StartupNation

MAY 16, 2025

Less common bank loans, such as those offered by credit unions or Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI), may also fall into this category. Today, there are many more options, a development that has opened the doors to more startups. You need a good pitch and must have (or develop) marketing skills.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2025

March 18, 2025) Last week, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board approved the creation of the Next New Jersey Program – AI and the AI Innovation Challenge Administration Grant Program. The Administrator will develop and manage a statewide AI Challenge and disburse sub-grant awards to challenge winners.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 7, 2025

The AI-first architecture ensures that integrations are not only fast but also secure and up-to-date, empowering developers to focus on core product development and scaling. The company is actively investing in research and development to enhance its proprietary large language model (LLM) and deepen the capabilities of its platform.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 18, 2025

One of my clients is developing an AI platform for mental wellbeing, used by people like Air Force pilots and first responders. Meet the Designer Helping AI Startups Go from Demo to Daily Use was originally published in SuperWarm on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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StartupNation

JUNE 29, 2025

Using product or service descriptions with the expectation that a “demo” is going to generate sales is a fool’s errand. During our research, we identified more than 50 companies where the founders proudly declared they have done “more than one hundred demos.” Every single company that rushed to demo eventually closed the business.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Best WordPress form plugin for building custom forms Gravity Forms Gravity Forms pros: Design and develop more custom forms Fantastic selection of add-ons Gravity Forms cons: Limited choice of pre-made templates Gravity Forms is the best plugin for building custom forms. WS Form is a developer-friendly Gravity Forms alternative.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. They want you to attend demo days. start-ups are overvalued… The other thing they say is that they can’t tell on Demo Day which are the good start-ups. It’s exhausting.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

With 17 startups participating, Berkeley SkyDeck’s Demo Day isn’t the largest cohort we’ve seen by any stretch. Founded in 2012, the accelerator is focused on developing early-stage companies tied to the University of California system. Here’s a closer look at six highlights from this Demo Day. Image Credits: EndoCrine Bio, Inc.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

On Wednesday, January 24, the inaugural cohort of startups from i2E’s Bridge2 Pre-Accelerator program presented their groundbreaking innovations during the Bridge2 Demo Day at Sailor & The Dock in Oklahoma City. During Demo Day, attendees heard pitch presentations from five founders who participated in the initial Bridge2 cohort.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

Sun's space was for it's customer assistance unit and Cornell just had a demo space patched into a supercomputer back on campus. I'm sure their Summer Camp demo day will be the first time a lot of VCs have set foot in the thriving outer borough. Unfortunately, there wasn't much actual tech being built in 55 Broad.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Thousand Faces , a web3 community-based investment group, hosted its demo day on Wednesday with the top 10 startups from its Female Founder Accelerator program. The demo day coincided with International Women’s Day and featured women-led businesses focused on sustainable development goals (SDGs).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

These groups are easy to find and fairly inexpensive to join. Do you have the right bait? Regardless of your ideal client (or desired fish), you need the right bait to attract them. Using the two examples above, it should be clear that these audiences are completely different.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about the new career path to CEO, our favorite startups from Techstars Demo Day and the latest SPAC you should probably know about. A triple-hitter Demo Day. TechCrunch covered favorites from Techstars’ three Demo Days, which were focused on Chicago, Boston and workforce development.

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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. Its monthly subscription fee is ~$20.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 7, 2023

With the rapid evolution of AI and devices, KDDI Technology seeks to continue providing value to customers by developing and providing innovative technologies such as IoT, AI, and XR. The selected applicants will also be able to use MoBagel’s product for free until the Demo Day.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

25 seed and early-stage startups participate in a 5-month long program ending with a Demo Day showcasing their disruptive innovation For its 2024 global accelerator cohort, Morgan Stanley received thousands of applications. The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

The XRPL Accelerator program is the first of its kind in the Asia Pacific region and will launch in August 2023, concluding with a Demo Day event in November 2023. The first cohort will begin in June 2023 in New York, with a hybrid approach combining virtual and in-person components, including a Demo Day event in early November.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

WeMade Demo Zone (Image credit: WeMade) Game companies of all sizes, including indie, small, and large game developers within Pangyo Techno Valley , will participate in the domestic game festival. Following 2022, WeMade (CEO Jang Hyun-guk), the developer of MIR 4 and MIR M, has been selected as the main sponsor for this year as well.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2023

