Nov 18, 2026 · 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CETDemo DayIn-person

Startup Pitch Events Amsterdam: 5 Founders on Stage

Name: Startup Pitch Events Amsterdam: 5 Founders on Stage
Start: 2026-11-18T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-11-18T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Side Quest Bar

Five founders, five minutes each, then questions from the room. Tables on topics Amsterdam voted for, and an open hour after the stage.

Location

🇳🇱AmsterdamSide Quest Bar

Date

Nov 18, 20266:00 PM – 9:00 PM CET

Tickets

Free – $29

Format

In-person

Language

Held in English

Tickets on Eventbrite

Every guest is checked in at the door. Investor attendance is not guaranteed. Pitching is by application, not by ticket.

The same evening on Luma

Standard · $19.90
Last Week · $23
Early Bird · $10
Free · free
Investor · free, by approval
Pitch to the audience · $49

Investor seats are free and by approval; a pitch slot is a separate ticket. Both exist only on Luma.

Open on Luma

After you register

Your ticket and confirmation arrive from Eventbrite to the email you used. Right after, two emails from us: an invitation to our Luma calendar and an invitation to the Amsterdam community, which opens in Slack, in the browser or in Telegram.

Nothing arrived? Contact the team.

Startup Pitch in Amsterdam 18 November 2026

The evening

You've been running the idea past AI. AI has never once told you it wouldn't work. Tonight you get a room that will.

Five founders, five minutes each, in Amsterdam. Three reasons people come back:

01

A table, not a lap of the room

You pick a topic the room voted on and stay there for the hour, instead of wandering with a drink looking for a gap in somebody else's conversation.

02

A stage short enough to be honest

Five minutes each, no slides read out loud, then the room asks questions. The questions are the good part.

03

The hour after

The stage ends, nobody is performing any more, and the floor stays open. That is the hour people actually remember.

After the night

Your ticket is also a login

Most events end when you walk out. This one hands you a link: your profile, who else is coming before you get there, a chat for this specific evening, and a recap afterwards of who you actually met. Then you land in your city's space and stay there. That is where the second conversation happens, the one you meant to have before the room got loud.

Free with your ticket: ascentvalley.com/community

Who it is for

Is this your room?

Yes, if you are building something, anywhere from the first line of code to Series A. Or you run a function at a company that is scaling, write the code, do the hiring, or you are still deciding whether to start.
Probably not, if what you are picturing is a room full of investors. How that actually works is below, and it is better than the picture.

The stage

Want the stage?

Five founders an evening, and we answer everybody, including the people we don't pick. Applying is free; you need a ticket for the evening you pitch at.

Never pitched before? Five minutes is short enough that it's over before the nerves have finished arriving.

Before you apply: How the five seats are filled

Apply to pitch How the stage works

Straight answers

What we don't promise, and what we do instead

We don't

We don't promise an investor will be in the room on any given evening. Angels and people who work at funds come, some evenings several of them, and we won't tell you in advance who is coming, because we don't know.
We don't run a judging panel, hand out a prize or keep a leaderboard.

Instead

Your application to the stage becomes your profile in our startup directory, and a person reads it, not a scoring script.
That profile sits in front of the funds and angels in our network, and they ask for the introduction themselves when your company matches what they are looking for.
You choose whether you are in the weekly digest and can leave it any time. We never sell your details, take equity, take a cut of your round or give investment advice.

How the directory works

Why it's worth an evening

01Watching somebody explain their company in five minutes teaches you more about explaining yours than another evening alone with the deck.

02You'll hear the question you've been quietly avoiding asked out loud to somebody else, and watch how they handle it.

03That skill travels: to a first meeting, a performance review, and the dinner where somebody asks what you do and you have twenty seconds before their eyes move on.

So bring the friend who keeps saying they have an idea. Five minutes on that stage is the shortest distance between having an idea and finding out what a room full of strangers thinks of it.

Schedule4 items

Event agenda

Times in Europe/Amsterdam

18:00
Doors and topic tables
Name sticker on, then the table closest to what you are building. You stay for the hour.
19:00
Five founders on stage
Five minutes each, no slides read out loud, then questions from the room.
19:45
The hour after
The stage is done and the floor stays open.
21:00
Close

What brings you here?

At the door you write your role and your ask on a sticker.

Most asks sound like one of these. Any of them is a good reason to come.

I want to grow
I came with a problem
I've hit a ceiling
I have an idea, I want your honest take

Frequently asked

Before you book

Who is this event for?

This event is designed for AI/Tech founders, startup builders, engineers, product people, operators and investors interested in the AI and tech startup ecosystem.

Do I need to already have a startup?

No. You can join if you are already building, exploring an idea, looking for collaborators or simply want to connect with people in the AI startup space.

How does the networking work?

The event includes structured interactive networking designed to help people quickly connect around ideas, skills, business challenges and collaboration opportunities.

Can I pitch my startup?

Yes, purchase a ticket and submit your application at https://ascentvalley.com/pitch A limited number of founders can apply for a pitch opportunity - spots are limited and reviewed in advance. Selected startups will be invited to present at the upcoming session.

Refund Policy

One day after event