Creating a More Connected Innovation Community
The Innovation Showcase helps bridge the gap between research and commercialization by highlighting the most promising discoveries and new technologies ready for commercialization in Washington State. This quarterly event, attended by our state’s startup leaders, investors, service providers, and serial entrepreneurs, promotes the idea sharing and networking that helps turn research into results. Innovation Showcases feature presentations by 3-6 innovators hand-selected by our program manager and screening committee.
Submissions
Would your company benefit from the opportunity to: Expand your network to include those in the startup community with a keen interest in putting you on a path to achieving your next milestone? Work with expert coaches - at no cost to you - to hone your pitch before you meet with investors? Become a member of a collegial community interested in following your future successes?
Are you a Washington company: Commercializing around groundbreaking IP that you control? Headed by a CEO who is still building out the team? With a prototype completed or very nearly so? Which has creatively financed its efforts through grants and bootstrapping to make it this far?
If so, we encourage you to submit your free application! Read and download our application below, and contact Ethan Anderson for more information.
Read/download (PDF):
Click here for a list of past Innovation Showcase companies, media coverage, and participant testimonials.
Fall 2013 Innovation Showcase
Information about our next Showcase event coming soon.
Individual Ticket: $75
Firm Membership: $1000
Firm Memberships include one ticket to each quarterly event, and recognition on the display screen before and after each event and on the program webpage.
Leadership
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Chair
- Joe Piper, Point B Capital
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Screening Committee
- Jack Breese, Washington Advisory Group
- Ky Calder, Calder Investment Partners
- Jeffry Canin, Auxin Partners
- Tom Clement, Aqueduct Neurosciences
- Anson Fatland, Washington State University
- Gary Kocher, K&L Gates
- Loretta Little, WRF Capital
- Stewart Lyman, Lyman Biopharma Consulting
- Susannah Malarkey, Technology Alliance
- Matt McIlwain, Madrona Venture Group
- Ulrich Mueller, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Maren Ohaks, UW Center for Commercialization
- Chris Porter, Medical Genesis
- Erick Rabins, Auxin Partners
- Patrick Shelby, UW Center for Commercialization
- Michael Stein, Woodcock Washburn
- Brook Wessel, T-Venture of America
Sponsorships
Engage with our audience of angel investors, venture capitalists, seasoned entrepreneurs, and service providers focused on the needs of very early stage businesses as an Innovation Showcase sponsor, and enjoy flexible memberships for your company, your company logo featured on signage and in electronic communications, and opportunities to introduce innovators, along with other exciting benefits.
Contact Katy Tollefson at (206) 389-7259 or by email for more information.
