Celebrating 10 years of 4YFN

While GSMA MWC Barcelona has long welcomed the biggest and most established names in the connectivity ecosystem, MWC is also home to one of Europe’s leading startup events – 4YFN.

Over the years, 4YFN has convened thousands of founders, startups and investors from around the world. And this year 4YFN celebrates a special milestone – its 10th anniversary edition!

4YFN has driven a decade of impact for the digital startup ecosystem during this period, connecting over 9,200 founders with 5,400 investors and welcoming over 4,500 exhibitors and 180,000 attendees.

For the first time, 4YFN will take place across two halls – Halls 8.0 and 8.1 – featuring four networking spaces and seven stages that will host the founders and investors disrupting the global startup scene for four days of keynotes, fireside chats, roundtables and pitching competitions.

We cannot wait to welcome over 800 exhibitors and 350 speakers for this year’s event, which returns bigger and better than ever before in celebration of 10 years of 4YFN. 4YFN features a packed agenda focused around our six event themes including the Age of AI, Growth, Startup Funding, Corporate Innovation, Art of Innovation, Decentralisation & beyond.

As you might expect at our event dedicated to startups, we will have a programme that helps investors to meet the next big thing as well as one focused on founders and empowering business mavericks. We have also got programmes focused on Digital Health, Green Tech, FinTech, impact for positive change and one that celebrates academic innovation with a university and spin-off programme.

Each programme will host its own on-stage pitching competition, welcoming five early-stage companies from the field to pitch their proposition to a live audience and panel of judges consisting of specialised investors.

CT Bureau