Startup pitch nights, city by city.
A Startup Valley pitch night is a working session, not a demo-day performance: founders pitch live on stage, investors and operators ask real questions, and the networking before and after is where the follow-ups happen. Same format in every city, so wherever you are, you know exactly what you are walking into.
Five minutes, then the room asks.
The slot
Pitch slots are limited per night so the session stays tight. You take the pitch ticket, tell us about the company, and we go through your deck with you before you are anywhere near the stage.
Your pitch, on the clock
Five minutes, your slides on the screen, the whole room watching. Long enough to make one idea land properly, short enough that nobody checks their phone.
Questions from people who invest
The Q&A is the part founders remember. Investors attend by approval, so the questions come from people who actually deploy capital, alongside operators who have built the thing you are building.
The conversations that follow
The floor opens and people come to you. Every founder who pitches also lands a permanent listing in our public startup directory, so the night keeps working after the room empties.
A night, on film.
Our Zurich night at the MINI Café Bar, filmed end to end: the doors opening, a founder taking the mic, and the whole bar leaning in for the questions.
Investors, by approval
VCs and angels apply to attend and we check who they are. It is why the Q&A is worth sitting through, and why we cap how many pitch.
Operators who have done it
The people who already shipped the thing you are building. Their questions are usually the uncomfortable, useful ones.
Other founders
Most of the room. Some are pitching next month, some are two years ahead of you, and they are the ones who stay late.
Founders, mid pitch.
Pitch nights near you.
Straight answers.
What is a startup pitch night?
A startup pitch night is an evening where founders present their company live on stage to a room of investors, operators and other founders, and then take questions. A Startup Valley night runs the pitch session in the middle of the evening, with networking before and after, so the pitches give the room something concrete to talk about. Each founder gets about five minutes plus Q&A.
How long is each pitch?
Five minutes on stage, then questions from the floor. We keep slots limited per night so the session stays sharp rather than turning into a queue of decks.
Do investors actually attend?
Yes, and by approval rather than open ticket. That gate is the point: it keeps the investor side of the room genuinely investor-side, so the questions after your pitch come from people who deploy capital. We do not promise that anyone in the room will invest.
Is it a pitch competition?
No. There is no prize, no scoring and no elimination. It is a working session: you present, the room questions you, and you spend the rest of the evening following up on what came out of it.
Who can attend a pitch night?
Anyone. Founders, investors, operators, engineers and the startup-curious. You do not need to pitch to come, and most of the room does not. Tickets for each night are on the event page.
How do I pitch at one?
Take the pitch ticket for an upcoming night in your city and apply through the pitch form. We coach you on the deck beforehand, you get the stage and the Q&A on the night, and you land in the public startup directory afterwards.
Where do the pitch nights happen?
In 25 cities, on a steady weekday per city: New York on Wednesdays, Toronto on Thursdays, London and Dubai on Tuesdays, and so on. The city index on this page shows every city with its next date.
What investors look for in five minutes
We asked 30 investors who attend our nights what makes them lean in, and what makes them check their phone.
How to actually work a pitch night
Before, during and after: the version of the evening that produces follow-ups.
The startup networking guide
The other half of the evening: who is in the room, how the networking runs, and where to find nights near you.
Hear it pitched live.
Grab a ticket for the next night in your city, or take the stage yourself.