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Demo days definitely amplify a brand, but not the one you’d think

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This week, in light of Y Combinator’s biannual Demo Day, Natasha and Alex asked about the utility of the parade of pitches. Our big question: Are demo days outdated? We’ve seen everything from in-person events to virtual pitch-a-thons to record efforts and more. We also ask who demo days are really for.

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Here are all 20 companies from Alchemist Accelerator’s latest Demo Day

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Alchemist Accelerator is back with another Demo Day — its 29th Demo Day overall, and the latest in the series to be entirely virtual. Alchemist’s Ravi Belani also shared plans to announce some news during today’s Demo Day, including that: They’ve raised $2 million from German chemistry company BASF.

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Meet the women-led web3 startups from Thousand Faces’ demo day

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Thousand Faces , a web3 community-based investment group, hosted its demo day on Wednesday with the top 10 startups from its Female Founder Accelerator program. The demo day coincided with International Women’s Day and featured women-led businesses focused on sustainable development goals (SDGs).

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Our favorite companies from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day: Part 1

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Today is Demo Day for Y Combinator’s latest accelerator batch — its largest to date, with more than 300 teams getting a minute each to pitch their companies to an audience of investors. This is the third time YC has held its Demo Day via a Zoom livestream and the second time the entire program was entirely virtual.

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Here are all of the companies presenting at Alchemist Accelerator’s 30th Demo Day today

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It’s Demo Day time! Today marks the 30th Demo Day for Alchemist , the enterprise-focused accelerator that helped grow companies like LaunchDarkly, Rigetti Computing and Privacera early on. As with Alchemist’s last few Demo Days, today’s presentations will be entirely virtual and streamed on YouTube.

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Here are the 23 companies pitching at Alchemist Accelerator’s Demo Day XXVIII today

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Today is the 28th Demo Day for Alchemist , an accelerator that primarily focuses on enterprise companies — or those that sell to other companies, primarily, rather than directly to consumers. The first programs will be launched in Canada, Japan and Korea. It’s that time again! This latest cohort comes in at 23 companies.

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BrioHR raises $1.3M ahead of Y Combinator’s demo day

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As the next Y Combinator demo day approaches, more startups from the current Winter 2021 batch are showing up in our inboxes. Perhaps this is the impact of so many accelerators going virtual, widening the founder pool from whom they might matriculate to include a more global group of founders.