SaaStock Europe 2023 · Photo gallery

Three days in Dublin: 3,521 founders, 164 speakers, 53 countries.

Photo and video coverage of SaaStock Europe 2023 — the Main Event at RDS Simmonscourt, Dublin (October 16–18, 2023) and the Startup Day side event at the Zendesk Dublin office (October 15). Click any image to open it full-screen, then use the arrow keys (or on-screen buttons) to step through every photo and video. The gallery leads with live shots (Mainstage keynotes, panels, Bootstrap Stage standing-room, silent-disco audience, expo at peak), then clearly labels pre-doors sponsor booths, behind-the-scenes build-out, and Startup Day.

21 live photos14 construction14 Startup Day2 videos← Back to the Dublin 2023 recap

Live · video lead

27 seconds from the Mainstage.

Live walking clip across the SaaStock Europe 2023 Mainstage and expo floor — a packed Mainstage audience watching a keynote in front of the LED-wall set.

Live during the event — 27-second walkthrough across the SaaStock Europe 2023 Mainstage and expo floor at RDS Simmonscourt.

Day 1–3 · Live

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023.

Inside the conference once doors opened — Bootstrap Stage standing-room, Mainstage keynotes and panels, the Podcast Stage silent-disco audience, the Pitch Competition winner, and the expo floor at peak across three days at RDS Simmonscourt.

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023 — Muck Rack founder Greg Galant on the Bootstrap Stage with his 'Overnight Success Story' timeline slide, charting his path from a 2005 podcast to a $180M Series A in 2022 — Live during the event — Muck Rack founder Greg Galant's 'Overnight Success Story' slide: 17 years from a 2005 podcast to $50M+ ARR and a $180M Susquehanna Series A.

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023 — Podcast Stage panel with three panelists on stools and a seated silent-disco audience on headphones, under Capchase, Paddle and G2 hanging signs — Live during the event — Podcast Stage in motion. Three panelists, a packed silent-disco audience on headphones, and Capchase / Paddle / G2 banners overhead.

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023 — close-up of a panelist in a navy suit speaking into a microphone on the Podcast Stage, Dublin — Live during the event — Podcast Stage close-up. A panelist mid-answer in front of a headphone-clad audience.

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023 — attendees watching a silent-disco-style session with branded headphones, queued up in front of the Vitally booth at RDS Simmonscourt, Dublin — Live during the event — silent-disco session in front of the Vitally stand, every attendee on headphones.

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023 — elevated overview of the expo floor with attendees walking between the Founderpath, Mean Greens food court, Formaloo and Bootstrap Stage during the show — Live during the event — expo floor from the balcony. Founderpath, Mean Greens food court, Formaloo and the Bootstrap Stage all in one frame.

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023 — busy expo aisle at peak with attendees clustered three-deep around the Founderpath booth and an Anquiroll cardboard cut-out — Live during the event — mid-day foot traffic at peak, attendees three-deep around the Founderpath stand and the Anquiroll cut-out.

Live · during the event

Live during the event — Founderpath crew at the step-and-repeat. Sponsoring SaaStock Europe 2023 in Dublin.

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023 — close-up of an attendee badge being printed at registration on day 1, with a thermal printer and the pink-and-purple SaaStock 2023 lanyard visible — Live during the event — registration day 1. An attendee badge fresh off the thermal printer, ready for the lanyard.

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023 — two founders mid-conversation in the RDS Simmonscourt networking area, one laughing in a teal sweater, the other in a puffer vest with a backpack — Live during the event — founders catching up in the networking space at RDS Simmonscourt.

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023 — Mainstage keynote with a speaker in a tee mid-talk, audience silhouetted in blue stage lighting in front of the SaaStock Dublin record-player LED set — Live during the event — Mainstage keynote with a packed seated audience under SaaStock's blue stage wash.

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023 — Mainstage keynote speaker centered against the SaaStock Dublin neon-typography LED backdrop, audience silhouettes in the foreground — Live during the event — Mainstage keynote in front of the neon SaaStock Dublin LED backdrop, RDS Simmonscourt.

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023 — Mainstage keynote shot through the audience: a phone in the foreground filming the speaker on the SaaStock Dublin record-player set — Live during the event — Mainstage keynote, framed through an audience phone capturing the talk for socials.

