Collider Cup & Community Expo

Name: Collider Cup & Community Expo
Start: 2025-03-25T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-25T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 221 1st Ave SW STE 610, Rochester, MN, United States, Minnesota 55902

Schedule

Tue Mar 25 2025 at 05:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

221 1st Ave SW STE 610, Rochester, MN, United States, Minnesota 55902 | Rochester, MN

Join us on March 25th for an evening of connection, community, and supporting emerging entrepreneurs in the community.
The Collider Cup is a business pitch competition, celebrating the graduation of our latest CO.STARTERS at Collider cohort. This group has spent the last 10 weeks thinking through their business ideas, narrowing their focus, and taking their business idea to the next stage. These business owners will be competing for cash prizes, with the winner taking home the coveted Collider Cup trophy!
In addition to the pitch competition, this event will also include a Community Expo, where local entrepreneurs will showcase their products and services, which are being built right here in the community. This expo is supported by a grant from the City of Rochester’s Community Building Fund.
This event is free to attend. However, any ticket sale donations will be awarded to one of the graduating CO.STARTERS businesses to help with their startup costs.
Agenda:
5:00 PM- Doors open, networking and expo
5:30 PM - Collier Cup pitch competition
7:00 PM - Networking and expo
7:30PM- CO.STARTERS graduation and winners announced
This year, the CO.STARTERS and the Collider Cup is supported by our partners Fredrikson & Byron Foundation, Mayo Clinic, Otto Bremer Trust, the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development’s Small Business Technical Assistance Program, Think Bank, E1 Entrepreneurs First SE MN, Minnwest Bank, The City of Rochester, and the Small Business Development Center of SE MN.