Want to meet dozens of other startup founders? Come out to TechExpo this Thursday morning at McClellan Conference Center! The Expo is free (9:30-11:30) and will be followed by TechEdge, a luncheon and speaker event. Tech Partners (that’s you!) can purchase a ticket for just $50 (a $30 savings over general admission). Speakers include Fantag’s CEO John Stone, Emtrain’s founder & CEO Janine Yancey, Black Angel Tech Fund’s founder Kwame Anku, Match.com cofounder Will Bunker, and Intel’s Dr. Stephen Keeney, VP of Non-volatile Memory Solutions Group. Over 20 early stage Sacramento tech startups (and counting) will have exhibits at the Expo! Come find me and Jeff — StartupSac have an exhibit too! Register/More Info (tip: scroll down on the event page and hit “read more” to see the list of exhibitors and speakers).

If you’re fund raising or recently closed on a seed or A round, you will benefit from attending tomorrow’s workshop, Leveraging Investor Relationships. The workshop will include presentations from Weintraub Tobin and a panel of investors and funded startups. I have $20 off for you too — use “digest” in the promo code to save almost 50%

The Kings Capitalize pitch contest winner will be announced at Thursday night’s game against the Atlanta Hawks. From 75 to 16 to the final 4! The winner will get $10,000! You can influence the outcome by voting for your favorite finalist on Twitter. One vote per day per account plus other requirements to make sure it counts (like retweets don’t count). Get all the details here.

 

Plan Ahead

Get Your Impact Global Venture Summit ticket now at 75% off! Impact has GENEROUSLY offered 75% off it’s early bird price of $100 to readers of the Startup Digest. That’s just $25 for a full day conference at the Golden 1 Center. If you are a startup and serious about scaling, you need to be at this event ! The deep discount expires on March 23 so extend your runway by getting your ticket today.

StartupSac Happy Hour is road-tripping it to Davis next week. We’re still locking down the venue but sign up now (free!) and we will get the venue deets to you later this week. The AMA guest is John Bissell, founder of Origin Materials.

Speaking of road trips, next week is the last Wednesday of the month and that means 1 Million Cups will be meeting in an alternate location. Catch presentations from two startup founders at Haney Business Ventures in Rocklin on 3/27 from 9-10 am. Placer County here we come!

There’s lots of great stuff going on in the tech startup community–check out the details in this week’s Startup Digest. If you’d like to receive the digest in your inbox every Monday morning, sign up for free here. If you’ve organized (or know about) an event we have not included, please submit it here for consideration. And for even more startup information, happenings and resources, visit the StartupSac Website.  Note: We include a lot of tech events that aren’t necessarily startup-focused on the event calendar on the StartupSac website. Check it out here.