WHAT TO EXPECT

What defines a great networking event is meeting people you want to meet and having great conversations that stimulate action.  Hatch Match is designed to help you do just that!  Through active, facilitated networking, Hatch Match makes introductions and provides you with access to more than 30 advisors and investors in a format that’s convenient, efficient, and fun.

  Hatch Match is an annual event, organized by The Hatchery.  Typically held during Internet Week New York and co-hosted by a university partner, Hatch Match aims to bring together entrepreneurs, investors, and other parties interested in growing and being part of New York’s vibrant internet/web/information economy.  We are pleased to be co-hosting this year’s event with Columbia University, through its technology transfer office, Science & Technology Ventures, and its Center for Advanced Information Management.

HOW THE EVENING WILL WORK:

• We have two rooms, a general networking forum and a private back room area where investors will be set up at individual tables. 
• After checking in at the event registration desk, head to the private room to sign up for your investor meetings. 
• Sign-up is on a first come, first serve basis, and each one-on-one meeting lasts 5 minutes, so arrive early and have your pitch honed!  These are meetings for here. Your performance will determine what happens next. You are not guaranteed followup meetings.
• After your investor meetings are over, return to the general networking forum where advisors and other entrepreneurs will be mingling. 

Light refreshments will be served. 

5:00 – 6:00 pm  Registration + Networking + Investor meeting signup


6:00 – 8:00 pm  Investor Meetings + Networking

HOW TO SIGN UP FOR INVESTOR MEETINGS:

• YOU MUST RSVP IN ORDER TO TAKE MEETINGS.
• You will be given a card to mark your meetings. You must show your card at the meeting room door before entry.
• Walk up to the investor meeting sign up tables. Each available investor will have an area to sign up for time slots.
• Walk up to the slot and a time will be given to you. If there is a conflict from your previous meeting, the next slot will be given.
• Put the meeting sticker on your card.
• Return to the main room if you do not have a meeting coming up.
• Notification will be given for each active meeting.
• Please line up outside the meeting room 5 minutes before your actual meeting.

POLICIES

• YOU MUST RSVP ONLINE BEFORE REGISTRATION CLOSES IN ORDER TO TAKE INVESTOR MEETINGS.
• RSVP required to attend. No walkins.
• You are allowed 2 meetings. Your meetings must be labelled on the card provided in order to enter the meeting room.
• Do not linger around the investor meeting room unless you are entering for your meeting.
• Prepare for your meetings. These are introductory meetings. You have 5 minutes with the investor. Use your time wisely.
• We are not responsible for technical support or difficulties at the event.
• Hatchery reserves the right to refuse admittance.
• No personal recording of the event.
• Please do not stalk investors unless they give you contact information

HOW TO PREPARE

• Prepare for your meetings. These are introductory meetings. You have 5 minutes with the investor. Use your time wisely.
• Consider this a discussion
• Concise deck – 3 minutes – 2 minutes, frank discussion on why they should spend this time with you, and possibly taking a followup meeting
• This is an opportunity for you to get to know an investor , and for them to get to know you. and then your company.
• Conversations with the larger room.
• Prepare to have conversations with not only investors, but the resources in the main