Sentences with phrase «investor demo day»

The program provides ongoing mentoring through a five - month curriculum, culminating in an investor demo day.

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«We've organized and hosted four Demo Days,» said Randy Schilling, OPO Startups Founder, startup investor, serial entrepreneur, placeholder and host of the St. Charles County Demo Day.

Xoogler Demo Day organizer Kevin Yen hands out stickers to participants: Green for startups, blue for investors, and red for press.

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.

The network doesn't track how many startups get funding due to its demo days, but half a dozen founders and investors told CNBC that they'd set up one or more meetings following the event.

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.

Participants soon will have another reason to love Circular Board: In March, Rodz will launch a Virtual Demo Day, in which participants who are ready to take their companies to market can upload their presentation to a section of the company's website that is open for investors and venture capitalists to peruse at their leisure.

«This is an increasing risk for businesses, and there's no solution available,» Popper said in a pitch to investors at Y Combinator's Demo Day.

DreamIt, a start - up incubator founded in Philadelphia hosted a demo day in Midtown Manhattan Wednesday for about 250 attendees, many of them venture capitalists and angel investors looking for the next Dropbox or Scvngr.

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.

The program culminates in Demo Day, where founders give a 5 - 10 minute pitch in front of investors and community members, with the hopes of getting funded.

Exposure to angel, VC and corporate investors is ongoing, with financiers periodically visiting from as far as Silicon Valley and an annual demo day attracting roughly 250 attendees, Reichert says.

Demo - day audiences include investors, gallery curators, creative directors from top brands and agencies and members of the press.

Founders will also have the opportunity to host webinars, attend demo days in NYC, and communicate with potential investors via a discussion board on their company profile.

But still there are gray areas: what about demo days; what about online platforms that restrict access so that only accredited investors can see deals; what about angels syndicating deals with other angels?

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.

(Y Combinator, known for its very full demo days, also helps set up one - on - one meetings with investors and startups that want to meet each other over the course of one day.)

After Demo Day, Kay took on the majority of fundraising work as CEO and started lining up calls with investors.

With the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco with thousands of education researchers, the NewSchools Venture Fund Summit in Burlingame with a who's who of education leaders and entrepreneurs, the GreatSchools 2013 Summit in San Francisco, the National Education Writer's Association's 66th National Seminar in Palo Alto, ImagineK12's Demo Day in Palo Alto, and more, educators, investors, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and researchers had plenty of opportunities to meet.

Thousands of investors will be present for 3 days to see and meet investment professionals and see demos of their products and services.

The program is 3 months long and provides mentoring for your team to improve their business and game quality skills by over 60 top industry mentors, weekly pitch practice, playtesting, field trips to successful game studios and at the end of the program, demo days where you will get the chance to pitch to our global network of investors and publishers.

(Y Combinator, known for its very full demo days, also helps set up one - on - one meetings with investors and startups that want to meet each other over the course of one day.)

We wrote about AngelPad last week, noting that it recently decided to do away with its twice - yearly demo days in San Francisco, in favor or organizing a day of one - on - one investor meetings with its startups instead.

On the back of the programs for the Demo Day, Boost provided investors with a brief explanation of bitcoin and how it works:

Each year, up to 20 of the best technology driven real estate industry ideas are selected to participate in intensive education, mentorship and growth hacking programs, culminating in exclusive Graduation Defense panels and bi-coastal Demo Days for partners, investors, VCs and media.