We have so much to be thankful for this month! The StartOut community had an incredible month full of impressive accomplishments and milestones. 2017 is shaping up to be a blockbuster year for StartOut — can’t wait to see what’s to come in December.
StartOut News
“It’s not predictable who’s going to be the wonder project or wonder product that comes out. But wouldn’t it be wonderful if that happens as part of the StartOut Growth Lab?”
-Tom Gaynor at Nixon Peabody in an interview from the ABA Journal on StartOut’s Growth Lab
- StartOut LA’s Demo Day was a wild success!
- We learned a lot at San Francisco’s cryptocurrency event hosted by Morrison Foerster!
StartOut community news & stories
- StartOut Board Chair, Dr. Vivienne Ming, keynoted at the 2017 Dreamforce Conference.
- OUT Magazine profiled several StartOut members in “5 Startups Founded by LGBT Entrepreneurs”
- Former StartOut awardee Geoff Lewis moving on up with his own venture capital firm!
- Our friends at Bravely were featured in the NY Business Times on how they started their business.
- StartOut programming board member’s business, MeetSelect, is growing in a big way!
- Our friends over at Backstage Capital had an exciting month!
- And that’s not all we saw from our 2017 StartOut Awardee! CNN profiled Arlan Hamilton and her experience being a black, queer and female VC.
- StartOut Members at Esquify got a big investment!
- StartOut superstars at Hip Chick Farms won the 2017 Next Generation Pioneer Award.
Finishing 2017 with a bang!
- Stay tuned next month for our announcement on the companies who will join us at StartOut’s Growth Lab in 2018!
- Are you looking for a way to give back? Consider joining StartOut’s mentorship program, sponsored by AT&T. It’s a great way to make a big impact on other #LGBTQ #Entrepreneurs!
- We’ve got several more events in 2017 to finish the year with a bang!
- StartOut is growing as 2018 approaches as well — we’re hiring for four positions!
We’ll catch ya again in December — let us know what you’ve been up to in the meantime!
