TOP AI & DEEP TECH STARTUP Pitch Competition at Web Summit

Invite-only pitch competition for early-stage AI and DeepTech startups A Bay Area–caliber room in Lisbon during Web Summit. Every seat is hand-picked: standout pre-seed and seed AI founders, top-tier VCs, and frontier tech operators. APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED Thank you to all 136 startups who applied! The pitching startups will be announced soon. 🏆 Prizes OpenAI: Codex credits for the top 3. 🥇 $5,000 · 🥈 $2,500 · 🥉 $1,000 Access to the Atlassian for Startups package (subject to eligibility) 90% off one year of HubSpot, plus access to HubSpot’s fundraising kit (subject to eligibility) PostHog: merch for the top 3 EasyStaff Payroll: 3% commission for 3 months, plus merch for the top 3 Eve: 20% off JURY Anand Chandrasekaran — Managing Partner @ Celesta Capital $1.1B AUM deep tech VC · ex-Partner at General Catalyst · co-founder of Crescendo AI, ex-CPO of Airtel & Snapdeal Ben Joffe — Senior Partner @ SOSV Early investor in unicorn Opentrons via HAX · SOSV: $1.3B AUM, ~1,000 portfolio companies Philip Braddock — Head of Startups @ Atlassian 10+ years at Atlassian · ex-Portfolio Management Lead, Atlassian Ventures Roman Bunin — AI Adoption Lead @ Nebius Nasdaq-listed full-stack AI cloud · ex-Head of Data at Nebius Group Gonçalo Gaiolas — CPO @ DeepL Ex-CPTO at SoSafe (doubled revenue) · 10+ years leading product at OutSystems Tilman Ehrbeck: Co-founder & Managing Partner @ Flourish Ventures $850M AUM fintech VC backing Chime, Neon & Unit · ex-McKinsey Partner, ex-CEO of CGAP Igor Ryabenkiy — Managing Partner @ AltaIR Capital, Founder @ Altalab $600M AUM · 400+ portfolio companies, 10+ unicorns incl. Miro & Deel Stepan Gershuni — Investor @ cyber•Fund AI-native VC from the Lido & P2P.org co-founders · serial web3 founder (ex-Bitfury) · AI Telegram channel with 63k+ subscribers Space is limited and by application only. HOSTED BY Sobremesa Events, the agency curating executive events for B2B leadgen in any city in the world. We are the team behind top events at SF Tech Week