Founder Showcase: Startup Pitch & Networking Event
The Founder Showcase is Silicon Valley’s leading international startup pitch event, helping pre-seed startups learn, launch, and connect to investors. On this interactive online event you can watch presentations from promising pre-seed startups from across the globe, and hear from Keynote Speaker David Cohen (Founder & Chairman of Techstars). In addition, there are several networking sessions to connect with the hundreds of international founders, investors, advisors and executives in attendance.
This is an interactive online event with limited capacity. To secure your spot, please visit https://fi.co/startupwebinar/10838
> > > For the best experience, you should join this event on a desktop or tablet using Chrome or Firefox.
Learn more about the Founder Showcase at FounderShowcase.com.
❯ Interested in Pitching?
Previous Founder Showcase companies have raised over $1.5 billion in funding. A short-list of companies that did one of their first public pitches on the Founder Showcase stage include Udemy, Relay Rides, Thumbtack, Realty Mogul, Kaggle, and many more. Anyone building a pre-seed technology company with less than $250,000 USD in funding is welcome to apply at http://bit.ly/showcase-pitch, and learn more about the 100% free application process at FounderShowcase.com/apply.
About the Keynote Speaker: David Cohen (Founder & Chairman of Techstars)
David Cohen is the Founder and Chairman at Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. David has been an entrepreneur and investor for his entire life. He has only had one job interview in his career, successfully got that job but then quit shortly thereafter to start his first company. Since then, he has founded several companies and has invested in hundreds of startups such as Uber, Twilio, SendGrid, DigitalOcean, Pillpack, Classpass, Zipline, Scopely, Outreach, Remitly, SalesLoft, and DataRobot. In total, these investments have gone on to create more than $210B in value.
Prior to Techstars, David was a co-founder of Pinpoint Technologies which was acquired by ZOLL Medical Corporation (NASDAQ: ZOLL) in 1999. You can read about it in No Vision, All Drive. Later, David was the founder and CEO of earFeeder, a music service that was sold to SonicSwap. He also had what he likes to think of as a “graceful failure” in between.
David is active with several non-profit organizations, including his work as a founding Board Member of Endeavor Colorado. David is also a co-founder and Advisory Board Member of the Techstars Foundation.
David is the co-author (with Brad Feld) of Do More Faster; Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup. David also enjoys reading non-fiction books and playing tennis. He is married to the coolest girl he’s ever met and has three amazing kids who always seem to be teaching him something new.
You can find David tweeting at @davidcohen and blogging on the web at DavidGCohen.com.
❯ Who Should Attend?
- Angel and early-stage investors looking to invest in startups
- Alumni, mentors, and friends of the Founder Institute
- Anyone interested in launching a technology company
- Anyone interested in learning about the innovative companies coming out of Founder Institute and beyond
This event will be attended by 1000+ entrepreneurs, investors, and executives from across the globe.
