Three minutes to pitch in Linz, and the work that comes after
From Africa Day in Vienna we went on to Tabakfabrik Linz, where six European startups pitched to investors and the audience backed them with virtual capital.
- Dates
- 19 Oct 2026
- Place
- Tabakfabrik Linz, Hörsaal 0, Linz, Austria
- Organiser
- Young AI Leaders Linz
- Our role
- Attended
Also at the event
- Young AI Leaders LinzOrganiser, part of the AI for Good initiative
- Tabakfabrik LinzVenue, Hörsaal 0
- Mistral AIKeynote
- KEBA GroupChristoph Knogler, chief executive, on the panel
- DynatraceMartin Flechl, on the panel
- aws (Austria Wirtschaftsservice)Partner for the 1:1 meeting tables
Twice as many people had registered as the lecture hall had seats. We had come from Africa Day in Vienna to the Tabakfabrik, the old tobacco factory in Linz, for INVEST OR DIE.
Its promise fitted on one line: six European startups, real investors, and an audience holding capital on its phones. Our work often starts where a pitch ends. We scope early products and take them to production, as we did with a booking platform now live at an Austrian wellness studio.
Young AI Leaders Linz, a youth-led group in the ITU's AI for Good initiative, ran the evening. Mistral AI gave the keynote, and a panel put the chief executive of KEBA Group alongside voices from enliteAI, Dynatrace and the WKO. Then the clock took over: three minutes to pitch, three for questions and one in which the room invested virtual credits.
A pitch gets three minutes. Building what it promised takes far longer, and that work starts with deciding what a first version must do.
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