Sentences with phrase «accelerator demo day»

The potential to connect with investors — often hundreds of them — at an accelerator Demo Day is a huge draw, albeit one that can lead to pitfalls for participants.

That last point is something I'm very familiar with, as the St. Louis area (where I call home) has become home to three fast - growing startup competitions: placeholderArch Grants, the Ameren Accelerator Demo Day, and the St. Charles County Demo Day.

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To do that, fellow panelist Edith Yeung, a partner at Mountain View, Calif. - based early - stage venture fund and seed accelerator 500 Startups, advised venture - seekers to attend so - called «demo days» to watch fellow entrepreneurs pitch, because «it's a good way to get a sense of the language.»

So we visited the Demo Day presentations for the fall graduating class of startups in business accelerator TechStars's Seattle program and asked the successful entrepreneurs who serve as TechStars mentors for their insights on how to build a startup that attracts investor funding.

I think that's where classic «Innovation» teams go wrong and spend too much time with accelerators and demo days.

Like most accelerators, this one offered a common workspace, a program of classes and seminars, access to top business mentors, and an opportunity to pitch to investors at a Demo Day.

Last month was busy for Techstars Accelerator Programs with FIVE Demo Days across the globe in October.

Accelerators offer fixed - term, cohort - based programs, often including professional advice and guidance, that culminate in a public pitch event or demo day.

Impact8, Ontario's first accelerator for social purpose businesses, will mark the completion of its first cohort with a Demo Day event at the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) today.

From the 13 shortlisted startups at 1st batch of the early stage tech Startup Accelerator program, about three or four selected startups would get acceleration fund from Z Nation Lab, while venture capital firms such as Matrix Partners, Accel India, Mumbai Angels will be part of the investor panel on the demo day and may invest in promising startups.

The accelerator, which features a diverse set of companies, kicked off on Jan. 22nd at Techstars» new offices at 220 S. Congress Ave.. The program ends on April 20th with a Demo Day.

The Microsoft Accelerator is an immersive three - to six - month program aimed at helping entrepreneurs get through the challenges of building a company, finding customers and scaling to global markets -LSB-...] this demo day in Seattle is for companies specifically leveraging machine learning.

Just this week, for example, there are Demo Days in San Francisco for Greenstart, Imagine K - 12 and Code for America Accelerator.

At the inaugural demo day for the New York - based ed tech accelerator Socratic Labs on Thursday, I heard plenty of compelling pitches from education entrepreneurs set on conquering student debt, using cutting - edge cognitive science to build educational apps and bringing big data and machine learning to literacy.

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Swiss Fintech Incubator and Accelerator F10 has announced that the second Demo Batch Day has been its biggest yet, with over 400 people attending.

The MetaProp Accelerator @ Columbia University class of 2017/2018 is ramping up for Demo Days in NYC and SF.