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Prime Time 2025 is coming!

Regional Finals: November 17-21

Global Finals: November 22

Registration coming soon

// Prime Time Is Our Time

This is when it gets really good

It’s when our global community discovers the kinds of new ideas we can only get when people from around the world come together online.

It’s opportunities, answers, and beginnings.

It’s six pitch competitions over two rounds with city winners and challengers representing five regions of the world, and one founder emerging as our global champion.

Join our livestreams to see our top founders compete!

And it’s all decided by YOUR VOTES!

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Competition

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Inspiration

INteraction

/ Why You’ll Love Prime Time

The six day series offers opportunities to connect with others from around the world, learn from experts, see exciting pitch competitions, and dive deeper into our global ecosystem.

  • Amazing new connections in the creative entrepreneurial space

  • Inspiration through hearing innovative startup visions and pitches

  • Insights into what you need to do next in your own journey

  • Access to world class products, services, and capital resources

  • A fun and unforgettable series!

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// How the Tournament Works

Step 1 - Qualifiers:
Vote for Prime Time Competitors

Phase 1:
City Winners

Founders Live hosts pitch competition events nearly every week of the year in 125+ cities and 50+ countries!

Our audience votes to decide 1 city winner at each event.

Phase 2:
Regional Finalists

Every six months, city winners compete online for audience votes to produce 20 top founders from each of our global regions:

Latin America • Europe • Asia Pacific • North America • Africa

Phase 3
Challengers!

Founders from anywhere in the world can enter the Prime Time Pitch Challenge where the audience votes for 1 winner from each global region to complete the set of 25 regional finalists.

Step 2 - Tournament:
The Prime Time Global Competition

Phase 4:
Regional Finals

November 17-21

Each day, the top 5 founders in a given region compete live, online.

The audience votes for 1 regional winner each day.

This creates 5 regional winners.

Phase 5:
Global Finals

November 22

The 5 regional winners compete live online.

The audience votes for 1 global winner.

This champion wins the Grand Prize!

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// Prime Time 2025 Schedule

Each day we livestream an exciting regional final, ending with our Global Finals and one global champion.

November 17
LATIN AMERICA

November 18
EUROPE

November 19
ASIA PACIFIC

November 20
NORTH AMERICA

November 21
AFRICA

November 22
GLOBAL FINALS

// Vote October 23 - November 10

Starting October 23, YOUR VOTES will determine who will pitch in each region’s finals.

Click a region below to find and watch the qualified pitches.

Finalists are the top-ranked videos in each region as of 23:59:59 UTC, November 10.

Watch and vote for as many as you'd like, but you can only vote once for each pitch!

/ Founders Live Global Regions

What’s Great About Prime Time

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Congratulations to our past winners:

Prime Time 2023

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Hear her experience
Watch the Recording

Prime Time 2024

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Read Wrap-up
Watch Replay

// Partner with Us

Get your brand in front of our enthusiastic and open-minded audience here to take in the world’s newest ideas while taking active steps to learn and network.

These are the customers you’ve been looking for.

We have all kinds of ways for you to show up for this global community (and we’re open to hearing your ideas, too).

Premium Brand Positioning

  • Partner for the Prime Time Pitch Challenge and/or Prime Time 2025 global tournament

  • Demo your product

  • Present in regional competition(s) +/or Global Finals

  • Headliner speaking opportunities

  • Appear in all event listings and promo emails

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