Angel Investors
Smart money, shared experience.
Successful entrepreneurs who invest not only their capital but also their expertise. Angels bring both financial and educational value to early-stage teams, mentoring founders while backing them.
Investors
Meet your next portfolio company.
SSS brings angels and VC funds into an intimate seaside camp with screened, deal-ready startups — for 7 days of intensive, face-to-face deal-making.
Why Invest
Five reasons investors keep coming back.
Since 2016, SSS has fostered intensive deal-making in an informal setting — bringing angels, VC funds and founders together where human relationships, not pitch decks, close the deal.
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15–20%
acceptance rate
Curated deal flow
Every team at the camp has cleared a screening process — only 15–20% of applicants are accepted. You meet startups that have already passed a threshold, not an open inbox.
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1,700
startup teams hosted
A decade of vetted startups
Across thirteen editions the platform has hosted over 1,700 startup teams operating across the trendiest industries and technologies. The pipeline is deep and continuously refreshed.
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$5M
raised by SSS startups
Proven co-investment
SSS startups have raised more than $5,000,000 in investments and shared a $650,000 prize fund. You invest alongside an active network of angels and VC funds, not in isolation.
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$100K
in-house fund tickets
An in-house fund beside you
Booster-stage startups can secure up to $100K in investment commitments from the SSS in-house fund. Co-invest on warm, pre-qualified terms with the organizers at the table.
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60+
countries represented
A genuinely global room
Founders, mentors and investors from more than 60 countries share the same tents, campfires and Startup Battles for seven immersive days. Connections here are built, not exchanged.
Who invests
Two kinds of capital. One camp.
The summit attracts two types of investors — and there is more than one way to get in the room with the startups.
Venture Capital Funds
Institutional capital and reach.
Companies — backed by well-off investors, investment banks and other financial institutions — that finance startups with growth potential. VCs may also contribute technical or managerial expertise beyond a monetary ticket.
Three ways to get involved
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By invitation
Angels and VCs invited directly by the hosting organization to join deal-making at the camp.
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Indirect involvement
Speakers, mentors and other ecosystem players who invest while contributing to the programme.
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Investor Pass
Buy an Investor Pass for full access to the startups, Startup Battles and the wider network.
How it works · 04 stations
From first invitation to signed term sheet.
Investing at SSS is a four-station journey — from reserving your seat to closing deals around the campfire.
Station 01 / 04 Reserve your seat
Request an invitation or secure an Investor Pass. Tell us your thesis, ticket size and the industries you want to see at the camp.
Station 02 / 04 Get matched to the tracks
We map your focus to the relevant Starter and Booster educational tracks so the teams you meet fit your mandate from day one.
Station 03 / 04 Watch the Startup Battles
Sit on or beside an independent jury as finalists compete for a $1,500–$10,000 prize fund — the clearest signal of who is ready to scale.
Station 04 / 04 Close at the campfire
Seven days of tents, kitchens and campfires turn introductions into trust. Deal-making happens on-site, off-site and well after the summit ends.
Station 00 · Start here
Tell us your investment thesis.
Request an invitation or an Investor Pass and our team will map you to the right startups before you arrive.
Track record
The returns speak for themselves.
$5M
raised by participating startups
$650K
prize fund provided to date
1,700
startup teams across 13 editions
60+
countries represented
Success story
SuperAnnotate
From a Sevan Startup Summit win to a global AI leader.
In 2018, brothers Tigran and Vahan Petrosyan brought an early idea for AI data annotation to the summit — and won first place. The win brought Granatus Ventures’ first investment. The founders left their PhD programs, moved back to Yerevan, and built the company, soon joining Berkeley SkyDeck and relocating their HQ to Silicon Valley.
“From Start through Struggle to Success” — proven.
The journey
- 2018Won 1st place at Sevan Startup Summit
- 2018First investment — Granatus Ventures
- 2019Berkeley SkyDeck, then Silicon Valley HQ
- TodayIndustry leader in AI data annotation
$50M raised · 200+ companies
Clients include Databricks & Canva