Collider Cup + Community Expo

Date and Time

• Tuesday, Mar 25, 2025  5pm - 7:30pm

Location

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Event Category

Family Friendly

Details

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!

Cash prizes for the event are generously supported by Minnwest Bank.

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 Department of Business Development, Otto Bremer Trust, the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development’s Small Business Technical Assistance Program, Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation (SMIF), Think Bank, E1 Entrepreneurs First SE MN, Minnwest Bank, The City of Rochester, and the Small Business Development Center of SE MN.