Gofest: dates, who attends, and how founders get in
Bogotá’s festival of entrepreneurship and innovation, bringing together startups, investors and other ecosystem participants.
The essentials from the organiser's own pages: when, where, how big, and how founders get in. Speakers, investor lists and past editions are on the official site.
- Next edition
- Dates not yet announced
- Where
- Ágora Centro de Convenciones, Bogotá, Colombia
- Format
- in-person
- Startup pass
- For the 2026 edition, startups could apply to the CCB’s showcase call and be selected. The call targeted high-growth Latin American technology- or science-based ventures; Emerging Tech required a prototype or MVP. No startup participation price is published in the cited material. source
- Cadence
- Annual, late August
Next edition
The organiser has not published dates for the next edition; historically it annual, late August. We re-check weekly and list dates only when the organiser prints them with a year.
How founders get in
| Startup programme | For the 2026 edition, startups could apply to the CCB’s showcase call and be selected. The call targeted high-growth Latin American technology- or science-based ventures; Emerging Tech required a prototype or MVP. No startup participation price is published in the cited material. source |
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Pitch Competition
Meeting investors there
Founders can use GOMATCH’s 1:1 matchmaking with investors and corporates; the organiser says GOMATCH LATAM involves more than 10,000 meetings (2026). source
| Investors attending | More than 300 investors (2025). source |
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Before you go: the hub's cold email to VCs playbook covers the pre-event outreach that fills a meeting calendar, and Causo matches your stage and thesis to the funds in its database so you know who to ask for a meeting.
Official links and socials
Prepare for it
- How to cold email VCs — book the meetings before you land.
- The 12-slide seed deck — what to have ready when a partner says "send me the deck".
- Pitch Deck Roaster — a slide-by-slide pass before you submit to Pitch Competition.
- Accelerator deadlines — the application windows that open around the event.
Sources
Every fact above was read from one of these official pages on Oct 8, 2026:
- gofest.com.co
- gofest.com.co/por-que-gofest
- gofest.com.co/for-startups
- gofest.com.co/gomatch
- gofest.com.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Terminos-y-condiciones-convocatoria-gofest-2026-2.pdf
- gofest.com.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Agenda_GoFest_2026_v1.pdf
- ccb.org.co/en/of-interest/comunications/gofest-2026-will-feature-more-than-10000-business-meetings-with-players-from-the-Latin-American-ecosystem