We're Excited To Bring Center Stage to Houston!
Each week of the year Center Stage visits a new city around the world - LIVE - to preview the evening’s competing startups, bring on special guests, visit with people on the ground at the event, and of course share Founders Live updates with everyone watching across the globe.
Then we hand everything off to the City Leader for the main event!
How to experience Center Stage
If you’re in the Houston area: Get tickets (linked above) and show up for the best way to experience Founders Live - in person!
Everyone else around the world: Join us on YouTube and watch our new show grow each week!
Starring
Oleg Lysiak as the City Leader
Featured Startups
DrinKicks
EYF
Spark Spaces
Rivitt
Pronto
Agenda
6:00pm - Opening Entertainment
7:00pm - Pitch Competition
8:00pm - After-Party hangout!
Center Stage Guest (Online Show)
We are excited to be joined by David Nurse, NBA Mindset Coach and 2x Best- Author and Motivational Speaker!
The author of Pivot & Go: The 29-Day Blueprint to Redefine and Achieve YOUR Success, David will share the mindset required to achieve success in professional athletics as well as high level business.
Learn about David, his journey from NBA to Coach/Author/Speaker, and his 3 best Mindset advice tips for early stage entrepreneurs.
You will walk away with more confidence and a stronger mindset!
Join us for an incredible evening as you hang online with other entrepreneurs and hear from 5 awesome Houston startups.
Founders Live is an unforgettable happy hour competition sweeping the globe where up to five handpicked companies take the hot seat, with only 99 seconds to pitch their company and describe their value proposition in front of an eager audience. After the pitches and audience Q&A, the crowd will vote on a winner who will not only receive an award, but recognition from the crowd and also the opportunity to talk more about their product or service. So bring your friends and coworkers, grab some food and drink, get to know your local entrepreneurs and vote for what you think will be the next big thing... built in Texas.
WINNERS receive the Founders Live winners package which includes $10,000 in AWS credits as well as the opportunity to continue on to compete in a future Founders Live Prime Time global event.
ALL PRESENTERS EARN $5,000 TOWARDS AWS HOSTING
Founders Live has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide an incredible offer for startups pitching at a Founders Live event. "Amazon Web Services provides startups with low cost, easy to use infrastructure needed to scale and grow any size business. AWS Activate is a program designed to provide startups with resources they need to get started on AWS." We are excited to announce ALL presenting companies who are chosen to give their 99-second pitch at a Founders Live event receive $5,000 credit towards their web hosting on Amazon.