📅 April 25 | 12 PM - 7 PM
📍University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
The finale of SoCal Startup Week, Horizon is where SoCal’s top student builders, founders, and investors come together to connect, learn, and build. This year, we’re bringing together 150+ of the best student entrepreneurial talent across Southern California for a day of insights, networking, and real opportunities.
We’re inviting investors from top VC firms to meet the next generation of founders. Expect keynotes, panels, roundtables, and a startup showcase featuring the most promising student-led ventures.
Our focus this year: Consumer & Deeptech—two of SoCal’s biggest strengths in venture and innovation.
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Southern California is a global hub for consumer innovation, home to Snap, Tinder, Netflix, and countless marketplace and DTC startups. At the same time, SoCal has emerged as a deeptech leader, with places such as El Segundo and companies like Anduril, SpaceX, and Relativity Space pushing the boundaries of AI, aerospace, biotech, and robotics.
Home to institutions like Caltech, UCLA, and UCSD driving cutting-edge research, SoCal student founders have a unique advantage in both commercializing frontier technology and building the next wave of consumer products.
By focusing on Consumer & Deeptech, Horizon highlights the industries where SoCal founders have the biggest opportunities to build category-defining companies.
Hear from top founders and investors who have built and backed some of the most impactful companies in Consumer and Deeptech.
40-minute deep dives with leading entrepreneurs and VCs on topics such as: