Speaker Kit
2026
Karen Prats
Entrepreneur · Keynote Speaker · Founder Mentor
Building
extraordinary
companies starts
with building
extraordinary
founders.
hey, that's meBarcelona · Germany · International
Speaking & Conferences
Hey!
I'm Karen.
I'm an entrepreneur, former CEO, keynote speaker and founder mentor with 15+ years of experience in the global startup and innovation ecosystem.
I've built companies, raised capital, scaled internationally, led teams, merged with a competitor and exited.
I've also experienced what happens when the human behind the company gets forgotten.
Today, I work with founders and entrepreneurial ecosystems to build something I believe we urgently need:
Better companies.
Better leaders.
Healthier humans.
15+
Years in entrepreneurship
€2M+
Capital raised
30+
Team members
100s
Of founders mentored
1
Exit
We spend years
building startups.
But who is
building the
founder?
Startup ecosystems have become incredibly sophisticated at developing ventures.
Product · GTM · Fundraising · Sales · Growth · AI
But there is another layer behind all of them.
The human being making the decisions.
Vertical expertise
AI · Climate · Robotics · Cybersecurity · Deep Tech
↓
Venture building
Product · GTM · Fundraising · Sales · Growth
↓
Founder development
Leadership · Energy · Resilience · Self-awareness · Decision-making · Relationships · Wellbeing
in modern entrepreneurship.
Signature keynote
The founder
behind the
startup.
Why the next generation of great companies will be built by founders who learn to lead themselves first.
What happens when the person building the company becomes the biggest invisible risk to the company?
Drawing from her experience as a founder, CEO and mentor to hundreds of entrepreneurs, Karen explores the human side of entrepreneurship that rarely makes it onto the pitch deck.
This keynote explores
- Pressure & decision-making
- Founder identity
- Sustainable high performance
- Leadership under uncertainty
- Resilience
- Company culture
- Building without losing yourself
Audience
Founders · CEOs · Investors · Accelerators · Innovation Leaders
Format
- 20–60 minute keynote
- Interactive keynote
- Fireside chat
- Conference opening / closing
More conversations
I bring to the stage.
Beyond hustle
Can we build extraordinary companies without exhausting the people building them?
From founder to leader
The inner transformation nobody prepares you for when your startup starts growing.
The missing layer in modern accelerators
Why developing the founder should become as important as developing the venture.
Conscious leadership in the age of AI
As technology becomes more powerful, our human capabilities become more valuable.
Build yourself before you scale
Lessons from building, scaling, merging and exiting a startup.
I've done
this before.
not theory — lived itKaren doesn't speak about entrepreneurship from theory. She has built it, scaled it, broken with it, and rebuilt herself around it.
- 01Marketing
- 02Founder
- 03CEO
- 04€2M+ raised
- 05International scale
- 0630+ person team
- 07Merger
- 08Exit
- 09Burnout + reassessment
- 10Founder mentor
- 11Conscious leadership
- 12Founder Wellbeing OS
- 13Speaker
Where I've
contributed.
From AI and Deep Tech founders to corporate innovators and entrepreneurial ecosystems, Karen works with people building what comes next.
In the press
Accelerators, foundations, universities, corporates and media across Spain, Germany and beyond.
We build products.
We build companies.
We build technology.
But are we building
the people behind them?
Not just another keynote
I don't want people
to just listen.
I want them
to experience
something.
Karen's sessions can combine
- Storytelling
- Founder experiences
- Business strategy
- Reflection
- Audience interaction
- Behavioural science
- Breathwork
- Embodied exercises
- Play
- Vulnerability
- Practical tools
People shouldn't leave a keynote simply inspired.
They should leave seeing something differently.
Book Karen
Extraordinary
companies are
built by humans.
Let's make sure we're building them too.
Karen Prats
Entrepreneur
Keynote Speaker
Founder Mentor