Startups

How to Build a Strong Pipeline of Entrepreneurs for your Innovation Hub

Most innovation hubs and economic development programs underperform for the same structural reason: not enough promising applicants. The result? Empty incubators, freelancer-occupied co-working spaces, and funding going to a small number of un-promising companies. Drawing on lessons from 17 years running global incubators and accelerators, Jonathan Greechan…

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2Speakers
88Sponsors
100Sessions
89Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at How, in alphabetical order.

Jonathan Greechan
Co-Founder & CEO · Founder Institute
Spyros Georgiadis

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

Founder CapitalPlatinum
Loyal VCPlatinum
AHMDigital
AIMAR
Amazon Web Services
Astrella
Athlon Technology
Atlassian
Attio
BasiCare Plus
Box
Bright Data
Bubble
Bunker LabsLocal Partner
CapQuest
Chore
Claremont McKenna CollegeLocal Partner
Clipchamp
CodigoDelSur
CoffeeSpace
Customer.io
CyberAlliance
Deel
DocSend
Doola
Every
Fairly AI
Finta
Firstbase
First Republic BankLocal Partner
Flash
Flippa Invest
Flowlie
folk
Forecastr
Foundersuite
Framer
Futureproof
GitHub
Google Cloud

Agenda

Selected from 100 sessions.

  • Aug 04, 2026 05:00 pm - 06:00 pm

    Build a Startup Idea with AI Investors Won’t Ignore

  • Aug 04, 2026 08:00 pm - 09:00 pm

    Build a Startup Idea with AI Investors Won’t Ignore

  • Aug 04, 2026 09:00 am - 10:30 am

    Learn from AI-Native Solo Alumni: How FI Grads Built Without a Co-Founder

  • Aug 04, 2026 09:00 am - 10:30 am

    Learn from FI Grads: How to Build Without a Co-Founder

  • Aug 04, 2026 09:00 am - 10:30 am

    Learn from Solo Alumni: How FI Grads Built Without a Co-Founder

  • Aug 04, 2026 12:00 pm - 01:30 pm

    Learn from FI Grads: How to Build Without a Co-Founder

  • Aug 10, 2026 01:30 pm - 03:00 pm

    From Idea to Action: The Startup Mindset

  • Aug 10, 2026 05:30 am - 07:00 am

    From Idea to Action: The Startup Mindset

  • Aug 10, 2026 05:30 pm - 07:00 pm

    Stop Guessing, Start Raising: An Investor Q&A

Company intelligence

An audience of 89 companies, parsed from the program.

89 companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
88Sponsoringsponsor only
1Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

50% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite150%
  • Other roles150%

Of 2 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1AHMDigitalSponsor-
2AIMARSponsor-
3AstrellaSponsor-
4Athlon TechnologySponsor-
5AtlassianSponsor-
6AttioSponsor-
7AWSSponsor-
8BasiCare PlusSponsor-
9BoxSponsor-
10Bright DataSponsor-
11BubbleSponsor-
12Bunker LabsSponsor · Local Partner-
13CapQuestSponsor-
14ChoreSponsor-
Sponsors by tier
platinum2
2% of 88
local partner18
20% of 88
unspecified68
77% of 88
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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