Welcome to the Sacramento Startup Digest!
This week finally feels like summer — the startup community in Sacramento is taking a break! There aren’t a lot of events going on this week, so catch your breath and ponder your startup future.
This Week’s Best Bets
Med Tech or Health Tech your thing? Attend the free MedStart networking mixer at The Urban Hive on Thursday.
Are you a game developer? There’s an interesting workshop at Hacker Lab on Friday on Visual Novel and Independent Game Production.
Are you a data whiz/hacker? Take a trip to to Silicon Valley and participate in NGA’s Expedition Hackathon this weekend.
Plan Ahead
Dave McClure, founder of 500 Startups, is Startup Grind Sacramento’s guest on August 9. This event WILL sell out this week so if you want to go, GET YOUR TICKET NOW! Use code “digest” and save $5.
The Agtech event of the year is coming to Woodland on Saturday August 20. Dinner and Drones promises to fabulous! Who doesn’t enjoy a drone race?
Plan a Trip
Techcrunch Disrupt is happening in SF September 12-14. Early bird tickets will save you $1000 but you need to snap them up before August 12. If you’re a startup with some traction, consider exhibiting — this is one of the biggest startup events of the year in the U.S. and the place will be crawling with investors. And there’s a free hackthon (developers only) happening Sep 10-11.
And yet another hackathon! Billed as the hackathon for hackers by hackers, /hack is happening in SF August 27-28.
End Note
Looking for Maker and Design Classes? Hacker Lab has it going on! Check out their full calendar of events here. Lots of opportunities to learn in both their Midtown and Rocklin locations. There’s also a new maker space in town. Check out MakerHQ. They also offer maker classes.
There’s lots of great stuff going on in the tech startup community–check out the details below. If you’ve organized (or know about) an event we have not included, please submit it here for consideration.
