Entrepreneurs from Drone, Robotics, and Medical Technologies Industries to Converge in Pasadena This Saturday – Pasadena Now - Pasadena Now

Calling each technophiles successful Pasadena to travel to acquisition caller forms of reality, enhanced with cutting-edge virtual world cogwheel this Saturday with ‘Tea, Tech and Tequila.’ 

Attendees tin prosecute with virtual reality, metaverse ecosystems, augmented reality, mixed reality, and a marketplace of section vendors each portion enjoying curated tequila and bespoke beverage tastings during the event. 

‘Tea, Tech and Tequila’ marks the extremity of ConnectWeek 2022 successful Pasadena.

Presented by The Funding Boutique (TFB), the lawsuit is billed arsenic a unsocial virtual collaboration abstraction wherever participants link and engage, bask a showcase of emerging tech inclusive of women and radical of color, and research the XR Observatory, 1 of the main features of the lawsuit which is simply a mixed-reality, originative space.

“Attendees tin look guardant to hanging retired with entrepreneurs successful drone, robotics, and aesculapian technologies arsenic good arsenic professionals and assemblage members,” Zenobia E. Millet, laminitis and fintech backing specializer astatine TFB, said. “They’ll get to prosecute successful augmented world with the creation of a talented femtech, VR experiences, and a marketplace of section vendors.”

As portion of the event, the Funding Boutique has invited Neighbors Empowering Youth (NEY), an Altadena-based non-profit that provides escaped oregon low-cost computers, instrumentality and grooming to low-income younker and youth-serving organizations, on with the precocious schoolhouse robotics team, FIRST Robotics Team 2404, to stock their life-changing stories and aboriginal plans. 

The organizers volition besides admit Cassie Betts with a Champion of Change Pioneer Award.

“Cassie is simply a #TechDiva with a stellar past arsenic a disruptor and exemplifies innovation successful technology, science, creation and design, and entrepreneurship – the absorption of Innovate Pasadena’s Connect Week,” the organizers said. 

The Funding Boutique (TFB)

TFB provides entree to moving superior to those who don’t typically suffice for bequest slope oregon Small Business Administration (SBA) sources, particularly successful the pre-revenue and aboriginal stages of their business. 

“The Funding Boutique is not an online exertion 20-second ‘yes’ oregon ‘no’ support company,” Millet said. “My squad and I absorption connected helping those who don’t acceptable successful the accepted slope financing container but the concern has ‘good bones,’ coagulated concern fundamentals, and what I telephone ‘founder fire.’ So we instrumentality the clip to perceive to the founder’s communicative (their why), reappraisal their data, cheque for marketplace fit, find a backing match, and advocator for them erstwhile needed. Oftentimes, ‘homework’ is fixed (tax and ineligible filings updated, selling plans clarified, solidify fiscal projections) to summation backing success.”

The enactment assists with Unsecured Lines of Credit and Term Loans, Purchase Order Funding, Invoice, A/R and Inventory Financing, Equipment Financing/Leasing, Commercial Real Estate, Technology Projects Financing, Asset?based Financing, and Web3 Financing.

The Funding Boutique besides offers introductions to equity angel and task superior (VC) investors for qualified pre-series and early-stage companies.

Other services see strategical readying consultations, concern program and transportation platform development, concern assets referrals, concern mentoring, and firm committee availability.

During erstwhile ‘Tea Tech and Tequila’ events, TFB’s founders person often personally met with imaginable investors without the unit of transportation events oregon competitions.

Millet said the lawsuit is unfastened to each who are funny astir existent and emerging technologies.

“Attendees tin speech to innovators and founders straight who successful crook tin accumulate nonstop feedback from the attendees and summation lawsuit prospects,” she continued. “For sponsors, intimate conversations astir their marque to a caller engaged assemblage are opportunities to grow scope and physique caller relationships.”

Millet said she volition supply a complimentary summons “if determination are adventurous seniors oregon veterans who would similar to attend.” 

Tea, Tech and Tequila is connected Saturday, Oct. 15, from 4 to 7 p.m.

To RSVP for the event, visit https://www.connectpasadena.com/event/tea-tech-tequila.