TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

SparkLabs Korea , a Seoul-based seed to early-stage accelerator, held a demo Day on Thursday for its 19th cohort of companies. The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. Not all teams end up pitching at demo day.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. For those of you who might be interested in tracking emerging themes or actual investment opportunities, here’s a quick rundown of who pitched what (with the Pear-backed companies at the end of this list). Note that we did not write the descriptions below.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Amid the pandemic, investors became laser-focused on sections of the pitch deck that address monetization and business viability — signs that founders need to come to the table with better-defined businesses in order to succeed. Our favorite companies from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day. Image Credits: nadia_bormotova / Getty Images.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 22, 2020

We were forced to rethink the end of our Winter 2020 batch and transformed its demo day to an online-only event. There are plenty of other exits within the YC community to celebrate, but I won’t list them all. They also learn how to pitch their startup to investors, customers, employees. The S20 batch is remarkable.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. You could also live in a local “hacker house” for community support, e.g., Edyfi , The Garden , or Womxn Ignite. Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Robot demos. Who doesn’t love robot demos? You’ll see live demos from UC Berkeley, Agility Robotics and others. The TechCrunch Robotics Pitch-off. You can catch all of the sessions and join the robotics community online for speed networking, chats and one-on-one meetings. No one at this conference.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 5, 2023

The YC community is approaching 10,000 founders. We’re also enabling any YC company to opt into having their YC application video , written application answers , and Demo Day video public on the YC Startup Directory. Today, we are releasing a public YC Founder Directory , a companion to the YC Startup Directory.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Startup Battlefield , the world’s preeminent pitch competition, has launched hundreds of startups over the years — 922 if you want to be a stickler about it. Each startup team gets six minutes to pitch and present their demo — and then they’ll answer probing questions from the judges. You’ll find them here.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Accelerators have been great for our respective communities. Demo’d to death. Quality endures.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This year, as funding for female founders drops to 2017 levels , Feinzaig realized why accelerators, hers included, might not work for women as well as they work for men: demo day. The truth is, you don’t raise a round based on a 5-minute, highly scripted, polished and practiced on-stage pitch,” Feinzaig continued. “The

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

We’ll also be speaking with top VCs and the CEOs of Boston Dynamics, Sarcos, Locus Robotics, Fetch and more, along with demos from researchers and bleeding-edge startups like Agility. TechCrunch Robotics Pitch-off. We’ve seen the demos and the viral videos, but moving from research to real world is its own complex journey.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

” New crypto startups forged ahead during Alliance DAO’s demo day on Wednesday amid the FTX implosion. The most recent cohort, known as All9, for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community, presented their ideas on Wednesday during a demo day , exclusively covered by Jacquelyn. Hitting rock bottom…maybe?

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

TC Sessions: Mobility, which takes place on June 9, features the top minds and makers, draws thousands of attendees, fosters collaborative community and creates a networking environment ripe with opportunities. You can highlight your pitch deck, run a video loop and/or host live demos.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 2, 2023

Step 1: Identify and target the right communities The first place you should start with is your network. There are tons of established communities where both repeat and aspiring founders regularly come together. Quickly identify the people you most admire or would love to work with.

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Gust

JUNE 4, 2014

For example, the most recent investment I’ve led, Social Bicycles, I saw when they demoed at NY Tech Meetup last summer. Demo Days from the NYC-based accelerators. University-affiliated demo events from NYU, Columbia, Pace and others. Major industry conferences like Business Insider’s Startup.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Startup Battlefield — the matriarch of all pitch competitions — is the stuff of tech legend. Your demo and presentation will be, well, pitch perfect when you deliver it to panels of top VC judges. Once Disrupt ends, you’re part of this phenomenal community — just imagine the networking possibilities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

If you’re eager to introduce your early-stage startup to the top leaders, investors, experts and policy makers across the mobility tech community, don’t just attend TC Sessions: Mobility — exhibit there. Virtual booth space: Display your pitch deck, host a video display and demo your products.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Scale’s story starts with a pivot, and with a bit of rule-breaking, too — Wang went off the typical YC book by speaking to investors prior to demo day when Levine cold-emailed him after seeing Scale on Product Hunt. The community response was encouraging, and it also led to Levine reaching out via email.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 9, 2020

” You know it was a good application video when the same pitch can be reused in the S-1. That was followed by Demo Day in late August. Here’s their pitch: Many investors were skeptical, and they didn’t make it onto the list of top picks from Demo Day, but fortunately they were able to raise a seed round and keep growing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

