This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 15, 2011

So if you're going to come to NYC and you want to make an impact, you better bring your A-game, and that's exactly what Techstars did yesterday at Demo Day. These companies have all the momentum they could ever hope to achieve and the investor community is abuzz over how impressive they all were. So congrats, guys.

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OCTOBER 24, 2010

And I saw a bunch of demos of beta services spliced in between the talks.” These are the crowds, when brought together in a critical mass, push the envelope of awesomeness, creativity, and style, carrying the reputation of the whole community on their shoulders. That’s kind of the point. There are places for that, and this wasn’t it.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

Pro tip for creating a sense of community during self-isolation: Virtual Happy Hours ????? This pandemic is accelerating a trend in more and more startups utilizing remote workforces and closing sales with virtual demos,” states Barsh. “As

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Y Combinator

MARCH 10, 2020

YC W20 online Demo Day will now be on March 16. On March 16, the YC Demo Day website will go live, a modified version of the website that investors and founders have used over the past five years. The activity over the last week has shown us that the community surrounding YC is as strong as ever.

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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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JANUARY 25, 2010

7:00PM Moble Monday Brooklyn (MoMoBK) Inaugural Event: NY Apps, So Hot Right Now Mobile Monday Brooklyn demo night of awesome apps created by local NYC and Brooklyn developers. We're kicking off 2010 with demos from four exciting new local startups. Violators will be prosecuted. No, just kidding.I RSVP: [link]. RSVP: [link].

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500

MAY 15, 2020

When news broke of COVID-19 entering in the US, we were one of the first major accelerators to turn the Demo Day experience completely virtual, and since then, we have focused on collecting data from investors and founders to help the community at-large through reports like our COVID-19 Investor Survey and Female Founders Survey.

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OCTOBER 3, 2014

After seeing my ability to bring a big community together, she wound up introducing me to TK because he was running a hackathon of his own around the first Techcrunch Disrupt in NYC in 2010. So I went--the only investor at the time to actually hangout during the pizza and hacking part of the hackathon, not just the demos.

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JULY 30, 2012

Given the proliferation of accelerators and incubators that pre-vet entrepreneurs, roll up their sleeves to help companies, and dress them up for demo days, the best and brightest are being showcased to look better than ever. Drop by AngelList, where startups have been vetted by a community of advisors and other investors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, an incubator based in New York, is introducing 12 new companies at its 20th demo day tomorrow. Turnout is a platform built specifically for internal communities and groups within an organization, making it easier for employees to host events and discussions across their company.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2025

The program featured exclusive networking opportunities, private investor meetings, and demo sessions, solidifying the UAEs role as a global innovation hub. Looking ahead, Crimson Founders aims to take this initiative to other major global hubs, including New York, Boston, Silicon Valley, Riyadh, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

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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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DECEMBER 21, 2010

However, the innovation community seems to be in love with this format, so you can’t be a VC without watching a bunch of them. That's why, when you're giving a live presentation, you should pretty much assume the technology will fail—whether it’s your technology in a demo or the A/V in the room.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

I refuse to go to demo days. Not just TechStars but any demo day, really. So I promised the guys that I would come and hang out with companies well before their demo days. I find no better way to get a feeling for local communities than to sit with a group of early-stage entrepreneurs and talking about the local scene.

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MARCH 29, 2010

Closely just launched at DEMO this week and is the natural evolution of group buying and discount sites—allowing retailers to run these deals on their own in front of their own audiences. Community is one solution I had in mind. Many would run those deals everyday if they could. Enter Closely.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

based seed-stage venture firm that has, from its outset, attracted the attention of VCs who think the firm has an eye for nascent talent , staged its seventh annual demo day earlier this week, and while it was virtual, one of the startups has already signed a term sheet from a top-tier venture firm. June Motherhood. Website: ladder.io.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Today is the 28th Demo Day for Alchemist , an accelerator that primarily focuses on enterprise companies — or those that sell to other companies, primarily, rather than directly to consumers. In Canada, for example, it’s working with Innovate Edmonton on an accelerator program focused on community safety.

