PIE Demo Day 2023: The Grand Finale 🎉

After three years of virtual demo days, we're getting back to an in-person demo day! What's more, THIS WILL BE THE LAST PIE DEMO DAY, EVER. (See "Knowing when to quit")

Please join us for PIE Demo Day 2023 on August 10, 2023. Meet the startups from this year's PIE class, PIE alums, mentors, investors, and other members of the startup community during an event that diverges from the typical startup accelerator demo day format… plus a few more surprises.

Open to the public. All are welcome. You do not have to be an accredited investor to attend.

PIE Demo Day 2023 will forego the typical “staged presentation” format in favor of a more interactive trade show format, with recorded pitches from participating startups being made available prior to the show at https://youtube.com/@piepdx.

Participating startups include:

• Ballroom, an exciting new way to meet real people in your area today
• Binster, find quality secondhand items from local resale shops
• Bonappaeat, a marketplace app for the on-demand private chef
• Energy Kaizen, software tools to help manufacturers find, evaluate, and implement energy savings opportunities across their facilities, equipment, and processes
• Finnegan the Dragon, mobile-based gaming to reinforce classroom lessons with developmentally sound music, voice recognition software, and 3D animation
• Fridie Outdoors, empowering people to get camping by making the know-how accessible offline, so people can feel joy, confidence, and freedom outdoors
• HirelyAI, AI-driven interviewing and hiring tools
• Intersectional Group, a leadership, equity and inclusion consulting practice
• Joyous, automated customer engagement platform for independent restaurants
• Paloma, connecting motivated professionals with their dream job by removing the noise to effortlessly identify the best fit based on skills, motivations and values
• Pandaparty, improving the Shopify experience for smaller boutiques
• Photon Marine (special guest)
• Radious (alum)
• Thriving Design (alum)
• Trace, the simplest way ever to create immersive AR recordings & experiences anywhere
• Void, a messaging app for a world that’s too connected

Featuring products from Built Accelerator participants and alums like:

• Altitude
• Better Boba
• Deadstock
• For Bitter, For Worse
• Gather Nuts
• Good Wolf
• Hibisbloom
• Kachka
• Pan's
• Pink Cloud
• Sibeiho
• … and more!

Read more:

• Portland Business Journal: PIE Demo Day returns to live events with a hybrid twist
• Knowing when to quit
• Portland Business Journal: PIE startup accelerator preps for final Demo Day as focus shifts

Not interested in meeting with the current PIE startups…?
Please show up anyway. After three years of seclusion, PIE Demo Day is the perfect way to connect — or reconnect — with the Portland startup community.

We hope to see you there!