Where the cohort ships. In front of the people who can fund what's next.
A Digital Canvas demo day is the six-week cohort ending in a curated evening of live pitches to an accredited investor audience plus partner capital from across San Antonio and Texas. Not a pitch event. A room where conversations start.
What happens
One evening. Cohort builders, an investor audience, and the painpoint owners in the same room.
Curated pitches
8–12 cohort builders present working products built against painpoints authored by the cohort underwriter. No PowerPoint demos — live builds.
Warm room
An accredited investor audience and partner capital across San Antonio and Texas attend by invitation.
Real follow-ups
No formal Q&A theater. Conversations continue organically over food and drinks. Investors connect with the builders worth a second call.
Industry-themed
Each demo day is anchored to a single vertical — cybersecurity, military, health and science, education. The room knows what to expect.
The room
Building the audience for cohort 1. An accredited investor network and partner capital across San Antonio and Texas.
DevSA
434 Media
Alamo Angels
Cohort 1 Underwriter
Additional partner capital across San Antonio and Texas in active conversations. The full lineup announces when cohort 1's underwriter and vertical lock.
Track record
Not a first attempt. The capital network and the operators convening this room already have a track record in San Antonio.
Deployed across 50+ startups
Alamo AngelsAccredited investors in-network
Alamo AngelsRegistrations to the dual-use innovation summit 434 helped build, since 2023
434 Media · BRDGOf 2026 attendees reported meaningful new connections
434 Media · BRDG434 Media helped build BRDG — San Antonio's dual-use innovation ecosystem spanning military medicine, academic research, and government. The same convening, storytelling, and stakeholder work powers every Digital Canvas cohort.