Web Summit 2024 ALPHA Startup Programme

What is the Web Summit startup programme?

Our startup programme – ALPHA – offers you the chance to join a global community of startups, each one selected by the Web Summit team for its potential, uniqueness and world-changing ideas. If chosen, you’ll get three tickets to Web Summit, access to Investor to Startup meetings, and be eligible to apply for PITCH, Startup masterclasses, Mentor Hours and more. Join us in Lisbon in 2024.

What is the Web Summit startup programme?

Our startup programme offers you the chance to join a global community of startups, each one selected by the Web Summit team for its potential, uniqueness and world-changing ideas. If chosen, you’ll get three tickets to Web Summit for €995, access to Investor Meetings, and be eligible to apply for PITCH, 40 words, pitching masterclasses and more. Join us in Lisbon this November.

• Brand awareness: The world's leading media publications and journalists will join Web Summit 2024 looking for the next big news story. They’ll help you share your startup’s message with the world – and the world’s leading businesses.
• Funding: Investor Meetings are pre-scheduled sessions between the world’s most influential investors and the startups that excite them. This is where you’ll get insider advice on making your startup irresistible to investors.
• Networking: Networking opportunities are woven through every Web Summit experience. Start networking weeks before the event with the Web Summit app – reach out to investors, sign up for Mentor Hours, and find potential leads.
• Learning: Schedule meetings with founders who’ve overcome all the odds and trendsetting companies in your industry. And follow up on these leads after the event. You never know who may become your new business partner, investor or mentor.

What happens when I apply?

• Chat to our specialist team: One of our startup experts will be in touch to discuss your company, goals and objectives for Web Summit.
• Assessment and selection: Our team dedicate countless hours to finding the most exciting, high-potential startups to join our events.
• Prepare with our startup success team: Your dedicated startup success manager will work with you to help guide you through the startup journey and get the best out of attending Web Summit.
• Time for Web Summit: Now for the main event. Fill your time at Web Summit with our many startup activations: PITCH, our startup battle; Mentor Hours, our advisory sessions with business leaders; 40 words, and more.

What is Web Summit?

We’re a company from Dublin, Ireland, that holds events across the world: Web Summit in Lisbon and Tokyo, Collision in Toronto, and RISE in Kuala Lumpur.

Forbes has said we run “the best technology conference on the planet”;
The Atlantic that Web Summit is “where the future goes to be born”;
The New York Times that we assemble “a grand conclave of the tech industry’s high priests.”

At a time of great uncertainty for many industries and indeed, the world itself, we gather the founders and CEOs of technology companies, fast-growing startups, policymakers and heads of state to ask a simple question: Where to next?