The backbone of Venture Café – come meet the community and make connections with all different kinds of innovators. How will you make your serendipitous moment come true?
Start your night with this quick overview of Venture Café, what we do as a community, and how you can make the most of our weekly Thursday Gathering! Bring a friend, grab a drink, and plug in to the ecosystem - it's time to connect, learn, and share.
Before you take the stage, take the room. This session gives founders a chance to workshop their pitch with peers in a smaller, supportive setting before presenting to the full audience (optional). You will have the opportunity to practice your delivery, get real time feedback, and refine your message with fellow entrepreneurs who understand what it takes to make a pitch land. Come ready to share, ask questions, and sharpen your story before stepping up to present.
Hosted by Venture Café, we're inviting experts to help weigh in on your delivery.
Please come prepared with a 1-minute pitch for your startup - all sectors are welcome to participate!
Trust is the currency that makes or breaks a fintech product, and building it takes more than good design. Join Krysta Chauncey, principal researcher, for a small group roundtable exploring what actually drives user trust and adoption in financial technology, and where startups tend to get it wrong. This is a conversation, not a lecture. Bring your questions, your product challenges, and your own experience building trust with users, and leave with practical insight you can apply right away.
Space is limited to keep the discussion intimate.
What does the innovation landscape look like from the halls of Congress, and what does it need?
Join us for an intimate conversation between Congressman Seth Moulton, candidate for U.S. Senate, and Tim Rowe, Executive Chairman of CIC. With military service, White House experience, and close ties to the tech community, Seth brings a grounded political perspective to questions that matter deeply to builders and founders at every stage. Tim brings decades of experience at the center of the Cambridge innovation ecosystem.
This session is designed as a survey of the innovation landscape as seen through the lens of political leadership and invited dialogue from the Venture Café community. Whether you're just getting started or well into the journey, come ready to explore what policy can and can't do for the ecosystem, and what this moment in Massachusetts politics means for the people building its future.
Tim Rowe is the Founder and CEO of Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) and CIC Health. CIC is a leading builder and operator of innovation communities currently in 9 cities, and is currently the largest operator of commercial shared wet labs on the east coast. CIC Health operates a national scale COVID-19 testing marketplace, and, previously, mass vaccination sites in MA. Tim is Chair of the Venture Cafe Global Institute, Co-Founder of LabCentral, a non-profit which is the world's largest shared wet laboratory as well as Chair of MassRobotics, a non-profit hub for the sensing, IOT and automation industries. Tim is Co-Founder and Past President of the Kendall Square Association. Earlier in his career, Tim served as a Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a Manager with the Boston Consulting Group and an analyst with the Mitsubishi Research Institute. Tim speaks Spanish and Japanese fluently, as well as basic Mandarin Chinese. Tim holds an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a BA from Amherst College.
The backbone of Venture Café – come meet the community and make connections with all different kinds of innovators. How will you make your serendipitous moment come true?
Start your night with this quick overview of Venture Café, what we do as a community, and how you can make the most of our weekly Thursday Gathering! Bring a friend, grab a drink, and plug in to the ecosystem - it's time to connect, learn, and share.
Before you take the stage, take the room. This session gives founders a chance to workshop their pitch with peers in a smaller, supportive setting before presenting to the full audience (optional). You will have the opportunity to practice your delivery, get real time feedback, and refine your message with fellow entrepreneurs who understand what it takes to make a pitch land. Come ready to share, ask questions, and sharpen your story before stepping up to present.
Hosted by Venture Café, we're inviting experts to help weigh in on your delivery.
Please come prepared with a 1-minute pitch for your startup - all sectors are welcome to participate!
Trust is the currency that makes or breaks a fintech product, and building it takes more than good design. Join Krysta Chauncey, principal researcher, for a small group roundtable exploring what actually drives user trust and adoption in financial technology, and where startups tend to get it wrong. This is a conversation, not a lecture. Bring your questions, your product challenges, and your own experience building trust with users, and leave with practical insight you can apply right away.
Space is limited to keep the discussion intimate.
What does the innovation landscape look like from the halls of Congress, and what does it need?
Join us for an intimate conversation between Congressman Seth Moulton, candidate for U.S. Senate, and Tim Rowe, Executive Chairman of CIC. With military service, White House experience, and close ties to the tech community, Seth brings a grounded political perspective to questions that matter deeply to builders and founders at every stage. Tim brings decades of experience at the center of the Cambridge innovation ecosystem.
This session is designed as a survey of the innovation landscape as seen through the lens of political leadership and invited dialogue from the Venture Café community. Whether you're just getting started or well into the journey, come ready to explore what policy can and can't do for the ecosystem, and what this moment in Massachusetts politics means for the people building its future.
Tim Rowe is the Founder and CEO of Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) and CIC Health. CIC is a leading builder and operator of innovation communities currently in 9 cities, and is currently the largest operator of commercial shared wet labs on the east coast. CIC Health operates a national scale COVID-19 testing marketplace, and, previously, mass vaccination sites in MA. Tim is Chair of the Venture Cafe Global Institute, Co-Founder of LabCentral, a non-profit which is the world's largest shared wet laboratory as well as Chair of MassRobotics, a non-profit hub for the sensing, IOT and automation industries. Tim is Co-Founder and Past President of the Kendall Square Association. Earlier in his career, Tim served as a Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a Manager with the Boston Consulting Group and an analyst with the Mitsubishi Research Institute. Tim speaks Spanish and Japanese fluently, as well as basic Mandarin Chinese. Tim holds an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a BA from Amherst College.