Startup World Cup Southern California Regional
Thursday, November 16, 2023
ELAC is partnering with HUMANBULB to host the 2023 Startup World Cup Southern California Regional on our campus in the MPR F5-201 on 11/16th from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.! Join us for this inspiring, fast-paced event where 10 Southern California Startups will be selected to compete for the title of Startup World Cup Southern California Regional Winner! Each startup will pitch for 2-minutes followed by a LIVE 4-minute rapid-fire Q&A by our Investor panel! Join 250+ attendees comprised of entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, corporates, service providers, nonprofits, and community members to cheer on the Southern California startups competing and show our community support for entrepreneurship in our region!
The winner of the Southern California Regional will go on to compete at the Global Grand Finale in San Francisco from 11/29-12/1/23 for a $1 million USD investment prize. The Startup World Cup is a prestigious international competition and prior years’ Global Grand Finale speakers have included:
- Spencer Rascoff, Co-Founder of Zillow
- Thuan Phan, CTO of Coupan and former CTO of Uber
- Marianna Tessel, CTO, Intuit
- Nikesh Arora, Chairman & CEO of Palo Alto Networks and former COO of Softbank
- Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple
- Reid Hoffman, Founding CEO of LinkedIn
- Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures and Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems
- Adam Cheyer, Co-Founder of Siri
- John Chambers, Former CEO of Cisco
- Marcelo Claure, Chief Operating Officer, Softbank
- Marc Randolph, Co-Founder of Netflix
- Tim Westergren, Founder and Former CEO, Pandora
- Jay Vijayan, Former CIO of Tesla
- Ray Lane, Former President & COO, Oracle
- Terry Jones, Founding Chairman, Kayak
HELP SPREAD THE WORD...startup applications are being accepted until 11/6/23 at www.humanbulb.org