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Startups
Founder events, pitch stages, demo days and startup ecosystem gatherings.
Relevant event types
Web Summit, Slush, TechCrunch Disrupt, VivaTech, regional startup weeks.
About startups
Startup events run on a global circuit: Web Summit in Lisbon and Slush in Helsinki are Europe's largest founder-and-investor gatherings, TechCrunch Disrupt anchors the US calendar, and VivaTech in Paris pairs startups with corporate partners. Regional startup weeks extend the same pitch-stage-and-demo-day format to individual cities and countries. The common thread is founders pitching to investors and press over a few compressed days, rather than the product-keynote format used by the big hardware and mobile trade shows.