Bay Area Startup Foundation

UC LAUNCH DEMO DAY
2025-04-22 10:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, 2220 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94720
The Spring 2025 UC LAUNCH Demo Day showcases the top 12 startups from across the UC system for a chance to win up to $60K in cash prizes!

UC LAUNCH presented by Berkeley Haas is the University of California’s leading accelerator, designed to transform early-stage startups into fundable companies. Get ready for an exciting showcase of innovative ideas and groundbreaking projects from our talented entrepreneurs on April 22nd.

On Demo Day our startups are awarded up to $60,000 in prizes and a $1,000 audience choice award.

Program Agenda:

9:30 am – 10:00 am – Registration & Light Breakfast10:00 am – 12:30 pm – Program, Finalists Pitch & Awards12:30 pm – 1:30 pm – Networking and Lunch

Join us at the Haas School of Business for a day filled with pitches, networking, and inspiration. Don’t miss this opportunity to witness the future of entrepreneurship unfold right before your eyes.

Seats are limited, register now to reserve your spot!

Questions? Contact: launch@berkeley.edu

JAVELIN PARTNERS, SWIFT VENTURES, UNDERDOG LABS, COMERICA BANK, GOOGLE CLOUD

Startup World Cup Harker National Youth Qualifier
2025-04-18 17:00 - 20:30 | The Harker School – Upper School Campus, 500 Saratoga Avenue, San Jose, California, 95129
STARTUP WORLD CUP

Startup World Cup is a global series of conferences and competitions that bring together the top startups, investors, entrepreneurs and tech CEOs around the world. Starting with regional competitions in nearly 100+ countries across six continents, hundreds of selected top technology startups compete for the chance to move onto the Grand Finale event in San Francisco to win a $1 million investment grand prize. Startup World Cup is organized by Pegasus Tech Ventures in partnership with investors and local sponsors. For more information on the Startup World Cup, please visithttps://www.startupworldcup.io. (www.pegasustechventures.com)

Check out the Grand Finale 2024Highlight Here.

Judges and Speakers: Coming Soon!

Please note that all ticket sales are final.

Please note that all sales are final. Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable. Please also note that details and the content of the event may be subject to change at any time at the organizer’s sole discretion without formal notification.

For more information, please check out the Startup World Cup website atwww.startupworldcup.io.

Mountain View Bootstrappers Breakfast
2025-04-18 09:00 - 10:30 | Red Rock Coffee, 201 Castro Street, Mountain View, California, 94041
Face to Face Event for Bootstrapping Entrepreneurs to Compare Notes On Their Startup in a Roundtable Discussion Format

Come join entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast®. At a Bootstrappers Breakfast® we have serious conversations about growing a business based on internal cashflow and organic profit: this is for founders who are actively bootstrapping a startup.

The other attendees will all be in startups. It will be a chance to compare notes on operational, development, and business issues with peers. Now in our 14th year in Silicon Valley.

For more information about the group visit bootstrappersbreakfast.com

Order downstairs and then join us upstairs in the Nook Area on the second floor. It’s two lefts at the top of the stairs.

TEN Capital & Silicon Valley Venture Group LIVE
2025-04-10 12:00 - 19:30 | Perkins Coie LLP, 3150 Porter Drive, Palo Alto, California, 94304
Join TEN & SVVG in the Bay area for a fun afternoon of startup pitches and happy hour snacks & drinks!

How to Pitch Your WOW! to Investors- Bill Reichert, Pegasus Tech Ventures
2025-04-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Daybreak Labs, 7683 Southfront Road Suite 230, Livermore, California, 94551
Early-stage founders will learn how to strategically attract, hire, and manage student interns to accelerate their company’s growth.

Grab pizza on us and join Kristi Vanderhoof, Career Center Coordinator at Las Positas College, as she walks startup founders and team members through the process of attracting,hiring, and retaining college student interns. Daybreak Labs founder and serial entrepreneur, George Farquar, will discuss how he built a high-performing team at his last company, Buzzkill Labs, with a strategic hiring strategy that began with internships.

Attendees will learn:

Timeline for posting, hiring, and starting interns

How to create a Handshake account

How to structure an internship project so the company and intern both get value

How to retain effective interns and attract them as future FTEs

Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptops so they can create their Handshake account with Kristi’s help during the workshop.

ABOUT KRISTI VANDERHOOF

As Career Center Coordinator at an award-winning community college, Kristi finds it rewarding to match qualified students with an employer offering career-building opportunities. Employers change lives by offering young adults, career changers, refugees, veterans, and historically underrepresented students with internships and jobs that enable them to learn new skills related to their field of study.Kristi also helps employers find and foster new talent at Las Positas College by hosting job and internship fairs and on-site recruitment events, administering Handshake (career services platform and job board), and promoting employers’ opportunities to relevant departments on campus.Her goal is to provide a welcoming environment for students seeking jobs, internships, and career guidance. No matter where students are at–if they have no work experience, are restarting their career after a break, or changing careers–she offers them helpful resources, compassionate guidance, and honest feedback to help them achieve their personal and professional goals.Kristi also speak Spanish fluently after taking 6 years of courses and living in Oaxaca, Mexico, for two years. Connect with Kristi on LinkedIn.

ABOUT GEORGE FARQUAR

Most recently serving as the founder and CTO of Buzzkill Labs, George Farquar, a serial entrepreneur and Daybreak Labs alum, brings over 20 years of analytical chemistry experience, including 10 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he developed solutions for detecting trace chemicals using a variety of chemistry techniques. He earned his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. George is a proud product of the California community college system, and has strategically used community college student interns as a way to build a high functioning team of FTEs whose careers matured with their education and the company he founded.

ABOUT LAS POSITAS COLLEGE

Las Positas College is an award winning community college that provides an inclusive, learning-centered, equity-focused environment that offers educational opportunities and support for completion of students’ transfer, degree, and career-technical goals while promoting lifelong learning. Learn more at https://laspositascollege.edu
