Road 2 Web Summit
The R2WS is a program organised by Startup Portugal and Web Summit that selects the best young startups to represent Portugal at the biggest tech event in the world. To support this participation it also provides intensive preparation in a 2 day Bootcamp that includes topics such as how to navigate the app and how the event will work, how to approach investors, which goals to set for the event or how to pitch accordingly. Currently, in its 6th edition, the program has already supported more than 700 startups.

Check the 2022 R2WS startups
Startup Portugal selected 100 Portuguese-based startups to represent the country’s ecosystem at Web Summit.
Benefits
Apply for the 2022 edition of Road 2 Web Summit to:
- be part of the group that will represent Portugal at the Web Summit;
- participate in the bootcamp that will take place in October;
- get your Alpha Pack for the Web Summit with a 50% discount;
- be eligible for a full discount in case you’re an afro-descendant, woman, Ukrainian or Impact startup founder*.
*25 Startups within at least one of this criteria will be eligible for free Alpha Packs.
To be eligible, startups and companies must:
- at a minimum, be launched and live with its own working website.
- have a developed brand – at minimum, a logo in EPS format.
- have its own unique software product or solutions, or must be working on its own connected hardware devices.
- be an independent company and not a subsidiary of a larger organization.
- have a valid Portuguese VAT (NIPC) number.
Startup Portugal and Web Summit will give priority to startups that have never participated in R2WS.
Disclaimer: Startup Portugal and Web Summit are unable to refund and thus accept in the program companies that have already acquired Alpha program access for Web Summit 2022.
Read the full Terms & Conditions of R2WS 2022.
About Web Summit
In the words of Inc Magazine “Web Summit is the largest technology conference in the world”. Forbes says Web Summit is “the best tech conference on the planet”, Bloomberg calls it “Davos for geeks”, Politico “the Olympics of tech”, and the Guardian “Glastonbury for geeks”.
More about Web Summit at websummit.com