TOP AI & DEEP TECH STARTUP Pitch Competition at Web Summit
Tue, 10 Nov 2026, 18:00
Lisbon, Portugal
Registration on luma.com
Originally organized by Sobremesa Agency. Invite-only pitch competition for early-stage AI and DeepTech startups A Bay Area–caliber room in Lisbon during Web Summit. Every seat is hand-picked: standout pre-seed and seed AI founders, top-tier VCs, and frontier tech operators. APPLICATION FORM FOR STARTUPS TO PITCH ON STAGE: https://forms.gle/oULUuvfJBqHxwJkUA 🏆 Prizes Winner: access to the Atlassian for Startups package (subject to eligibility) All finalists: 90% off one year of HubSpot, plus access to HubSpot’s fundraising kit (subject to eligibility) JURY Anand Chandrasekaran — Managing Partner @ Celesta Capital Deep tech VC with $1.1B AUM and 100+ early-stage investments, specializing in semiconductors and AI infrastructure Ex-Partner at General Catalyst Experienced operator: co-founder of Crescendo AI, ex-Meta, ex-Yahoo, and former CPO of Airtel and Snapdeal Ben Joffe — Senior Partner @ SOSV Global VC firm focused on early-stage deep tech $1.5B+ AUM Philip Braddock — Head of Startups @ Atlassian Leads Atlassian for Startups, the program that has onboarded 5,000+ startups globally since launching in June 2024 Partners with 215+ VCs, accelerators and incubators, including Y Combinator, 20VC and a16z Roman Bunin — AI Adoption Lead @ Nebius Nasdaq-listed AI infrastructure company building full-stack AI cloud for model developers and enterprises Leads AI adoption across Nebius; previously Head of Data at Nebius Group Gonçalo Gaiolas — CPO @ DeepL Leads product at DeepL, driving its expansion into voice and next-generation Language AI Previously CPTO at SoSafe, where he pioneered a new category in human risk management; 10 years at OutSystems helping pioneer low-code Tilman Ehrbeck: Co-founder & Managing Partner @ Flourish Ventures Global fintech VC with ~100 startups backed including Chime, Neon, Unit and Kin $850M AUM; previously 10+ years as Partner at McKinsey and CEO of CGAP (World Bank–hosted) Igor Ryabenkiy — Managing Partner @ AltaIR Capital, Founder @ Altalab 400+ portfolio companies, 10+ unicorns backed, primarily at seed stage Notable investments include Miro, Deel, OpenWeb, Turing $600M AUM Stepan Gershuni — Investor @ cyber•Fund AI-native VC fund from the Lido and P2P.org co-founders Serial web3 founder (ex-Bitfury); author of a AI Telegram channel with 63k+ subscribers … Venue: Lisboa, Portugal, Lisboa, PT. Registration is handled by the original organizer. Original event and organizer: https://luma.com/5e8xyngj