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 — roughly 200 events split across virtual, hybrid, and in-person — that 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.