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023 — Mainstage host shot from behind in a SaaStock-branded tee, addressing a full Mainstage audience under blue lighting at RDS Simmonscourt, Dublin — Live during the event — Mainstage host opens the next session in front of a full Mainstage audience.

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023 — Mainstage host in a 'SaaStock' branded tee shot from behind on stage, audience visible in the seats at RDS Simmonscourt — Live during the event — Mainstage host in the official SaaStock tee, mid-introduction.

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023 — Mainstage host front-and-center on the SaaStock Dublin LED set, with a side IMAG screen showing his close-up portrait at left — Live during the event — Mainstage host front-and-center, IMAG screen on the side amplifying the close-up.

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023 — Mainstage panel of four (three men and one woman) seated on chairs across the SaaStock Dublin LED-set stage, RDS Simmonscourt — Live during the event — Mainstage panel of four in front of the SaaStock Dublin set.

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023 — Mainstage moment as Tipple is announced Pitch Competition Winner 2023, with four people on stage clapping and the 'Tipple Pitch Competition Winner 2023' chyron on the side screen — Live during the event — Tipple announced as the SaaStock Dublin 2023 Pitch Competition winner. Four hosts clapping as the chyron flashes on the side screen.

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023 — three Mainstage hosts posing together on the SaaStock Dublin set: one in a tan jacket pointing, one in an orange shirt center, one in a Banksy-balloon-dog black tee with a cap on the right — Live during the event — Mainstage hosts portrait at SaaStock Europe 2023, RDS Simmonscourt.

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023 — Mainstage panel of three (two women, one man) seated on chairs with the woman in the middle speaking and gesturing, SaaStock Dublin LED backdrop behind them — Live during the event — Mainstage panel of three at SaaStock Europe 2023.

Live during SaaStock Europe 2023 — Mainstage panel of three from a side angle, the panelist on the left wearing a Point Nine VC branded tee, with the IMAG screen showing the woman speaking on the right — Live during the event — Mainstage panel with Point Nine's partner visible on the left; IMAG screen amplifying the panellist on the right.

Pre-doors · Build day

Construction.

Behind the scenes of the build-out — the sponsor booths captured the day before doors (Founderpath, Vanta, Chargebee, Eurekos, AppSumo, Paddle, DealPad), the Mainstage rigging and LED-wall alignment, an empty Podcast Stage waiting for chairs to fill, and the actual booth blueprint Paddle's stand was built from.

Before doors at SaaStock Europe 2023 — Founderpath sponsor booth being set up in the expo hall, Dublin: purple branding with stools, monitors, and a Wall Street Journal display — Before doors — Founderpath's expo booth coming together the day before opening at RDS Simmonscourt. Branded stools, lead-capture USB drives, and a Wall Street Journal feature wall.

Before doors at SaaStock Europe 2023 — Vanta sponsor booth featuring 'Your security and compliance verified' wall with SOC 2 and GDPR badges and a Dublin-castle-skyline backdrop — Before doors — Vanta's compliance-themed stand, complete with SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / GDPR badges and a Dublin-castle-skyline backdrop.

Before doors at SaaStock Europe 2023 — Chargebee sponsor booth with 'How subscription businesses drive revenue growth' messaging, integrations wall showing Stripe, PayPal and Salesforce — Before doors — Chargebee's booth pre-opening. Stripe, PayPal and Salesforce logos on the integrations wall.

Before doors at SaaStock Europe 2023 — AppSumo sponsor booth advertising $27M paid out to partners in 2022 and 1.5 million potential customers, Dublin — Before doors — AppSumo's stand led with the partner economics: $27M paid to partners in 2022, 1.5M shoppers waiting.

Before doors at SaaStock Europe 2023 — Paddle sponsor booth mid-setup with 'Grow without dilution' hanging banner and green-lit displays, Dublin — Before doors — Paddle's booth mid-build the day before. 'Grow without dilution' hanging sign over green-lit displays.

Before doors at SaaStock Europe 2023 — overhead view of the Founderpath sponsor booth with wrapped pallets in the foreground waiting to be unpacked, Dublin — Before doors — overhead view of the Founderpath stand pre-opening. Pallets still wrapped, Wall Street Journal feature lit and ready.

Before doors at SaaStock Europe 2023 — DealPad sponsor booth with 'Let's talk buyer collaboration' display and final cleaning in progress, Dublin — Before doors — DealPad's 'Let's talk buyer collaboration' display getting its final vacuum minutes before opening.

