European Student Startups

Europe's leading Angel and Venture Funding platform exclusively for students and recent graduates.

European Student Startups is the largest pan-European Angel and Seed Funding platform exclusively for students. ESS was founded on the belief that internal startup competitions at most universities are unable to get the right caliber of applications needed for venture investors to consider attending, and thus student startups can miss out on getting the exposure and investment their ideas may deserve. Therefore, we built a platform that connects Europe’s top Student startup competitions, to find Europe’s most exciting student start ups, and provide them a unique platform to pitch to 100 renowned angel investors and VCs. Those who don't make it to our demo-day still recieve valuable feedback from experienced Venture Capital Investors. In 2017, ESS had 300 + startup applications from 20+ countries across Europe, the majority being finalists at an internal startup competition at their university. ESS 2017 had VC's from Balderton Capital, Smedvig Capital, Oxford Capital, Downing Ventures, Catalyst Founders, Nauta Capital, Mosaic Ventures, Dreamstake Ventures and McKinsey Ventures assisting as advisers/attending our event. Currently, we are working closely with leading student run Venture Funds, and consultants from McKinsey & Co. to build the first pan-European student run Venture Capital fund.