Join Us for a Night of DEMOs and Community as We connect Santa BarbaRa startups to SOME Amazing Opportunities!
StartupSB, THE SANDBOX, Tech.CO, 1776, Revolution Ventures, Surf Air, Nest Apart, Cox Business, Cal Lutheran University's Center for Entreprenurship and Tight Ship Design are proud to present the first annual Santa Barbara Startup Mashup 2017, on September 28th at 6pm at THE SANDBOX.
The event will give 14 Santa Barbara startups a chance to showcase their startup in front of a packed audience of investors, mentors, the media, your peers, friends and family... and win a number of opportunities and prizes!
We will recognize two Santa Barbara startups headed to San Francisco as regional winners of StartupSB and Tech Co’s Startup of the Year competition.
And 1776 (www.1776.vc) and Revolution Ventures have included Santa Barbara in the 2017 Challenge Cup (https://www.1776.vc/ challenge-cup/) creating a second amazing opportunity for Santa Barbara Startups!
The Santa Barbara Challenge Cup winner will receive an all expense paid trip to Washington DC to compete in the Challenge cup finals in November.
You can also find more information about The Challenge Cup Here: https://www.1776.vc/challenge-cup/
This is a GREAT opportunity for Santa Barbara Startups and the first event in a partnership between THE SANDBOX, StartupSB and 1776 and Revolution Ventures.
Hope you can join us for the Santa Barbara Startup Mashup 2017!!!
Interested in Sponsoring the event... contact us at info@startupsb.com
TechCo has been bringing together and showcasing early stage startups since 2006. Our mission is to discover and support the most promising and innovative startups in the world. In doing so, TechCo has had the pleasure of meeting and helping to amplify the stories of some great companies like GrubHub, Groupon, LivingSocial, AddThis, Desk, and even Uber.
Jonathan Littman is the founder of SmartUp.life, The Innovation Hub. He spent 6 years studying IDEO, and is the co-author of the international bestsellers, The Art of Innovation and Ten Faces of Innovation. Jonathan leads seminars and delivers keynotes on entrepreneurship, startups, and innovation in the U.S., Europe and China, and is currently developing a digital, holistic tool for startups to self-assess and for investors and advisors to evaluate their progress in collaboration with Denise Gershbein, formerly of Frog Design. Jonathan has just begun a new book with Susanna Camp focusing on the core human elements of entrepreneurship.
Christina Topacio is Founder + CEO of JIG+SAW, a global creative community for female entrepreneurs and creatives. JIG+SAW's holds a robust network of female entrepreneurs in Los Angeles and nationwide to support entrepreneurs in their growth of their businesses, having access to a slate of professional resources. Prior to creating JIG+SAW, Topacio led global marketing campaigns for leading consumer brands as a senior Marketing executive. She and her team were responsible for the successful subscription box business and editorial platform for Beautycon as well as dominated on influencer marketing for brands like L'OREAL, LACOSTE, Refinery29, Garnier, eBay, Hearst Media, and Mattel.
Steve is the Founder and Chief Evangelist at LogicMonitor. Since its founding, LogicMonitor has become one of the strongest growing IT software companies in the world, with nearly 200 employees and 1,200 customers. Prior to founding LogicMonitor, Steve was responsible for the data center operations of a diverse group of organizations including National Geographic, the University of California, Citrix Online, and Valueclick. When Steve isn't running a performance monitoring empire, you can find him stand up paddle boarding, doing jiu jitsu, swimming, or biking - he is clearly not athletic.
Andria Martinez Cohen is an underwriter, small business lender and certified Economic Development Finance Professional (EDFP). She currently underwrites SBA loans for GrowAmerica Fund, Inc. (GAF), a non-profit community development financial institution that provides flexible and patient capital to small businesses in a range of industries throughout the U.S. GAF is the lending affiliate of the National Development Council (NDC), a national non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the flow of capital to underserved urban and rural areas for job creation and community development. Prior to NDC GAF, Andria worked for Women's Economic Ventures (WEV), a Santa Barbara based non-profit organization dedicated to micro-enterprise development in the Tri-County area. With more than a dozen years working in small business development, Andria has analyzed & funded hundreds of start-up and early stage companies. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs and women, in particular, overcome adversity and achieve success through education, opportunity and financial
empowerment.
