P2S Newsletter #9: Work Hard - Event Harder
October is one of the most event-heavy months for startups. Make sure to make the most of it before being washed away by the diving in the spooky-scarry jingle bells tide.
Events. Fall 2025 🍂🗓
In P2S we do love events, both as attendees, and hosts. These gatherings just grab you out of the comfort zone, but in a good way. Looking to have a quality time in the company of innovators and disruptors?
Here’s a list of events we find worth visiting:
October 13-19 - SF Tech Week, San Francisco
https://www.tech-week.com/
October 15 - AI Summit, Barcelona
https://aisummitbarcelona.com/
October 27-29 - TechCrunch Disrupt, San Francisco
https://techcrunch.com/events/tc-disrupt-2025/
November 10-13 - WebSummit, Lisbon
https://websummit.com
November 19-20 - Slush, Helsinki
https://slush.org/
This week, we’ve got two interesting opportunities for you:
AI Startups Meetup & Pitching Session by P2S, Barcelona 🚀
📅 Date: October 14, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
📍 Location: HARBOUR.SPACE University of Technology
This Tuesday, October 14, join our AI Startups Meetup & Pitching Session in Barcelona, held as part of the AI SUMMIT BARCELONA
We’re bringing together founders, investors, and AI experts to explore real-world applications of artificial intelligence, new investment opportunities, and live startup pitches to top venture capital funds.
Join us for public talks and discussions, startup pitching, and quality networking with founders, investors, and industry experts.
As usual, participation is completely free, but registration and verification are required. Register via the link below 👇
Leap: Volume 2.0 🧑🚀
📅 Date: October 15, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Online
It’s the second edition of Leap - a high-intent, curated speed-dating event designed to spark conversations between exceptional pre-seed startups and top investors.
If you ever thought about where investors dwell, this is exactly the place to meet them. So here it is: 10 handpicked startups building in B2B SaaS and AI, and 10 pre-seed investors actively deploying capital.
Confirmed investors include :
🔹 Igor Ryabenkiy (AltaIR Capital) — Miro, Deel, PandaDoc, OpenWeb, Turing
🔹 Nikolay Kirpichnikov (AltaIR Capital, Smart Partnership Capital) — Ondato, Respond.io, eToro, PitchMe, AMMA
🔹 Alex Korchevskiy (I2BF Global Ventures) — ServiceTitan, Airalo, Nothing
🔹 Sergey Bogdanov (Yellow Rocks) — Buddy, Praktika AI, GPU Audio
🔹 Pavel Danilov (DYDX Capital) — Animol Discovery, Bruviti, Good Eggs
🔹 Chet Kumar (Argonautic Ventures) — Grab, SuperAnnotate, Procore, The Honest Company
🔹 George Lin (Halfcourt Capital) — Consensus, Rain AI, Jozu, Stochastic
🔹 Gary Benerofe (Mu Ventures) — Balance, Alloy, Videowise
🔹 Nemanja Kostic (BBQ Capital) - Coherence, Navi, Pipe
🔹 Martin Tobias (Incisive Ventures) — 2x IPO CEO, founder of LoudEye ($175M raised) and Upgrade Labs, now a pre-seed investor with 70+ portfolio companies, including Zapier, Carta, and UiPath.
This event is invite-only. Submit your applications ASAP below 👇!
P2S VC Friends and Partners: Flashpoint VC 🔦
Proud for our colleagues from Flashpoint VC! The fund, which invested in Shazam, Chess.com, and Guesty, led a €6M Series A round for Vidext - a Spanish startup, redefining its business process automation.
Congrats with a great new member of your portfolio, guys!
If you’re a podcasts junkie, make sure to check Flashpoint’s recent podcast with Michael Szalontay, Managing Partner at Flashpoint Direct Secondary Fund, and Mark Walter, Partner at Michael Macfarlane Associates!
Forget “Love, Marry, Kill” - in startup it’s “Survive, Scale, or Sell: The Future of Venture and Liquidity”! The issue is live on:
Pitch&Drink. October 27 - TechCrunch Disrupt, November 10 - Web Summit 🎤&🍾
Pitch&Drink speed-dating events by P2S.vc are nights when founders and investors meet under one roof to pitch, network and chat over a drink.
Here’s the format:
Venture (founders & investors) speed dating. You’ll have 2–3 minutes to present your elevator pitch (no presentation) directly to the investor, followed by a 6-7 minute Q&A session. After 10 minutes the gong sounds and the founders change their place.
This fall, we’re hosting two Pitch&Drinks during the most prominent Tech events: TechCrunch Disrupt and Web Summit!
Pitch&Drink. TechCrunch Disrupt
📅 Date: October 27, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Registration: https://luma.com/ubkt9j1q
Pitch&Drink. Web Summit
📅 Date: November 10, 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM GMT
📍 Location: Lisbon
Registration: https://luma.com/44yyxn3v
Pro Tip: After you’ve been accepted to the event, check out who’s attending it with you in Luma - even a few details about who’s going will make your networking much more productive!
Web Summit 🤝
This Web Summit is gonna be HOT!
November 12, 2025, Lisbon - join an exclusive half-day workshop for early-stage founders looking to refine their execution, avoid common pitfalls, and receive live pitch feedback from top VC Igor Ryabenkiy (AltaIR).
Limited to just 50 participants, the event offers practical insights on scaling strategies, an interactive masterclass, and a live pitching session with Q&A, plus time for networking with fellow innovators in fintech, SaaS, digital health, and future-of-work sectors. Apply by November 9, 2025 to secure your spot.
Apply here: https://forms.gle/REjSFhVskpCih6HB7
Also, we’re proud Igor Ryabenkiy joins Web Summit as a speaker! November 13, at 10.45 AM head to stage 8 for a keynote: Your deck looks great, but does your startup?
Keynote: https://websummit.com/sessions/lis25/ba701c50-23fe-43c7-8780-c498ad705004/your-deck-looks-great-but-does-your-startup/
Portfolio startups in Media 📰:
A new research by the P2S portfolio company Litero AI, goes live in Silicon Valley Journal! The study reveals that nearly 70% of educators across the U.S., Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand are restricting how students can use AI tools in class.Read a new piece via the link! A very timely topic, we must say. If you want to find out how teachers are navigating institutional AI policies, check out the survey via the link.
https://siliconvalleysjournal.com/2025/10/08/litero-ai-survey-ais-double-standard-in-higher-ed/
Headlines about layoffs are everywhere, but when Google recently cut 200 AI-training roles at GlobalLogic, it hit differently. It felt less like another round of layoffs and more like a signal. Is AI pushing its creators out the door? Or is there something else, a post-COVID tech hiring mania deflating faster than expected? In a new piece, Alex Chepovoi, CEO and co-founder tried to find the answers.
https://gritdaily.com/global-work-it-workers-losing-the-battle-with-ai/
