As promised, Accelerator Y Combinator’s upcoming Demo Day will take place in person. In fact, YC appears to have started the IRL return of Demo Day at the end of the long Thanksgiving weekend, with an internal Alumni Demo Day on Sunday for the first class of Fall 2024.
Group founder (and later Twitter and Meta product manager) Esther Crawford praised the “high energy” of hearing 93 startups speak to each other, while Avni Patel Thompson, founder and CEO of Milo, he described it as “dress rehearsal. the founders but also a nice fee to pay the alums to come back and support the current batch. “
“Dress practice” is probably for the main Demo day, where the founders will present to the audience of investors and press. That Demo Day is scheduled for later this week, on Wednesday, December 4th.
The Virtual Demo Days were an ongoing artifact of remote transitions during the pandemic; at YC’s September Demo Day, CEO Garry Tan said those presentations would be the last to be held entirely online, “knock on wood.”
Now YC is describing Demo Day as “back to being in person,” with an invite-only audience of about 1,500 — and if you can’t make it to San Francisco, you’ll have to make do with the Demo Day website “which has information about presenting companies.”