Before doors at SaaStock Europe 2023 — Mainstage seen from the rear of the auditorium, RDS Simmonscourt, with the full SaaStock Dublin LED set lit (record player, megaphone, microphone illustrations) and red velvet seat-backs in the foreground — Before doors — Mainstage view from the back row at RDS Simmonscourt. The full SaaStock Dublin 2023 LED-wall set lit and waiting for opening keynote.

Behind the scenes at SaaStock Europe 2023 — Mainstage mid-build at RDS Simmonscourt with curved LED panels, a cloud-shaped pixel display, and overhead truss lighting in magenta and teal, Dublin — Behind the build-out — Mainstage hours before doors. Curved LED stage panels and the cloud-pixel screen being aligned under SaaStock's pink-and-teal lighting rig.

Behind the scenes at SaaStock Europe 2023 — Mainstage rigging and modular LED wall sections being assembled at RDS Simmonscourt for the Dublin conference — Behind the build-out — modular LED-wall sections waiting to be hung for the Mainstage build at RDS.

Behind the scenes at SaaStock Europe 2023 — empty Podcast Stage seating area with white Barcelona chairs on a round platform and 'Turn your SaaS up to 11' banners overhead, Dublin — Behind the build-out — Podcast Stage staged for #SaaStock2023 ahead of doors. Barcelona chairs on a round platform under 'Turn your SaaS up to 11' banners.

Behind the scenes at SaaStock Europe 2023 — Catapult Exhibition Sciences booth design draft for the Paddle stand at SaaStock 23, resting on a white tufted couch — Behind the build-out — the actual booth design drawing the Paddle stand was built from, drafted by Catapult Exhibition Sciences for SaaStock 23.

Behind the scenes at SaaStock Europe 2023 — production control-room cue monitor showing the SaaStock Dublin Mainstage screen grid with talk slots, stage logos and a 10:05 cue time — Behind the build-out — production control room cue monitor. Every Mainstage screen plotted out, talk-by-talk, with cue times like 10:05 on the next slot.

Signage

On-site signage & next-edition booking.

Floor-plan and partnership-rate boards that lived on the show floor — including the Dublin 2024 and SaaStock USA Austin 2024 boards being sold live to 2023 attendees.

On-site signage at SaaStock Europe 2023 — the SaaStock Dublin October 2024 booth-booking board with package rates and a floor-plan diagram — On-site signage — while Dublin 2023 was still running, the SaaStock team was already selling Dublin 2024 booth packages on-site.

On-site signage at SaaStock Europe 2023 — close-up of the Dublin 2023 expo floor plan showing Diamond, Titanium, Platinum, Gold and Growth booths around the Headline stage — On-site signage — close-up of the expo floor plan. Headline, Scale Stage and Podcast Stage anchoring tiered Diamond → Growth booth zones.

On-site signage at SaaStock Europe 2023 — the SaaStock USA Austin 2024 partnership board listing 13–15 May 2024 dates and partnership / startup rates — On-site signage — partnership board for SaaStock USA Austin (May 13–15, 2024), sold live to Dublin 2023 attendees.

Side event · Startup Day · Oct 15

Startup Day at the Zendesk Dublin office.

The day before SaaStock Europe 2023 opened at RDS Simmonscourt, ~60 founders gathered at the Zendesk Dublin office for Startup Day — an invite-only program for early-stage SaaS founders. Hosted by Zendesk and sponsored by AppSumo, CMS Hub, Intercom and SaaStock. See the full sponsor list.

Before SaaStock Europe 2023 Startup Day at Zendesk Dublin — a MacBook on the Zendesk-branded host desk showing the 'Startup Day' slide with AppSumo, CMS Hub, Intercom, SaaStock and Zendesk sponsor logos — Before doors — Startup Day welcome slide queued up on the Zendesk Dublin host desk. Sponsors AppSumo, CMS Hub, Intercom, SaaStock and Zendesk lit on the title card.

Live at SaaStock Europe 2023 Startup Day, Zendesk Dublin — two founders chatting on a leather banquette, one wearing a Flowcore tee with the SaaStock 2023 lanyard — Live at Startup Day — founders networking on the Zendesk Dublin banquettes. Flowcore lanyard up close on the left.