I’ve been among the group of TechCrunchers watching pitch after pitch at Y Combinator’s Demo Day. She writes, “Yfood’s milestone should give the food tech community something substantial to chew on. Pitch Deck Teardown : Haje takes apart Smalls’ $19 million Series B deck. Well, hello there! On with the news!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The pitches range from building the Square for micro-merchants in Latin America to creating a way to angel invest in your favorite athlete. Neobanks are unlikely to be a winner-takes-all market – rather, more specialized upstarts may be better suited to cater to the specific needs of a given community in a holistic way.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 8, 2014

Stick around long enough in a big tech community and you''ll see your share of big company evangelists come and go. All he had to do was hangout at hackathons and do demos where he wrote code live. you know they have other reasons to meet with people besides pitching your product. all at once. In other words, a unicorn.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

All you need is a killer pitch, an MVP, nerves of steel and the drive and determination to take on all comers to claim the coveted Disrupt Cup. The TechCrunch editorial team reviews all applications and will choose roughly 25 stand-out startups to participate in tech’s top pitch competition. In round three — a.k.a.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

If all my deals came as intros from trusted connections that I know for years versus at founder pitch events that''s interesting data. If you meet someone at a pitch event, they''ve already got a company and they''re looking to close as quickly as possible. In fact, that''s what I tend to do--at least, what I say that I do.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

A growth framework for reaching $1M ARR Pitch Deck Teardown: DeckMatch’s $1M pre-seed deck Image Credits: DeckMatch (opens in a new window) Using this slightly redacted 14-slide deck, the founders of DeckMatch raised a $1.1

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Some grants target underrepresented communities, others are open to all small businesses and others are tied to early technology research. Its mission is to foster vibrant small business communities through free mentoring and education workshops for small business owners. Small Business Administration. Full list of U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

CEOs only : Natasha M writes that Hampton is tech’s new membership community for chief executive officers. Because it takes “about 15 touches for a prospect to want to see a demo,” Tong authored a TC+ guide for early-stage CEOs who need guidance around hiring and incentivizing SDR teams. And a few, er, not good surprises.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 13, 2020

The opportunities we have been providing are an entrance point to becoming part of a community that enables you to create new economic models. These activities centered around facilitating a connection between people and communities whose paths don’t usually cross. Transmedia Strategist and Community Catalyst, at Impact Hub Belgrade.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mark your calendar for TechCrunch’s annual celebration of the startup community — TC Disrupt 2021 returns this September 21-23! If you’re a founder or startup selected for Startup Battlefield, you’ll be able to pitch to a panel of renowned VCs for a chance to win $100,000 in equity-free prize money.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Furthermore, seed funding was offered to support the testing of circular innovations. The programme culminated in a circular demo day, providing startups the platform to showcase progress and pitch to potential partners and investors.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

This is what my company does, and that’s how I pitch it. For instance, if you are pitching product-led growth, you can give examples showing that it is working as a go-to-market strategy because we live in a new world where customers want to start using the product right away. How do you test that?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

However, the investor community also recognizes that there’s still a long way to go and a slew of opportunities left to tap. “We Read on to find out what these prolific investors have to say about hot startup sectors in Africa, investment trends, their predictions for 2023, how to pitch them and more.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Strategies to cultivate a community, iterate with an audience and convert it into a customer base Photo: Unsplash In today’s hyper-competitive, fast-paced digital world, it seems like everyone and their smartphone-savvy grandmother is developing a mobile app. Instead, think about building a community (or joining an awesome existing one ).

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

This class of investor, once quite disorganized, has become much like the venture capital community, creating a process including due diligence (careful examination of a business before investment), terms of investment that match those of venture capitalists, and a process that sometimes takes months from introduction to investment.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

On to of that, connected communities of entrepreneurs are better at incubating and supporting startups now than ever before. Online communities provide lots of valuable information as well. New York will feature five this summer alone--Techstars, DreamIt, Startl and the NYC Seed/EDC Media and Finance incubators.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Once you’ve reached out, pitch them on why they should support your launch! An interactive demo helps you do just that. Build a community and let them know you’re launching well ahead of time. Step 3: Create a “Coming Soon” page ? Your product’s goal is to help users go from A to B.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Portfolio community building. a really wide angle view of the tech industry since you see so many concepts / so many pitches and REAL data points on how startups perform financially. Even though my wife thinks my true mental age is still around 13, sadly I am not in this youth demo. Deal screening. Industry reviews.

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