XchangePgh wants your nominations for the inaugural Pgh Startup Community Awards

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:

Submit your nominations

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.