<p>PITCH is Web Summit’s startup competition that brings together the world’s leading early-stage startups to battle it out onstage.</p>
<p class="p1">Apply for our 2025 startup program, and join us next year in Lisbon.</p>
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Thank you for applying for startup tickets at Web Summit 2025.

PITCH

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">PITCH is open to ALPHA and BETA startups exhibiting at Web Summit that have received less than €5 million in funding to date and have not had a discernible change in business model in the last three years.</span></p>
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What happens when I apply?

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All applications are recorded and passed on to an independent panel of influential judges for assessment.</span></p>
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Assessment and selection

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The top 105 startups will prepare their deck and delivery to battle it out onstage at Web Summit. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity.</span></p>
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Prepare for battle

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Present in front of a panel of investors and global partners for the chance to be crowned the winner of PITCH.</span></p>
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Time to pitch

Meet the startups selected to PITCH 2024

AiSeed Tech

Besample

Bitwala GmbH

BookWater Tech Private Limited

BRAINR

Campanyon

Checkbox

Cyrannus

Dash

DeepNeuronic

Dwinity

Firsty

Glooma

Human Trusted Cyber Defense

Innerworks

Innoloft GmbH

LEMON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LTD

Lisan AI

Maven.Pet

Mindset AI

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Meet our 2024 PITCH judges

Venture Partner

Bruno Meireles de Sousa

VP of Marketing Cloud

Grazi Sbardelotto

Managing Director, Emerging Tech Practice

Jules Walker

Founder

Hattie Willis

Partner | Investor | CTO

Jason Hishmeh

Founding Partner

🏳️‍🌈 Til Klein

Brittany Kaiser

XR Team Lead

José Rocha

Founding General Partner

Kirby Winfield

Nini Andrade Silva

Deputy Chairman Epicentr

Iryna Shynkarenko

Julija (JJ) Jegorova

Chief Technology Officer

Clemens Utschig-Utschig

Partner and Head of Strategy

Pia Sawhney

Anna Grigoryeva

SVP Mobility

Emmanuel Bain

General Partner

Edith Yeung

Meet some of our past winners

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">–  Ana Robakidze, Founder &amp; CEO, Theneo | Web Summit 2022 PITCH winner</span></p>
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“I was watching as an attendee, and I said, ‘One day, I want to be there on the stage’. … It feels surreal.”

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">–  Maria Hahn, Founder &amp; CEO, Nutrix | Web Summit 2019 PITCH winner</span></p>
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“I’ve pitched to the public before, but the size of the PITCH audience is very impressive.”

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<p>&#8211;  Alex Kendall, Co-founder &amp; CEO, Wayve | Web Summit 2018 PITCH winner</p>
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​​“The publicity of winning PITCH gave us a build in momentum as we approach our next fundraising.”

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