StartX, the startup accelerator for companies founded by Stanford students, just kicked off Demo Day for its Summer 2012 startup class at AOL’s Silicon Valley headquarters in Palo Alto this evening. The non-profit program, which recently landed an $800,000 grant from the Kauffman Foundation, was launched in 2010 to give entrepreneurially-minded Stanford University students the tools and mentorship needed to turn their business ambitions into reality.
18 startups are on deck to present this evening, both on and off the record, across StartX’s standard program and its recently launched medical track StartX Med. TechCrunch will be taking a look at all of them as they give their pitches, and we’ll follow up afterward with more analysis and a run down of our favorites (if you couldn’t make it to Palo Alto in person, you can watch the pitches via Livestream here.)
For now, here is the list of the StartX Summer 2012 startups that will be presenting on the record this evening, along with the descriptions provided in the Demo Day program:
Also, we were on hand for the last StartX Demo Day back in June, and we chatted with StartX’s founder Cameron Teitelman about the program and its future. You can watch that in the video embedded below:
StartX is a non-profit organization whose mission is to accelerate the development of Stanford’s top entrepreneurs through experiential education.
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