The world → Russia - the global 54-hour format, hosted here
Global format · Moscow, with Google for Startups● World → Russia
Techstars Startup Weekend
We organize Techstars Startup Weekend Moscow - the world’s 54-hour startup marathon, in partnership with Google for Startups. Friday you pitch an idea to strangers; Sunday your team demos a validated product to judges. When the world locked down we took it online in a weekend - the COVID-19 edition ran across all of Russia.
At a glance.
54 hours · themed verticals● Format
54h
Friday pitch → Sunday demo. Teams form on the spot.
● Tickets
Open
Students, standard & patron tiers - details on RSVP. Capped at ~120.
● Verticals
12
EDU, Maker, Youth, Sustainability, Health, Women, Social Innovation, FinTech, Food, Travel & more.
No talk. All action.
01
Friday - pitch
60 seconds, your idea, a room of strangers. The best ideas recruit their teams tonight.
02
Saturday - build
Customer development, mentors circling, an MVP taking shape by midnight.
03
Sunday - demo
Final pitches to real judges - validated learning, not theater.
04
Monday - continue
The best teams walk into Founders Coffee, the Intensive & the rest of the ecosystem.
§ Why it matters
A company in a weekend - or the truth in one.
Startup Weekend is the cheapest, fastest test of whether you actually like building - and whether your idea survives contact with customers. We’ve hosted Moscow’s weekends behind the yellow door for years, women-focused editions included; alumni feed straight into the Intensive.
● From an alum
“Friday I had a slide. Sunday I had a team, a prototype and our first three user interviews.”
- A weekend alum
● startupweekend.org · in partnership with Google for Startups
Give us a weekend. Leave with a company.
Developers, designers and the merely curious. Teams form on the spot.