, in weXelerate, Vienna. All you need to do to join is register your interest today and show up in the Board Room at the starting time. 

Vienna, August 11 - Wolves Summit – fresh off its sold-out event in May – announced the October 2022 event will take place in Vienna, Austria. Dates for the upcoming edition are October 20-21st.  In addition, the Investors Evening co-organised in collaboration with invest austria, will take place at the Hotel Andaz Vienna on October the 19th, the night before the conference. 

30th May 2022, Wrocław | Last week, Wolves Summit successfully completed the mega-tech festival co-organized by the City of Wrocław, seeing 2138  attendees from 52 countries. 4,000+ meeting requests were sent via 1:1 matchmaking tool during Wolves Summit 2022. This edition of Wolves Summit, powered by the Main Sponsor, EDB Singapore, has selected more than 1,000 startups to attend the event. Almost 60 best ones that had gone through the pre-qualifications prior to the festival, made it to the Great Pitch Contest Semi Finals to present in front of the Jury of international Investors and the global audience on-site, in Wroclaw Congress Center as well as online via Hopin.

The 12 finalists presented their solutions live at Wolves Summit 2022 in front of a specialised LG committee. Zoundream and Kibus Petcare were also selected to present in the Wolves Summit’s Great Pitch Contest Finals   Warsaw, Monday, May 30, 2022 — Last week at Wolves Summit 2022 in Wroclaw, Poland, LG Electronics (LG) announces the finalists that have made it onto its shortlist for a chance to work with LG Future Home, LG’s new venture client unit, on developing new solutions.  Launched recently this year at Alpha Wolves, a special event hosted by Wolves Summit that connects established tech-industry players with fund managers and promising, new ventures, the LG Future Home Global Innovation Challenge focused on finding innovations that will improve quality of life and user experiences at home. 

Wroclaw, Poland. 24 May 2022. Earlier this month, Wolves Summit and PwC Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) announced their partnership with the goal of matching global impact investors with climate tech start-ups in the CEE region. As part of that partnership, they organised on 24 May at the Wolves Summit in Wroclaw a Climate Tech Pitching Track as part of The Great Pitch Contest, held a panel discussion on the state of climate tech investment, and announced plans to produce a CEE edition of the PwC Net Zero Future 50 report. Climate tech start-ups across the CEE region are invited to submit nominations for possible inclusion in the report by 3 July 2022.