- That was the case for the small team organizing Polar Bear Pitching, a startup event hosted in the Arctic, not far from the North Pole.
- Leap Day, February 29th in 2024 saw the return of Polar Bear Pitching, the unique startup event invented and organised in Oulu since 2014.
- Polar Bear Pitching is perhaps the most extreme form of startup pitch competition where participants withstand sub-zero temperatures to win €10,000.
- Polar Bear Pitching gathers hundreds of participants from around the world every year to Oulu, an innovative city in Northern Finland.
- tech.eu visited Oulu, Finland, for this year’s Polar Bear Pitching, one of the more unique startup pitching competitions. But is it just a big novelty? […]
- For benchmarking check out CityFalcon, which raised the bigger part of its 0.5m Pounds funding with the clip from Polar Bear Pitching 2017.
- In addition to the actual content the pitch got high points for being extremely entertaining - Virta's representatives used each other's backs as canvases.
- Polar Bear Pitching is famous for its finals, where entrepreneurs pitch from a hole, carved in the frozen Baltic sea.
- the wearables industry to have a TAM of $931.3bn and a CAGR of 33.9%. Polar Bear Pitching saw the company represented by its three lead partners.