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🚨 INNOVATION IS HAPPENING AT BROWN. 🚨

On October 15, Brown University is bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, and innovators for the 4th Annual Innovation@Brown Showcase, and this is one you’ll want on your calendar. 👀

📍 225 Dyer Street, Providence
🗓️ Thursday, October 15
⏰ 3–7 PM

🔥 WHAT’S ON DECK:

🎤 Keynote Fireside Chat
Bob Safian hosts Brown Provost Frank Doyle and MIT professor, inventor & entrepreneur Sangeeta Bhatia for a conversation on the evolving role of academia in scaling innovation and economic impact.

⚡ Flash Talks
Big ideas. Short presentations. Research and innovation across Aging, RNA, AI + Battery Technologies.

🏆 Awards + Live Voting
Inventor of the Year. Startup of the Year. Plus three Innovation of the Year finalists pitching LIVE before the audience votes for the winner.

🤝 Technology Showcase + Networking
Meet the people behind 20–25 translational research projects, pre-companies, and newly formed companies from Brown and the local innovation ecosystem.

And with 300+ entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate leaders expected from across the NY–Boston corridor, there will be plenty of opportunities to connect.

Rhode Island innovation is BIG. Come see what’s being built. 🚀

🚨 FOUNDERS — THIS ONE’S FOR YOU. 🚨

Ready to put your startup in front of investors?

Cherrystone’s annual Pitch Night is coming October 21, 2026 — and they’re now accepting applications from New England founders raising early-stage capital. 💰

Their invite-only event showcases a curated group of innovative companies and connects founders with investors looking for what’s next.

🌱 Raising early-stage capital?
💡 Building something innovative?
📍 Based in New England?

Apply to pitch. Your next investor conversation could start here.

🔥 Applications are open: https://cherrystone.vc/pitch-night

🚨 RI STARTUP WEEK DOESN’T HAPPEN WITHOUT YOU. 🚨

We’ve said THANK YOU, RHODE ISLAND… but honestly, it doesn’t even begin to cover it.

1,000+ ATTENDEES.
65 EVENTS.
8 VENUES.
8 DAYS.
And one VERY energized Rhode Island startup ecosystem. 🔥🚀

To our incredible SPONSORS: ❤️
Thank you for believing in Rhode Island’s startup community and putting real resources behind entrepreneurship, innovation and the people building what’s next.

To our amazing PARTNERS: 🤝
Thank you for opening your doors, bringing your communities, sharing your expertise and helping make RI Startup Week 2026 what it was.

And to everyone who hosted, volunteered, sponsored, showed up, made an introduction, packed a room or brought a friend…

WE SEE YOU. WE APPRECIATE YOU. AND WE ARE SO GRATEFUL. 🔥

RI Startup Week takes a LOT of people saying YES, LET’S DO THIS.

And Rhode Island?

YOU SAID YES. BIG TIME. 🚀

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

We couldn’t do this without you...and we wouldn’t want to. ❤️

☕️ DON’T LET THE MOMENTUM DIE.

RI Startup Week may be over, but we’re NOT slowing down. 🔥

You met someone you meant to follow up with?
Had a great conversation you want to keep going?
Missed a session and want the replay?
Still thinking about that one idea from last week?

GOOD. Come talk about it over coffee, it's on us. ☕️

RIHub + Howell Legal are bringing the coffee...You bring yourself, your questions, your stories, and maybe the person you met at Startup Week.

📍 Seven Stars Bakery
103 Point Street, Providence
⏰ 8:30–10:00 AM
📅 Every LAST WEDNESDAY of the month

🔥 The momentum is real. Let's keep it going.

See you TOMORROW. ☕️✨

🚨 RI STARTUP WEEK RECAP?

**Not possible** 😂

Because honestly… WHERE DO WE EVEN START?!?!?!

RI Startup Week 2026 was our biggest and best yet, and we cannot thank y'all enough for showing up BIG. 🔥

YOU made this week what it was. ❤️

You filled the rooms.
You packed the events.
You made connections.
You asked questions.
You brought the ENERGY.

And because apparently seven days of startup chaos wasn't enough…

🌊 WE EVEN CAPPED IT OFF WITH A NOR’EASTER. 🌊😂

Very Rhode Island of us.

From all of us at RIHub:

THANK YOU, RHODE ISLAND.
We love you. We really, really do.

