Startup Digest is a media company that publishes curated

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on startup events and educational content in more than 300 cities.Lapowsky, Issie
The Social Butterfly of Start-ups
Inc Magazine. September 3, 2010.About Us
. StartupDigest. Startup Digest was founded by Christopher McCann and Brendan McManus in 2009.Chris McCann – Startup Digest
FounderLY. August 15, 2011.

History

After graduating from

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (California Polytechnic State University, Cal Poly"Cal Poly" may also refer to California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt in Arcata, California or California State Polytechnic Univ ...

with an entrepreneurship degree in June 2009, McCann moved to

Silicon Valley Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical areas San Mateo County ...

to work with Plug and Play Tech Center. McCann didn’t know anyone in the area and started going to tech events to meet people.Way, Hermione
How to go from one email to 100,000 subscribers: StartupDigest
TheNextWeb. January 25, 2011. He began compiling his own personal list of the best events in Silicon Valley and in November 2009, sent this list in an email to 22 friends. McCann and his roommate, Brendan McManus, co-founded Startup Digest after the first email. Within 90 days, their list grew from 22 people to 12,000.Brusilovsky, Daniel

The Washington Post. January 4, 2010. They took $25,000 in initial funding, and by the end of the first year, their list reached 100,000 subscribers. In March 2011, they received an additional $200,000 in funding from the Kauffman Foundation.Siegler, MG
StartupDigest Takes $200,000 To Curate Information For Entrepreneurs
TechCrunch. March 9, 2011. Currently, Startup Digest has more than 430,000 subscribers. Startup Digest was acquired by

Startup Weekend A Startup Weekend (also known as Startupweekend or SW) is a 54-hour entrepreneurship educational competitive event, in which groups of participants form teams around ideas the Friday evening, and work during the weekend to develop a working prototy ...

in October 2012, and subsequently became part of the Techstars family of companies following its acquisition of Startup Weekend in 2015.

Description

Startup Digest is a weekly curated email newsletter. The newsletter contains startup and tech related events in local communities; currently, Startup Digest operates in more than 300 cities all over the world. Startup Digest used to generate revenue from a VIP program. The company currently has 500

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across the world.

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External links

StartupDigest.com
Electronic mailing lists Internet properties established in 2009 Companies based in San Francisco