Santa Barbara Startup Weekend

Join us for a jam-packed weekend loaded with creativity, high-energy, and entrepreneurial spirit. It creates a forum for creators and idealists to gain insight while being a relevant, real-time experience for growing a business as well as expanding their resumes, portfolios, and networks. Weekend activities begin with rapid-fire startup pitches and team formation. Participants then move to prototype building while receiving valuable mentor feedback from experts in the field and keynote speakers. We conclude with a Shark Tank-style judging session where prizes are awarded to the best new startups!

What’s in it for you?
-The opportunity to finally jump start that business idea into reality that you have always been thinking about
– 7 catered meals, coffee, snacks, all the fuel you need
– T-shirt -Sponsor swag and goodies
– Networking with fellow participants, successful entrepreneurs, and company sponsors
– Free website .co domain -A potential job because a lot of mentors and companies are hiring at the event!
– Great winning prizes to support your startup beyond the weekend!

Tickets are not sold out yet. Sign up before it is too late!

Santa Barbara Startup Weekend hopes to make this event more diverse, inclusive, and impactful by removing barriers to attending. We are offering students a 50% discount code: “STUDENT”. We will be checking student IDs at check-in so be sure to bring yours.

To ensure that this event is not cost prohibitive for anyone, we have created diversity scholarships to give up to 80% off for the weekend. If you identify as a woman, person of color, lgbtq, or person with disability, please fill out an application here: bit.ly/SBSWdiversityscholarship (Deadline to apply is end of day on July 17th)
Please reach out to us at santabarbara@startupweekend.org if you have any questions. More info and tickets can be found here: bit.ly/sbstartupweekend