Balkonnect Festival 2025 - B2B Matchmaking Event

The Balkonnect Pitching Event is an exciting opportunity for ambitious entrepreneurs to showcase their innovative ideas, attract funding, and propel their businesses to success.

Serving as a crucial milestone in their business journey, this event opens doors to potential investors-including business angels (BAs), venture capitalists (VCs), financing institutions, and startup accelerators. A well-crafted pitch effectively conveys the value proposition of the business while demonstrating the founder's passion, vision, and ability to execute.

Beyond fostering innovation, competition, and creativity, the pitching session also serves as a catalyst for strategic partnerships and growth opportunities on an international scale.

The opened call for pitching expression of interests will be working on selecting the most attractive, business-sound ideas and make them ready pitching in front of the investors. The research based business ideas, their captivating stories,their traction and validation evidences, the scalable business models, the impact and distinguishing way ahead indicators are critical to the process of preparing highy, ready to invest presentations.

There will be a 15 min presentation by each pitching selected business, while 50 % of the selected pitching businesses will be local ones from the hosting country (in this round, it is Kosovo) and the rest of 50 % will come from other Western Balkan countries.