Where founders meet.
Launch nights, workshops and conferences we host or recommend, from Lisbon to Madrid and online, and the stories behind them.
Upcoming events
Grouped by month, soonest first. Search or select an event for the details.
October 2026
Czech Startup Week 2026
A week of keynotes and pitch sessions across Prague, closing with a demo day and an investment conference.
HighTech Venture Days 2026
Curated matchmaking between deep-tech startups and venture investors.
Valencia Digital Summit 2026
A large startup and investor summit in Valencia’s City of Arts and Sciences.
Sintra Podcast Live
A live recording in our studio: the Verde Systems founders on selling software to utilities, with 40 seats for founders and Q&A after.
Deep Tech Summit 2026
An investor day and matchmaking for deep-tech founders raising capital.
Crossroads 2026
South-East Europe’s founder gathering: 150+ investors, a pitch competition and co-founder matchmaking.
Climate Tech Breakfast Berlin
Coffee and a frank panel on raising a Series A for hardware-heavy climate companies, with investors who have just done it.
November 2026
Festival of Entrepreneurs 2026
A founder-focused festival on capital, AI, leadership and scaling.
Startup Nights 2026
Switzerland’s largest startup event, with pitches and an exhibition floor.
AI Founders Supper Paris
A long-table dinner for 30 founders building applied AI, hosted with Corvane AI. Bring one problem you are stuck on.
Portugal Tech Week 2026
A decentralised festival of 250+ mostly free tech and startup events across Portugal, running alongside Web Summit.
Web Summit 2026
Europe’s biggest tech conference, covering AI, climate, fintech and deep tech, with a startup floor.
VNTR Summit Lisbon 2026
An invitation-style summit for venture capitalists and angels during Web Summit week.
Grants Workshop
A hands-on session on preparing a European funding application, from eligibility checks to the budget table reviewers read first.
Slush 2026
The founder-first startup and investor event, with matchmaking built into the programme.
Nordic Deep Tech Demo Day
Twelve hardware and climate startups pitch to an audience of 150 investors, followed by open office hours.
December 2026
FinTech Connect 2026
Starling Bank is featured among speakers at FinTech Connect 2026, a major UK fintech conference held 1-2 December 2026 at ExCeL London.
SaaStr AI London 2026
The European edition of the B2B SaaS conference: scaling ARR, go-to-market and fundraising.
Celosphere 2026
Celonis' own annual flagship conference on enterprise AI and process intelligence, held in Munich on December 2-3, 2026, with company-run teaser videos counting down on its YouTube channel.
Early Stage Summit
A one-day conference for pre-seed and seed founders: two stages, 30 speakers and investor speed meetings in the afternoon.
Warsaw Fintech Roundtable
Payments founders and bank product leads compare notes on open banking rollouts, with a closed-door hour on regulatory sandboxes.
StartupItalia Open Summit 2026
Italy’s annual startup conference, with keynotes, pitch marathons and awards.
January 2027
Copenhagen Climate Hardware Pitch Night
Six hardware startups pitch three minutes each to a panel of industrial buyers, followed by a supper for anyone who wants a second conversation.
sTARTUp Day 2027
Estonia’s startup festival in Tartu, three days of talks, pitches and investor meetings.
Dublin Women in Tech Founders Breakfast
A morning of candid talks on hiring a first leadership team and raising from angels, with time to meet the speakers over coffee.
February 2027
March 2027
4YFN Barcelona 2027
The startup event beside MWC Barcelona: matchmaking, a pitch competition and the 4YFN Awards.
START Summit 2027
A student-run summit with 120+ speakers, startup pitches and an investor programme.
TechChill 2027
The Baltics’ big tech event, home of the 50 Founders Battle pitch competition.
May 2027
June 2027
Past events
- AustrianStartups Summit 2026
- Ledger Op3n 2026
- Wolves Summit Autumn 2026
- Invest Europe Venture Capital Forum 2026
- In The Loop 2026 - n8n's First Ecosystem Conference
- SaaStock 2026
- Lisbon Founders Night
- How to Web 2026
- Sifted Summit 2026
- Bits & Pretzels 2026
- Parcel+Post Expo 2026 Leadership Conference: 'The race to the €1 parcel'
- Turing Fest 2026
- Nordic Fintech Week 2026
- Mobility Founders Meetup Barcelona
- Startup Fair 2026
- Startup Summit Lisbon 2026
- NORDEEP 2026
- Top100 Swiss Investor Summit 2026
- Nordic Tech Week 2026
- Baltic VCA Summit 2026
- TechBBQ 2026
- Startup BBQ Riga
- Best practices for building autonomous AI workflows | AI Now Summit 2026
- ComptaTech 2026
- Commercial Vehicles 2026 (Handelsblatt Live) - Einride speaker Pierre Pomper
- GALA WorldReady Global Conference 2026
- CX Circle EMEA 2026
- Back Market Challenges America's Fast Tech Model at CES 2026
- Beyond London 2025
- Checkout.com at Web Summit 2022