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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. That makes their role in the community more authentic. someone who can win over the VCs, the CTOs, create content, etc. all at once.

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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. The program culminates in Demo Day, a two-day event where the founders present their companies to investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Portfolio community building. Even though my wife thinks my true mental age is still around 13, sadly I am not in this youth demo. Usually there roles are a combination of: Deal sourcing for partners. Deal screening. Deal support / analysis / quant / legal for deals a partner is seriously considering. Industry reviews. VC firm admin.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 18, 2024

On Wednesday, June 5, 2024, the second cohort of Bridge2 founders took the stage at Tulsa’s Agora Event Center for Demo Day. Pangia: Empowering Community Management Kemi Levi, Hannah Clark, and Nassir Mohamud introduced Pangia , a comprehensive community management platform designed to foster highly engaged, data-driven communities.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Given that online communities have grown 3X in the last seven years, reaching revenues of $1.2 But just because digital communities are available and growing in prevalence doesn’t mean they’re all equally beneficial. To find the highest quality communities for you, here are a few non-negotiables to look for. Guiding principles.

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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

MARCH 29, 2022

.” Today and tomorrow, we’ll have team coverage of Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day , including a selection of staff favorites, so be sure to check the site each afternoon. 2 reasons why demo days are dead. ” 2 reasons why demo days are dead. ” 2 reasons why demo days are dead.

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JUNE 16, 2014

It also seems to reinforce a lot of the activities in the community that connect me to interesting non-founders. So if you don''t see me at a pitch event or a demo day, it''s probably because I''m meeting up with someone from the future.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2025

AI presents a tremendous economic opportunity for New Jersey, poised to create good-paying jobs, catalyze new discoveries, grow our start-up community, and foster long-term economic growth, said Governor Murphy. Winners will also receive mentorship and advisory support from the Administrators network of subject matter experts.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. “Bonfire is empowering creators to turn audiences into communities through easy-to-use tools and a no-code platform powered by their social tokens and NFTs. We are experts on user generated content and creator communities.” ” Parthean.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

And a group of community leaders brought together a space and an environment for thought leaders and innovators and people who are just passionate about what Christchurch could become post-earthquake and imagine that future. Lots of community discussions. James Burnes: Well, we started as a result of an earthquake and a city in ruin.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

I fully believe that my daughter Mirren’s crayons and Fisher Price keyboard is very quickly going to make way to her using AI assistance to create music and video in collaborative communities, expanding the notion who we define as a “creator”. There are a lot of parallels here to Web 2.0 and the earliest emergence of UGC.

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500

APRIL 9, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the entire startup ecosystem, and in the name of safety and support of our founders, we hosted our first-ever Digital Demo Day last week. This was a whole new take on demo day for us, and the end result was a unique and inspiring experience for both our startups and investor community.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

My first YC Demo Day was in Summer of 2008, where my startup and twenty-one others anxiously pitched a room full of investors on what we’d been working so hard to build. Fifteen years later, I’m here as YC’s president kicking off our 37th Demo Day — the one celebrating the Summer 2023 batch. Apply here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Our favorite companies from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day. But TechCrunch reporters spend a lot of time talking with startups, hearing pitches and telling their stories; if you’re curious about which companies stood out from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day, read on. Our favorite companies from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day: Part 1.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

After the panel stay for demos by cocktail experts and chefs, tastings by local producers, and cameos by some of the city's cult food vendors. Many more are joining in.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. ” When Elon Musk set out to build SpaceX he wasn’t greeted with enthusiasm from the space community not used to having a private enterprise challenge the government funded space exploration of NASA. ” **.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

I have no idea who FAKEGRIMLOCK but I still know it is a pretty normal and thoughtful person through seeing his or her comments through the years and the fact that the community interacts with him as a “regular.” It wasn’t because I’m the target demo for that app – I am certainly not. But context matters.

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