Get Involved

Mentor a company for an extended time with a focus on gaining traction and achieving measurable goals and KPIs

While mentor-mentee relationships can last a long time, we suggest a minimum of 3 months and a willingess to give 30 minutes to 1 hour of time each week during this period.

As a successful tech founder, you know what companies and startup ecosystems most need to succeed.

Share your expertise with our ecosystem and help guide it to ensure companies have the right resources at the right time.

Join a network of domain experts and serve as a resource to startup founders. Unlike executive mentors, you are volunteering to allow founders to give you a quick call when they need some advice in your area of expertise.

You’ll also be able to interact and collaborate with others in the technical expert network across a variety of disciplines (tech, finance, legal, marketing, etc.).

Do you enjoy community outreach and engagement? Building connections and facilitating interactions?

Join us as an ecosystem builder to help bring people together as a host or facilitator and extend our community to members that are the hardest to reach.

We need your help to get the word out. A strong community means strong community membership.

If you support the Startup Hawaiʻi vision, share our website with others in your network.

To move this initiative beyond its volunteer stage, we need funding for the organization and ecosystem efforts, as well as specific projects that will fill gaps in the ecosystem.

If fundraising strategy and making connections sounds fun to you, join our Fundraising Committee.

Interested in investing? See options below 👇

If our vision resonates with you or your business or organization, share your support for Startup Hawaiʻi publicly.

We will list your logo on our website as an indication that you are a member of our community.

If our vision aligns with yours, we are always looking for partnerships. We are constantly learning from other individuals and organizations.

In areas like education and infrastructure that are incredibly important to this ecosystem, we prefer to partner with subject matter experts and complement existing efforts.

If your business or organization supports our vision, sponsor Startup Hawaiʻi financially. Sponsorship may be directed at the creation of the entire ecosystem or a specific initiative that resonates such as education and workforce development.

As a sponsor, your logo will be featured on our website as a member of the team along with a variety of other outlets.

Volunteer efforts alone are rarely able to sustain beyond a certain point. Fatigue and burnout often cause great initiatives to fail. Thatʻs why we need funding to take this to the next level.

We’re looking for organizations and individuals that will join us on this journey to grow Startup Hawaiʻi and its programs. We welcome and encourage funders to enter this process as partners who can help us shape the future of Startup Hawaiʻi.

Leveraging remote work is essential to increasing professional opportunities. Unfortunately, many residents lack the relationships required to access these opportunities.

Commit to hire remote employees from Hawaiʻi Island. The right connections, infrastructure, and support can remove barriers and increase access to stable, sustainable jobs.

It is clear that there is demand for and willingness to invest in high potential technology companies on Hawaiʻi Island. What this community is lacking the structure the effectively manage investment opportunities on an ongoing basis.

Invest in local technology companies with Startup Hawaiʻi as your partner in managing sourcing, diligence, and execution.