Twin Cities
Startup Week

Founded by Reed Robinson, Nels Pedersen, and Ryan Broshar as an intentionally intimate, community-driven week: around 15 tech-focused events, no corporate sponsors, built by five founding partners.

The week began expanding beyond purely tech, adding its earliest tracks. Little of this year survives in the public record. The work continued between the milestones.

A steady growth phase as more local partners began participating and the first industry tracks took shape. Sparse public documentation survives from this year.

A true multi-day, multi-venue week across Minneapolis and Saint Paul, opening at Able Seedhouse with dozens of host venues.

Roughly double the prior year: 200+ events drawing more than 12,000 attendees. Added co-located conferences and citywide logistics: a mobile app, a Lyft shuttle between cities, and a fly-in program.

TCSW landed its first Fortune 500 title sponsors and reached peak in-person scale: 200+ events and 17,000+ attendees, with events grouped geographically and mother's rooms at city hubs.

A sweeping virtual edition on Hopin during the pandemic: 200+ sessions spread across three weeks to beat digital fatigue, every one recorded, capped by an in-person closing in Saint Paul.

A hybrid comeback with roughly 200 events split across virtual, hybrid, and in-person formats drew nearly 17,000 attendees, the highest in-person turnout on record.

A return to a primarily in-person week as TCSW rebuilt toward pre-COVID scale. Little dedicated recap from this year survives in the public record.

The tenth anniversary, themed “Zero to Global,” centered on the Luminary Arts Center with 200+ events and a heavy AI and venture-capital program.

The week continued in person under BETA. Very little dedicated recap from this year survives in the public record.

Co-hosted with Communiful under the banner “by the community, for the community,” and Angela Eifert's first year leading BETA as Executive Director. Anchored by the MN Cup Grand Finale and a BETA × gener8tor showcase.

Minnesota's largest convergence of innovation, investors, and founders: five themed days across six campuses, with the official calendar open to hosts.