MassChallenge Texas Awards on August 15
The Forrest Four-Cast: August 13, 2018
UPDATE: The Wednesday, Aug 15 MassChallenge Texas Awards event is now sold out. But a waitlist is available and potential attendees are encouraged to sign up on this waitlist to get a ticket as more become available.
Sign up now to attend the first-ever MassChallenge Texas Awards Ceremony at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, August 15 at the Hyatt Regency (208 Barton Springs, 78704).
The MassChallenge Awards Ceremonies are the grand finale of each MassChallenge accelerator program. This is when the top startups from each cohort are recognized by community leaders to a room full of potential investors and customers, MassChallenge mentors, VIP community leaders, and loved ones. This event is the flagship experience of the accelerator program and is when the equity free grants are awarded.
At this August 15 event, MassChallenge Texas will award up to $500,000 in equity-free cash prizes to the top startups from the accelerator program as selected by the community.
Keynotes at the event will be given by Cristal Glangchai (CEO/Founder of VentureLab and author of Venture Girls), and Julia Cheek (CEO/Founder of EverlyWell).
More Austin events for the week of August 13
August 13: Women Who Code Austin Hacking Hangout
August 13: Co-Founders Wanted Austin Meet Up
August 13: EFF-Austin Meet Up
August 13: Intro to Coding: HTML & CSS
August 13: Austin Clojure Meet Up
August 13: AustinRB Meet Up
August 14: Influencer Marketing for the Video Game Industry
August 14: Capital Factory Accelerator Info Session
August 14: Intro to the Austin Startup Scene (Pride Edition)
August 14: Bunker Brews + Energy Policy Townhall
August 14: Learn to Code Austin Meet Up
August 14: Austin Tech Alliance Budget Party 2018
August 14: Female Founder Roundtable
August 14: Introduction to Data Analytics
August 14: Austin Deep Learning Meet Up
August 14: Austin Blockchain Technology & Hyperledger Meet Up
August 14: Tech Essentials for Product Managers
August 15: Seat at the Table Austin
August 15: Get Launched: A Startup event with Microchip Technology
August 15: EdTech Austin Meet Up
August 15: Introduction to Wireframing With Sketch & Invision
August 15: Agile2018 Conference Top 10 Takeaways
August 15: MassChallenge Texas Awards Ceremony
August 15: Austin Go Language User Group
August 16: Austin Hardware Startup Meet Up
August 16: User-Palooza Startup Event
August 16: VR Cafe
August 16: Bleeding Edge Web Meet Up
August 16: Austin Cassandra Users
August 16: American Hate Survivors Speak Out
August 16: How to Create Meaningful Relationships Through Networking
August 16: start@ETS Launch Party
August 16: How to Get a Job at a Startup
August 16: Product Management Info Session
August 18: Digital Marketing Bootcamp
More Upcoming Austin Events
August 22: Snap Judgement LIVE!
August 23: Profiles in Power
August 23: Is Blockchain Worth the Hype?
August 29: Scale Up
August 30-Sept 2: Babes Fest 2018
September 4: Austin Forum Cybersecurity Session
September 13: Design Sprint Bootcamp with Jake Knapp
September 13–15: Online News Association (ONA) Conference
September 14: Austin-San Antonio Growth Summit
September 15: DeRay McKesson Book Reading
September 20: Health Insurance 101 for Entrepreneurs & Startups
September 20–22: Creatives Meet Business Experience 2018
September 27–29: 2018 Texas Tribune Festival
October 2: InnoTech Austin
Oct 5–7: ACL Fest, Weekend #1
Oct 9: Texas Voter Registration Deadline
Oct 11: Casey Gerald Book Reading
Oct 12–14: ACL Fest, Weekend #2
Oct 25-Nov 1: Austin Film Festival
October 27–28: 2018 Texas Book Festival
November 6: 2018 Midterm Elections
November 9: SXSW Pitch Entry Deadline
November 9: SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards Entry Deadline
November 27–28: Solar Business Festival
Deadline to register to vote in Texas for the November 2018 general election is Tuesday, October 9.
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Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW, the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.
