Pittsburgh, it’s your chance to highlight your favorite local companies, investors and entrepreneurs.
This November, XchangePgh will host the inaugural Pgh Startup Community Awards, where organizations and people will be celebrated for what they’ve brought to the Pittsburgh innovation ecosystem.
If you’ll remember: At the beginning of 2023, the innovation-themed event series XchangePgh was launched with an ideathon, followed by Xchange Innovation Week in April. Organizers Kit Mueller and co. promised a year of events geared toward bringing technologists, entrepreneurs, and other startup stakeholders together.
In this next event on Nov. 10, the startup community will gather at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center where in addition to being surrounded by friends and colleagues, attendees can enjoy the MC stylings of comedian Day Bracey.
But first, XchangePgh needs you to tell them who deserve the spotlight:
To help narrow things down, the powers that be say they’d like to see the nominees be companies and people driven by innovation practices who have displayed entrepreneurial growth. The categories are:
- Founder of the Year
- Local Startup of the Year
- Angel Investor of the Year
- Institutional Investor of the Year
- Accelerator / Incubator of the Year
- Coworking Space of the Year
- Startup Hangout Spot of the Year
- Community Builder of the Year
- Equity Champion of the Year
- Lifetime Achievement Award
- Wild Card Categories (TBD community-voted categories)
Send in your nominations by Oct. 13. By offering your insight, the organizers say, you’re supporting a community-driven celebration of Pittsburgh startups.
What if there were community-based / peer voted awards for our region’s best startups, founders, investors & organizations….
Coming this November! pic.twitter.com/4RPswwK4Fw
— XchangePgh (@XchangePgh) July 8, 2023
P.S. Later this month, look for the opening of nominations for Technical.ly’s own community-voted awards program, the all-virtual Technical.ly Awards. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay in the know.
Atiya Irvin-Mitchell is a 2022-2024 corps member for Report for America, an initiative of The Groundtruth Project that pairs young journalists with local newsrooms. This position is supported by the Heinz Endowments.Before you go...
Please consider supporting Technical.ly to keep our independent journalism strong. Unlike most business-focused media outlets, we don’t have a paywall. Instead, we count on your personal and organizational support.
3 ways to support our work:- Contribute to the Journalism Fund. Charitable giving ensures our information remains free and accessible for residents to discover workforce programs and entrepreneurship pathways. This includes philanthropic grants and individual tax-deductible donations from readers like you.
- Use our Preferred Partners. Our directory of vetted providers offers high-quality recommendations for services our readers need, and each referral supports our journalism.
- Use our services. If you need entrepreneurs and tech leaders to buy your services, are seeking technologists to hire or want more professionals to know about your ecosystem, Technical.ly has the biggest and most engaged audience in the mid-Atlantic. We help companies tell their stories and answer big questions to meet and serve our community.
Join our growing Slack community
Join 5,000 tech professionals and entrepreneurs in our community Slack today!
The person charged in the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting had a ton of tech connections
From rejection to innovation: How I built a tool to beat AI hiring algorithms at their own game
Where are the country’s most vibrant tech and startup communities?
