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A non-formal camp setting where founders, investors, mentors, and teams build trust as people first.
Born in Armenia. Connected to the world.
A startup summit where real relationships are built.
Next Startup Summit
Summer 2026
Armenia flagship
052Days
12Hours
32Minutes
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What is SSS?
Not a conference. A living startup camp.
Seaside Startup Summit is an immersive, non-formal startup camp where people live, learn, compete, relax, and connect beyond artificial roles. The camp setup is not a decoration; it is the product — it creates the conditions where people drop the polished conference version of themselves and build trust faster.
The four pillars
Everything the summit is built on.
Learn
Practical workshops, mentorship, talks, and squad work guided by operators and ecosystem experts.
Win
Startup battles, visibility, prizes, investor access, and the confidence that comes from pressure-tested work.
Have Fun
Shared meals, campfires, music, sport, and informal moments that make relationships last beyond the event.
How it works
A 7-day event flow that reveals itself step by step.
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Educational tracks
Booster programme
Startup battles
Mentorship sessions
Workshops & masterclasses
Panel discussions
Campfire talks
Community activities
Day 1Arrival & onboarding
Check in, meet your squad, understand the camp.
Participants arrive, settle into the campsite, meet team leads, get oriented, and start forming the trust layer that makes the format work.
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Days 2-4Education & acceleration
Workshops, mentors, masterclasses, and focused build time.
The middle of the summit is designed for learning and iteration: educational tracks, practical sessions, mentorship, and founder work blocks.
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Days 5-6Battles & pressure testing
Startup battles, investor feedback, visibility, and prizes.
Teams move from learning into competition: pitches, feedback, investor access, track battles, and public moments that create momentum.
Startup battlesInvestor meetingsPanel discussionsPrize moments
Day 7Checkout & next steps
Close the camp, keep the relationships moving.
The final day turns camp energy into follow-up: wrap-up, checkout, contacts, community handoff, and the first steps after the summit.
Wrap-upCheckoutFollow-up plansCommunity handoff
Participation
Find your place at Seaside Startup Summit.
Every role at SSS has a seat, a purpose, and a badge to prove it.
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Why it works
The value is the setup.
SSS creates an environment where people remove their artificial self. Living, debating, competing, eating, celebrating, and solving problems together turns networking into real human connection.
Impact
The impact of the format.
Across flagship summits and international side events, SSS has brought together startup teams, mentors, investors, guests, and partners through a format designed for trust, learning, and long-term ecosystem relationships.
8+
Years of activity
A format tested across flagship summits, side events, and community programs.
1,200+
Startup teams
Teams passing through education, mentorship, battles, and ecosystem exposure.
800+
Mentors, speakers & investors
Experienced operators, investors, and ecosystem leaders working directly with teams.
50+
Countries represented
A community with participation across Armenia, the region, and international markets.
9+
Event editions
Flagship Armenia summits and international formats shaped around the SSS concept.
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Core pillars
Connect, Learn, Win, and Have Fun as the structure behind the experience.
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Gallery
See the summit in motion.
The SSS format is easiest to understand through moments: startup battles, mentor tables, camp life, campfire talks, and informal community time.
Camp lifeMentorshipStartup battlesCampfire talksCommunityFunArmenia
Camp life
Living together changes the conversation
Mentorship
Mentors work directly with teams
Startup battles
Teams pitch, compete, and get challenged
Campfire talks
Informal talks create real trust
Community
People connect beyond roles
Fun
The shared experience makes it memorable
Armenia
The flagship summit belongs to Armenia
Real moments from Seaside Startup Summit editions across camp life, talks, battles, and community.
Explore past eventsFootprint
Born in Armenia. Active across startup geographies.
The flagship summit happens every year in Armenia. Around the flagship, SSS has built side events, partner activities, and formats that connect startup communities internationally.
Flagship hostSide event hostParticipant geography·Click a host country to see its event origins
participants across all years, by host country
Events
Past editions prove the format. The next edition moves people to action.
Explore the flagship camp at Lake Sevan, international editions, and the next summit founders can apply to now.
Lake Sevan
Armenia flagship
The original campsite summit format by Lake Sevan, where founders, mentors, investors, and ecosystem builders live the programme together.
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UAE, India and more
International side events
Regional editions and holiday formats that take the SSS experience into new startup markets and partner ecosystems.
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Armenia 2026
Upcoming summit
The next flagship edition returns to Lake Sevan with applications open for startup teams ready to join the camp.
View upcomingVoices from SSS
What people say when they come back.
The clearest signal of a format that works is the people who keep returning — as founders, mentors, investors, and community members.
I have seen so many summits in my life and I've been into big events, however this location and this model is one of the best I've ever seen.
RB
Rafi Baghdjian
CEO at IDeA Foundation
This summit is created by entrepreneurs totally for entrepreneurs.
JL
Jesus Lozano
EU Innovation Expert
This summit forces you to focus just on your startup. It's good opportunity to step back and reflect on the bigger picture.
VK
Vahe Kuzoyan
President & Co-Founder at ServiceTitan
Here you can come to learn, to experience, to exchange and to grow.
VS
Victor Stephanopoli
COO at MzansiSat
It is like a melting pot for entrepreneurs to come together with a single objective how can we be more successful.
JJ
Jimmy Jain
Member at Forbes Coaches Council
Seaside Startup Summit is Woodstock for entrepreneurs.
AS
Armen Sarkissian
President of Armenia
SSS not only realize dreams by creating an exceptional event but make promising entrepreneurs go further into the directions of their dreams.
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Manfred Kastner
VE Vision Education GmbH
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There's a place
for you at SSS.
Whether you are a startup, mentor, investor, or community member — there is a place for you at SSS.
Partners
Built with ecosystem partners across editions.
Every summit and location has its own partner mix, so the homepage should show the wider SSS network instead of fixed partner tiers.
Interested in partnering?
We shape partner visibility around the specific event, country, and audience.
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