Techstars Startup Weekend

What is Techstars Startup Weekend?

Techstars Startup Weekend is a dynamic 3-day accelerator program where innovators, developers, and entrepreneurs come together to turn ideas into reality. Develop, prototype, design, and validate your startup ideas while connecting with a vibrant community of like-minded people.

You'll be immersed in an invaluable network of AI mentors and coaches and gain access to resources that will help you refine your concepts and pitch effectively to top Bay Area investors.

Get ready for a high-speed startup experience!

Friday: Pitch and Team Up

Participants pitch their ideas, and the most promising concepts are selected through voting. Teams of 3-5 people form around these ideas, setting the stage for an exciting weekend of collaboration and innovation.

Saturday: Build and Validate

Saturday is all about bringing your startup to life. Teams work tirelessly to develop prototypes, validate their ideas, and refine their business models with the help of mentors and coaches.

Sunday: Pitch and Celebrate

Showcase your newly created startups to a panel of judges and investors. This is your chance to pitch your idea, demonstrate your progress, and potentially secure partnerships. The weekend concludes with a celebration of everyone's hard work and new connections.

Join us at Techstars Startup Weekend and embark on a life-changing journey from idea to launch in just 54 hours!

Techstars Startup Weekend SF AI

November Highlights

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ideas

17

teams

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Reviews

Marius Buleandra

This was an awesome event!
Really well organized logistically and with plenty of educational resources.
I would recommend this event to anyone new or experienced with startups.

Anup Mantri

Great event!
Well organized, lots of cool people

Phillip Pierini

it was a showcase of incredible talent in a great space!

Schedule

Forming Teams

/ Day 1

5:00 p.m.

Registration, Networking/Icebreaker, Dinner

6:00 p.m.

Welcome

6:30 p.m.

Speakers

7:20 p.m.

Pitches

8:30 p.m.

Voting

9:15 p.m.

Team formation

10:00 p.m.

Work begins

10:30 p.m.

Go home

Building Solutions

/ Day 2

8:30 a.m.

Breakfast

9:00 a.m.

Kick-off

9:30 a.m.

Workshops (Optional)

11:30 a.m.

Mentor sessions annoucement

12:00 p.m.

Lunch

1:00 p.m.

Workshop

2:00 p.m.

Mentor meetings

5:00 p.m.

Teams Check-Ins

6:00 p.m.

Dinner Break

8:00 p.m.

Wrap-up announcements

10:30 p.m.

Go home

Demo
Day

/ Day 3

8:30 a.m.

Breakfast

9:00 a.m.

Kick-off

10:00 a.m.

Pitch Workshop/ Mentoring Session (Optional)

10:00 a.m.

Work

1:00 p.m.

Lunch

2:00 p.m.

Teams Check-Ins

4:00 p.m.

Final Presentation submission deadline

4:30 p.m.

Early Dinner/snacks

5:30 p.m.

Evening presentation starts

5:45 p.m.

Speakers

6:00 p.m.

Final pitches start

7:30 p.m.

Judges deliberate

8:00 p.m.

Winning teams are announced

8:15 p.m.

Event wrap-up

8:30 p.m.

Post-event networking and celebrations

9:00 p.m.

Afterparty

Speakers

Gabriela de Queiroz

Director of AI @ Microsoft for Startups | AI Advisor | Angel Investor | Founder of AI Inclusive & R-Ladies

SC Moatti

Founding Managing Partner, Mighty Capital

Judges

Sasha Krecinic

Investor @ Headline

Wayne Sutton

Head of Community and Events at Convex

Neal Sales-Griffin

Managing Director at Techstars in San Francisco (eBay Future of eCommerce), Oakland (J.P. Morgan), and Chicago

Tara Tan

Founder and General Partner - Strange Ventures

Naji Barnes-McFarlane

VC Partnerships, Google Cloud

SC Moatti

Founding Managing Partner, Mighty Capital

Insoo Chang

Investor at Tau Ventures

Jason Egnal

Chief Marketing Officer at You.com

Ti Zhao

Venture Partner at Pack Ventures

Leslie Miley

Angel Investor, former Technicial advisor to the CTO at Microsoft

Margarita Geleta

Researcher at Berkeley AI, R&D at Dolby Laboratories

Anna Turos

Senior Product Designer, Shortwave

Workshops

Tom Redman

Head of Developer Experience

Bojan Babic

Senior AI Research Engineer at You.com

Jalil Nawaz

CEO - Chief Executive Officer
Mountainise

Deep S.

Startup Advisor

Michael Popchuk

Building successful SAAS products

Mentors

Jessica Ko

CEO Playbook

Sanmay Shivaadekar

Sr. Manager - Mid Market Growth at Google

Aditya Jain

Applied Research Scientist at Meta

Mohammad (Hamudi) Naanaa

Co-Founder & CTO - Portal AI, AI Researcher

Deep S.

Startup Advisor

Jalil Nawaz

CEO - Chief Executive Officer
Mountainise

Dr. Samy Movassaghi

Distinguished Principal AI Scientist (Technical Lead) - Strategic Investment Pillars - Vanguard, Ex- Google

Giovanni Amenta

Innovation Technologist

Eugene Tymchenko

Principal at Dnipro.vc

Rahul Parundekar

Founder, A.I. Hero, Inc.

