Startup World Cup is a global event where startups from around the world will be coming to San Francisco to battle for a US$1,000,000 grand prize in investment.
Startup World Cup is partnering with some of world’s largest conferences and tech events to host 40+ regional startup competitions across 6 continents – North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. The goal of Startup World Cup is to create innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities for startup ecosystems all over the world. Entrepreneurs from many different countries will be able to use the Startup World Cup platform to build great companies and improve the possibilities for themselves.
Startup World Cup will be one of the biggest networking opportunities in the Bay Area to meet with hundreds of investors and tech corporations at the same event.
On Friday, May 17, top celebrities of the startup world will be speaking at the Startup World Cup Grand Finale at the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco. All-star line-up of featured tech celebrities include:
• Tim Westergren, Founder and Former CEO, Pandora
• Ray Lane, Former President and COO, Oracle
• Terry Jones, Founding Chairman, Kayak.com
• Neil Hunt, Former CPO of Netflix
• Window Snyder, Chief Software Security Officer of Intel
• Rashmi Gopinath, Partner, Microsoft Ventures
• Deborah Magid, Director, IBM Ventures
• Jay Fulcher, Chairman and CEO, Zenefits
• And more
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Each of the guest speakers will be sharing their success stories, covering how they started out to how they got where they are now. For the second half of the event, 10 top founders from 40 different countries have been selected from 40 regional events to pitch their company in front of our audience. This will be an opportunity to network with many industry leaders not just from the US, but from around the entire globe.
You can find more information and register here.
