The Brand · The Heat
Real founders. Real unicorns. No wannabe business. Build the next billion-dollar company in the land of Tesla.
Five categories. One hundred stages. Seven days of elimination. One champion. Live audience votes shoulder-to-shoulder with an investor jury. Not corporate. College tournament for founders who go all-in.
Every guest at the conference becomes a potential micro-investor. Through the $PEDAL token, part of the pitch valuations and the prize pool flow into a shared pool — and your ticket becomes your first cap table.
Founders get a structured on-ramp to capital. Guests get upside. The first conference model where everyone is in the game.
A new skyline rising on two rivers. Belgrade Waterfront, the EXPO 2027 grounds, a tech corridor that's hiring faster than any other capital in the region. Twenty-four-seven energy, cafés that turn into co-working spaces, founders who hustle from a balcony with a Danube view.
We didn't pick Belgrade for tradition. We picked it because this is where the next generation of European founders is going to land — and we're getting there first.
We're taking over the brand-new EXPO 2027 complex — pavilions, geodesic dome, open-air amphitheater, lake-side stages. One ticket, one campus, one weekend. Built for spectacle.
The largest startup campus on Earth, an unbothered environment, every condition for rapid innovation. We invented a new discipline — RID.
RAD was for software. RID is for startups. From idea to first paying user — while the competition is still arguing about slide 3 of their deck.
Don't worry about anything except shipping the idea. Nomad visa built for startup founders — affordable life, serious ecosystem, a city that doesn't sleep and loves people who work.
We handle paperwork, banking, taxes, office, studio, mentors, events. You drive the idea.
Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan in 1856 — and changed how humanity uses electricity. Now we're bringing innovation back home. Not as a story — as a plan.
Founders who don't ask for permission. The ones who go all-in. This is our inspiration wall — the energy we want on our stage.
* Inspiration wall. The lines under each name are our original conference framing — they are NOT quotes attributed to the named individuals.
We didn't book speakers in shirts. We booked headliners. After every pitch day, the stage flips and the city ignites.
* Photos and full lineup announcements coming with each ticket drop.
Stage, sound, people building the next billion-dollar companies. Festival-energy level, not hotel-conference "wine reception". Founder writes code in the morning, writes history at night.
Geographically in the heart of Europe. Time-wise halfway between Silicon Valley and Shanghai. Politically neutral. A tech ecosystem that's exploding. Founder from Lagos, San Francisco or Tokyo — land and ignite.