The pitch is simple: one day, in one room, early-stage founders sit across from accelerators and VCs who actually run programs. Esosa Ighodaro built it as the US event the accelerator ecosystem itself attends. The Draft Experience is the useful bit for founders, selected startups get curated private meetings with leading accelerators rather than badge-scanning on an expo floor. If you are hunting for a program (Techstars, gener8tor, MassChallenge, university accelerators, state EDC-run tracks) or raising a pre-seed and want to meet the people who write the first check, this is a day you spend half a quarter's worth of partner meetings in.

  • conference
  • accelerators
  • pitch
  • investors
  • pre-seed