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Venture Capital Firms
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Government Agencies
Thank you for sharing your startup funding opportunities with our community on March 15!
Startup of the Year™ Virtual Competitors
Startup of the Year™ embraces inclusivity and honors diversity. We know that innovation stems from everyone with the 'oomph' and courage to take that leap, which is why we scout far and wide in order to find the best startups ranging in industry with diverse leadership to invite to apply to Startup of the Year, to participate in fast-track events (such as SXSW), and to highlight in our Daily Dealflow and Podcast.
Portland, OR
Cloud Campaign is a digital platform that helps marketing agencies streamline social media management so they can increase the number of brands they manage and charge a higher retainer with a leaner team.
Washington, D.C.
Collective Liberty is a national and international award-winning non-profit that uses data and intelligence to stop human trafficking. The organization collaborates with others in the anti-human trafficking industry to provide data-driven solutions to help stop the practice.
Indianapolis, IN
ConverSight.ai delivers pro-active business insights through a propriety conversational AI-based intelligence platform. Athena, is an intelligent AI BOT that connects to existing ERP or CRM systems, analyzes the data, and delivers insights through a simple, natural language conversation.
Austin, TX
EarBuds allows people to listen along LIVE with their favorite music curators in key moments: Athletes in pre-game warm-ups, musicians on the tour bus, or friends while working out together.
Austin, TX
Gardenio is a garden club offering a membership that sends you everything you need to start growing organic food on your patio or balcony – including live plants – with an app and community to support you as you grow.
Jeenie is a gig-economy, global community of language experts standing by 24/7 to jump on a voice or video call to help you with any of your communication needs. We are the first gig-economy marketplace app to provide language and culture support to the Deaf Community and people needing spoken language interpretation.
Austin, TX
knowRX consumer app delivers medication and wellness content to patients while allowing them to connect wearable devices and conduct real-life correspondence with their care providers.
San Antonio, TX
Safe Wave is the fastest and most accurate security alert tool available. Safe Wave uses high-frequency sounds, inaudible to the human ear. It emits a silent alert signal to trained personnel, through any sound system. It has been designed as a Fault-Tolerant System which combines a high-frequency sound wave, internet and messaging.
Washington, D.C.
The Tuesday Company builds Team to help organizations strengthen relationships with supporters to drive community, activism, and fundraising. Team empowers organizers to form action-taking digital communities that are tracked and scaled.
Houston, TX
Velour Imports is an online marketplace of beverages wholesale. Using the same concept as Uber Eats, Latin American importers order pallets of craft beer, wine, hard cider, and spirits from a digital menu and then watch orders arrive from any smartphone or web device.
Startup of the Year® 2020 SXSW Virtual Judges
Thomas Flake
Serial Entrepreneur & Investor
Past SXSW Judges
Siggi Hindrichs
Investor, Samsung NEXT
Drew Solomon
Senior Vice President, Launch KC
Kimberly Strong
Angel Investor, Strong Connexion, LLC
Kira Blackwell
iTech Program Executive & OCT Innovation Lisason, NASA
Don Dodge
Google Capital & Angel Investor
Lisha Bell
Angel Investor, Pipeline Angels
Eric Mathews
Founder, Start Co.
Felecia Hatcher
Co-Founder of Code Fever & Blacktech Week
Andrew Hong
Investor, Daimler US's M&A Technology & Venture Group
Sarah Koch
VP Social Innovation, Case Foundation
Tarik Sultan
Founding Partner, Sultan Ventures
Darlene Gillard Jones
Founder, digitalundivided & Gillard Jones Agency
Alice Turinas
Angel Investor, Pipeline Angels
Mateusz Kaliski
Investor, Rubicon Venture Capital
Concetta Rand
Chief Revenue Officer, iFundWomen
Kelly Keenan Trumpbour
Investor, See Jane Invest, LLC
Elizabeth Jennings
VP of Marketing, Venture Atlas Labs
Thomas Flake
Serial Entrepreneur & Investor
Ashley Bowling
Founding Member, NextGen Venture Partners
Joanne Chen
Partner, Foundation Capital
Marissa Lowman
Education Leader, Village Capital
Amy Lesnick
Chief Executive & President, Pledge1%
Adam Palmer
Federal Business Development Manager, Startup Arlington
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