BETA Demo Night - Spring 2026

The Spring 2026 BETA Cohort founders have built. Now they're ready to pitch.

Join us Thursday, July 30th for Demo Night, where the Spring 2026 BETA Cohort takes the stage to pitch their startups to investors, operators, and Minnesota's broader innovation community.

Twelve early-stage companies. Five minutes each. Each founder gets the mic, a hard stop on time, and a couple of questions from the audience. 

Whether you're an investor, an advisor, a community member, or a founder looking for inspiration, Demo Night is your front-row seat to what's being built right here in Minnesota.

Date: Thursday, July 30, 2026
Time: 4:30 – 7:00 PM
Location: Twin Ignition Startup Garage | 1317 Marshall St NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413

Food and drinks provided.

Presenting startups

Creds, Inc.

Pam Haack & Mario Jackson | constructioncreds.com

CREDS connects contractors, property managers, design/build firms, and subcontractors with flexible gig workers, including skilled tradespeople looking for more work, recent trade school graduates, and retirees. These workers provide variable labor to assist with repairs, maintenance, remodeling, and new build projects.

EVRKind

Kathleen Hustad | evrkind.co

EVRKind is scaling Care OS, a multilingual system designed to close the gaps in real-world family caregiver workflows. It is the only solution integrating AI guidance (CareNAV), structured documentation (Care Journal), and peer community (Care Community) into one continuous workflow. EVRKind supports 22+ languages, with specific focus on high-risk care transitions like hospital to home. Built by a family caregiver, not a health tech team.

Find Your Great

Brendan Fortune | findyourgreat.com

Find Your Great is an AI-powered performance assessment platform for modern knowledge-work teams. It connects to tools like Slack, GitHub, and Google Workspace to analyze real work patterns and collaboration behaviors, then maps them to a company's competency framework. The result is continuous, evidence-based feedback that helps employees improve faster and helps managers coach with clarity.

HiveWORK

Sina Kassaw & Antenhe Tena | hivework.xyz

HiveWORK is a two-sided marketplace that connects vetted AI automation and agent engineers with small and medium-sized businesses that need custom AI solutions. Engineers on the platform are certified for their ability to design, build, integrate, and maintain AI agents and automation systems. Business owners get access to qualified builders without hiring a full-time AI engineer.

MindCraft

Akshat Koirala

MindCraft helps students close learning gaps, build confidence, and achieve stronger academic outcomes. It treats learning as dynamic rather than linear, combining one-on-one tutoring with targeted practice and clear instructional notes. MindCraft creates student constellations: visual maps that show what a student understands, where they are struggling, and what they are ready to learn next.

Referrin Health

Folarin Adedeji | referrin.com

Referrin is a care coordination platform designed to bring clarity and structure to fragmented referral processes across healthcare and human services. It gives healthcare providers and care professionals a centralized system to create, manage, and track referrals in real time, reducing administrative burden and improving access to timely care. Referrin streamlines the full referral lifecycle from intake and provider matching to status tracking and communication.

SolarSentra

Sipho Mpofu

SolarSentra is an AI-driven software platform enabling commercial and utility-scale solar operators to monitor and diagnose solar panel health using computer vision. Operators upload drone-captured imagery, which is automatically analyzed to identify panel-level faults including soiling, dust accumulation, cracks, electrical defects, and physical damage. SolarSentra transforms inspection imagery into actionable maintenance intelligence, reducing manual inspection effort and minimizing energy losses.

Sublime LLC

Daniel Robinson | sublime.llc

Sublime LLC is an advanced materials startup developing and manufacturing patent-pending acoustic metamaterial solutions for demanding OEM and infrastructure applications. The technology redefines low-frequency noise control by delivering high absorption performance in compact, manufacturable assemblies. Sublime has been validated through third-party lab testing and early commercial deployments, including Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian and Cypress Creek Renewables.

Upsidian Health

Yaneve Fonge | upsidianinc.com

Upsidian is a direct-to-consumer, tech-enabled doula care platform designed to make advocacy an essential part of healthcare, not a privilege. It connects birthing families with vetted, culturally aligned doulas through an AI-powered matching system, while giving doulas comprehensive business infrastructure to scale their practice. The company is led by a board-certified OB/GYN and Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist.

Virgo.AI

Vaish Sagar

Virgo.AI builds AI agents that detect and resolve data pipeline failures faster. Installed as a Docker container on the customer's server, Virgo monitors pipeline logs in real time, runs root cause analysis when a job fails, and produces a structured report identifying where the failure occurred and how to fix it. The platform targets enterprise health tech, where pipeline reliability is critical and teams currently spend hundreds of thousands of dollars per year on manual diagnosis.

Wathaag

Abdirahman Mohamed

Wathaag is a three-sided cultural discovery platform connecting independent creators, their supporters, and cultural institutions in Minneapolis and beyond. Creators post events and build direct follower relationships with their audiences. Supporters receive a personalized Monday discovery list of upcoming events matched to their cultural interests and within a 30-minute drive. Institutions access behavioral audience intelligence to understand and grow their community engagement.

WhereHowSpace

Koy Payne | wherehowspace.com

WhereHowSpace converts business data into optimized physical space decisions, helping operators and business owners determine the right size, layout, and configuration of their operations before committing to real estate. It begins with 3PL and SMB warehouse planning, translating fulfillment data into right-sized, high-efficiency warehouse designs. The long-term vision is becoming the operating layer connecting digital operations data to physical space design across industries.