Welcome to the Sacramento Startup Digest!

Global Startup Battle is on and two teams from the Nov 13-15 Startup Weekend at InnoGrove in Elk Grove are competing in the Champion’s Track! You can vote for them every 24 hours now through December 4th at 10 a.m. Pacific time.. Let’s show some love! Click to vote for InVimma and PlayToGather. If all of our Sacramento Startup Digest readers voted, our teams would be in the lead!

Show your support for our local startups by casting your votes for each team in several competitive tracks.

Share the startup love on Twitter! Click to Tweet for each team:

Vote for #Sacramento #Startup @PTGapp in Global Startup Battle! http://bit.ly/1IqxmMx #swsac #gsb2015 Click to Tweet

Vote for #Sacramento #Startup @InVimma in Global Startup Battle! http://bit.ly/1MX9jXp #swsac #gsb2015 Click to Tweet

Go Big with Ag this week!
The UC Davis World Food Center brings you the Food, Ag and Health Solution Summit –a series of events for fostering collaborations around ideas and technology to better feed the world. The three-day Summit will bring together entrepreneurs, farmers, industry executives, researchers, students, investors and technology developers in an out–of-the-box format. Included in the festivities is an Apps for Ag Hackathon with some killer CASH prizes ($5000 for First Place)! You need to check it out!

Party Time!
Looking to do a little holiday celebrating? Here’s a list of startup and technology focused Holiday gatherings happening this December.
!2/1 WordPress Holiday Party (Sacramento)
12/4 ACM Sacramento Chapter Holiday Party (Sacramento)
12/7 InnoGrove Holiday Open House (Elk Grove)
12/15 Startup Grind Sacramento Holiday Party (Sacramento)

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 I have not included, please submit it here for consideration.