Gopher Angels’ Post

LESS THAN A WEEK AWAY! Join us Monday, September 16th at McNamara Alumni Center from 4-7PM for the 20th Annual MN Cup Grand Finale! Take advantage of this chance to meet the Top 27 emerging startups driving innovation and disruption across Minnesota, and stay as we award over $400,000 in cash prizes - including the live announcement of the 2024 MN Cup Grand Prize Winner! This is our favorite event of the year, and this year we have the additional honor of celebrating the 20th Anniversary of MN Cup! We hope to see you there! Register Now at https://lnkd.in/gbMF84JA

ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 The ACA is excited to launch three new venture programs and scale the Arizona Innovation Challenge - helping more Arizona startups find success! Learn more ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gkGbrDUr The ACA is now accepting applications for the 2024 Arizona Innovation Challenge, one of the nation’s largest business plan competitions! Apply by August 30! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gd9NV2Gt

We are excited to share that the Aggie Angel Network (AAN) and Seed Round Capital have collaborated to present the Texas Startup Showcase on March 22 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.   Register Here: https://lnkd.in/gVQACXY7   This virtual pitch event is catered to investors interested in early-stage startups.   FluxWorks, Agile Data Decisions, Direct Kinetic Solutions, Everlasting Power, and Wootz will each present an eight-minute pitch, followed by Q&A.   Pitch events like this are normally available exclusively to members of the AAN, but the Texas Startup Showcase is open to all accredited investors, free of charge. Join us and invite a friend for the opportunity to learn more about AAN and SRC! Attendance will be capped at 250 and are filling fast, so sign up today using the link above.

Berkeley SkyDeck just concluded it's Batch 18 Demo Day yesterday. 19 CEO's from all over the world stood on stage to pitch investors on the tech or product they've been building over the past many months. The day is truly a culmination of so much hard work and incredible inspiration. If you missed out and are curious to see what these 19 companies have been working on, check out the list of startups and feel free to reach out to these founders directly: https://lnkd.in/eYp76nbf Also, thank you SkyDeck advisors and mentors for your support and contributions. We cannot thank you enough! Francisco Morrone Sho Sugiura Marco Conte Deep Barot Hanson Chou Eran Lahav Amel Mechalikh Vahan Melkonyan Christopher K. Arina Bobrova Harsh Nigam Aimee Gotway Bailey, PhD Asad Tirmizi Alex Marshall Rishabh Bansal Taylor Heisley-Cook Stephen J. McCormack, PhD Nicolas Camhi Steve Boogar Liam Boogar-Azoulay Chon Tang Caroline Winnett Marc Meyer August Fern Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli John Busch Linda K. Alan Leong Darek DeFreece Michael Moreno Abhishek Tripathi Heather Koshinsky Darren Cooke

When one door closes, another opens! On the heels of last week’s Pitch HearstLab NYC event, we're announcing that applications are now OPEN for our second annual Pitch HearstLab U event! 🎓 It’s a virtual event where women-led startups from the university ecosystem pitch to become a finalist in our next $100K competition. 👉 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eSRhvjnM 🗓️ Deadline: May 31 We can’t wait to meet you!

We are excited to share that the Aggie Angel Network (AAN) and Seed Round Capital have collaborated to present the Texas Startup Showcase on March 22 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.   Register Here: https://lnkd.in/gVQACXY7   This virtual pitch event is catered to investors interested in early-stage startups.   FluxWorks, Agile Data Decisions, Direct Kinetic Solutions, Everlasting Power, and Wootz will each present an eight-minute pitch, followed by Q&A.   Pitch events like this are normally available exclusively to members of the AAN, but the Texas Startup Showcase is open to all accredited investors, free of charge. Join us and invite a friend for the opportunity to learn more about AAN and SRC! Attendance will be capped at 250 and are filling fast, so sign up today using the link above.

We are excited to share that the Aggie Angel Network (AAN) and Seed Round Capital have collaborated to present the Texas Startup Showcase on March 22 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.   Register Here: https://lnkd.in/gVQACXY7   This virtual pitch event is catered to investors interested in early-stage startups.   FluxWorks, Agile Data Decisions, Direct Kinetic Solutions, Everlasting Power, and Wootz will each present an eight-minute pitch, followed by Q&A.   Pitch events like this are normally available exclusively to members of the AAN, but the Texas Startup Showcase is open to all accredited investors, free of charge. Join us and invite a friend for the opportunity to learn more about AAN and SRC! Attendance will be capped at 250 and are filling fast, so sign up today using the link above.

KW founders and investors - our next Startups & Beer event is Tuesday, Feb 13th. Come and learn from 10 early stage founders about what they're building, stay for networking, beer and snacks. Thanks to all of our amazing Waterloo ecosystem partners for the collab! #WaterlooInc Catalyst Commons Catalyst137 Medical Innovation Xchange Accelerator Centre Communitech Velocity Innovator Network of Canada (Inc.) https://lnkd.in/dNwFnYd9