Bits & Pretzels Side Event: The Gathering of Decacorns, Unicorns, Soonicorns!
Entry strictly by approved guest list.
The Gathering of Decacorns, Unicorns, Soonicorns!
Munich has quietly become the most valuable deep tech city in Europe. That's the room we're assembling. Decacorns who have proved it. Unicorns defending it. Soonicorns two rounds away. And the investors, operators and government partners who open the doors.
Why this evening
The best conversations of the week rarely happen in a session block, so we've built the evening around them instead. 50 to 70 people, deliberately mixed by stage and sector, 34 floors above the city as the light goes.
Practicals
Tuesday 29 September, 19:00 to 22:30. o2 Tower, Georg-Brauchle-Ring 50.
Come to the o2 Tower main reception. We collect guests from there.
Bring your ID card. Reception requires it at registration.
Beers and Aperol Spritz are on us. It's a potluck, so bring a snack or a bottle to share if you'd like.
U-Bahn U1 to Georg-Brauchle-Ring, 3 minutes on foot. Street parking is limited.
Hosts and partners
House of Collaboration is an invitation-led platform where governments and the private sector convert conversation into capital. January 2026: 850+ delegates, 70+ countries, 120+ speakers, 10+ governments, $3T in combined GDP, covered by The New York Times, Blick and Xinhua. Past speakers and partners include NB8 ministers, Prof. Dr. Tawfik Jelassi (UNESCO), Nivruti Rai (Invest India), Andrew Feldman (Cerebras), Dr. Eva-Maria Hempe (NVIDIA) and Dr. Sean Kask (SAP). Register your interest at j3d.ai/hoc.
e-Residency, Republic of Estonia lets founders anywhere run an EU company entirely online through a secure state-issued digital identity. Over 120,000 e-residents to date!
EWOR is Europe's most selective founder fellowship: 35 fellows a year from 35,000+ applicants, a 0.1% acceptance rate, each backed with up to €500K. It is run full-time by six entrepreneurs behind SumUp, Adjust, ProGlove and united-domains, who have built companies worth over €12B.
Sigma Squared Society is a global community of 1,300+ of the world's most ambitious entrepreneurs in their 20s, across 35 countries. Fellows have founded GoStudent, Knowunity (30M+ users), Beyond Aero and Parloa ($350M raised), and collectively raised over $3.5B, 95% of it after joining.
Wayra Germany is the open innovation hub of o2 Telefónica, investing over €25M in technology startups and connecting them to a network of 380M+ customers through the venture client model.