Reviews and Photos from TinyFest 2.0, our Yearly Exclusive Community Conference and Founder Retreat
If you want to join us a future TinyFest, applications for our next accelerator cohort open in February 2025, or you can apply to invest in our newest fund.
In nearly six years, we’ve grown our community from 13 to over 300 founders — not to mention our extensive network of mentors and LPs bringing our total community to over 400.
In 2023, we knew that it was time to start an internal conference and yearly retreat, but we still wondered if this was something that folks would want to attend regularly. We held our first ever TinyFest in January this year and we knew that our second iteration would be the true test.
There are hundreds of conferences, trade shows, and in-person events that folks could attend. After the excitement for the first-ever event wore off, would folks be down to attend another in a little less than a year?
The results are in: We know that we’ve hit on gold. What happens when you bring smart, ambitious, and kind folks into a room to share knowledge?
Deep connections, faster progress through knowledge sharing, and a stronger, more interconnected community that cheers each other on.
We’re excited to officially make this a yearly event.
Like our first iteration, we’re keeping the content confidential — TinySeed community only! — but we have some photos and reviews from our recent event (in Scottsdale, AZ, USA) to share with you so you can get a peek into our process.
Sherry Walling, PhD, kicked off our sessions with a talk focused on mindset.
Craig Hewitt led a discussion around creating a self-managing company.
“It was a very life-affirming experience for me, to be able to connect with so many other founders with diverse backgrounds yet with common ways of thinking about B2B SaaS. Felt like I had found my tribe. ”
“Great event, good weather, fun excursions, the people and conversations were amazing.”
TinySeed mentor Asia Orangio joined us at TinyFest and participated in our “fish bowl” marketing discussion.
Our "fishbowl” marketing discussion. (Photo credit: John Knox)
“An amazing, life altering experience and I don’t use such words lightly.”
“It was great! It was really nice to get to meet everybody in person, to learn some new stuff, and do some fun activities together.”
“Amazing. It was a much needed break from the daily grind and was motivating.”
Some folks explored the desert in our UTV excursion…
While others got a few rounds of golf in. (Photo credit: Asia Orangio)
Founders on our UTV excursion in the desert (video credit: Jade Null)
TinySeed founders on our afternoon excursion to summit Camelback mountain.
There was ample time available to hang out between events. (Photo credit: John Knox)
We all had a lot of fun using Waymo (driverless autonomous vehicles) to get around town.
Want to join us at the next TinyFest? Applications will open for TinySeed’s Spring 2025 programs in February 2025. Read more about our SaaS accelerator program here.