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Tweener Madness 2025
Tweener Madness 2025
An 8-company bracket-style competition with a $25,000 investment awarded to one winning Triangle 'pre-tweener' startup.
Background and Highlights
is launching the first Tweener Madness event to shine a bright spotlight on the amazing Triangle startup ecosystem. The contest involves 8 startups who will compete for the $25k investment prize and 21 selection committee members that are local institutional or angel investors.
Each competition in the bracket will feature two companies and their founders facing off with a selection committee of three judges.
The contests will be released as Tweener Talks and podcasts, with commentary coming out regularly in the newsletter. A total of 7 long-form podcasts will be released throughout the tournament as the 8 teams compete for the top spot. 18 short-form podcasts will be released, introducing our selection committee.
Tournament Updates
The Exceptional Eight is complete, catch up now!
Fabulous Four Timeline
High-level Timeline
The high-level timeline for Tweener Madness is:
You may have noticed our timeline has changed. Our priority is delivering the best product, not just the fastest one. We appreciate your patience and flexibility as we navigate this process—it’s our first time, and we want to get it right!
Sponsors
Tweener Madness was created in partnership between and /. The winner of Tweener Madness receives a $25,000 investment from Tweener Fund .
Special thanks to our sponsors for making this possible:
Finally, special thanks to Raleigh Founded who donated the space for the Tweener Madness recording studio
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