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105 of the most promising startups will battle it out in the group rounds of the competition. 

In this round, 10 of them will fight for a chance to move onto the semi-final. Competing startups will have three minutes to pitch, followed by a three-minute Q&A with our judging panel.

Meet our judges: 
- Vitaly Laptenok from Flyer One Ventures
- Michal Csonga from Zero One Hundred
- Inês Santos from SANTANDER
- Carla Viegas-Barber from Nimbld Ventures
- Dr Kari Dempsey from Beam

PITCH Group 13

Our ten group-round winners take to Centre Stage for the semi-final of PITCH.

Each of the semi-finalists has three minutes to pitch their businesses. Our judges then deliberate and choose three finalists to battle it out in the PITCH final.

Semi-finalists will be revealed following the group stages of the competition, taking place on day 1 of the event.

Meet our judges 
- Emily Fontaine from IBM
- Stephan Morais from Indico Capital Partners
- Anie Akpe from African Women In Tech (AWIT)
- Aline Oliveira Pezente from Traive
- Nicole Ingra from Ingra Labs
- Dan Gardner from Code and Theory
- Iryna Volnytska from SET University
- Brendan Yell from FusionAuth
- Tamara Steffens from Thomson Reuters Ventures
- Luis Castro Henriques from EDP
- Margot Weiss from Adobe


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Program Manager

Wisersense Information Technologies A.Ş.