Expand North Star 2025

Expand North Star 2025 celebrates its tenth edition, consolidating its position as a global event with business impact. Since its inception, it has established itself as a key meeting point for innovation and business growth, connecting entrepreneurs with investment opportunities and international expansion.

The event brings together founders, venture capital investors, and technology leaders from around the world to close business deals, attract investment, expand their networks, and share valuable knowledge.

This year, the event incorporates new thematic zones designed to highlight the industries shaping the future. From climate tech and fintech to marketing innovation and startup scaling, these “power tracks” offer curated access to trends, technologies, and global thought leaders.

Some of the highlighted areas of this edition include:

• Global Market Spotlight. A showcase of opportunities to uncover market gaps and regulatory frameworks in regions such as Africa, Asia, LATAM, Europe, and MENA, guided by local ecosystem leaders.
• Deep Tech Day. A journey through advances in space, biotechnology, and quantum computing. Explore how science and business intersect to redefine the most disruptive industries of the future.
• Tech Transfer Innovation. A space dedicated to how laboratory innovations turn into real businesses. From intellectual property to investment, it connects research with entrepreneurship in deep tech.
• CMO & Creative Tech Summit. A marketing and technology gathering to explore engagement strategies, creativity, and customer experience alongside CMOs and innovative brand leaders.
• 10X Summit. A space where founders and investors share real stories, failures, and key funding insights—from AI to climate technologies—spotlighting future unicorns and global capital flows.
• Corporate Innovation & Venture Summit. A platform for collaboration between startups and large corporations through open innovation, pilots, and co-creation of technological solutions.
• Green Impact. Focused on climate technology and ESG finance. This track explores how founders, policymakers, and investors are driving sustainable innovation and scaling green projects globally.

The 2024 edition gathered over 73,000 attendees, 1,733 startups, 1,000 investors, and 650 speakers from more than 100 countries.