
Bits & Pretzels
CFO CIRCLE
Real talk. Real connections. Real value.
Date
29 Sep - 01 Oct 2025
within the Bits & Pretzels Festival
Venue
Trade Fair Grounds & Oktoberfest
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Gain exclusive insights from top industry leaders and peers.
September 30th
TBD
- Scalable financial stack: Tools, workflows & KPIs that grow with you
- Investor-ready setup: Clean books, smart forecasting & BWA logic
- Financial clarity as your growth engine
- Bringing in finance expertise: When and how to level up with external talent
- Lessons from fast-scaling startup journeys
TBD
- Why most investor decks miss the mark on financials
- The metrics investors care about: Burn, Runway, CAC, CLTV, Payback, MRR growth & more
- How to build a financial story that gets investors excited
- What to include (and leave out) in your financial appendix
- Real examples from early-stage to Series A rounds
TBD
- Timing traps: When not to fundraise — and when you should
- Pitch misfires: Valuation, TAM & growth stories that don’t hold up
- Red flags in cap tables, team setups & financial projections
- Why some decks get shared — and others get skipped
- Turning investor ‘no’s into future ‘yes's
Tuesday, Sept 30, 8:00 - 9:30 am
Kick off your morning with fellow CFOs and an exchange on the most pressing challenges finance departments currently face.
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speakers 2025

Sven Strohband
Managing Director
Khosla Ventures

Niklas Zennström
Founder & CEO
Atomico

Franziska Kayser
Partner, Head of European TMT
KKR

Andrei Brasoveanu
Partner
Accel

Alex Lim
General Partner
IVP

Greg Schmitt
Head of Private Equity & Co-Investments
MEAG

Simon Schmincke
General Partner
Creandum

Darian Shirazi
Managing Partner
Gradient

Judith Dada
General Partner
Visionaries Club

Ara Yeromian
Managing Director
Teachers' Venture Growth, OTPP

Ciarán O'Leary
General Partner
BlueYard

Alex Schmitt
Partner
Lightspeed Ventures

Zoé Fabian-Frey
General Partner
Noteus Partners
MEET THE HOST
The CFO Circles program is carefully crafted by our host.

Content Creator & Entrepreneurship
Sebastian is the Founder and a trusted advisor to CFOs navigating the growth journey from startup to scaleup. With a background as CFO and operator in high-growth tech companies and over a decade of experience in building scalable finance organizations, he knows what truly matters in the world of startup finance. His sharp eye for financial strategy and operational excellence makes him a strong voice in the CFO Circle — where he curates an agenda tailored to the real-world challenges and ambitions of modern finance leaders.
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