Bits & Pretzels

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Bits & Pretzels

Taking place annually in Munich, Bits & Pretzels is a 3-day conference for 7,500 founders, investors, and startup enthusiasts.
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Taking place in Munich, Bits & Pretzels is a multi-day festival for 5,000 founders, investors, and startup enthusiasts. Our vision is to enable founders to shape a better future through innovative ideas and technology. Bits & Pretzels started 2014 as a small founders breakfast with 80 participants and quickly developed into Europe's leading founders festival. Our audience of enthusiastic founders attracts some of the most inspiring personalities year after year: President Barack Obama, Jessica Alba, Reid Hoffman, Richard Branson, Dirk Nowitzki and many more have attended Bits & Pretzels in the past years. With our annual festival, we want to support, connect and inspire founders who drive positive change in Germany, Europe and all over the world.

18/09/2026

When .se first launched in Sweden, people thought it was a dating app for doctors - because the slogan said “meet doctors online”.
on why it took real market education to convince people that seeing a doctor instantly from@your phone wasn’t too good to be true - and why in healthcare, it’s better not to be first to market. Today, a third of Sweden uses .se - more accounts than Netflix has in the country. Straight from the Bits & Pretzels stage.

17/09/2026

Don’t just take our word for it - the cookie said it too 🥠
“A surprising encounter will enrich your life.” Less than 2 weeks until Bits & Pretztels 2026, so start manifesting those surprising encounters now.

17/09/2026

A lot of the money you spend building your startup goes straight into American pockets - like Google Cloud, Microsoft, AWS. Maya Noël, CEO of says subsidies alone won’t fix that. Straight from the Bits & Pretzels stage.

16/09/2026

Yes, our theme this year is Human After All.
And yes, our newest Table Captain is a... robot 🤖

4NE1 has carried a Bundesliga match ball onto the pitch, greeted guests at reception desks, and is now about to sit across from founders in a Bavarian b**r tent. For the bigger questions like where Physical AI is headed after a $1.4B Series C, Arne Nordmann, VP of Technology & Innovation at NEURA Robotics Robotics, will be there to answer what 4NE1 can’t.

Would you sit down? And if not, why?👇

16/09/2026

on how ‘s AI shift went from a co-pilot helping agents to letting customers chat directly with AI - and why the real story wasn’t the headcount, it was resolution time dropping from 12 minutes to just 2, because the AI is always there instantly of juggling four costumers at once. Straight from the Bits & Pretzels stage.

15/09/2026

Wolfgang Neubert, General Partner at APEX Ventures, on why European VC’s are still sleeping - while the US pours billions into AI, Europe lags far behind.

15/09/2026

Excited to announce our next speaker 🎤

Arthur Mensch – European entrepreneur, scientist, and co-founder of Mistral.

In 2023, Arthur Mensch, along with Guillaume Lample and Timothee Lacroix, founded Mistral with the mission to build state-of-the-art open-weight models, products and infrastructure that enable enterprises, public institutions and advanced industries to truly own, customize, and control their AI.

We can’t wait to have you on Stage, Arthur!

14/09/2026

Herbert Diess, Chairman of the supervisory board of , on why we won’t pay for energy anymore - feee driving, free heating for your house - all thanks to your EV’s massively underused battery.
Straight from the Bits & Pretzels stage.

13/09/2026

Europe’s domestic funding share sits at just 20% - in the US, it’s way above 50%. Tobias Henz, Partner at says that means 80% of EU funding comes from outside.
Straight from the Bits & Pretzels stage.

12/09/2026

Venture capital is one of the worst performing asset classes in the world - very few funds make decent returns. says becoming an investor without building a company first is an even bigger bet. Straight from the Bits & Pretzels stage.

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Munich
80469

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