TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Today and tomorrow, the biotech accelerator is hosting its twice-annual demo day. Starting in 2015, IndieBio has provided resources to founders solving complex challenges with biotech, from fake meat to sustainability. Diptera.ai: Vic Levitin is creating a scalable, affordable and sustainable way to fight mosquitoes and their diseases.

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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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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

Being self-sustainable has given us a new perspective on startup funding, especially compared to what I experienced on my first accelerator run. The press enhances this misconception around YCombinator demo days, where the 3-day pitch event is perceived like an auction, with investors fighting each other for the best deals.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 1, 2019

I imagine this is how every founder fats on the eve of demo day. Sales and support prepare their pitches. The company sustained this cadence for two years. First, the company sustained a torrid pace of product development for a long time achieving more than most thought possible. PR readies articles and interviews.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

The study used multivariate regression analysis to control for education levels and pitch quality to conclude that gender was a statistically significant factor. Instead, the company can pitch itself based on a credible financial projection. Gender diversity as a driver of sustainable profitability. Realistic projections.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

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. How do you prefer to receive pitches? What’s the most important thing a founder should know before they get on a call with you?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Expo Hall & Demo Booths. TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Latecomers always welcome: Buy a pass right here. Investor Reception. Receptions | 12:00 pm . Disrupt Stage | 10:50 am & 2:30 pm.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

“Since 2011, the Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship has supported the work of 36 innovators—representing the United States as well as 18 other countries on five continents—who address pressing global issues, from healthcare delivery to college persistence and sustainable construction in developing nations.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The firm’s end-to-end services including program structuring, startup sourcing, startup interviews and selection, mentor recruitment, organising masterclasses, business matching, coaching, day-to-day operations, startup fundraising support, and organising demo days. Sustainability is definitely an area to look at.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 13, 2020

We support and foster the creation of solutions, teams, and environments that are striving towards sustainable change. A Demo Day with a star-studded jury and an investor pitch with international business Angel Investors with our Impact Hub Milan partners. We organized a number of events. The next 5 years. .

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Circularity tales: Accelerating the transition in Rwanda Impact Hub Kigali is a dynamic and forward-thinking innovation hub in Rwanda, dedicated to fostering sustainable business practices and social impact. Each startup was paired with a sustainability coach to guide them in applying circular economy knowledge to test their innovations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We are seeing an explosion of entrepreneurs applying bioengineering technology to public health, climate biotech, food, agriculture, and sustainability.” “We will do demo days, so we are in that sense an intermediary, escalating certain student pitches to venture firms,” he said.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

I remember the Demo Day in 2007 where DropBox presented to about 30 Boston area Angels and Venture Capital investors. The problem they were solving was not one I had experienced, and the product demo didn’t work very well at the time. Drew Houston was born in Acton, and met his co-founder Arash Ferdowsi at MIT.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Each startup was assigned an individual sustainability coach that supported them to apply CE knowledge in testing out their circular innovations. The program culminated in a circular Demo Day where startups had a chance to showcase their progress and pitch in front of potential partners and investors.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

“Since 2011, the Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship has supported the work of 36 innovators—representing the United States as well as 18 other countries on five continents—who address pressing global issues, from healthcare delivery to college persistence and sustainable construction in developing nations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. Omnitron Sensors. Apothecary.

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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

APRIL 7, 2023

Y Combinator’s Demo Day took place this week , and although the event itself was virtual-only, 86% of the founders in YC’s winter 2023 batch lived in SF while participating. TechCrunch+ roundup: YC Demo Day faves, thrift shop VCs, cybersecurity product challenges by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Our 11 favorite companies from YC’s S22 Demo Day: Part 1. ” It’s too early to tell when Airhart will reach product-market fit, but its proposal to “make flying to Tahoe as easy as driving to the grocery store” did sound like a strong audience fit for YC’s Demo Day.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

