• 2024’s edition of How To Web Conference will once again take place in Bucharest in October
• As usual, the Conference will host CEE’s biggest startup competition
• Startups are welcome to apply for the Spotlight competition before September 1st, as well as to present themselves at the Conference’s Expo

On October 2-3rd, Bucharest’s How To Web Conference will once again welcome founders, investors, executive, tech talent, – altogether over 3,000 attendees – at its 2024 edition. Over 350 founders are expected to represent their startups at the Conference’s major attraction – Spotlight – CEE’s biggest and Europe’s second biggest startup competition.

A Recap

In 2023, the competition offered the investment prize of EUR 880K, which was the largest in Eastern Europe and second largest in Europe. The winning startup was Collabwriting, the Serbian developer of a browser extension that makes it seamless to capture and organize information on the go.

‘As How to Web Conference gathers Eastern Europe’s brightest minds, Spotlight digs deeper into the underdogs of the region’s startup scene. And Collabwriting is the best example of such underdogs, diamonds in the rough — now backed by Eastern Europe’s greatest investors and a team able to move mountains to conquer an industry that has no clear winners yet,’ How To Web’s CEO Alexandru Agatinei commented.

2024 Edition

How To Web Conference’s Spotlight 2024 winners will get a syndicated investment prize of EUR 350K from such renowned investors as GapMinder VC, Startup Wise Guys, and Underline Ventures. Additional prizes will include tailored one-one-one meeting with the event’s top-tier partner investors, including:

• Cristobal Alonso of Startup Wise Guys
• Ondrej Bartos of Credo Ventures
• Bogdan Iordache of Underline Ventures
• Kamil Mieczakowski of Notion Capital
• Felix Martinez of Seedcamp
• Martin Olczyk of Techstars

The judges and mentors of this year’s Spotlight competition will include:

• Horia Coman, Senior Engineering Manager at Stripe
• Dr Botty Dimanov, Co-Founder and CEO of Tenyks
• Arielle Kilroy, CEO/CPO and Co-founder of Dado
• Matt LeMay, Product Leader at Product Land
• Andrew Michael, CEO at Churned
• Fonz Morris, Lead Product Designer at Netflix
• Giorgio Pontillo, Global VP of Revenue and Founder of FractionalWizards
• Horia Velicu, Head of Innovation Lab at BRD – Groupe Société Générale
• and many more. You are welcome to follow the lineup on HowToWeb’s Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

Please mind that the applying startups have to buy a ticket. Tickets can be purchased after the application. Other requirements are:

• Early stage: under 5 years old and under EUR 700K of funds raised.
• The product is launched and the traction is visible.
• APPLY HERE BEFORE SEPTEMBER 1ST.