A startup village that's full on opening day.
Sesamers scouts, sells, finances and runs a curated startup area inside your show. Your brand, your floor plan, our pipeline - and no half-empty pavilion.
Most startup areas fail for the same three reasons.
Your team sells square metres to corporates on 12-month cycles. Startups buy pipeline, investors and proof - six weeks out.
The area is announced 6 weeks before the show. Founders plan 2–3 quarters ahead. You're selling to people who've already spent the budget.
Each edition restarts from zero. Nobody keeps the alumni, the applicants, the runners-up.
The cheapest line on your P&L becomes the most expensive one: an empty village, a cancelled programme, and a story your exhibitors remember.
One branded home for startups - delivered end to end.
A village is not a discount booth package. It's a programme: curated companies, a reason for buyers and investors to walk there, and a sales motion built for founders.
25,000 startups scouted a year, selected for your verticals, buyers and geography.
Dedicated sales team, multi-channel outreach starting 6–9 months out.
Buy-now-pay-later on the booth - the #1 objection removed at checkout.
Turnkey stands, onboarding, pitch stage, matchmaking. Your team stays on the main floor.
Ten years of villages, boosters and investor days.
The programmes we run or have run, and what each one proves. Ask for the per-show breakdown on the call.
Being recognized by the JEC jury - composed of industry leaders - proves that our approach has the potential to truly disrupt how structures are built.
From signed to sold out in three phases.
Design
Positioning, pricing, package, layout, targets per vertical. Application page live on app.sesamers.com.
Sell
Scouting + outbound + community + media to 35k readers. Weekly pipeline report to you.
Run
Onboarding, stands, pitch stage, buyer & investor tours. Post-show: NPS and renewals for next edition.
Commission on sales - no sales, no commission.
JEC World: from startup area to acquisition engine.
The world's largest composites show runs its startup ecosystem with Sesamers: Startup Booster (200+ applications, 20 finalists, €25k prize), a 50+ startup village, and JEC Investor Day since 2025. Each brick feeds the others - finalists become next year's exhibitors.
We write about this market every week.
The sales engine runs on the same desk that covers Europe's events for 50k monthly readers - that's why founders answer our emails.
Let's size your village.
30 minutes. We'll tell you how many startups your show can realistically fill, at what price, and what it takes.