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In-Person event, location Galvanize, Boulder
PitchBoulder is a pitch mentoring platform offering local entrepreneurs an opportunity to present their startups to a diverse audience of mentors, advisors, investors and peers. Presenters deliver a 6-8 minute pitch deck presentation designed for investors, channel partners, co-founders, employees, etc. They then engage in 40 minutes of constructive feedback and questioning that we call crowd mentoring followed by 30 minutes of networking.
Entrepreneurs gain insight into possible ways they can improve their businesses and connect with a peer community that cares about their progress. Participants walk away having advanced their business and the audience walks away with the satisfaction of providing expert crowd-vetted coaching.
Whether presenter, mentor or passive audience member, there is much to learn every week from this dynamic and diverse community. PitchBoulder takes place at 9:00 am every Wednesday.
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Presenting: Retrocycle – Reuse Cups, Made Easy
Galvanize Boulder, 1023 Walnut St., Boulder, CO, USRetrocycle (http://retrocycle.org) — Co-Founder MK Katz presenting — is building a town-wide reusable cup network to replace single-use coffee cups in Colorado communities.
Colorado throws away millions of single-use coffee cups every year, most of which cannot be recycled and end up in landfills. Retrocycle replaces disposable cups with a shared reuse system where customers borrow a reusable cup at one café and return it anywhere in the network. The company manages cup design, inventory, distribution, signage, and café onboarding, making the system simple for both businesses and customers.
Retrocycle partners directly with municipalities such as Breckenridge, Vail, and Steamboat to align with local climate goals and help fund reuse programs. The result is a turnkey, town-branded system that reduces waste, lowers café costs, and makes sustainable behavior easy.
Our target market is municipalities, cafés, and environmentally conscious communities in the U.S. who need practical alternatives to single-use packaging and are willing to pay for waste reduction, cost savings, and climate impact.
Our competition is single-use packaging, small independent reuse programs, and deposit-return systems. Our competitive advantage is a turnkey, town-wide reuse network that combines municipal partnerships, café onboarding, and centralized logistics.
The total market size in 2024 is the U.S. food service packaging and waste reduction market, and the total market revenue in 2024 is $25B+.
Top 3 challenges:
- Scaling operations and logistics across multiple Colorado towns at the same time
- Building sustainable funding through a mix of municipal support, philanthropy, and earned revenue
- Driving behavior change so residents and visitors consistently use and return reusable cups
Our PitchBoulder ask: We are laying the groundwork for a future customer app to support rewards and engagement within the reuse network. If you have app engineering experience and are interested in contributing to an impact-driven, community-focused project, we would love to connect. We also welcome feedback on scaling civic and climate-focused business models.
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Presenting: Pristino Labs – Trustworthy AI for Enterprise Data
Galvanize Boulder, 1023 Walnut St., Boulder, CO, USPristino Labs (http://www.pristinolabs.com) — Founder George Bezerra presenting — is building infrastructure that makes AI agents reliable enough to operate on enterprise data without constant human supervision.
Today, AI agents struggle to work safely with real business data because systems are fragmented and meaning is inconsistent across tools. This creates a “trust gap” that forces companies to keep humans in the loop, slowing down automation. Pristino Labs solves this by creating a Unified Logic Layer that encodes business intent and gives AI agents a consistent way to understand data. Their product is a standardized MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that acts like an operating system for AI agents. This allows many specialized agents to work together reliably, unlocking truly autonomous workflows across the enterprise.
Our target market is enterprise software teams and data-driven companies in the U.S. who need reliable AI automation across complex data systems and are willing to pay for infrastructure that enables safe, scalable autonomous workflows.
Our competition is custom internal AI tooling, workflow automation platforms, and LLM orchestration frameworks. Our competitive advantage is a deterministic logic layer that reduces AI errors, standardizes context, and enables multiple agents to operate safely across the data stack.
The total market size in 2024 is the enterprise AI and automation infrastructure market, and the total market revenue in 2024 is $50B+.
Top 3 challenges:
- Finding strong design partners and early traction
- Building a technical team capable of executing the vision
- Raising initial funding as a first-time founder
Our PitchBoulder ask: This will be my first time raising venture capital, and I’m looking for honest feedback from an investor perspective. What would you need to see to believe this can become a venture-scale company, and how can I improve my pitch, story, and traction to be ready for VC conversations?
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Affiliated Event: Startup Workshop: "Building the Foundation"
KO Law's Boulder Office, 2475 Broadway, Boulder, CO, USThis event is presented by KO Law, friends of PitchBoulder.
Calling the Colorado startup community: Establishing a strong foundation for your business early on can help avoid challenges down the road. In this interactive workshop, we'll walk through the critical early decisions founders face before and at formation -- from aligning on roles, ownership, and expectations to choosing the right entity structure. We'll cover equity allocation and vesting, cap table mechanics, and how to set up your company for future fundraising, hiring, and growth.
Join KO's Ian Kuliasha and John Kyed for an interactive startup workshop focused on company formation on Thursday, April 30 in KO Law's Boulder office. RSVP to save your seat!
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