Community Building with Military Veteran Startup Founders, VCs, & LPs

1/ Yesterday Context VC sent out an email to over a thousand military veteran founders, early stage tech operators, VCs, and LPs about the military veteran startup ecosystem. This email newsletter provided an update on the military veteran startup ecosystem, our Military Veteran Startup Conference, & our book on Military Veteran Startup Founders. This email had a unique open rate of over 70% (it’s an engaged community)!

Here’s the email newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gKaebu9p

Subscribe to this email newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/gugNJvYj

2/ The Military Veteran Startup Conference (MVS 2023) on 2/2/23-2/3/23 is going to be an even full of learning, networking, & building.

We have hundreds of signups for the event and an incredible line up of panelists and attendees. Here are just a few of the panelists/speakers:

- Henry Ward, the CEO and Cofounder of Carta (Marine)
- Kai Ryssdal, the Host/Senior Editor of Marketplace (Navy)
- Katherine (., the Cofounder of Ness (Navy)
- Riley R., the CEO and Founder of Sofia Health (Air Force)
- Lenore Karafa, the Operating Partner of First In and Board President of Bunker Labs (Marine)
- "IRON" Mike Steadman, the founder of Ironbound (Marine)
- Kenneth (Ken) Sutton, cofounder and CEO of Yobe
- Charlynda Scales 💪🏾❤️🇺🇸, the CEO & Servant Leader of Mutt's Sauce LLC (Air Force)
- Grant Jordan, the CEO and Cofounder of SkySafe (Air Force)
- Matt Cox, CEO and Cofounder of Beacon AI (Navy)
- Bob Eisiminger, Entrepreneur, Member, Board of Directors at Patriapps Software Venture Studio & former CEO of Knight Point Systems (Army)
- Bradford Davis, the former CEO now Executive Chairman of Forensic Logic COPLINK (Marine)
- Bradley Genser, the COO and cofounder of Farther (Army)

Last year several founders were able to raise a round based on last year’s event and we hope that February’s event also proves fruitful for these founders. MVS 2023 will also be bringing together institutional limited partners so we are hoping this event helps military veteran venture capitalists!

3/ At the conference there will be complimentary copies of Traversing the Traction Gap given to those who attend Bruce Cleveland's (the author’s) talk.

4/ There will also be complimentary copies of Crossing the Chasm 3.0 given to those who attend that talk! cc Chasm Institute LLC

I’m excited to see the military veteran startup ecosystem at the Military Veteran Startup Conference on 2/2/23-2/3/23 at the Marines’ Memorial.

RSVP here for the conference: https://lnkd.in/gVNjDrZw

cc Steve Bowsher, Raj S., Bilal Zuberi, Trae Stephens, Alex McKindra, Taylor Justice, Mark Frank, Socrates Rosenfeld, A.J. Altman, Paul Madera, Ken Gonzalez, Beau Laskey, Daniel Gwak, Jacqueline Blackburn

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