😭 IT’S THE LAST DAY. WE’RE NOT OKAY.

But we ARE going to MAKE IT COUNT!!! 🚀🎉

9:00 AM | NEWPORT INVESTOR SUMMIT

The grand finale of RI Startup Week — a full day bringing investors and entrepreneurs together around 36 startup pitches across:

🧬 Health & Life Sciences
🌊 Ocean Tech + Dual Use
🚀 Showcase

🎟️ THIS IS A PAID, TICKETED EVENT — AND IT’S SOLD OUT.

So if you’ve got your ticket… YOU’RE IN. 👀

Bring your questions.
Bring your business cards.
Bring your “elevator pitch.”
And maybe a slightly better-than-usual LinkedIn photo. 😉

LET’S CLOSE OUT RI STARTUP WEEK WITH A BANG. 💥🚀

🚨 DAY 7. THE FINALE. AND IT’S SOLD OUT. 🚨

And what a way to close out Rhode Island Startup Week. 🔥

📍 NEWPORT INVESTOR SUMMIT
📅 Friday, September 25
📍 Newport Wyndham Hotel

For the THIRD YEAR, the Newport Investor Summit is bringing the startup, investor, and innovation community together — and it just keeps getting bigger. 📈

🔥 36 startup pitches
🌊 Health & Life Sciences • Ocean Tech/Dual Use • Showcase
💰 Investors in the room
🤝 Founders, entrepreneurs, innovators & ecosystem builders

And now…

🎟️ SOLD OUT. 👀

That’s a pretty great way to wrap up RI Startup Week.

Seven days. Dozens of events. Thousands of connections. And a whole lot of Rhode Island innovation on display.

If you got your ticket to the Summit — we’ll see you there. 👏

If you didn’t…

👀 Keep your eyes on this one for next year.

Because if the third year is any indication, you’re going to want to get in early.

🚀 That’s a wrap on RI Startup Week 2026.

What a week. Rhode Island, you showed up. ❤️

🌊 TODAY IS THE DAY. WE’RE GOING BLUE.
DAY 6 • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

Boats.
Bots.
Buoys.
Blades.
Biomass.

TODAY, WE’RE DIVING INTO RHODE ISLAND’S BLUE ECONOMY. 🌊🔥

And remember: “blue” is a LOT bigger than boats. 👀

🌊 TODAY’S GAME PLAN

9:00 AM | Ocean Innovation Day Event Opening

9:20 AM | Ocean Innovation Day Sector Deep Dives

10:30 AM | Ocean Innovation Day RISE-UP Session

11:00 AM | Ocean Innovation Day Innovative Entrepreneurs Showcase

12:00 PM | Ocean Innovation Day Lunch and Tour at IYRS

6:30 PM | Brown B-Lab Expo (PVD)

Ocean tech by day. Student startups by night.

That’s a pretty Rhode Island Thursday. 🌊🔥

👉 Check the full schedule + register: https://ristartupweek.com

🌊 TOMORROW, WE’RE GOING BLUE.

Don’t assume “blue” isn’t your thing.

You don’t have to build a boat to belong in Rhode Island’s blue economy.

Think technology. Data. Defense. Energy. Aquaculture. Advanced manufacturing. Robotics. Research. Materials. And a whole lot more happening under that very big blue umbrella.

Tomorrow, we’re diving into Rhode Island’s ocean innovation ecosystem — and there’s a good chance you’re more connected to it than you think.

Come curious. 🌊 You might just find your place in the blue economy.

⚡️ ROGUE IS HACKING RI STARTUP WEEK — TONIGHT. ⚡️

You know the official schedule.
This isn’t it. 👀

📆 TONIGHT | 6–8 PM
📍 Jamestown, The 'Ganny (The Narragansett Café)

Rouge Venture Partners is taking RI Startup Week off the schedule. 😈

And honestly? You probably want in.

🔥 Founders.
💰 Investors.
🛠️ Builders.
💡 Big ideas.
🍻 Drinks.
🤝 New connections.
😈 A little chaos.

No panels. No pitch decks. No corporate energy.

This is the kind of thing you hear about afterward and wish you knew about before.

IYKYK.

If you don’t… tonight's a pretty good time to find out. 👀

6–8 PM. Jamestown. Be there.