HUMANBULB has partnered with Startup World Cup to organize multiple regional competitions in 2024 in the US and internationally…including Sacramento Regional taking place on September 23rd at The North Natomas Community Center

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!

GLOBAL GRAND FINALE IN SAN FRANCISCO

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