Stefan Steinbauer

Insight Venture Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm investing in technology and software companies that is headquartered in New York CityNew York City, New York and was founded in 1995 by Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock. According to the companies website (as of September 2019), the company has made over 300 primary investments, over 200 portfolio-led acquisitions, and over 100 strategic exits. Notable exits made by Insight Venture Partners include: Shopify, Twitter, Delivery Hero, HelloFresh, Qualtrics, and New Relic.

Drift is a software company offering a conversational marketing platform that is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and was founded in 2015 by David Cancel and Elias Torres. The company offers chat bots capable of automating company sales funnels by answering common questions, starting conversations with potential clients, and route qualified leads to the appropriate sales representatives. Notable companies using Drift include: Mindbody, MongoDB, Zenefits, Dyn, AdRoll, Vidyard, OktaOkta, and Symantec.

Notable investments made by Highland Europe include: My Optique Group, Photobox, Privalia, SocialPoints, Finanzcheck.de, New Voice Media, and WoogaWooga.

WeiFund offers a bug bounty program that rewards developers up to $5000 worth of EtherEther and recognition of the platform website and Github account for finding bugs. Rewards are based on the severity of the issues solved and by the quality of the submission. Rewards are determined at the discretion of WeiFund and are given to developers using the following severity guidelines: Note (up to $100), Low (up to $400), Medium (up to $2,000), High (up to $3,000), and critical (up to $5,000).

The events are cyclic. A world congress is held each year as well as local events. Event size vary between 2000-8000 attendees. World Congress takes place in BerlinBerlin and smaller local events (200-2000 attendees).

WeAreDevelopers is a Vienna-based company offering services for hiring developers in form of a job platform for software developers and engaging with the software developer community in events.

The company started out as an event agency with the target to connect developers with the tech industry. In 2018 a hiring service was added. Both services are developer-centric.

The job platform is Europe centric and offers Job ads in the form of cards.

Basic services are free, premium version according to price list on their web page.

The events are cyclic. A world congress each year as well as local events. Event size vary between 2000-8000 attendees (based on web page). World Congress takes place in Berlin and smaller local events (200-2000 attendees).

The following statement from their webpage is a good look into their developer centric view of the world in the event description.

Developers are taking charge of the world in which they create, apply and disrupt our society. This is your chance to learn from industry leaders and gain the skills needed for the future.