hashcut wins best startup of 2018. Congratulations!

Thank you all for another awesome Startup Conference.

hashcut wins best startup of 2018

Adeo Ressi provides insightful feedback to entrepreneurs during the pitch competition

Entrepreneurs busy pitching investors during VC office hours

Augusto Marietti takes down the house with the full story of his startup's adventures

Investors discussing how to pitch

FOR FOUNDERS BY FOUNDERS

With more than 1,000 entrepreneurs and investors, the Startup Conference is one of the larger conferences for entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.

LAUNCH YOUR STARTUP

Apply to the pitch competition and launch your startup in front of a large audience. Pitch to investors 1 on 1. Get a booth at the Startup Village to show your wares.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Whether you are just exploring an idea or have already raised a seed round, The Startup Conference is for you.

Launch your startup, learn how to pitch VCs, find co-founders, reach early adopters and influencers and more.

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Speakers

SpeakersEach year, we feature the most relevant entrepreneurs who can provide actionable advice for your startup and share their tricks and secrets on funding and growing a tech startup.

We have another great program this year:

Jyoti Bansal sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion.
Eric Yuan, founder of Zoom.us, has raised $145M.
Ali Vahabzadeh, founder of Chariot, went through Y Combinator and was acquired by Ford.
Tom Villante, the founder of YapStone, raised $185M.
Jack Altman, CEO and Co-Founder of Lattice.
Varun Jain is the Head, Early Stage Fund, Qualcomm Ventures.
Soma Somasegar is a Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group and was previously Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division.
Rama Sekhar is a Partner at Norwest Venture Partners.

And many more.

Download the Conference Program

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I am so GLAD I went! I had a great day learning so much from aspiring people!

H. P.

I pitched to one of the VCs during the VC office hours and his feedback was an invaluable tool for me. Will most definitely attend it again.

Emmanuel, founder

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Keeping the Conference International

We are proud at the Startup Conference to host entrepreneurs from more than 40 countries each year. But for the 9th edition, in 2018, we are noticing a disturbing trend. The number of entrepreneurs who told us they were not able to get a visa and therefore won't be able to attend, seems to have exploded.