Blue Startups Cohort 16 Honolulu Demo Night

Mark your calendars!

💙 Thursday, September 26, 2024

🌺 05:00 PM – 08:00 PM

📍 Entrepreneur Sandbox

Join us for Blue Startups Cohort 16 Honolulu Demo Night! The 12 companies will each give a 3-minute pitch, followed by round-robin style product demos and networking. Come meet the cohort and try out the products they’ve been building.

Check out our cohort 16 gallery here 🤙 

In this week’s spotlight series, we dive into three more exciting companies through personal interviews with their founders.

Want to meet these amazing founders in-person? Come see them at product demo night!

CleverFi

Mario Soave is Redefining Connectivity with CleverFi

High in the mountains of the Italian Alps, a young Mario Soave discovered the seeds of entrepreneurship. Every summer, Mario and his brother, who both suffered from asthma, would find relief in the crisp, clean Alpine air, where they would spend time at a summer camp and later with family. At 10 years old, he made pocket money collecting and selling Edelweiss flowers to other children…..

Maiven Energy

Maiven founder Jacqueline Halls passion for combatting climate change

When you meet Jacqueline Hall, you immediately notice the ever present smile that earned her the nickname “Smiley” as a child, and her undeniable confidence in what she has to offer to the world. For about 14 years, she has been working in the grid tech, energy, and utility space, a relatively male-dominated industry……

Umi

Fluency in 12 Months? Umi Redefines the Language Learning Experience

Jason Sharp counts himself lucky to have grown up with a dad who was obsessed with new technologies — from novel concepts in math to cutting edge videogames no other kids in the neighborhood knew about yet. However, at the age of 7……

Save the date

Our Demo Day in San Francisco is coming! Save the date for October 9, 2024! Stay tuned for more details in the weeks to come!

We’re excited for the first-in-history Honolulu Tech Week, Hawaii’s largest week of tech events hosted by our community’s industry leaders, founders, investors, and students. Join us and over 1,000 participants across 40+ events at 10+ venues. Experience Hawaii’s tech community come alive from September 16-22.

Sign up here to access to the event calendar and choose which panels, mixer, pau hanas, and product launches you’d like to attend

Blue Startups Featured Events:

• Sep. 17: Beyond the Islands: Scaling from Hawaii to Global Success
• Sep. 18: Powering Hawaii’s Energy the Electric Grid with Maiven Energy
• Sep. 18: AI Trends in Language Learning with Umi

Dataplor: 

• Executive Program Manager, Data Quality Manager (Remote)

Hokali: 

• Sales Executive – EdTech (Miami, FL (Hybrid)), After-School Programs // Jazz Funk (San Mateo, CA), Data Science Specialist – Sales Team Lead (Remote)

Hostfully: 

• Mid-Level Quality Assurance Engineer, Junior Marketing Specialist, Senior Backend Developer (Java), Technical Support Representative, Senior Frontend React Developer (Remote)

Instant: 

• Teams Customer Service Agent (Remote)

Inttent: 

• Front-End Engineer, ML Engineer (Remote)

Kind Traveler: 

• West Coast Sales Territory Manager, East Coast Sales Territory Manager, Various sales positions—Southwest, Europe, Asia, Australia

NMG Network:

• Operations and Sales Assistant (Honolulu, HI)

Quibble:

• Senior MERN Software Engineer (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Business Development Manager (Miami, FL), Business Development Manager (Remote), Senior Revenue Manager (San Juan, Puerto Rico)

Reef.ai:

• Technical Customer Lead (Remote (Seattle, Portland))

Turno:

• Technical Lead, Full Stack Engineer, Account Executive (Remote)