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A community of students and young builders who start their own projects, together.

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Students on cushions and benches with laptops open during the 2026 hackathon, one team showing a demo
Hackathon 2026
Group photo of the START Barcelona team and the Road to START Summit 2026 juries on stage
the people

Nobody should build alone.

Most ideas don't fail. They never start, or they stall when you're working on them by yourself. Here you stop putting it off: people who show up, build next to each other and keep each other going.

why people join

“To finally start the project I kept putting off.”

“To not build alone.”

START Sprint.

Three weeks. Build your own project. Demo Day on 9 December.

How you join START Barcelona. Build alone or in a team, with workshops, a teambuilding weekend and a public Demo Day. After that, you're part of the community.

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How the Sprint works

  1. 4 NovApplications close
  2. 5–7 NovInterviews
  3. 8 NovOnboarding Day
  4. 9–29 NovThree build weeks
  5. 9 DecDemo Day

What we run.

Pitch nights, hackathons, investor evenings and startup visits, all year round. Plus Barcelona's qualifiers for START Summit and START Hack.

Panel of five on stage at Road to START Summit 2026 in front of a full room, speakers from Tether, EIT Urban Mobility and TORCH on the screen behind them
Road to START Summit 2026

Road to START Summit

Our pitching competition. Student startups pitch to investors and founders, and the winners pitch again at START Summit in St. Gallen.

The winning team holding a 'Winner' cheque next to a Microsoft banner
Hackathon with Microsoft & N26

Road to START Hack

Our hackathon, built around real challenges from partners. The winning team goes on to START Hack in St. Gallen.

  • Investor Nights

    Small evenings with VCs and angels about the real bets, and the ones that went wrong.

  • LaunchLab

    Hands-on workshops that take an idea from problem to prototype.

  • Startup visits

    Behind the scenes at Barcelona startups. Meet the teams, see how they work.

  • Network and private events

    Members-only nights, visits from other START chapters and trips to St. Gallen.

No stock photos.

Hackathon nights, pitch finals, LaunchLab, the onboarding weekend in the hills. All ours.

  • Selfie of smiling members around a table after Road to START Summit
    after the final
  • A team pitching on stage to a full room, 'The Celte solution' on the screen
    startup pitch
  • Participants sitting on the wooden steps under the Swiss Business School sign
  • A participant pointing at a whiteboard full of notes in the early morning
    5am brainstorming
  • Back of a navy t-shirt reading '100% startie, beyond borders, network', people talking around it
    100% startie
  • Digicam photo of the LaunchLab panel, three speakers on high stools in front of the slide
  • A laptop, a camera, a microphone and printed run sheets on a wooden table
    the setup
  • Four investors on a sofa panel under a 'Meet the investors' slide, a poster reading 'It's not a dumb idea' on the wall
    investors night
  • The whole group jumping and posing on a lawn in the hills next to the START Barcelona banner
    onboarding weekend

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Part of the START network.

START Global is the student network behind START Summit and START Hack, two of Europe's biggest student entrepreneurship events. Chapters across Europe and Latin America, one community.

Barcelona St. Gallen

every March, the whole network meets there

startglobal.org

  • Barcelona
  • Berlin
  • Bogotá
  • Hamburg
  • Helsinki
  • Innsbruck
  • Lausanne
  • Lima
  • Lisbon
  • London
  • Maastricht
  • Mexico City
  • Milano
  • Munich
  • Nuremberg
  • Paris
  • Quito
  • São Paulo
  • St. Gallen
  • Stuttgart
  • Vaduz
  • Vienna
  • Warsaw

Work with us.

We bring companies, startups and investors closer to Barcelona's universities. We're a non-profit, so everything goes back into the community.

  • Bring a real challenge to our hackathon
  • Speak at a workshop or sit on a jury
  • Host us for a build day or a company visit
  • Sponsor an event or Demo Day
  • Meet people for your team
Write to us
The Road to START Hack 2026 winners with the jury in front of the hackathon screen and a START Barcelona banner
Road to START Hack 2026

we've built with

  • Microsoft
  • N26
  • REVER
  • EWOR
  • Lovable
  • Bcombinator

and many founders and investors who speak, judge and mentor.

Let's START something.

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