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One of Our Most Famous Events is Back! Get Ready for the Reverse Pitch Event 2025

📅 June 12, 2025 | 🕕 17:30–22:00 | 📍 Vlny Štvanice, Prague

Forget what you know about pitching.
At Startup Grilling, investors are the ones in the hot seat – literally.

This is the 3rd edition of our iconic summer BBQ event where the tables turn: investors pitch to a jury of startup founders, while the grill is sizzling and the drinks are flowing.


🍖 Who's getting grilled this year?

We’re excited to announce the first confirmed investors who’ll pitch on stage while handling the flames:


👩‍⚖️ Meet the Jury:

This year’s investors will be grilled by a jury of hands-on startup founders:

Expect direct questions about strategy, traction, and real execution. No sugar-coating.


📍 New Location: Vlny Štvanice

This year, we’re moving to a new venue right by the river, next to Prague’s startup hub – Karlín.
Vlny Štvanice offers a laid-back summer atmosphere perfect for grilling, chilling, and serious networking.


💥 What’s on the menu?

  • 🔥 Reverse Pitch stage

  • 🧑‍💼 Curated guest list of 150+ founders, investors & ecosystem leaders

  • 🍹 Drinks & snacks (including veggie options)

  • 🏐 Beach volleyball (optional - showers on site)

  • 🪵 Fire pits with marshmallows & Czech-style sausages

  • ✨ Big summer vibes & last networking before the break


PROGRAM:

  • 17:30 – Doors Open

  • 18:10 – Welcome

  • 18:15 – Introduction of Jury & Format

  • 18:20 – 🔥 VC1 Grilling & Jury Q&A: Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital

  • 18:28 – 🔥 VC2 Grilling & Jury Q&A: 3VC

  • 18:35 – 🔥 VC3Grilling & Jury Q&A: PurposeTech

  • 18:40 – 🔥 VC4 Grilling & Jury Q&A: Tensor Ventures

  • 18:50 – Food, Networking, Beach Volleyball


🍴 What else is available on-site?

  • A food truck offering warm meals and extra snacks for purchase throughout the evening

  • Bar service with drinks available all night

  • A laid-back summer vibe by the river – stay as long as you like and make the most of it


🤝 Powered by our partners – without whom this event wouldn’t be possible:

  • 3VC – backing fast-growing tech companies from DACH & CEE with a focus on execution and product excellence.

  • ⁠Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital – an early-stage venture capital firm from Luxembourg investing in ambitious founders across Europe, with a sharp focus on purpose-driven innovation and long-term partnerships.

  • PurposeTech – a specialized Czech pre-seed fund investing in solutions within health, climate, and education/future of work.

  • Tensor Ventures – a deep tech VC fund supporting bold founders building transformative technologies in AI, robotics, advanced materials, and beyond.

Location
Vlny Štvanice - riversurfing a divoká voda
ostrov Štvanice 944, 170 00 Praha 7-Holešovice, Czechia
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