Investor Events During SXSW 2025
Written by CS Freeland
I curate a handy list of Texas investor-featured (or our partners such as Carta) events during SXSW. Below you’ll find activities hosted or sponsored by VCs, SXSW investor speakers, pitch competitions, venture mentor sessions, and more. Send this to your friends + share your investor-featured event to me via LinkedIn message or email. This list has consistently been the top resource for the innovation community for now 3 years in a row, so thank you for helping to make this great! (Keep referring back as we’re still collecting information— if you check out last year’s list you’ll see there’s PLENTY to do!)
NETWORKING
TBA: Black Founders & Investors Meet Up: Plug And Play Tech Center’s Chuk Kanu and Founding Titan’s Gabriel Rucker
TBA: Latin Founders & Investors Meet Up: Coconut VA’s George Munguia and Boop’s Horacio Rodriguez Rilo
March 9, 1-5pm: Founder Institute Texas Sunday Sanctuary (link coming soon)
EDUCATION / SHOWCASES
March 12, 5-9pm: Climate Round Up: Innovation Showcase 2025 with Palm Ventures
TBA: Allocators' on AI - Paradigm Shift or Bubble Ready to Burst?: Moneta Ventures’ Aasim Hasan, Capital Creek Partners’ Mark Shoberg, Sapphire Partners’ Beezer Clarkson
TBA: Beyond VC: Redefining Funding For Impact Startups: Carta’s Maria Pope and Village Capital’s Alie Burns
TBA: Federal Mashup Labs: VC, Industry, Government: US Patent And Trademark Office’s William Covey, National Security Agency’s Karen Presley, Brown Venture Group’s Paul Campbell, and Paul Zielinski
TBA: Pitching to Angels 101: Think Like an Investor: Central Texas Angel Network’s Gary Forni and Katie Russel
TBA: The Startup and VC Landscape of Texas: Next Coast Ventures’ Tom Ball & Kaitlyn Debernardo, S3 Ventures’ Charlie Plauche, and LiveOak Ventures’ Krishna Srionivasan
ADDITIONAL LISTS
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Have Fun Y’all,
CS Freeland
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