Accelerate 2022 | Accelerate 2022 | 2 November 2022 | The Plaza at Mason Square, 3383 Fairfax Dr, Arlington, VA 22201, USA

Accelerate 2022 is an investor conference and startup business competition that showcases Northern Virginia as a powerhouse for innovation and business opportunity.
The competition fuels innovation-based business growth by showcasing the best and brightest new tech startups to potential investors to foster their development within Metro DC.

Dozens of top tech companies and 20+ student teams will compete to win cash and bragging rights. The competition targets entrepreneurs with early to mid seed stage, high growth businesses with the potential to have an immediate and positive impact on our local economy, as well as student concepts with longer-term business viability.

The audience for this year’s event includes:
• Early to mid stage venture capital
• Angel investors / Angel groups
• Preseed and Seed Funds
• Tech entrepreneurs
• Business innovators
• Entrepreneurial students
• Ecosystem service providers

2022 Speakers

Seth Goldman
Co-Founder, Eat the Change

Adrian Fenty
Managing General Partner, Mac VC

Dhani Jones
Chairman, Qey Ventures

Che Pope
Songwriter, Record executive and Producer

Teresa Carlson
Corporate VP and Executive-in-Residence, Microsoft

Niala Boodhoo
American journalist, Knight-Wallace Fellow, and the host of Axios Today

2022 Sponsors

• Smart City Works
• ManTech

GAZELLE AND GALA SPONSORS:
• Arlington Economic Development
• Belcan
• Fairfax County Economic Development Authority
• Pangiam
• Microsoft

PANEL & PRIZE SPONSORS:
• Fairfax County
• GMU School of Business
• Maan Ventures
• MorganFranklin
• Virginia Innovation Partnership Co.

INNOVATION & RECEPTION SPONSORS:
• AEI
• AE Industrial Partners
• Fairfax City EDA
• King & Spalding
• NVTC
• Northern Virginia Technology Council
• Prince William County ED
• Raytheon Technologies
• Sands Capital
• PacWest