In Montréal, a startup festival pairs investor access with a jury that has little patience for jargon. Its real product is the carefully arranged encounter.
A thin corporate record says graphic design. The useful evidence says something warmer: Dustin and Judy, a neighborhood bar, and the small machinery that gets ordinary people to sing in public.
A Santa Cruz exhibit studio turns floor plans, rental parts, and live demos into places people can actually use. Its work reveals why the space around a product deserves as much thought as the product display.
Founders usually need a warm introduction. AcceleratorCON’s answer is a sports-style draft - applications, scouts, selections and private pitch meetings - built to turn conference mingling into an actual pipeline.
Poppy Flowers has spent years turning one of a wedding's foggiest purchases into a visible, editable plan. Its real product is not the bouquet alone - it is the machinery that gets thousands of fragile stems from farms to local designers to the right room at the right hour.