# Demo day

Concept · [Programs and community](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/community)

Also called: demo days, pitch day, showcase, pitch night

The event at the end of an [accelerator](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/accelerator) where each company in the [cohort](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/cohort) presents to an audience of investors.

**For example:** After 12 weeks in a program, each team gives a short [pitch](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/pitch-deck) on demo day. Investors in the room follow up with the teams that interest them.

## Connects to (11)

- [Accelerator](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/accelerator): A program with a fixed length that helps a group of early companies grow faster through coaching, introductions and sometimes funding.
- [Cohort](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/cohort): A group of founders or companies that go through a program together, on the same schedule.
- [Pitch deck](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/pitch-deck): A short slide presentation that explains your business to investors: the problem, your solution, who it is for, your traction and what you…
- [Venture capital](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/venture-capital): Money that professional investment firms put into young companies in exchange for equity.
- [Y Combinator](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/y-combinator): A startup accelerator.
- [Pitch competition](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/pitch-competition): An event where founders present their companies to judges, who pick winners.
- [Product Pitch Night](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/product-pitch-night): A Build in Tulsa program for founders who make physical products.
- [Tulsa StartUp Series](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-startup-series): A startup competition that Tulsa Community College and the Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation ran in the 2010s, with themed pitch rounds that…
- [Hackathon](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hackathon): An event, often a day or a weekend, where people form teams and build a working project from scratch, then show it at the end.
- [Factory Obscura](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/factory-obscura): An Oklahoma City company that makes immersive art experiences, best known for Mix-Tape, a large hand-built art space downtown.
- [Bridge2](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/bridge2): A cohort program for early-stage Oklahoma startups, presented by i2E, that ends with a demo day where founders pitch the ventures they…

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