As promised, startup accelerator Y Combinator’s imminent Demo Day shall be taking place in individual. In reality, YC appears to have kicked off the IRL return of Demo Day on the finish of the lengthy Thanksgiving weekend, with an in-person Alumni Demo Day on Sunday for the Fall 2024 class of startups.
Squad founder (and later Twitter and Meta product supervisor) Esther Crawford praised the “excessive power” of getting to listen to 93 startups pitch in-person, whereas Avni Patel Thompson, founder and CEO of Milo, described it as “a costume rehearsal for the founders but in addition a stupendous pay-it-forward for alums to come back again and assist the present batch.”
The “costume rehearsal” is presumably for the primary Demo Day, the place the founders pitch to an viewers of buyers and press. That Demo Day is scheduled for later this week, on Wednesday, December 4.
Digital Demo Days had been a lingering artifact of the switch to remote during the pandemic; at YC’s September Demo Day, CEO Garry Tan mentioned these displays could be the last ones held entirely online, “knock on wooden.”
Now YC describes Demo Day as “again to being in-person,” with an invite-only viewers of round 1,500 — and should you can’t make it to San Francisco, you’ll need to make do with a Demo Day web site “which has data on the businesses that offered.”
