Funding
Venture funds, angels, CDFIs, banks and grant programs. The room is full of teams who will need capital the week after they meet each other.
Partnerships
We're match-makingevery industry's next founders.
Most conferences sell you a logo on a banner and a badge scan. Cofinder sells you proximity to the exact moment a company gets started. Partnerships form on this floor in real time — and the funders, builders and storytellers in the room are the ones those new ventures hire first. The opportunity here is bigger than any conference you have ever written a check to, because you're not sponsoring an audience. You're sponsoring the origin story.
This is the inaugural year. Be the first name attached to something that will be hard to buy into later.
Express interestWho exhibits
Three categories, one floor.
Every vendor at Cofinder falls into one of three categories, and the mix is deliberate. A new venture needs money, a build partner and a voice. All three are within a hundred feet of each other.
Tech / Dev
Software, hardware, integration and dev shops. Every partnership formed on the floor needs someone to actually build the thing.
Creative / Marketing
Studios, agencies, producers and brand shops. New ventures leave here needing a story, an identity and a launch.
Sponsor tiers
From a table to the whole story.
1 available
Founding Partner
$100,000
- Named as the founding partner of the inaugural Summit, in perpetuity
- Presenting billing on the Matchmaking Marketplace and the Build Sprint Showcase
- Funds the collaboration grant awarded to the winning team
- Premium floor placement in both buildings + 10 passes
- Year-round co-branding on every Cofinder communication
2 available
Catalyst
$50,000
- Named sponsor of a full track: Collide, Connect or Construct
- Stage moment at the opening or closing ritual
- Deal Room host table with facilitator support
- Prime floor placement + 6 passes
4 available
Builder
$25,000
- Named sponsor of a signature format (Anti-Keynotes, Deal Room, Wildcard Hour)
- Spark Scout introductions curated to your criteria
- Featured floor placement + 4 passes
8 available
Connector
$10,000
- Branded lounge, coffee bar or collaboration wall moment
- Logo on the event app and all on-site signage
- Double table placement + 3 passes
15 available
Supporter
$5,000
- Recognition across program, app and stage rotation
- Priority table placement + 2 passes
Up to 50 tables
Table
$2,500
- One vendor table on the Marketplace floor for all three days
- Listing in the event app with matchmaking tags + 1 pass
Meal sponsorships
Feed the room, own the moment.
Four meals are open for sponsorship. Meal sponsors get the stage for two minutes and the table for an hour — the highest-attention, lowest-competition placement we sell.
Evening
Day One Dinner
The Pivot — cocktail lab and hosted dinner. The night the room stops being strangers.
Morning
Breakfast, Day Two
Fuel for the longest, densest build day of the Summit.
Midday
Lunch, Day Two
Paired seating: every table is assembled from opposites.
Morning
Breakfast, Day Three
Morning Pages and the last chance to close a deal over coffee.
Night two dinner — already claimed
Talk To My Face, a Pash Company brand
The second night has no ballroom dinner on purpose. Talk To My Face hosts that evening by pushing everyone out the doors and into Minneapolis restaurants, in small groups, face to face. The city is part of the program.
Production partners
Build the room with us.
Audio / Visual Sponsor
Five simultaneous stages, a trading-floor marketplace and a Showcase that must be broadcast-clean. Your name is on every screen in both buildings.
Lighting Sponsor
Two historic warehouse floors, rebuilt hour by hour — trading floor to fishbowl to campfire to cocktail lab. Lighting is how the room changes character.
General Tier Partners
In-kind and cash partners across print, transport, hospitality, photography and content capture.
Vendor interest form
Tell us where you fit.
Share a few details and our partnerships team will follow up with the full prospectus, floor map and availability.