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Our community includes the leaders, innovators, and builders who make things happen. Minnestar brings them together and forms connections that help our community improve their skills, grow their careers and businesses, and helps our state build its economy. Investing in Minnestar invests in the future of technology innovation in Minnesota.
As a sponsor, you will reach a highly educated, tech-savvy audience of individuals that appreciate emerging ideas, thought leadership, technology, and fresh points of view. Many of these people are entrepreneurs or wish to become entrepreneurs; others are technologists or thought leaders in their companies. They are or will be seeking new career adventures or professional services to aid them in developing their ideas, growing their ventures, and launching their products.
Minnestar by the numbers:
4,000+ annual event attendees
13,000+ email subscribers
12,000+ social media followers
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Terabyte Sponsor Level
Donation: $16,000
The Terabyte Sponsors are the top-tier supporters of Minnestar, offering premium support to the community and are recognized as the leaders of this community for their generous contribution. They are the recognized leaders in our community.
An annual contribution of $16,000, lists Terabyte Sponsor at all our events for the entire year as the key sponsors not just of Minnestar but of the entire technology community. These Sponsors are given premium awareness space at all events — top tier logo placement, recognition from the speakers and space for distributing materials (as available). This will be true at all Minnestar events, which include one Minnebar (typically over 1,300 in attendance), two Minnedemo events (typically over 600 in attendance), and several smaller events (typically 100 – 200 in attendance) throughout the year.
Benefits
- Ability to host a booth at Minnebar
- Ability to address the audience at all Minnebar & Minnedemos
- Ability to host a booth at MN Tech Job & Opportunity Fairs
- One complimentary Premium job posting per month on our job board
- Ability to post job openings in Minnestar monthly newsletter
- Option to host a co-branded event with your company
- Special curated communications package based on your company’s needs (email to our mailing list, social media mentions throughout the year, blog post features, etc.)
- Priority registration for 16 people to each event
- 1st-tier logo placement in all media and correspondence
- 1st-tier logo placement at all Minnestar events (20+)
- Ability to bring swag to all Minnestar events
- Logo and link on our website
Gigabyte Sponsor Level
Donation: $8,000
The Gigabyte Sponsorship is ideal for companies who want to make a splash in an effort to recruit technical talent. It is a prominent sponsorship that includes several communication opportunities to get your jobs in front of a valuable talent pool.
For a contribution of $8,000, your company will be listed as a Gigabyte Sponsor for all our events for the entire year. This will be true at all Minnestar events, which include one Minnebar (typically over 1,300 in attendance), two Minnedemo events (typically over 600 in attendance), and several smaller events (typically 100 – 200 in attendance) throughout the year.
Benefits
- Ability to address the audience at one large event of your choosing (Minnebar or Minnedemo)
- Ability to host a booth at MN Tech Job & Opportunity Fairs
- Ability to post job openings in Minnestar monthly newsletter
- One complimentary Featured job posting per month on our job board
- Priority registration for 8 people to each event
- 2nd-tier logo placement in all media and correspondence
- 2nd-tier logo placement at all Minnestar events (20+)
- Ability to bring swag to all Minnestar events
- Logo and link on our website
Megabyte Sponsor Level
Donation: $4,000
The Megabyte Sponsorship is ideal for companies who seek to support and grow the tech community and want to draw awareness through event attendance and branding placement. This gives a company four priority registration spots, great branding at the events and access to sponsor events.
For a contribution of $4,000, your company will be listed as a Megabyte Sponsor for all our events for the entire year. This will be true at all Minnestar events, which include one Minnebar (typically over 1,300 in attendance), two Minnedemo events (typically over 600 in attendance), and several smaller events (typically 100 – 200 in attendance) throughout the year.
Benefits
- Ability to host a booth at MN Tech Job & Opportunity Fairs
- Priority registration for 4 people to each event
- One complimentary job posting per month on our job board
- 3rd-tier logo placement in all media and correspondence
- 3rd-tier logo placement at all Minnestar events (20+)
- Ability to bring swag to all Minnestar events
- Logo and link on our website
Kilobyte Sponsor Level
Donation: $1,000
The Kilobyte Sponsorship level is for smaller companies, startups or folks who want to participate and support but don’t have specific needs for awareness or recruiting. For $1,000, you will receive priority registration for all Minnestar events, and your name and link on our list of supporters on our website.
Benefits
- Ability to host a booth at MN Tech Job & Opportunity Fairs (+ $1,000 fee)
- Priority registration for 1 person to each event
- One complimentary job posting per month on our job board
- 4th-tier logo placement in all media and correspondence
- 4th-tier logo placement at all Minnestar events (20+)
- Ability to bring swag to all Minnestar events
- Logo and link on our website