Road to START Summit
Our pitching competition. Student startups pitch to investors and founders, and the winners pitch again at START Summit in St. Gallen.
[TBD: 3-word tagline]
It STARTs in Barcelona.
A community of students and young builders who start their own projects, together.
Apply to START Sprint
Applications close Wed 4 Nov.
Applications for this edition are closed.
Get notified for the next batch Come to an event [TBD: Luma URL]
- START Sprint
- Road to START Summit
- Road to START Hack
- Investor Nights
- LaunchLab BCN
- Startup visits
- Network + private events
Nobody should build alone.
Most ideas don't fail. They never start, or they stall when you're working on them by yourself. Here you stop putting it off: people who show up, build next to each other and keep each other going.
why people join
“To start the project I never had the courage to.”
“To not build alone.”
Hoodies, not suits.
Build days start with coffee and end when the Claude credits run out.
Whatever you're building, we don't judge.
And it's not only about building. It's the people you meet, the nights out and the trips.
START Sprint.
Three weeks. Build your own project. Demo Day on 7 December.
Our program for new members. Build alone or in a team, with workshops, a teambuilding weekend and a public Demo Day at the end.
Apply to START Sprint
Applications close Wed 4 Nov.
Applications for this edition are closed.
Get notified for the next batch Come to an event [TBD: Luma URL]- 4 NovApplications close
- 5–7 NovInterviews
- 8 NovOnboarding Day
- 9–29 NovThree build weeks
- 7 DecDemo Day
What we run.
Pitch nights, hackathons, investor evenings and startup visits, all year round. Plus Barcelona's qualifiers for START Summit and START Hack.
Road to START Hack
Our hackathon, built around real challenges from partners. The winning team goes on to START Hack in St. Gallen.
Investor Nights
Small evenings with VCs and angels about the real bets, and the ones that went wrong.
LaunchLab BCN
Hands-on workshops that take an idea from problem to prototype.
Startup visits
Behind the scenes at Barcelona startups. Meet the teams, see how they work.
Network and private events
Members-only nights, visits from other START chapters and trips to St. Gallen.
Part of the START network.
START Global is the student network behind START Summit and START Hack, two of Europe's biggest student entrepreneurship events. Chapters across Europe and Latin America, one community.
Barcelona St. Gallen
every March, the whole network meets there
- Barcelona
- Berlin
- Bogotá
- Hamburg
- Helsinki
- Innsbruck
- Lausanne
- Lima
- Lisbon
- London
- Maastricht
- Mexico City
- Milano
- Munich
- Nuremberg
- Paris
- Quito
- São Paulo
- St. Gallen
- Stuttgart
- Vaduz
- Vienna
- Warsaw
Work with us.
We bring companies, startups and investors closer to Barcelona's universities. We're a non-profit, so everything goes back into the community.
- Bring a real challenge to our hackathon
- Speak at a workshop or sit on a jury
- Host us for a build day or a company visit
- Sponsor an event or Demo Day
- Meet people for your team
we've built with
- SBS Swiss Business School
- Microsoft
- N26
- Bcombinator
- Enzo Ventures
[TBD: confirm partner list and logo permission]
Let's START something.
Apply to START Sprint
Applications close Wed 4 Nov.
Applications for this edition are closed.
Get notified for the next batch Come to an event [TBD: Luma URL]Follow along on Instagram: @startbarcelona