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.

Community Impact

1000+

AI founders & operators

1

startup showcase

50+

world-class mentors

2

hackathons organized

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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