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If you're a FutureTravel subscriber, we know you care about the people driving innovation in this industry - this is our whole thing.

I truly have a soft spot for the people building things in travel from scratch. Every week we cover their stories here, but once a year, we get to do something different: we select 10 of them to go on stage.

Building in this industry is hard enough, and we think they might as well get an opportunity to show what they’re working on without

This year we had hundreds of startups apply for the Pitch Competition, and the team was hoping the evaluation process would get easier year after year. But well… going through all of them and narrowing it down to 10 is just… really hard. I mean that.

There's a lot of talent out there right now! But I can’t read another deck that starts with “travel is broken”

At the FutureTravel Summit, each finalist gets a few minutes to pitch to the audience and to a jury of investors, who'll pick one winner. That startup takes home a prize package worth €150K in credits from our partners Cloudflare, ElevenLabs, HubSpot for Startups, Notion, and simpleshow by D-ID.

But if I'm honest, the pitch competition is just one part of why I love this day. The room fills up with founders, executives, innovators, and investors who are building what this industry is going to look like in a few years. If you care about where travel is headed, this is where you want to be :)

Okay, no more keeping you waiting. Click here to see the 10 startups pitching on stage at this year's FutureTravel Summit.

The content of this newsletter is curated and published by Ana Metz, an innovation expert, passionate about technology and excited about the future of travel.

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