The Road to START Summit is Munich's most exciting student-organized pitching competition, hosted by START Munich, the city's leading entrepreneurship student initiative.
This year, the event brings together the most promising early-stage DeepTech startups to pitch their ideas in front of an audience of founders, investors, students, and industry experts.
The winner secures a spot at START Summit in St. Gallen, Europe's largest student-organized startup conference with 6,000+ attendees, and competes for CHF 10,000 in prize money.
Meet the people
Speakers & Jury
The founders shaping what’s next. The investors backing bold ideas.
Felix Haas
Entrepreneur, investor & Bits & Pretzels co-host
Balázs Nagy
CEO & Co-Founder, TYTAN Technologies
Mika Voss
Investment Analyst, UVC Partners
Constance Perez
Investment Analyst, Climate Founders
Schedule
The evening
Live pitches. Bold ideas. Real connections. Join us from 17:00.
From pitching to joining us, here’s what you might be wondering.
Road to START Summit is a series of events organized by START chapters throughout Europe. START Munich hosts a student-organized pitching competition to identify promising startups that will represent Munich at START Summit in St. Gallen.
Join us on 9 December 2026 at Freiheitshalle in Munich. Doors open at 17:00 and the evening runs late. Get your ticket on Luma.
Your startup was founded in 2024 or later, is in Seed or Pre-Seed stage, and is an independent legal entity. There are no limitations regarding the amount of funding you have already received. Your startup must have a deep tech focus.
We all know the classic SaaS startups built around GPT wrappers that can now be implemented with AI in two hours. We’re looking for startups that dare to dream: scientifically backed startups building something extraordinary that cannot easily be replicated with a Claude Pro subscription.
The winner secures a spot at START Summit in St. Gallen, a guaranteed startup booth, a startup pass, and the opportunity to compete for CHF 10,000 in prize money.
START Hack League Munich is a weekend-long hackathon where students build software and hardware projects. Road to START Summit is a pitching competition for startups.
