Join us as we reconvene as a community to celebrate, connect, share, and learn from a diverse group of some of the nation’s leading startup founders, investors, and business leaders showcasing our region’s unique strengths. What you can expect:

• Captivating Founding Stories – get inspiration from founders from the seed stage to IPO candidly sharing their stories about growing their companies, bumps, bruises, and lessons learned along the way
• Outcome Oriented Workshops to help you grow your business on topics including sales, marketing, product & fundraising.
• Curated Professional Matchmaking (Opt-in)
• Ample Networking + Opportunities for Serendipity (with Designated Tummlers)
• Catered Lunch
• Free Childcare
• Seed-Stage Startup Pitch Competition
• Swag Bag (over $500 value)
• After Party at the Maverick (previously Ace) Hotel
• Much More

Confirmed Session Leaders (even more to be announced🙂

• Food Rescue Hero Founder, Leah Lizarondo
• 412 Venture Fund Managing Director, Ilana Diamond
• Allegheny Health Network Chief Physician Executive, Community Development & Innovation, Jeffrey Cohen
• Better Tomorrow Ventures Cofounder, Sheel Mohnot
• Black Tech Nation Founder, Kelauni Jasmyn
• BlueTree Allied Angels Executive Director, Sreekar Gadde
• Booxmart Founder, Jonnet Solomon
• MaadLabs Cofounder & CMU Professor , Adam Paulisick
• Eagle Ventures President, Melvin Pirchesky
• Jackson Kelly, Tech Legal Clinic Founder, Derrick Maultsby
• Maitri Medicinals CEO, Jimil Wilson
• Metafy Founder, Josh Fabian
• Mountain State Capital Managing Director, Matt Harbaugh
• Niche Founder, Luke Skurman
• Pack Up + Go Founder, Lillian Rafson
• Reinforced Ventures Founder, Euan Gutteridge
• ReviewTrackers Founder, Chris Campbell
• Subtl Beauty Founder, Rachel Reid
• StartFast Managing Director, Nasir Ali
• Stronghold Digital Mining Founder, Bill Spence

Huge thanks to our RustBuilt 2021 Conference Sponsors:

• 1517 Fund (Student Founder Passes)
• 3 Points Rising Ventures
• Allegheny Health Network
• Broadwing
• Choolaah (Lunch Catering)
• Clockwise (Conf Gear)
• Code & Supply
• Coro Pittsburgh (Volunteers)
• Harvie
• Innovation Works
• Jackson Kelly
• MaadLabs (Childcare)
• MeterFeeder
• Pgh Tech Council
• PwC Digital (Contact Tracing Hardware)
• Spectale
• Spritz Tea
• Wilke & Associates
• WorkScape (Furniture / Set Design)

Special thanks to our Conference Partners:

• Official Accomodation Partner: The Maverick (formerly Ace) Hotel
• Official Beer Partner: Brew Gentleman
• Official Networking App Partner: Plain Sight
• Afterparty Headliners: Diamond Life

If you’d like to learn more about sponsorship opportunities for this year’s event, please email kit@rustbuilt.org.

We want this event to be as accessible as possible to everyone in our community, so please let us know if there’s anything (cost, transportation, etc) preventing you from attending with which might be able to help.