About

Demo Day showcases our passionate and talented student founders, featuring pitches of their innovative, world-changing companies solving the toughest problems across many industries. Following the presentations, attendees have the chance to visit each team’s Expo Booth to learn even more about our startups’ products and services.

Demo Day is the culmination of three months of intensive work and focus by our student teams. It’s the first chance to present their world-changing products and services to an audience of MIT students, mentors, friends, investors, and potential customers.

 

How it works

From June to early September, teams have dedicated space in the co-working environment of the Trust Center on the MIT campus, or the NYC Startup Studio in Manhattan. They will work on their ventures full-time for the whole summer.

Teams will define and refine their target market, conduct primary market research and build knowledge about their customers and users. They will run experiments to validate or invalidate their key hypotheses with potential customers. They will be building and nurturing their founding team.

They will make progress on the mechanics of starting their venture.