1 Million Cups is a weekly event for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs — built on the belief that conversations over coffee can accelerate innovation. Each week, two founders take the stage to pitch their business for six minutes, followed by 20 minutes of honest, constructive feedback from a room full of fellow entrepreneurs, business professionals, students, and curious minds.
This isn’t a pitch competition — it’s a collaborative environment where ideas are refined, challenges are unpacked, and next steps become clearer. Attendees are encouraged to ask thoughtful questions, offer insights, and share resources that help presenters grow.

Whether you’re launching your first startup, scaling your next venture, or just looking to get plugged into your local entrepreneurial ecosystem, 1 Million Cups is where you’ll find the energy, perspective, and community you need to move forward.

Come for the coffee. Stay for the conversation. Leave with a better business.

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This weeks presenter: IPMarketplace
IP is a proven, leading indicator of high-growth, scalable companies, and yet there is still no reliable way to identify and diligence IP-rich companies – fundraising takes 12 months when it could take 12 weeks. We are launching the IPMarketplace (the Crunchbase for IP-rich companies), an IP-focused software platform for lenders and investors to ‘meet’, diligence and track, vetted, high growth IP-rich companies, before they need funding.
Having scored 300+ companies, we have collected unique and valuable data using our proprietary IPSCORE^TM (the FICO score for IP) which is a proven benchmark, rating companies across 5 IP asset classes: Brand, Patents, Software, Critical Data, and Trade Secrets, identifying and separating high-growth and scalable IP-rich companies. We will IPSCORE^TM and benchmark thousands of companies and enable lenders and investors to “exclusively fish in our big pond of IP-rich fish”.