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Week 116 highlights

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Come have fun and make friends @ TNT.

Thursday Night Tradition @ TNT

Now making friends at Mercer Tavern.
Every Thursday. 6-9 pm.

Action Jackson showed up a full hour early, fully bearded and ready to make some new friends.

Here are a few of the people that we met!

The new venture manager at the University of Alberta Health Hub and Accelerator, who is looking for more great companies like TNT Summit winner True Angle and TNT summit side-deal Future Fields to join their program.

The owners of Synergy Franchising, Eddie and Kyle, who are now re-investing some of their earnings from operating Popeye's Franchises across northern Alberta into our local startup community

The people manager and sales operation manager at the 2021 YEG Startup Community Awards Best Startup Workplace (also a past TNT summit winner ;) - and you guessed it, they're looking for more people to join their team!

And the official Professor of TNT, Dr. Tony Briggs, showed up at 8 to ensure we'd all stay up too late!

Your fearless newsletter writer is going back to 'merica to visit his family in Connecticut.

But we have left you in good hands this week: Emily Craven of Story City is hosting a Startup Walking tour of Old Strathcona.

The Great Alberta Pitch Marathon is back

The application portal is live!

Join the 65 companies that have already applied!

TNT welcomes YYC in August

We're officially launching the TNT YYC Happy Hour at Craft Beer Market on August 19th in conjunction with the Great Alberta Pitch Marathon.

August is going to be an epic month! Join any of these fantastic events. Join us at 6 PM every Thursday at Mercer Tavern in YEG.

Aug 5th: Startup Origin Stories Walking tour of Old Strathcona with StoryCity. Join us at 4:30 pm as Emily Craven takes us on an interactive walking tour featuring the origin stories of Jobber, Future Fields, 2SWater, Honest Door, Codo, Carepros, and Mach 32. Meet at Rainbow Road on Whyte Avenue next to Malt and Mortar.
Sign up here.
Kim Krushell plans to stop by the happy hour.

Aug 12th: House Party TNT - Feature a Zack-free evening and a sober table hosted by Ghalia and Abbas (along with our regular happy hour!). We can only imagine the shenanigans that will happen at this crazy party! Reminds me of high school in Connecticut.

August 19th: Great Alberta Pitch Marathon and the YYC Launch Party! We've got our local YYC Ambassadors Jade and Neil actively exploring our YYC Happy Hour options and plan to launch it with the Great Alberta Pitch Marathon YYC Afterparty. The simultaneous parties are now happening YEG, YYC, YXE and YQR(That's right - now you've got to look up the airport codes of cities you've never even passed through to experience TNT in all its glory!)

August 26th: Product TNT with Product Edmonton. Our friends Dave and Nathan are co-hosting a Product Edmonton social with us once again!

News From Across TNT

- The Great Saskatchewan Pitch Marathon

Our friends from Saskatchewan are launching their own Pitch Marathon this summer as well! Introducing The Great Saskatchewan Pitch Marathon, check out the website for details.

- Join the next Propel Cohort!

Our groovy office space hosts at Startup Edmonton seek another YEG company cohort to join the Propel Pre-Accelerator. Did you know Quote to Me, who just closed a $2.5 million seed round, with participation from Startup TNT investors, is a Propel Alumnus?

Stay tuned for more updates!

Politics at TNT: Neutral but still fun!

It's election season and candidates want to meet entrepreneurs.

We think it is awesome that local politicians and political candidates want to engage with the startup community in informal ways by attending our happy hour or host meet and greets that lead into our happy hour.

We encourage our community to attend, share your views, and discuss what issues are important to the startup community.

However, Startup TNT will not be officially endorsing any political candidates; we do of course encourage all members of our community to be politically active and support the candidates you believe in.

Kim Krushell plans to stop by August 5th.

TNT Sponsors

Thank you to our sponsors!

We're renewing all our sponsorship agreements this month.

Want to be part of this awesome group of startup community fortifiers helping us have fun, make friends, and build great companies together?

Drop us a note!

Weekly Bar Tab Coverage!

As one TNTer noted: What a huggable host! Our hosts are Mercer Tavern are providing 50 free drink tickets per week!

Here's the updated Beer Sponsorship Leaderboard.

1 Pt = 1 Beer.

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