At Boost VC, we believe Demo Day is a moment when the right investors get connected with the right founders at the right time.

At Demo Day, our goal is to nudge the stars to align. To create the first data point for a possible founder/investor relationship. To bring together interested investors, with interesting founders.

This year we added trusted partners to help us curate this event. Anorak, Ubiquity, Pathbreaker Ventures and Cantos contributed a startup to showcase alongside our Boost VC teams.

Two years into hosting a-synchronous Digital Demo Days, we’ve found this to be the most efficient use of both the founders and investors time. We are the sommelier at your favorite restaurant or the concierge at that great hotel arranging a fabulous experience in a new city. We want to give you the best, curated experience with our Sci-Fi Founders, and save you time.

For the investors, it’s a chance to add to your Sci-Fi dealflow curated by a trusted third party and expand outside your comfort zone of what types of deals you might typically look at.

For our founders, it’s an opportunity for a bit of pressure to create diamonds. To tighten their pitch, own their journey and share their vision, team and traction with the world. To reach beyond their existing network and start new relationships.

In the grand scheme of a founder’s journey or an investor’s career, it’s just another Tuesday. But isn’t that when all the best stuff happens — on just another Tuesday?

Our Demo Day has evolved over the years. It’s no longer the culmination of the accelerator program, nor a live presentation event. Too many founders and accelerators define fundraising milestones as the definition of success.

For us, Demo Day is a tool for all our seed — ready portfolio companies to use when the time is right. When they are ready to expand, go after that new customer segment, when they’ve hit their R&D milestones and are closing customer contracts and the right next step is to build out the team. We do everything we can to keep it easy and efficient for founders to participate in.

Every year, the week-after-Demo Day, we cheer and celebrate the team effort — then we ask ourselves, what could we do to make this better? Are we optimizing for the right things? Are we doing our best to show up in service to our founders? And last but not least, if we were being unreasonable, what is the potential for our Demo Day to have greater impact?

Stay tuned.

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Digital Demo Days are the Future for Boost VC