Builders Stage at Podim 2025: no-fluff, high-impact insights from those who’ve done it

The Builders Stage features two tracks – B2C and B2B – with talks that go deep into what actually works when growing exceptional startups.

B2C track highlights:

• Marius Iordache, co-founder & CTO at Bible Chat – on building one of the fastest-growing global apps (top 15 iOS), recently raised $14M Series A
  
• Ante Odić, SVP of product at Outfit7 – behind Talking Tom, with over 24B downloads
  
• Tom Vodopivec, COO at Bird Buddy – Europe’s fastest-growing consumer electronics company, $100M revenue in 2024
  
• Andrej Kugonič, VP of marketing at Nordeus – acquired by Take-Two Interactive for $378M
  
• Igor Čarapina, COO at Rolla App – on “Pivoting from B2C to B2B” after securing CEE’s largest seed round (€6.3M)
  
• Jasna Krmelj, co-founder & CTO of Gentler Streak – award-winning wellness app featured by Apple
  
• Johannes Berger, co-founder & CEO at Mimo – helping 25M+ people learn to code
  
• Jennifer Lee, chief growth officer at Photomath – acquired by Google for $500M

B2B track highlights:

• Marin Ćurković, CEO & co-founder at All Eyes on Screens – AI-powered video ad analytics, working with Vodafone, Audi, Etsy
  
• Marin Ribać, sales exec at Sportradar – global sports tech leader, Nasdaq listed ($6B market cap)
  
• Boris Pogačnik, former senior sales exec at Infobip – global unicorn in cloud communications
  
• Luka Šlibar, senior product manager at Microblink – AI computer vision for identity verification and payment
  
• Timothei Jukić, regional director at Native Teams – payroll and work platform in 85+ markets
  
• Tomaž Šuklje, co-founder & co-CEO at Nordoon – AI copilot for supply chains
  
• Mladen Marković, co-founder at Uhura (Techstars) – on “Winning sales in banking as a startup”
  
• Mark Mavretič, creative strategy lead at Synthesia – on “How Synthesia successfully scaled in the B2B market through SM advertising”
  
• Matic Užmah, director of RevOps at Colossyan – on “Scaling B2B SaaS revenue operations – from $2 to $20M ARR”
  
• Vukašin Vukosavljević, CMO at HeyReach – on “Secrets behind a $4M word-of-mouth channel”
  

Main Stage sneak peek:

• Bernhard Niesner, co-founder and former CEO at Busuu – scaled to 100M+ users, acquired for €385M
  
• Nenad Milanović, founder & CEO at CAKE.com – bootstrapped to $1B+ valuation
  
• Damir Sabol, founder of Photomath, Microblink and Iskon – multiple-time founder with $500M+ exit
  
• Max Azarov, Co-founder & CEO of Novakid, a global EdTech platform delivering 18M+ English lessons across 50+ countries, backed by $41.5M in funding.
• Franci Zidar, co-founder & CEO at Bird Buddy – scaling to $100M revenue in 2024
  
  

See full speaker list and topics HERE.

Whether you’re raising your next round, scaling your team, or just want to learn from the best – Builders Stage at Podim 2025 is where you want to be.