South Korea is considered a gateway to Asia due to its strategic location and well-developed infrastructure. German food tech startup Koralo won the coveted ‘2022 K-Startup Grand Challenge’ as the best foreign startup team at the Demo Day. The final Demo Day in November 2023 will select five promising startups for grand prizes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Deep tech startups develop cutting-edge innovations with the power to truly revolutionize society. To this end, marketers develop creative ways to gather lists of, and information on, key contacts at these potential partners. More broadly, marketers also develop the go-to-market strategy beyond partnerships.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The goal is to unite the global reach and marketing expertise of Cointelegraph with Brinc’s proficiency in product development, token design, strategic scaling, and facilitating introductions within networks. These include shared demo days, affording these startups an invaluable platform to exhibit their projects to a broader audience.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 19, 2023

The focus of the 12-week accelerator program is to equip the companies with the necessary skills and knowledge to take their businesses to the next level, providing best practices in pitching, financial modelling, business strategy, and product development. The program will culminate in a demo day with investors from all over the world.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Medical and biotech had a strong showing at Y Combinator’s latest demo day , with nearly a dozen companies in the space catching my eye. Entelexo is one step further down the line, having committed to developing a promising class of therapeutics called exosomes that could help treat autoimmune diseases. Image Credits: Curvenote.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Supabase , a YC-incubated startup that offers developers an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase and similar platforms, today announced that it has raised a $6 million funding round led by Coatue, with participation from YC, Mozilla and a group of about 20 angel investors.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

With Boulevard Capital, we developed a unique offering based on our deep understanding of the industry, making funding more equitable and accessible to self-care business owners from diverse backgrounds so they can invest in their continued growth.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

For instance, we recently helped a B2B SaaS platform increase demo requests by 350%. The process we were following was focused on optimizing every aspect of the demo request journey, from acquiring visitors to optimizing the demo page and more. Every experiment we ran increased the demo request metric to some extent.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

There’s also a Demo Day in San Francisco at the end of the program. Generative AI, says Rob Ferguson, AWS’ Global Head of AI/ML Startups, has unlocked new developments and creativity. AWS will not invest in startups and does not yet have an AI/ML investment arm. As for why now, isn’t it obvious?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

It’s the 33rd Demo Day of the well-known accelerator and holds the largest cohort yet. While the Demo Day for this year’s winter batch was held in a day, it’s two days for this summer batch. The first Zambian startup to get into YC is developing Africa’s first card-issuing API.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. Another company competing in the increasingly saturated segment is Sima.ai , which is developing a system-on-chip platform for AI applications — particularly computer vision applications.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Asan Voyager equips participating teams with a comprehensive guidebook curated by Kim Bumsoo, Deputy Head of Translink Investment and renowned for managing the YouTube channel “Demo Day.” One of Asan Voyager’s key features is its strategic partnerships with domestic and international institutions operating in the United States.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, looks at the relationship between designers, developers, and AI, in conversation with a16z’s David George. [00:36] 4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? Will AI take all the design jobs?

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

This program provides $1,000 in AWS Cloud credits, $350 in Developer Support credits, and other guidance. The GitHub Student Developer Pack offers more than $200k in developer tools/training for student entrepreneurs or any students. Autodesk offers students free access to their products as long as you are an eligible student.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The financial institution recently organized the ‘2023 HUB Day,’ a startup demo day held at the KB Innovation Hub Center in Seocho-gu, Seoul. ’ Facilitated through KB Financial’s startup development program, ‘KB Starters,’ the event saw the participation of 40 startups.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

At the end of each week, a team gives a presentation on their progress around problem statements, solution, customer validation, and product development. The community of women, many of whom plan to return to school, aren’t focused on classic accelerator tropes like Demo Days or first checks simply because of the stage of life they are in.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 26, 2022

Importantly, don’t panic about your own lack of tech development skills or understanding. You could consider partnering with a specialist agency, exploring low-code platforms or even hiring a developer with the relevant experience. Or, a sales team member could practice complex product demos in a zero-risk virtual training space.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

accelerated product development because “we saw a strong demand for a guided selling solution in the market,” onboarding more than 200 prospects from its waitlist. For example, Vijayvergiya said one client found they won deals if they had at least four contacts with a buyer committee after the demo stage. Another way Nektar.ai

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Magic, a startup developing a code-generating platform similar to GitHub’s Copilot , today announced that it raised $23 million in a Series A funding round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG with participation from Elad Gil, Nat Friedman and Amplify Partners. This would be extraordinarily useful for companies and developers.”

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