What we’re about
In-Person event, location Galvanize, Boulder
PitchBoulder is a pitch mentoring platform offering local entrepreneurs an opportunity to present their startups to a diverse audience of mentors, advisors, investors and peers. Presenters deliver a 6-8 minute pitch deck presentation designed for investors, channel partners, co-founders, employees, etc. They then engage in 40 minutes of constructive feedback and questioning that we call crowd mentoring followed by 30 minutes of networking.
Entrepreneurs gain insight into possible ways they can improve their businesses and connect with a peer community that cares about their progress. Participants walk away having advanced their business and the audience walks away with the satisfaction of providing expert crowd-vetted coaching.
Whether presenter, mentor or passive audience member, there is much to learn every week from this dynamic and diverse community. PitchBoulder takes place at 9:00 am every Wednesday.
Upcoming events
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Presenting: CareerOps – Job Search, Without the Busywork
Galvanize Boulder, 1023 Walnut St., Boulder, CO, USCareerOps (https://careerops.com) — Founder Chris McDermut presenting — is a productivity platform that helps job seekers run a structured, data-driven job search without manual tracking.
Job seekers waste hours copy-pasting roles, companies, and contacts from job boards into spreadsheets and DIY CRMs. CareerOps is a Chrome extension that captures job postings, company data, and contacts in one click. It instantly exports clean, structured records into Notion, Google Sheets, Airtable, CSV, or Excel, eliminating manual data entry. The MVP is live with early users, and upcoming automations plus ATS/CRM integrations will allow candidates to manage their entire search like a pipeline. The result is a faster, more organized, and more professional job search.
Our target market is active job seekers and career switchers in the U.S. who need an organized, efficient way to manage their job search and are willing to pay for automation, time savings, and better outcomes.
Our competition is spreadsheets, Notion templates, and traditional ATS tools. Our competitive advantage is one-click data capture, flexible exports, workflow-agnostic design, and seamless integration into tools job seekers already use.
The total market size in 2024 is the U.S. job search and career services market, and the total market revenue in 2024 is $6B+.
Top 3 challenges:
- Building consistent top-of-funnel awareness and acquisition channels
- Converting early users into paid automation customers
- Validating enterprise and career-coach partnerships and required integrations
Our PitchBoulder ask:
We’re looking for GTM feedback on acquisition channels, positioning, and pricing, introductions to job seeker communities, bootcamps, and career coaches willing to pilot, and hands-on testers to use the Chrome extension and exports and share candid feedback.9 attendees
Presenting: Pickup Play – Where Pickup Games Begin
Galvanize Boulder, 1023 Walnut St., Boulder, CO, USPickup Play (http://www.pickupplay.games) — Founder PJ Bullock presenting — is a community marketplace that uses sports to create real-world human connection and belonging.
Loneliness and social fragmentation are growing problems, and it’s harder than ever to find people to casually play sports with. Pickup Play uses sports as the catalyst to bring people together around a simple question: “Who’s free to play?” The platform makes it easy to discover, organize, and join pickup games in local communities. By lowering the friction to participation, Pickup Play transforms spontaneous play into a repeatable social habit. The result is stronger communities, healthier lifestyles, and meaningful in-person connection.
Our target market is urban and suburban adults in the U.S. who need easy ways to find social, recreational sports opportunities and are willing to pay for access, convenience, and community-driven experiences.
Our competition is Meetup, Facebook Groups, and recreational sports leagues. Our competitive advantage is focus on spontaneous pickup play, lightweight coordination, and community-first network effects rather than formal leagues or event planning.
The total market size in 2024 is the U.S. recreational sports and social fitness market, and the total market revenue in 2024 is $40B+.
Top 3 challenges:
- Early user adoption
- Achieving strong product-market fit
- Staged development of a two-sided marketplace
Our PitchBoulder ask:
We’re looking for feedback on whether the long-term investment path toward building a $20M+ ARR business is credible, or if the focus should be more heavily weighted toward near-term execution milestones versus long-term vision.8 attendees
Presenting: Humming Agent AI – Custom AI That Actually Ships
Galvanize Boulder, 1023 Walnut St., Boulder, CO, USHumming Agent AI (http://hummingagent.ai) — Co-Founder Brian Watson presenting — is an AI agency that designs, builds, and deploys custom AI solutions for real business use cases.
Many companies want to leverage AI but lack the in-house expertise to move from ideas to production-ready systems. Humming Agent AI partners with organizations to design and implement custom AI agents, automations, and workflows tailored to their specific needs. The team focuses on practical, high-impact applications that integrate directly into existing tools and processes. Unlike off-the-shelf AI products, each solution is purpose-built and deployable. The result is faster adoption, measurable ROI, and AI that actually gets used.
Our target market is small to mid-sized businesses and enterprise teams in the U.S. who need custom AI solutions integrated into their operations and are willing to pay for bespoke development, implementation, and ongoing optimization.
Our competition is general software development agencies, no-code AI platforms, and internal AI teams. Our competitive advantage is deep AI specialization, rapid deployment, custom-built agents, and a hands-on partnership model focused on real business outcomes rather than demos.
The total market size in 2024 is the U.S. AI services and solutions market, and the total market revenue in 2024 is $50B+.
Top 3 challenges:
- Finding and hiring top-tier AI developers
- Driving consistent customer acquisition
- Fundraising to scale team and delivery capacity
Our PitchBoulder ask:
We’re seeking feedback on clarity of our offering and messaging — are we clearly communicating the services we provide and the value we deliver? We’d also love input on how to sharpen our positioning, what to improve, and whether this feels like an investable company at this stage.5 attendees
Past events
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