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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 earn good money and also appreciate emerging ideas, thought leadership, technology, and fresh points of view. Many of these people are entrepreneurs or wish to become entrepreneurs; others are thought leaders in their companies. They are or will be seeking professional services to aid them in developing their ideas, growing their ventures, and launching their products.
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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. This tier of sponsorship is limited to six companies.
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 1,400 in attendance), two MinneDemo events (typically over 600 in attendance), and several MinneHours (typically over 100 in attendance), but may include other events as well.
Benefits
- Ability to host a booth at Minnebar
- 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.)
- Ability to feature your company in promotional videos during large events
- Ability to participate in virtual swag bag for certain events
- Priority registration for 16 people to each event
- Ability to post job openings in Minnestar monthly newsletter
- 1st-tier logo placement in all media and correspondence
- Logo and link on our website
- Complimentary Minnestar stickers and koozies & 30% discounts on Minnestar merch
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 1,000 in attendance), two MinneDemo events (typically over 600 in attendance), and several MinneHours (typically over 100 in attendance), but may include other events as well.
Benefits
- Ability to host a booth at Minnebar
- 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.)
- Ability to feature your company in promotional videos during large events
- Ability to participate in virtual swag bag for certain events
- Priority registration for 16 people to each event
- Ability to post job openings in Minnestar monthly newsletter
- 1st-tier logo placement in all media and correspondence
- Logo and link on our website
- Complimentary Minnestar stickers and koozies & 30% discounts on Minnestar merch
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 1,000 in attendance), two MinneDemo events (typically over 600 in attendance), and several MinneHours (typically over 100 in attendance), but may include other events as well.
Benefits
- Priority registration for 4 people to each event
- 3rd-tier logo placement in all media and correspondence
- Logo and link on our website
- Recognition in our sponsor slide show
- Ability to participate in virtual swag bag for certain events
- Minnestar stickers and koozies
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
- Priority registration for 4 people to each event
- 3rd-tier logo placement in all media and correspondence
- Logo and link on our website
- Recognition in our sponsor slide show
- Ability to participate in virtual swag bag for certain events
- Minnestar stickers and koozies