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🚨Online Now FoundersBoost's Fall 2024 Global Investor Showcase 🚀🚀🚀 Connect with all of our Fall 2024 alumni from our programs in Los Angeles, New York, Italy, Toronto and Vancouver! Here, you'll meet over 60 alumni startups in #AI, #medtech, #gaming and more. ✔Check out startup pitches on demand ✔Schedule meetings ✔Follow company updates Online for a limited time: https://lnkd.in/eYbiar_h Register to gain access until January 24

FoundersBoost 2025 Spring Italy is open at the link below on F6S and provides mentors. It's for Italian companies/founders at prototype, users or paying users stage. Thanks to Blake Caldwell, Diane Bailey,Natalie Novick at FoundersBoost for supporting founders and startups. Apply at the link below or check out their past teams who have raised $25.9m at https://lnkd.in/gpWVAf-3

FoundersBoost 2025 Spring Kenya is open at the link below on F6S and provides mentors. It's for companies/founders in Kenya at prototype, users or paying users stage. Thanks to Blake Caldwell, Diane Bailey,Natalie Novick at FoundersBoost for supporting founders and startups. Apply at the link below or check out their past teams who have raised $25.9m at https://lnkd.in/gpWVAf-3

Job Opportunity for our new Glendale, California program! We're hiring a Co-Director to lead our B2B and B2C accelerators. This paid, part-time, on-site role is perfect for a startup ecosystem leader who wants to expand their network while also having a direct impact with investment-ready startups. * Lead all phases of the accelerator cohort * Manage a small team * Source and select startups for the cohort Application link in the comments ⬇️

💡"'We've expanded the product offering,' said CEO Pat Utz, adding that the platform can now search legislation from any government entity in the country, which incudes 145,000 federal, state and local governments or special districts." 🙏🏻Huge thanks to Mark Anderson at the Sacramento Business Journal for covering us again! ➡️https://lnkd.in/gFGe2eun

So proud of the Abstract team for continuing to find your path through such a tumultuous funding environment. FoundersBoost Fund invested in you for many reasons, with one being how your team compliments each other. This was exemplified by the continued output by each founder excelling at your role, which raised Abstract up to through this major hurdle. Congrats Pat Utz, Matthew Chang, & 👨💻 Mohammed Hayat, you've earned this win many times over! I'm excited to watch you disrupt the regulatory intelligence space! Bonfire Ventures, Nathan Pacer, Communitas Capital, FoundersBoost

Next week, join us on demand at our Global Investor Showcase to meet all of our latest alumni startups from our Fall 2024 cohort. There, you can catch the pitches, schedule meetings with our teams and connect through our handy web interface. Designed specifically for investors, sort companies of interest by vertical and business model. Register at the link below to get access when the platform opens on Monday. 👇 https://lnkd.in/eYbiar_h

Another amazing Demo Day by the FoundersBoost Los Angeles team. The pitches were absolutely amazing and I'm always inspired by the growth made over the short 2 months. Congrats to the amazing founders! And a shoutout to the investor panel who asked amazing questions of our founders: Miki Reynolds, Jon Vlachogiannis, & Ilona L.! THANK YOU to Prospera Law, LLP for being the program & demo day sponsor; BLANKSPACES Coworking for hosting the program & Demo day at your incredible new Venice location; and to Escalon Services, LLC for being our demo day sponsor. You all make this happen! INVESTORS: If you missed this event, you can still see these founders pitches next month at your Global Investor Showcase presenting startups from all chapters. See the comments for the link to register. Final shoutout to the incredible FoundersBoost LA Team: Lydia Timlin-Broussard, Arezu Aghasey, Paul Genberg, Ron Leshem, Leonard Tatum, Tyler Lucas, Jenna Fuentes! #DemoDay #Investors #VC #Angels #Accelerators

I learned some cool things at FoundersBoost yesterday, sharing a panel with Dwayne Forde and Neshay Ahmed! I've got to teach at FoundersBoost for the last few years on pitching, crafting story and sales psychology for complex/enterprise sales which as many of you know I can talk endlessly about. As always, I learnt a ton! A few highlights for me below: 1. Dwayne Forde shared about Design Partner Sales. Find a design partner at the very, very beginning to validate your start-up idea (without charging them at first) and build something useful with a referencable partner that will help you pry open the vertical you want to play in. 2. Developmental Sales in a Start-Up. Shout out to Reuben Tozman for laying this out: essentially, get super curious and be open and build whatever the heck your client needs. We've done a ton of this at Blossom Social, to the point of whipping open figma in a meeting and mocking things with our client's live, and it's led to some of our largest breakthroughs. 3. In the time of AI being human is a superpower. Like you, I use ChatGPT all the time, so I can all smell an AI-written sales email, auto-posts and worse AI linked-in responses. It feels disenguine – which is great for us! Because the more the automated masses rely on AI in their attempts to connect, the more powerful our human-to-human connections, community and value-driven sales will become. Foundersboost, acts as a "pre-accelerator" pairing start-ups with a host of mentors to help you validate your idea and get ready to take the leap and go all in. Great presentations by: Vishen Maharaj Matt Glossop Akinbusola Adesina Ali Cemilcan Ciftarslan. 👏 👏 Thanks so much Margaux Sophie von Büren Stefan Morrow Tuba Khan for having me. Appreciate all the work you're doing to foster founders in Toronto!

Tonight we kick off the first of our Fall 2024 Demo Days in #Vancouver! Join us downtown to connect with the local startup ecosystem and meet our latest alumni! Find all the details and join 👇👇 https://lu.ma/4kjmxj2m #preseed #startup #demoday