Sixty seconds to change your company.
Palooza is the global elevator-pitching championship — where bold founders meet the world's most active investors on a single, electric stage.
Investors in the room
Ninety seconds inside the room.
What a Palooza night actually feels like — captured by the founders who made it onto the stage.
A pitch built like a punchline.
One stage. One spotlight. One minute. The sharpest 60 seconds of your life — followed by a room full of capital.
Apply
Submit your venture in a single sentence. Curators select 30 founders per city — no warm intros required.
Train
Three weeks of intensive pitch coaching with veteran operators and stage directors. We sharpen the hook until it lands.
Pitch
60 seconds, live, in front of 200+ investors and press. The room decides — and meetings start in the bar afterwards.
The shortest path between an idea and a term sheet.
We don't run a conference. We run a championship — engineered to compress months of investor intros into a single, decisive evening.
- Curated by operatorsSelection led by ex-founders, not gatekeepers.
- Twelve cities, one leagueLondon, NYC, Lisbon, Dubai, Singapore, SF and more.
- Built for momentumDemo-day energy, without the demo-day fatigue.
Season 04, on the road.
Twelve cities. Six continents. One league table.
The rooms we've filled.
We don't do hotel ballrooms. Every Palooza takes over a venue with a story — and turns it into a stage worth pitching from.
Battersea Power Station
An iconic industrial cathedral turned pitch arena. 30 founders, 220 investors, four cast-iron chimneys watching from above.
See the recapThe receipts, unfiltered.
No press release polish. Just what founders said the morning after their 60 seconds.
I closed our seed round in the bar after the show. Palooza is what every demo day pretends to be.
Sixty seconds taught me more about my own company than six months of decks.
We left London with three term sheets. The format is ruthless and it works.
Questions, answered.
Everything founders ask before stepping on the Palooza stage. Still curious? Drop us a line.
Ask us anythingWho can apply?+
Pre-seed through Series A founders building venture-scale companies. Curators select 30 founders per city — no warm intros required.
What does it cost?+
Free for selected founders. Investors and partners support the league so the stage stays open to the best ideas, not the biggest budgets.
Do I need slides?+
No slides on stage. Just you, the mic, and 60 seconds. Our coaches help you sharpen the hook until every word lands.
What happens after the pitch?+
Selected founders enter the Palooza Network — direct intros to the investors who attended the show, plus alumni for life.
How long is the program?+
Three weeks of intensive prep, one electric night on stage, and a 90-day post-show window of curated investor introductions.
Can my co-founder pitch with me?+
One founder takes the mic — but the team is welcome on the night. We optimise the pitch for a single voice and a single story.
Your turn under the spotlight.
Applications take five minutes. If your company can be explained in a sentence, we want to hear it on stage.
- Three weeks of 1:1 pitch coaching
- Live stage in front of 200+ investors
- Lifetime access to the Palooza Network