Slush 100 Pitching Competition
Offers Slush 100, an annual competition for early stage startups that includes equity investment for top founders.
Slush 100 is the flagship startup pitching competition held annually at the Slush event in Helsinki, Finland. The prize is a EUR 1,000,000 equity investment delivered by partner venture capital firms — in the 2025 competition cycle, the investing partners were General Catalyst and Cherry Ventures. This is a dilutive equity investment, not a non-dilutive cash grant; the winning team receives ventur…
Annual global startup pitch competition at Slush Helsinki awarding a EUR 1 million dilutive equity investment from partner VC firms to the winning early-stage startup.
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