Equitech with UpSurge Baltimore, Hutch, and Techstars
Please join UpSurge Baltimore, Hutch, and Techstars for three Equitech workshops designed to support founders and tech startups in Baltimore.
2 pm: Finding your first investment (1 hour)
Hosted by Techstars MD, Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips
Techstars
Techstars believes entrepreneurs can change the world. At Techstars, we help grow their ideas into world-changing businesses. The Techstars Equitech accelerator is for startups from any sector that are grounded in the values of diversity, led by founders from underestimated communities, or developing technologies that increase access and equity across society.
3 pm: Building diverse digital services (1 hour)
Hutch founders will share how they're building more equitable tech solutions while building a lasting brand and culture at the forefront of their businesses.
Hosted by Hutch Program Manager, Stephanie Chin
Stephanie Chin
Hutch
Hutch is a Baltimore-based 24-month B2G (business-to-government) program that provides minorities and women entrepreneurs with a blueprint for building successful, government-focused digital services firms. Established by our parent brand, Fearless, Hutch equips civic tech entrepreneurs with the tools, mentorship, and peer-to-peer support they need to have a lasting impact on their government and their communities.
4 pm: Love and Loyalty: The Value of Focusing on Community over Customers
Community isn’t a new thing. But in the digital age, community has become an accelerant, lighting the fires of both company growth and social change. How can companies take the concepts of community and movement building and apply them to their marketing and retention strategies, to create spine-tingling connection and loyalty? Come find out.
Jamie McDonald
UpSurge Baltimore
UpSurge Baltimore is tapping into Baltimore’s assets to build more than the next great tech city. We’re students of the country’s tech hubs, but we want to be uniquely Baltimore in our approach. We’re mobilizing around a new vision: to be the country’s first Equitech city. Equitech is about building a tech economy where all belong. To do this, UpSurge is focused on supporting founders of tech and high-growth startups, especially underserved entrepreneurs.
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