Audrey Choy

Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb

Ricardo Segovia

#SVSG Founder & President, Google, Innovation Coach

Hrishikesh Garud

AI Research Engineer, Google

Sergii Zhuk

Venture Partner at Unpopular Ventures

Harsh Verma

Senior Staff Software Engineer - AI at Palo Alto Networks

Nuné Zadoyan

Early stage Startup Consultant

Ihor Bauman

Founder, CEO at Workee

Erika Bahr

Founder & CEO at Daxe, Venture Scout Alumni Ventures

Asif Chaudhary

Head of Growth at Devsinc

Dmytro Savchenko

VP of Application Engineering at Kinesso

Avinash Kaur

Sr. Data Scientist at NVIDIA

Serephina Ha

Mentor, MIT Innovation Fund

Tom Redman

Head of Developer Experience

Kaivalya Gandhi

Product Lead & Entrepreneur

Artur Kiulian

Founder @ Radical Philanthropies

Dmytro Spodarets

Founder of Data Phoenix;
DevOps Architect at Grid Dynamics

Jiaru Cai

Founder/CEO at FAMILIA, prev @TikTok

Tim Tesluck

Founder & Angel Investor

Lesley Gao

COO & Cofounder at Pear

Milad Mohammadi

Engineering Leader at Google

Mihir Somaiya

Healthcare + Life Sciences @ Rock Health
Director @ GenAI Collective

Past speakers, judges & mentors

Hien Luu

Head of ML Platform - Doordash
Author, Speaker, Advisor

Igor Markov

Research Scientist - Meta, Director at Nova Ukraine

Anton Borzov

Partner at STRATMINDS. Product Design at WhatsApp, neeva

Iain McIntyre

Growth & Events - MindsDB

Neal Sales-Griffin

Managing Director at Techstars in San Francisco (eBay Future of eCommerce), Oakland (J.P. Morgan), and Chicago

Kevin Liu

Head of Investments & Portfolio Capital at Techstars

Hendrik Dahlkamp

Serial Entrepreneur, several exits to Apple and Google

Nick Bilogorskiy

Managing Partner, 408 Ventures, Co-founder - Nova Ukraine, ex-Google, Meta, Microsoft

Pranav Reddy

Founding investor - Conviction VC

Kevin Leffew

Replit

Tara Tan

Founder and General Partner - Strange Ventures

Nadine Fahoum

Principal - Crane Street Capital

Safa Rashtchy

Founding Managing Partner - Think + Ventures

Nazar Gulyk

Tech Entrepreneur, Stanford GSB, Techstars Community Leader SF

Adi Kancherla

Prev. Dist. Systems - Google

Alyona Mysko

CEO/Founder at Fuelfinance

Chinar Movsisyan

CEO & Founder - Manot

Fabio Marastoni

Chief of Staff & Strategy - Improvado.io

Amy Pragel

Founder, Sales, Product, Strategy - Moody’s Analytics
Stanford LEAD

Tove Andersson

Entrepreneur, Founder - KryptoGäris

Dane Patterson

Startup attorney, Partner - Goodwin

Samuel Ekpe

Cofounder, CEO - Grupa

Toni Xu

CEO of Lvlup, Inc.

Giordano Tovo

Sales, VC - LvlUp ventures

Girish Kejariwal

Vice President, Digital (Global Conversational AI Lead) - Genpact

Matthew Fanciullo

Strategic Advisor and Legal Program Manager

Michael Popchuk

Building successful SAAS products

Arjun Arora

Founder - Advisor.AI

Yurii Filipchuk

Serial Tech Entrepreneur

Judges

Techstars Startup Weekend 2023

Neal Sales-Griffin

Managing Director at Techstars in San Francisco (eBay Future of eCommerce), Oakland (J.P. Morgan), and Chicago

Kevin Liu

Head of Investments & Portfolio Capital at Techstars

Hendrik Dahlkamp

Serial Entrepreneur, several exits to Apple and Google

Nick Bilogorskiy

Managing Partner, 408 Ventures, Co-founder - Nova Ukraine, ex-Google, Meta, Microsoft

Pranav Reddy

Founding investor - Conviction VC

Kevin Leffew

Replit

Tara Tan

Founder and General Partner - Strange Ventures

Nadine Fahoum

Principal - Crane Street Capital

Safa Rashtchy

Founding Managing Partner - Think + Ventures

Nazar Gulyk

Tech Entrepreneur, Stanford GSB, Techstars Community Leader SF

Dr. Samy Movassaghi

Technical Lead in AI - Vanguard, Ex- Google

Adi Kancherla

Prev. Dist. Systems - Google

Mentors

Techstars Startup Weekend 2023

Alyona Mysko

CEO/Founder at Fuelfinance

Chinar Movsisyan

CEO & Founder - Manot

Fabio Marastoni

Chief of Staff & Strategy - Improvado.io

Mohammad (Hamudi) Naanaa

Co-Founder & CTO - Portal AI, AI Researcher

Amy Pragel

Founder, Sales, Product, Strategy - Moody’s Analytics
Stanford LEAD

Deep S.

Startup Advisor on Pitch Deck, Revenue Growth and Startup Exit, Acquisition

Tove Andersson

Entrepreneur, Founder - KryptoGäris

Dane Patterson

Startup attorney, Partner - Goodwin

Samuel Ekpe

Cofounder, CEO - Grupa

Toni Xu

CEO of Lvlup, Inc.

Giordano Tovo

Sales, VC - LvlUp ventures

Girish Kejariwal

Vice President, Digital (Global Conversational AI Lead) - Genpact

Arjun Arora

Founder - Advisor.AI

Matthew Fanciullo

Strategic Advisor and Legal Program Manager

Michael Popchuk

Building successful SAAS products

Yurii Filipchuk

Serial Tech Entrepreneur

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