We’ll have the new Discovery Stage featuring in-depth demos and speaker Q&As, roundtables, networking, breakout sessions and more. TechCrunch’s iconic startup competition is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert judges and vie for the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. with Dylan Field (Figma).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Today, TechCrunch is excited to announce the 20 startups pitching onstage in this year’s Startup Battlefield. Selected from the most competitive batch in TC history, selected founders from across the globe will pitch on the virtual stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. To watch the pitches, join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 here.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

It’s demo day season. This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. Elsewhere on Demo Day, Lydia.ai walked through its health assessment service for insurance carriers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

In January 2020, their acromegaly treatment, Octreotide, demonstrated both safety and sustained bioavailability in primary clinical trials. Next-gen skincare, silk without spiders and pollution for lunch: Meet the biotech startups pitching at IndieBio’s Demo Day.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

It’s hard to be sustainably objectively better than others, but you definitely cannot be objectively worse. This is what my company does, and that’s how I pitch it. In my sales demo, I talk about the narrative before going into the demo. You help startups do research to find and validate their strategic narrative.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 27, 2025

As startups scale, effective sales implementation becomes the difference between stagnation and sustainable growth. Create a consistent demo : Develop a compelling product demonstration that clearly shows value and addresses pain points. Effective sales pitches clearly articulate value relative to cost and competitive alternatives 7.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

We have widows who were not able to sustain their family, feed their kids, et cetera. And my pitch used to be that, “Hey, I’m going to take you online.” We were one of the few companies after YC who did not raise a lot of money on demo day. I need to have people so that we can sustain this.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

the founders of a young company hailing from Cambridge, England addressed a crowd of celebrities, investors and entrepreneurs at Y Combinator’s August Demo Day promising a revolution in food science. 10 startups that caught our eye from day 1 of YC Demo Day S18. That’s made form a sustainable source but also biodegradable.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

With its Demo Day still a ways out, IndieBio gave us a peek at the teams currently going through the program. Pitched as “pesticide protection for bees,” Beemmunity is working on a “micro-sponge” that, after being ingested by a bee, captures these neurotoxins and eliminates them as waste. San Francisco.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Going through the company’s pitch deck, the trio describe the business model that will take Anthropic there and the investors behind it. Wrapping up the week, as mentioned yesterday, there was a group of us watching Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 Demo Day.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Expo Hall & Demo Booths. Today, the changed funding landscape and uncertain global economic outlook pose new challenges for space operators looking to turn their innovative technologies and concepts into sustainable businesses. Women of Disrupt Breakfast . Receptions | 8:30 am . Disrupt Stage | 10:55 am & 2:40 pm.

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Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Competition and sustainable advantage. Highlight your sustainable competitive advantages, and barriers to entry. Offer to do a demo later, but don’t try to squeeze it in the presentation. Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Marketing, sales, and partners.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Alchemist Accelerator is back with another Demo Day — its 29th Demo Day overall, and the latest in the series to be entirely virtual. Alchemist’s Ravi Belani also shared plans to announce some news during today’s Demo Day, including that: They’ve raised $2 million from German chemistry company BASF.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I get a lot of pitch deck submissions for this TechCrunch Pitch Deck Teardown series from people who are raising friend and family rounds, and I mostly pass on them. It was against that backdrop that I received the pitch deck for the Palau Project. Its founder, Jerome Cloetens, is a professional kite surfer (!) Problem slide.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2023

Because it takes “about 15 touches for a prospect to want to see a demo,” Tong authored a TC+ guide for CEOs who need guidance around hiring and incentivizing SDR teams. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch Dear Sophie, After three tries, I was finally selected this year in the H-1B lottery!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

AI Stage Fintech Stage Hardware Stage SaaS Stage Security Stage Space Stage Sustainability Stage 3. Spend time on the expo floor and meet these amazing founders as they demo their cutting-edge tech. Each Startup Battlefield company will also fast-pitch live on the expo’s Pitch Showcase Stage.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Hardware, IoT, infrastructure, utilities and government are five keywords you probably most would have wanted to avoid when pitching investors even a few years ago. Even before Demo Day, we had raised a significant portion of our round.”. Fifty Years focuses on startups tackling the UN’s list of 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

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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 “But it doesn’t negate the fact that women are coming to the table from an investor standpoint.”

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