HUMANBULB has partnered with Startup World Cup to organize multiple regional competitions in 2024 in the US and internationally.

Regional competition winners go on to compete in the Global Grand Finale Semifinals and Final in San Francisco in October 2024 completing against the winners of 70+ regional competitions around the world for a $1 million investment prize!

  • Startup World Cu Regional Competition Photo of Palm Trees

    Startup World Cup OC/LA Regional Competition

    April 30, 2024

    6-8 pm

    UCI Beall Applied Innovation at the Cove

    5270 California Ave #100

    Irvine, CA 92617

  • Startup World Cup Baltic Regional Competition photo of city of Austin

    Startup World Cup Baltic Regional Competition

    May 30-31, 2024

    The competition will take place during LOGIN -the largest innovation and progress conference in the Baltic region.

    Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Startup World Cup Sacramento Regional Competition Photo of Sacramento Bridge

    Startup World Cup Sacramento Regional Competition

    September 2024

    North Natomas Community Center

    2601 New Market Dr, Sacramento, CA 95835

  • Startup World Cup Sweden Regional Competition

    2024 Date TBD

    Linköping Science Park

    Linköping, Sweden

IN 2023, HUMANBULB ORGANIZED REGIONAL STARTUP WORLD CUP COMPETITIONS IN SACRAMENTO, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, AND TEXAS. OUR SACRAMENTO REGIONAL WINNER, ELECTRO SCAN, PLACED IN THE TOP 10 OUT OF 50+ REGIONAL WINNERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD! HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF 2023….

GLOBAL GRAND FINALE

Startup World Cup is a global competition with 70+ regional competitions around the world that was started in 2017 where the winner at the Global Grand Finale receives a $1 million USD investment. Speakers for this prestigious event have included:

Reid Hoffman, Founding CEO of LinkedIn

Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple

Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures and Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems

Adam Cheyer, Co-Founder of Siri

John Chambers, Former CEO of Cisco

Ray Lane, Former President & COO, Oracle

Marc Randolph, Co-Founder of Netflix

Spencer Rascoff, Co-Founder of Zillow

Kevin O’Leary of ABC’s Shark Tank

Barbara Corcoran of ABC’s Shark Tank

Tekedra Mawakana, Co-CEO of Waymo

Lidia Fonseca, CTO of Pfizer

Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub

Thuan Phan, CTO of Coupan and former CTO of Uber

Marianna Tessel, CTO, Intuit

Nikesh Arora, Chairman & CEO of Palo Alto Networks and former COO of Softbank

Marcelo Claure, Chief Operating Officer, Softbank

Tim Westergren, Founder and Former CEO, Pandora

Jay Vijayan, Former CIO of Tesla

Sri Shivananda, CTO of PayPal

Terry Jones, Founding Chairman, Kayak

Image of Startup World Cup Grand Finale Past Speakers such as founder/CEOs of Apple, Netflix Siri, Kayak, LinkedIn, Cisco, Oracle
Image of Startup World Cup Past Grand Finale Judges such as DFJ, Kleiner Perkins, NEA, M12, 500 startups, Y Combinator