Daniel Cronin is a serial metamorphosis.

He started with crippling stage fright. Today he stands on the biggest stages in Europe — from TECH by Handelsblatt (Europe’s largest AI conference) to Bits & Pretzels to prime-time television. Not because the fear is gone, but because he learned to reinvent himself. Again and again.

His mission is simple but powerful: to inspire and empower people to make an impact with their ideas.

The Pitch Professor. Recognized as one of Europe’s top pitching experts, Daniel was awarded the honorary title “The Pitch Professor” by the Vienna University of Technology. He has evaluated more than 10,000 pitches, delivered 500+ trainings for startups and Fortune 500 executives alike, and developed a Europe-wide Train-the-Trainer program on pitching for the European Innovation Council. He became the first person to deliver a pitch in free fall — jumping out of an aeroplane for Red Bull.

Serial Entrepreneur. Daniel is the co-founder of AustrianStartups, the Vienna Mentoring Group, and allaboutapps (a joint venture with Runtastic). His latest venture, Frontier-Lab.ai, is an AI-powered platform that democratizes venture building — proving that reinvention is not theory, but practice.

University Lecturer & Author. Daniel teaches at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the Vienna University of Technology, and the Medical University of Vienna. His firsthand experience of how education systems struggle to prepare people for exponential change inspired The Metamorphosis Mindset — a trainable framework for permanent reinvention.

Moderator & TV Host. With over 400 events moderated worldwide, Daniel’s experience spans prime-time TV (“2 Minuten 2 Millionen”), global innovation summits, CASSINI Entrepreneurship Days, Audi MQ!, the T-Mobile/Magenta Rebranding Austria (3,000 attendees), and high-impact digital formats like Red Bull Basement. He hosts Future Weekly, Austria’s largest tech podcast with 450+ episodes.

AI Pioneer. His seminar “Artificial Intelligence — AI Bootcamp for Entrepreneurs” explores how AI can supercharge human creativity, accelerate execution, and sharpen strategic decision-making — cutting time from idea to implementation by up to 90%.

In 2018, he was selected for the prestigious Future Leaders Program at the Science and Technology in Society Forum in Kyoto.

Bilingual in German and English and raised in Germany, Portugal, and Austria with a Colombian wife, Daniel brings a unique international perspective to every engagement. His style is clear, inspiring, and authentic — marked by a touch of humor and a deep passion for people and their ideas.

The Pitch Professor. Recognized as one of Europe’s top pitching experts, Daniel was awarded the honorary title “The Pitch Professor” by the Vienna University of Technology. He has evaluated more than 10,000 pitches, delivered 500+ trainings for startups and Fortune 500 executives alike, and developed a Europe-wide Train-the-Trainer program on pitching for the European Innovation Council. He became the first person to deliver a pitch in free fall — jumping out of an aeroplane for Red Bull.

Serial Entrepreneur. Daniel is the co-founder of AustrianStartups, the Vienna Mentoring Group, and allaboutapps (a joint venture with Runtastic). His latest venture, Frontier-Lab.ai, is an AI-powered platform that democratizes venture building — proving that reinvention is not theory, but practice.

University Lecturer & Author. Daniel teaches at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the Vienna University of Technology, and the Medical University of Vienna. His firsthand experience of how education systems struggle to prepare people for exponential change inspired The Metamorphosis Mindset — a trainable framework for permanent reinvention.

Moderator & TV Host. With over 400 events moderated worldwide, Daniel’s experience spans prime-time TV (“2 Minuten 2 Millionen”), global innovation summits, CASSINI Entrepreneurship Days, Audi MQ!, the T-Mobile/Magenta Rebranding Austria (3,000 attendees), and

University Lecturer 

Daniel lectures on entrepreneurship, pitching and mobile marketing at several universities including the Vienna University of Technology, the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria and is a regular guest lecturer at several other universities. Also in 2018 he was invited to join the Future Leaders Program of the 15. Science and Technology in Society forum (STS forum) in Kyoto, Japan. 

Moderator 

He has hosted more than 250 events on startups and innovation including just recently (December 2020) he co-hosted Red Bull Basement, a global virtual event / TV / streaming format with 36 countries connected from all over the world. 

Some of the events Daniel has hosted / co-hosted include: The Pioneers Festival, Bits & Pretzels, The FifteenSeconds Festival, Podim, The Spark – Der Deutsche Digitalpreis” (The German Digital Awards), “Tag der Deutschen Industrie” (Day of German Industry/TDI`17), Moving Forward New York (a conference with an innovation focus) in New York, Mobile Marketing Innovation Days and the Entrepreneurship Avenue 

Keynote Speaker 

Daniel has spoken to innovators, top executives and startups at Audi, Deutsche Bank, Lufthansa Technik, PWC, TEDx, Siemens, Peek & Cloppenburg, T-Mobile, Kapsch, Red Bull, Adidas, Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) and several others and at global conferences about startups, culture, transformation, pitching, innovation and corporate/startup collaboration. 

The Pitch Professor

He received the honorary title “The Pitch Professor” by the Vienna University of Technology and is considered as one of the leading experts and trainers on pitching in Europe with more than 300 trainings held both for startups and large corporations. 

Podcast The Future Weekly

Daniel co-hosts Future Weekly, Austria’s #1 Tech Podcast together with Markus Raunig: every Thursday they take a look at the latest developments in tech, politics and our society and use their unique views of the world to talk about implications for the future and every Sunday they release their Deep Dive were they take a good look into one of the most intriguing current developments and look beyond the surface of what's usually out there. From technological sovereignty to antifragility to the next dominant user interface - this is where the magic happens.