sTARTUp PITCHING

Startups – this is your chance to shine in front of over 3900+ attendees from all over the world: potential investors, clients, partners, and international media. In addition to visibility, the best startups will be listed among the best in the region and awarded unbelievable prizes.

We are looking for early-stage to scale-up startups who are looking to raise funds. Preferred applicants have a strong mission and a scalable business model. Your startup should have a functioning product with traction/feedback, a strong team, and be ready for an investment. If your startup is not ready for an investment, you can still apply and compete for other prizes.

APPLY TO sTARTUp PITCHING

⚡️ Up to €200,000 EstBAN-led syndicate investment

EstBAN is putting together an angel syndicate to invest up to €200k in the most investable startup team from sTARTUp Day 2023 deal flow. EstBAN syndicates have invested almost 3.6M € into awesome startup companies. You can find skyrocketing teams from our portfolio like VSight, Jeff App, Fractory, TranslateWise, ATOM Mobility, Adact, and numerous others.

⚡️ Up to €100,000 investment from .Cocoon Ventures

.Cocoon Ventures is putting together a syndicate to invest up to €100k for one team. This investment includes the price of the founder(s) ticket to join .Cocoon Program for a year (1:1 mentoring, events, and team assessment) to support startups during rapid growth, investment round, and facing different challenges.

⚡️ €10,000 equity-free cash from Swedbank

Our partner Swedbank will give €10k equity-free cash to one of the teams to fund their growth.

⚡️More awards will be announced soon⚡️

Timeline

4 November 2022	Applications open
5 February 2023	Deadline for applications
6-9 February 2023	Valuation of the startups
10 February 2023	Announcing publicly Top 40 teams who will pitch at sTARTUp Day
13-16 February 2023	TOP 40 pre-finals in Zoom
23 February 2023	Pitching training TOP 40
16 March 2023	TOP 40 pitching at sTARTUp Day pitching stage
17 March 2023	TOP 5 pitching at sTARTUp Day & award ceremony.

Ϟ Technical details for TOP 40 startups pitching on the stage

All the teams will have 3 minutes for the pitch and 2 minutes for the questions. The working language is English. Slides are strongly recommended. All the TOP 40 teams will receive one free Startup ticket per team.

In case of any questions, feel free to contact hannaliis.remmelg@startupday.ee.

“A week ago I was super happy because we had recently closed our pre-seed round, and now this… This is a good example of how things in the startup world can change. It takes a day or two to really get used to this idea."
– Toms Niparts, the founder of Jeff App & sTARTUp Pitching 2020 winner