Investor Events During SXSW 2025
Written by CS Freeland
I curate a list of Texas investor-featured events during SXSW. Below you’ll find activities hosted or sponsored by VCs, SXSW investor speakers, pitch competitions, meet ups, mentor sessions, and more. Send this to your friends + share your investor-featured event with me via LinkedIn or email. This list has consistently been the #1 resource for the innovation community for now 3 years in a row with thousands of views, so thanks for helping keep this valuable!
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NETWORKING
3/5, 6-8pm, Silicon Hills’ Pre-Innovation Event Party
3/6, 1-7pm: TXHQ: Israel
3/7, 9-11am, AmFam, DivInc, Village Capital: Equitech Texas Welcome Breakfast
3/7, 11:30-2pm, Silverton Partners & Forum Ventures’ SaaS Founder Mixer
3/7, 1-7pm: TXHQ: Canada
3/7, 5pm: LAUNCH: Founder Fridays Happy Hour & Pitch
3/7, 10am-11pm: Startup Casa
3/8, 11-2pm, OneSixOne Ventures & airCFO: Dink & Jam @ Urban Pickleball Club
3/8, 1-7pm: TXHQ: Mexico
3/9, 11:30-12:30: Plug And Play Tech Center, Founding Titan’s Black Founders & Investors Meet Up: With Chuk Kanu and Gabriel Rucker
3/9, 12-5pm: Founder Institute’s 4th Annual Sunday Sanctuary
3/9, 1-7pm: TXHQ: Ireland
3/8, 6-10pm: VC Familia, FounderFamilia, AngelFamilia’s LaFamilia Austin Chapter Launch Party
3/9, 1-7pm: TXHQ: Australia
3/10, 10am-2pm: Austin Community College Fashion Incubator Open House (Tours, Panels, & Networking)
3/10, 11:30-12:30: Latin Founders & Investors Meet Up: Coconut VA’s George Munguia and Boop’s Horacio Rodriguez
3/10, 9-Noon: Pitch and Run’s 2nd Annual Pitch & Run
3/10, 10-11am: Ecliptic Capital Pioneering Climate Solutions: Climate Tech Startup Meet Up
3/10, 4-5pm: Women Founders & Investors Meet Up w/ Priya Kumar
EDUCATION & SHOWCASES
3/6-7 Parfinti Ventures, Build in Tusla, BLCK VC: Dream Wealth Camp
3/6-7: Oxcart Ventures, In-Q-Tel, R2 Ventures, J2 Ventures, Balerion Space, 1789: Austin4America
3/7&8th: International Accelerator Global Ventures, Invincible, Born Global at La Casa Argentina
3/7, 11:30-12:30, S3 Ventures, LiveOak Ventures, Sputnik ATX VC: The Startup and VC Landscape of Texas: With Tom Ball, Oksana Malysheva, Charlie Plauche, and Krishna Srinivasan
3/7, 2:30-3:45pm: Mercury Fund Samantha Lewis Mentor Session
3/8, 11:30-12:45, Sidecar Fund John Paulos Mentor Session
3/8, 10-11am, Village Capital, Carta: Beyond VC: Redefining Funding For Impact Startups: Maria Pope, Alie Burns
3/8, 10-12, Central Texas Angel Network: Pitching to Angels 101: Think Like an Investor: Gary Forni, Katie Russel
3/8, 11:30-12:30, Moneta Ventures, Capital Creek Partners, Sapphire Partners: Allocators' on AI - Paradigm Shift or Bubble Ready to Burst?: With Aasim Hasan, Mark Shoberg, Beezer Clarkson
3/8, 11:30-12:45, GPG Ventures Claire England Mentor Session
3/8, 2:30-3:45pm, Lakeview Ventures Kelsey August Mentor Session
3/8, 2:30-3:45, V2R Ventures: Tom Myers Mentor Session
3/8, 2:30pm, Kwame Boler: To Seed or Not to Seed: Exploring Inefficincies in VC
3/9, 11:30-12:45pm, Sidecar Fund LLC: Joseph Liu Mentor Session
3/9, 2:30-3:30pm, Brown Venture Group, US Patent & Trademark Office, Federal Laboratory Consortium: Federal Mashup Labs: VC, Industry, Government: With William Covey, Paul Campbell, Jamela Mavrakis
3/9, 6-8:30pm: SXSW Pitch Award Ceremony
3/10, 11:30-12:45pm, Keccak Capital: David Aktary Mentor Session
3/11, 3-5pm: Antler, S3 Ventures, Plug & Play Austin, Geek Ventures, IA Ventures: Startups @ Asia x Austin: Pitch to Success
3/11, 4-8pm: 7BC Global VC Demo Day & VC Fund of Funds: Launch Announcement & Austin Boomtown VC Insight Panel
3/11: SXSW Innovation Awards Ceremony
3/12, 5-9pm, Palm Ventures: Climate Round Up: Innovation Showcase 2025
3/12, 10am-10pm: International House: International House
3/12, 2:30-3:45pm Central Texas Angel Network / Angel Investor, Rice University: Michael C. Brogioli Mentor Session
3/13, 10-11am, Ecliptic Capital: Pioneering Climate Solutions: Climate Tech Startup Meet Up
3/13, 10-11am, BudaEDC & BudaHIVE: South of South By
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Have Fun Y’all,
CS Freeland
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