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Daniel Horak is co-founder and managing partner of 2013 founded crowdinvesting platform CONDA. Additionally, he is advisory board member of AustrianStartups (since 2014) and Digital Asset Association Austria (since 2018). He gained his first startup experience in 2007 by founding Spoken Language System, a company developing chat bots for customer support and worked for several years as IT- and management consultant.
Daniel holds master’s degrees in business informatics as well as in executive management, currently he is engaged as part time lecturer for business planning and early stage financing at various universities and holds workshops and presentations about startups, financing and Blockchain on a regular basis.
In 2017 he got awarded by Forbes DACH as 30under30 and has been a part of the Fintech Advisory Board by the Austrian ministry of finance in 2018.
Since October 2019 Daniel acts as Chief Sales Officer within the startup300 company group.