President’s Message
Freda Miriklis is the President of the World Startup Festival. At the same time, she serves on a number of boards and is a leader of international consortia creating commercial partnerships and supporting world leaders and CEOs to promote equality and economic opportunities at a global level.
Welcome to the World Startup Festival!
WSF is a global entrepreneurship platform with the tagline “Celebrating Entrepreneurship”, which uniquely captures the best of entrepreneurial spirit, diversity, vibrancy, and creative innovation of young people and women across the globe. There has never been a greater need today for an organization that functions as a governing body for budding entrepreneurs worldwide. With the advent of internet technology, the young people of today are probably the most highly educated and creative generation in our modern history, yet their future is precarious. Technological advancements today are so drastic, that jobs are not secure anymore, and businesses will change forever. We are at a critical crossroad as we depart from the traditional to the modern. Can our education system reflect this change? Can our societies provide the right support to nurture the next generation of entrepreneurs? WSF provides an answer to this predicament. As a global entrepreneurship platform that vies to become the governing body of startup businesses worldwide, WSF has a mandate of creating businesses that thrives in the 4th Industrial Revolution. WSF believes that the only way this can happen, is to include all stakeholders in society to contribute to this global project. Businesses not only thrive because of funding, but because of the community. It is when entrepreneurs, investors, governments, the fourth estate, and civil society come together and provide an interconnected support structure, that successful businesses are born. Facebook can only become a behemoth it is now because of a vibrant ecosystem in the USA. If we can create those ecosystems in local markets around the world, we stand to create more Facebooks in our societies, creating newfound wealth for the economies. We call this the “Chinatown E ect” and this is what we seek to achieve.
We are staunch believers of a world of new opportunities. We invite you to be part of this
journey together.
Let's make it happen!
Freda Miriklis
President, World Startup Festival
Overview
WSF is a super connector and incubator of startup businesses around the world
WSF is a global entrepreneurship platform with the tagline “Celebrating Entrepreneurship”, which uniquely captures the best of entrepreneurial spirit, diversity, vibrancy, and creative innovation of young people and women across the globe. There has never been a greater need today for an organization that functions as a governing body for budding entrepreneurs worldwide. With the advent of internet technology, the young people of today are probably the most highly educated and creative generation in our modern history, yet their future is precarious. Technological advancements today are so drastic, that jobs are not secure anymore, and businesses will change forever. We are at a critical crossroad as we depart from the traditional to the modern. Can our education system reflect this change? Can our societies provide the right support to nurture the next generation of entrepreneurs? WSF provides an answer to this predicament. As a global entrepreneurship platform that vies to become the governing body of startup businesses worldwide, WSF has a mandate of creating businesses that thrives in the 4th Industrial Revolution. WSF believes that the only way this can happen, is to include all stakeholders in society to contribute to this global project. Businesses not only thrive because of funding, but because of the community. It is when entrepreneurs, investors, governments, the fourth estate, and civil society come together and provide an interconnected support structure, that successful businesses are born. Facebook can only become a behemoth it is now because of a vibrant ecosystem in the USA. If we can create those ecosystems in local markets around the world, we stand to create more Facebooks in our societies, creating newfound wealth for the economies. We call this the “Chinatown E ect” and this is what we seek to achieve.
Join Our Partner Network
Our goal is to connect awesome and inspiring people from anywhere in the world— And we want you to be a part of that.
So if you’re interested to join the WSF network or, you simply have an interesting partnership idea in mind, then hit us up! We’d love to hear from you!
Our Vision
Global startup ecosystem needs an overarching governing structure and a strong support ecosystem
WSF aims to be the governing body and a federation for the startup community worldwide. WSF believes that the global startup ecosystem needs an overarching governing structure and a strong support ecosystem in every region, in order to create more successful businesses in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution.
Our Mission
WSF plans to create a self-sustaining global startup community where businesses of all business growth by connecting them to industry experts, mentors, investors, international sophisticated incubation and accelerator programs, and bringing all of them together through annual events and programs