Boost VC Startups Complete Accelerator Session at Demo Day 2013
The very first, largely Bitcoin-focused startup accelerator session wrapped-up on Thursday with a remarkable event that the founders at Boost VC call Demo Day, a high-stakes mashup of final exam and graduation for the 17 fresh companies that were chosen to participate. Seven of the attending startups in the concluding summer session have created products....
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Boost VC, a well-known accelerator among startups and the bitcoin community recently had a demo day for its latest cohort. Boost VC gained the attention of the bitcoin community after it started focusing only on bitcoin and blockchain based startups for a couple of programs. Since then, the accelerator has distributed its focus between two emerging technologies - Bitcoin and Digital Reality. The digital reality segment includes startups and entrepreneurs who are working on augmented reality and virtual reality technologies. October 8, 2015 saw the graduation of the 6th batch of startups....
We had recently reported on the demo day organized by Boost VC, the blockchain and virtual reality startup accelerator. The demo day was held on the 8th of last month which saw the accelerator's sixth batch of startups graduating from the program. The last batch or tribe as Boost VC prefers to call them has 21 bitcoin and digital currency technology based startups. READ MORE: Boost VC's Tribe 6, Now out in the Wild to Make a Killing. As a line in one of the famous songs by the British rock band Queen goes... 'The show must go on'. Graduation of a batch of startups doesn't mark the end of....
It's the final day of Tribe 4's tenure in Boost VC's startup accelerator, and things have been busier than ever. The accelerator, perhaps most famous for its CEO Adam Draper's promise to fund 100 bitcoin startups by the end of 2017, has been housing 16 bitcoin startups in its San Mateo, California, headquarters since the beginning of July. The group, colloquially referred to as Tribe 4, has been gearing up for the startup world's equivalent of a graduation ceremony: Boost's Demo Day. Today, each of the startups will present a 3-4 minute pitch of their company to a room filled with hundreds....
The summer 2013 class of seventeen startups pitched to a crowd of over 100 investors at Boost VC's demo day in Menlo Park last week. Seven of the startups in the incubator's most recent class were bitcoin-focused. To help educate investors on the concept of digital currency, an explanation of bitcoin was included on the back of the demo day's program for the event. Each startup was given four minutes to present a pitch to investors and try to raise money. This demo day gave credence to the rise of bitcoin-based businesses as each startup offered some compelling reasons why it thought they....
After raising a $6.6 million fund from premier investors, including Marc Andreessen, Ben Davenport and others last November, Boost. VC announced its next batch of startups would all be bitcoin-related. But recently, the accelerator announced its next batch, "Tribe 6," will be split equally between bitcoin, virtual and augmented reality startups. Boost. VC founder and CEO Adam Draper told TechCrunch why they made the shift: "We're good at building communities around early tech sectors. We bring together investors, entrepreneurs and builders, and by focusing investments on a category over....