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Industry leaders share their insights and over 6,000 start-ups, investors, business executives and talented young entrepreneurs come together to shape the world of tomorrow. What’s not to love?

START Summit is Europe’s largest student-run startup conference. Every year, START Summit provides lifelong learning and a synergetic space to start the conversations that can shape our world.

START Summit offers the opportunity for start-ups to source their investors, students to enter the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and investors and business executives to discover exciting new talent and business opportunities. Sound too good to miss?

How does spending three days in a creative space, coding and competing against some of the world’s most talented tech students sound?

START Hack is Europe’s leading hackathon for aspiring tech entrepreneurs! At START Hack, we foster deep entrepreneurial understanding — supercharging you to kick off your entrepreneurial career. This annual event is designed to bridge the gap between business and tech. At Hack, you’ll develop your knowledge with a range of insightful masterclasses and workshops. You’ll build connections, expand your network, showcase your skills and code to your heart’s content.

Thanks to our incredible industry-leading partners, the projects you start here can extend beyond the event and lead to something much bigger, including exciting job opportunities and the chance to carry your Hack project through to completion.

Are you up to the challenge?

Expand your Network at exclusive events all over the world, learn how the ecosystem works and what you need to build your Startup.

START Sphere is the largest student run entrepreneurship network in Europe. It bridges ecosystems and takes young founders by the hand to make the step from 0 to 1.

Opportunities are rarely easy to come by. The background of founders and the opportunities available to entrepreneurs under 25 from low and middle-income backgrounds stretches beyond just funding, which is priceless.

START Fellowship is the 6-month philanthropic incubator+ program that contributes towards equal opportunities for young entrepreneurs from low and middle-income countries.

We provide dedicated financial support for people under 25 and with a four-month stay in Switzerland — covering all the costs. Our START Fellowship offers a guided pathway for students under 25 to become entrepreneurs. You’ll learn from the best in the business in workshops delivered by our external partners, develop your business skills in classes at the University of St. Gallen, network with experienced founders and like-minded entrepreneurs and receive expert mentorship and coaching every step of the way.

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