Live at SaaStock Europe 2023 Startup Day, Zendesk Dublin — an attendee in a white hoodie leaning forward thoughtfully, hand to chin, listening intently with a coffee cup on the table — Live at Startup Day — attendee listening in on a session at Zendesk Dublin.

Live at SaaStock Europe 2023 Startup Day, Zendesk Dublin — two attendees mid-conversation across a table, the one closer to camera gesturing with both hands, against a window with a red Dublin crane visible outside — Live at Startup Day — founders deep in a one-on-one at the Zendesk Dublin office.

Live at SaaStock Europe 2023 Startup Day, Zendesk Dublin — three founders in conversation, the centre one in a Carrot-illustration tee with rust-red corduroy collar visible — Live at Startup Day — three-way founder conversation between sessions.

Live at SaaStock Europe 2023 Startup Day, Zendesk Dublin — wide audience shot from the podium POV showing ~25 attendees seated at long tables, with the speaker's MacBook in the foreground running the 'Startup Day' deck — Live at Startup Day — view from the podium across the seated audience at Zendesk Dublin.

Live at SaaStock Europe 2023 Startup Day — speaker behind the Zendesk-branded podium with twin 'Startup Day' slides on both sides showing AppSumo, CMS Hub, Intercom, SaaStock and Zendesk sponsor logos — Live at Startup Day — opening remarks at the Zendesk Dublin podium, sponsors AppSumo, CMS Hub, Intercom, SaaStock and Zendesk on both screens.

Live at SaaStock Europe 2023 Startup Day, Zendesk Dublin — a row of attentive attendees seated at a long table, all with SaaStock 2023 lanyards, mid-session — Live at Startup Day — full row of attentive founders mid-session at Zendesk Dublin.

Live at SaaStock Europe 2023 Startup Day, Zendesk Dublin — host in a cap and navy blazer behind the Zendesk podium delivering the opening talk in front of a seated audience — Live at Startup Day — host opens the day from the Zendesk Dublin stage.

Live at SaaStock Europe 2023 Startup Day, Zendesk Dublin — host on stage shot from inside the audience, with a FlowMate-branded attendee in the foreground and the 'Startup Day' sponsor slide behind — Live at Startup Day — host on stage shot from the audience POV. FlowMate gear in the foreground.

Live at SaaStock Europe 2023 Startup Day, Zendesk Dublin — wide audience shot of a packed seated room of founders watching a presenter at the front, against the Zendesk Dublin's daylight-lit windows — Live at Startup Day — packed Zendesk Dublin auditorium across the morning sessions.

Live · during the eventStartup Day

Live at Startup Day — speaker mid-talk, AppSumo and CMS Hub on the sponsor slide behind.

Live at SaaStock Europe 2023 Startup Day, Zendesk Dublin — five attendees in a row at a long table side-on, all listening, under the Zendesk office's pendant lighting — Live at Startup Day — attentive front-row attendees under the Zendesk Dublin pendant lights.

Live at SaaStock Europe 2023 Startup Day, Zendesk Dublin — Founderpath founder Nathan Latka on stage in a grey shirt holding a remote, with '$4M ARR · 3 employees' on the slide behind him, beside the Zendesk-branded podium — Live at Startup Day — Founderpath's Nathan Latka on stage at Zendesk Dublin, breaking down a $4M ARR / 3-employee SaaS in his keynote.

Video · more

More from the floor.

Vertical phone pan across the Founderpath stand at SaaStock Europe 2023, Dublin.

About SaaStock Europe 2023

The largest SaaStock to date.

SaaStock Europe 2023 ran from October 16–18 at RDS Simmonscourt in Ballsbridge, Dublin. Across three days the show drew 3,521 attendees, 164 speakers from 1,748 unique SaaS companies, and 379 active investors across 53 countries — making it the biggest flagship edition in SaaStock's ten-year run. Featured speakers included Des Traynor (Intercom), Thibaut Ceyrolle (Atomico, ex-Snowflake EMEA) and the Muck Rack founder Greg Galant on his 17-year "overnight" arc to a $180M Series A. Sponsors with booths in this gallery include Founderpath, Vanta, Chargebee, Paddle, AppSumo, Eurekos and DealPad.

By the numbers

3,521 attendees · 164 speakers · 53 countries

See the full recap and watch the featured talks on the SaaStock Europe 2023 event page.