Startup Summit Lisbon 2026 | Founder, Startup & Investor ...

2026-09-17 · 09:30:00 · Lisboa

Unicorn Factory Lisboa - Beato Innovation District ①

71 Rua da Manutenção, 1900-500 Lisboa

2,000+ founders, investors & innovators. Lisbon, Sept 17-18. 150+ speakers, 200+ booths, 40+ countries. Be in the room where it happens.

Two days. One city. The entire startup ecosystem in one building.

Startup Summit Lisbon 2026 takes over Unicorn Factory Lisboa on September 17-18 for two days of talks, panels, firesides, workshops, startup showcases, and the kind of networking that actually leads somewhere. Curated side events run across Lisbon throughout the week.

This isn't a conference where you sit in a chair for eight hours and leave with a lanyard and a LinkedIn request from someone selling CRM software. This is where a conversation at the coffee station turns into an investor intro. Where the founder at the booth next to yours becomes your first integration partner. Where the person you meet at the rooftop party ends up joining your team six months later.

If you're building something, backing something, or looking for the thing you want to build next, this is where to be.

Because most startup events are too big to be useful or too small to be worth the flight.

Startup Summit Lisbon sits in the sweet spot: big enough to attract serious founders, investors, and operators from 40+ countries. Small enough that you'll actually meet them. Every networking session, every social event, every side experience is designed to make real connections happen, not just badge-scanning and small talk.

150+ speakers across keynotes, panels, and firesides covering fundraising, AI,

Organizer: Startup Summit

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  1. 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM · Welcome Drinks- Speakers/Investors/VIP — Informal welcome at Beato Innovation District. No stage, no programme — just a great place to meet your people before it all starts. Music, drinks, and good conversations. Runs until midnight.
  2. 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM · Morning Run - Self-organising · meets at venue entrance · free · back by 08:30
  3. 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM · Doors Open — Registration · expo floor · food trucks open · check-in
  4. 9:30 AM – 10:10 AM · Welcome to Startup Summit 2026- Unicorn Stage — Opening Keynote - Unicorn Stage
  5. 10:20 AM – 10:45 AM · From Zero to Series A: What Nobody Tells You — Unicorn Stage
  6. 10:20 AM – 10:50 AM · The LP Perspective: Where Capital is Moving in 2026 — Impact Stage
  7. 10:55 AM – 11:20 AM · The Fundraising Meta-Game: What VCs Actually Look For — Unicorn Stage
  8. 10:55 AM · One Insight That Changed Everything — Impact Stage
  9. 11:20 AM – 11:40 AM · One Decision That Changed My Trajectory — Impact Stage
  10. 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM · AI or Die: How Operators Are Rebuilding Their Stack — Unicorn Stage
  11. 11:50 AM – 12:15 PM · Conviction Investing: Backing Founders Before Traction — Impact Stage
  12. 12:30 PM – 12:50 PM · The Bet I Almost Didn't Make — Unicorn Stage
  13. 12:30 PM – 12:55 PM · The Thing I Wish Someone Had Told Me at the Start — Impact Stage
  14. 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM · Lunch Break — Food trucks · Beer Hall · Praça Café · Mexican restaurant · Outdoor and indoor seating throughout
  15. 2:00 PM – 2:25 PM · How I Rebuilt My Entire Business With AI — Unicorn Stage
  16. 2:00 PM – 2:25 PM · When Investors Say No: Turning Rejection Into a Roadmap — Impact Stage
  17. 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM · Roundtables + Investor Office Hours — Topic roundtables · 10 people max · Investor slots via app · Bar open · Runs all afternoon
  18. 2:35 PM – 2:50 PM · Failure, Then Growth: The Session Nobody Wants to Give — Unicorn Stage
  19. 2:35 PM – 3:10 PM · Investors Tell You Exactly What They Want — Impact Stage
  20. 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM · GTM Without a Budget: Growth Tactics That Actually Work — Unicorn Stage
  21. 3:20 PM – 3:50 PM · Pricing Power: How Startups Win on Value, Not Cost — Impact Stage
  22. 3:40 PM – 3:55 PM · The Uncomfortable Truth About Product-Market Fit — Unicorn Stage- Intimate Keynote
  23. 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM · Live Podcast Recording — Unicorn Stage, more details to be announced on our website www.startupsummit.io
  24. 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM · Built in Europe, Backed Globally: What It Really Takes — Impact Stage
  25. 4:40 PM – 5:10 PM · The Future of Work: Building Teams That Don't Need an Office — Impact Stage
  26. 5:20 PM – 5:45 PM · Capital Allocation in Uncertainty: A Founder-Investor Conversation — Impact Stage
  27. 6:00 PM – 11:00 PM · Founder Social — Wristbanded entry · two arrival waves · bar · ends 22:00 Founder Pass Startup Booth Investor Pass
  28. 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM · VIP Sunset Cruise — VIP SUNSET CRUISE · TAGUS RIVER / VIP tickets only
  29. 8:00 PM – 12:00 AM · SPEAKERS DINNER · WATERFRONT RESTAURANT — Speakers Dinner Invite only · CEO-hosted
  30. 8:00 PM – 12:00 AM · Lisbon Pub Crawl — Departs venue · 3–4 bars · ends around midnight
  31. 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM · Morning Run- Self-organising · free · all welcome
  32. 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM · Doors Open
  33. 9:30 AM – 10:05 AM · Portuguese Unicorn Conversation — Unicorn Stage
  34. 9:55 AM – 10:25 AM · Fund II Lessons: What We Got Wrong and Why It Didn't Matter — Impact Stage
  35. 10:10 AM – 10:35 AM · What I Built With AI: A Founder's Honest Account — Unicorn Stage
  36. 10:35 AM – 11:00 AM · The Operator's Playbook: Scaling Without Losing the Culture — Impact
  37. 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM · The Pivot That Saved the Company — Unicorn Stage - Intimate Keynote
  38. 11:10 AM – 11:35 AM · Hardware Meets Software: The New Frontier of Deep Tech — Unicorn Stage
  39. 11:10 AM – 11:30 AM · The Moment I Almost Quit — And Why I Didn't — Impact Stage - Intimate Keynote
  40. 11:40 AM – 12:05 PM · Secondaries & Liquidity: The Hidden Part of the Market — Impact Stage

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