980 N Federal Hwy
Boca Raton, FL 33432
USA
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Welcome back to the Boca Raton Tech Startup Meetup Pitch Event! It has been a while since we have run a pitch event. This event is at Cendyn Spaces in Boca Raton on Wednesday, July 27th, 2016 at 6pm.
This event will have an update on the current state of recent Crowd Funding rules before the event starts.
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE TO CENDYN SPACES FOR GRACIOUSLY HOSTING THIS EVENT. SPECIFICALLY AMANDA (Who you should contact if you are looking for cool office space)
WHO: Investors, Entrepreneurs, Start-Ups, Tech Community, Angel Investors, Tech Mentors, Venture Capital EXECs who have an interest in Real Estate Tech, MGRs, SPONSORS (see below).
WHAT: The Boca Raton Tech Start-Ups Meetup is running our 14th Tech Start-Up Pitch Night & Networking. Our intention is to assist local tech start-ups to pitch their tech product or service. A tech start-up can be looking for a variety of things like seed capital, tech partners, business partners, advisers, mentors or business leads. Attendees are welcome to stay and network afterwords. We are going to have several speakers to be announced prior to the pitch event.
SPONSORS: If you are a SERVICE BUSINESS like a BIG WEB AGENCY, A LAW FIRM, A STARTUP CONSULTANT, ACCOUNTING, an INSURANCE PROVIDER, BROKER/DEALER or just LOVE THIS EVENT and want to support us fully and get the chance to have a booth/table or stand up and give an overview of your services, you can buy small to large SPONSORSHIPS from $300 to $600 for this event. The lowest end sponsorship for $300 will get your business listed on our Powerpoint presentation and on our handouts at the door. Show your support for the tech community to keep running these events. Please contact us for sponsorship pricing at [masked].
INCLUDES: Soft Drinks and Light Snacks.
PARKING: No cost
THE FORMAT: Between 5 and 10 local tech start-ups will be given up to 3 minutes (no pitch deck) to pitch their concept or product/service. There is networking before and after the event. Pitching companies can provide a short, no more than 4 pages of power point or PDFs, which we will display on a screen. There will be a panel of successful entrepreneurs and investors who will be at the event. This panel will have a few moments to ask a few questions following each pitch.
PITCH DECK REQUIREMENT: We are requiring participants to fill out up a 1 to 4 page mini pitch deck. This mini pitch deck will be used for both pitching and for interested investors. This is required! Our limit is 4 pages! Remember this is a 3 minute pitch. The pitch deck must be landscape and a PDF file. You can go to this link here to review an example pitch deck. If you are interested in Pitching you can contact us at [masked]. You need to send us name of company, what you are pitching, and preferably your mini pitch deck. Please give us a couple days to respond if you are interested in pitching.
The start-up companies pitching have up to 3 minutes to answer 5 common questions about their business:
What is their product/service?
What is their business model?
Size of the Market they serve?
How do they get to market or get traction?
What are they here looking for? Capital, Partners, Advisers, etc..
PANEL MEMBERS: We typically have a mix of investors, and startup experts sit on our panel. Each event may have a different set of experts.
Potential Advisers, Mentors and Audience members will be asked to approach start-ups of interest after the event. We will list the companies which will pitch as we approach the pitch date.
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SPONSORSHIP?
All the participants involved in StartupPOP are for-profit businesses. While we are a for-profit businesses, we are still a group dedicated to enabling tech start-ups to get mentoring, guidance and capital (if necessary) they need in order get start started and get to revenue. So sponsoring is a way to give back to the community and help us grow the economy! Sponsors will get great exposure to the tech startup community and will be mentioned often in person, in emails and online! We can offer you a table, banner ad and let you get up and pitch your service or offering. Please contact us at [masked] for more information about sponsoring StartupPOP events! Thank you for caring about the Startup Community!
