Marrone Bio Innovations Founder, Pam Marrone will be presenting the keynote at the inaugural Founder Institute Graduation Celebration on March 30.

The Founder Institute is the world’s premeir idea-stage accelerator and startup launch program headquartered in Silicon Valley. The Founder Institute maintains chapters in over 80 cities and more than 40 different nations across the globe.

The celebration will highlight the graduating class with a three minute pitch of each startup by its founder:

  • Juan Juan: Fanalyze – The Analyze in Fantasy Sports
  • Carolyn Peer: Humaxa – Human Resources, Maximized
  • Brenda Tello Horton: ProPlanr – One Place For All Your Plans and Tasks

The Founder Institute startup accelerator is an extremely challenging program, and graduating is a significant achievement. In fact, less than 40% of applicants are accepted to the program, and less than 30% of those generally make it through.

Dr. Pamela Marrone, CEO and founder of Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI), started the company in 2006 to discover and develop effective and environmentally responsible, biologically-based products for pest management and plant health. In August 2013, she led the company IPO on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Prior to establishing MBI, Dr. Marrone founded AgraQuest (1995-2006) where she served as its CEO, Chairman and President. Before AgraQuest, she was founding president of Entotech, Inc. (1990-1995), a biopesticide subsidiary of Novo Nordisk. Pam started her career in biopesticides by leading the Insect Biology group at Monsanto (1983-1990), which was involved in pioneering projects based on natural products and plant biotechnology.

Date: Friday, March 30, 2018

Time: 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT

Place: Cowo Campus Co-Working Space, 1507 21st Street, Sacramento, CA 95811

Register: Eventbrite

Cost: Free

Agenda:

4:00 – 4:20 Mix and Mingle

4:20 – 4:30 Opening Remarks by Rich Foreman, Sacramento’s Startup Grind Host

4:30 – 5:00 Keynote by Pam Marrone of Marrone Bio Innovations

5:00 – 5:50 Founder Pitches and Q&A from audience

5:50 – 6:00 Closing Remarks and Acknowledgements

6:00 – 7:00 Mix and Mingle in lobby at Cowo Campus

Startup Grind Sacramento Director, Rich Foreman will be the emcee for this event.