Join the largest pitch competition in the world! On May 30th, during the startup festival ViennaUP'22, the most innovative startups from Austria are competing in the categories Digital Health & BioTech, Social & Climate Impact, Smart City and FinTech & InsurTech for a spot at the World finals in Silicon Valley. All participating startups are early-stage, founded in Austria and looking for investment up to € 1mio.

Following startups will compete in the finale:

Digital Health & BioTech: RevIVe, Clir Technologies, AMB Technologies

Smart City: Sophie Smart Shower, ARTI, Swilox

Social & Climate Impact: Uptraded, WAIBROsports, Lignovations

FinTech & InsurTech: Monkee, Sophia, BAM Ticketing

Agenda:

1.00pm - Open Doors and Lunch

2.30pm - Opening

2.40pm - Keynote by Michail Lapidus (Pegasus Tech Ventures)

2.50pm - Startup Pitches: Digital Health & BioTech

3.20pm - Startup Pitches: Smart City

3.50pm - Break

4.10pm - Keynote "Lessons learned while starting up and scaling internationally" by Lukas Kinigadner (Anyline)

4.30pm - Startup Pitches: Social & Climate Impact

5.00pm - Startup Pitches: FinTech & InsurTech

5.30pm - Keynote by Mariana Kühnel

5.35pm - Break

6.00pm - Winner announcement

6.20pm - GoUSA Announcement

6.30pm - Networking event

10.00pm - End of event

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During the event we will announce this year's GoUSA participants. The GoUSA startup landing initiative is the successor of the GoSiliconValley program. Up to 20 startups have the opportunity to spend four to six weeks in San Francisco, New York or Boston and participate in an accelerator program to validate their business models, test their product/market fit, meet potential partners and clients and pitch in front of US investors.

A big thank you to our partners:

WKÖ Gründerservices & Außenwirtschaft, FFG, Microsoft, A1, BMDW, EY, Novartis, OeNPay, Smartworks, TPA, Wirtschaftsagentur Wien

The Startup World Cup, hosted by Pegasus Tech Ventures, is the largest startup competition worldwide, with more than 70 countries taking part every year. The Austrian Angel Investors Association, with support of AustrianStartups, will bring the Startup World Cup to Austria for the second time to Austria.