About BSW2022

Buffalo Startup Week is a week of programming celebrating and amplifying the startup and entrepreneurship ecosystem of Western New York!

Who is it for? Everyone interested in startups and entrepreneurship in WNY – whether you’re a founder, future founder, investor, startup employees, student or member of the community at large looking to learn more. It takes a village to raise a unicorn and we’ve got inspiration, education and opportunity waiting for you.

Lots of energy! You’ll meet like-minded individuals and organizations, in a space filled with programming to inspire, amplify and accelerate opportunity. You may want to bring business cards and a notebook as well.

BSW2019

A Look Back at Our Last In-Person Event

In 2019, what was once a small group of entrepreneurs who had been getting together for coffee, saw the need to come together in support of fellow founders and the emerging innovation community. They founded Buffalo Startup Week, led by Jack Greco and Clark Dever. Throughout Buffalo Startup Week, local, regional, and international thought leaders presented on everything startup – software development, UX/UI, game development, finance, funding, legal, workplace diversity and inclusion, and more.

BSW2019 unified the startup community and led to the explosive growth of Buffalo Open Coffee Club, a weekly meetup for entrepreneurs. Nearly 100 founders, established and prospective entrepreneurs, job seekers, and other stakeholders packed into a local eatery at 7:30 every Tuesday morning to collaborate and network. Since BOCC was founded, follow-on Open Coffee organizations have been added to the ecosystem, including Rochester, Niagara Falls and the University at Buffalo.

The successes of BSW2019 and BOCC in turn fueled the launch of the now 1,800-member WNY Startup Community Slack channel and Buffalo Bridge, a dynamic, weekly communique founded by Jack Greco that keeps its 5,000 subscribers engaged with events, job postings, mentor opportunities, founder features – every aspect of the WNY innovation ecosystem.

BSW2020 & 2021

Hybrid

During two challenging year of many unknowns, Jack Greco, Clark Dever and Jordan Walbesser created BootSector, which took over leadership of Buffalo Startup Week.

Continuing the tradition started in 2019, BSW2020 & 2021 hosted local and regional thought leaders who presented on everything startup. Impacted by the effects of COVID-19, the events were a mix of remote and hybrid still giving WNY entrepreneurs the opportunity to celebrate the world that they encounter every day.

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