Last week turned out to be a busy one in Sacramento’s startup community. Here’s a quick recap of some of the highlights.
Kings Capitalize
The Sacramento Kings, in collaboration with Velocity Venture Capital, held the semifinals pitch contest of their Sacramento Kings & Velocity Venture Capital’s Capitalize competition on Tuesday. The day started out with 32 semifinalists and ended with 4 winning teams who will compete at a Kings game on April 5 to determine the winner.
Check out the video of the event that the Kings published.
Startup Hustle
Hacker Lab’s Startup Hustle began their second cohort with notifications going out to the selected teams on Tuesday and #StartupHustle916 beginning on Thursday.
Tomorrow tomorrow who’s excited? We are! #StartUpHustle916 begins tomorrow. Notifications should have gone out yesterday. Who’s in?
— Hacker Lab (@SacHackerLab) March 24, 2016
Beer & Geeks
Dozens of Sacramento’s tech peeps showed up at the Red Rabbit in Midtown for the monthly installment of Beer & Geeks.
Early in the evening at Beer & Geeks at Red Rabbit
Innovate: A Creative Campus
The Sacramento Bee’s Bob Shallit published an article on Wednesday about a planned project just to the south of Sleep Train Arena in Natomas to:
Develop a “creative space” business park with Silicon Valley-type amenities aimed at drawing cutting-edge companies and entrepreneurial startups.
Sacramento’s ‘Massive’ Innovation Fund
Matt Williams of TechWire published an interview with Abhi Nemani, who was hired by Mayor Kevin Johnson’s to build out a new innovation office. Read the article Sacramento’s ‘Massive’ Innovation Fund Brings Excitement on Techwire.
UC Davis Partners with Coworking Spaces
Sacramento Business Journal’s Mark Anderson wrote about the University of California Davis launching partnerships with two local co-working spaces: Hacker Lab in Sacramento and Area 52 in Davis.
Read the story at the Sacramento Business Journal.
Build Sacramento
The Sacramento Regional Innovation & Growth Council aka @BuildSacramento announced itself in a tweet on Friday. They describe themselves as:
a community resource by @HelloFounder to build & accelerate the growth and development of entrepreneurship in the Greater Sacramento Region.
Hello #Sacramento Let’s build a strong center for Entrepreneurship together. #SacTech https://t.co/7LyQL3TieJ pic.twitter.com/K4yp1bw2Cf
— Build Sacramento (@BuildSacramento) March 25, 2016
On Tap This Week
What’s going to happen this week? Watch for Laura Good’s Startup Digest newsletter to come out tomorrow morning highlighting what to expect in the coming week. What’s that? You don’t subscribe to Sacramento Startup Digest? Get on the ball and sign up.
