With the Road to START Summit 2025, we offer you and your start-up a unique opportunity to showcase yourselves in front of a diverse audience of investors, talents, and supporters.
If your application impresses us and your idea resonates with the audience, you’ll advance to an even larger stage: the winner of the Road to START Summit Pitch Event will present at Europe’s largest student-led entrepreneurship event, the START Summit in St. Gallen.
There, you will have the chance to connect with a global audience, explore incredible opportunities for your start-up and eventually win 10kCHF whilst representing the Italian startup ecosystem.
Show everyone what you are capable of!
(e.g.: Concept, MVP, First Customer, Pre Seed, Seed-Funded, etc.)
(e.g.: Bootstrapped, Angel Investors, Venture Capital, etc.)
(Count Founders as employees)
(e.g.: Recruiting, Scaling, Customer acquisition, etc.)
(Just for internal statistics, you can still apply though)
1. You have to be founded in 2022 or later
2. You have to have received less than 500.000 (chf-eur-usd) in funding
3. You have to be an independent legal entity
(e.g.: Problem, Solution, USP, Market, Business Model, etc.)
Please confirm that we are allowed to store your answers and contact information for our application processes. We will only contact you for application purposes. We will not show your answers to anyone outside the Road to START Summit application team.
Thank you for your application. We will inform you if you get to the final round as soon as possible!
