Sponsorship Opportunities
Why Sponsor a CBDC program or event?
Premier Audience
- CBDC events attract the emerging companies that will be the leaders of the future.
- You get direct access to these important decision makers: personal contact at the event and the names and contact information for all of the attendees of the event you sponsor.
- You get exposure to all of CBDCís high tech clients through sponsor recognition on marketing materials for the events you sponsor.
Outstanding Impression
- You send a message to attendees and clients that your firm supports the next generation of entrepreneurs.
- You leave a lasting impact on attendees with an opportunity to give a short presentation about your firm and distribute marketing materials at BWTS and Idea to Liquidity.
- Your own clients benefit through your association with CBDC through opportunities to attend or speak at CBDC events.
Enduring Value
- You are recognized as a sponsor throughout the season on the CBDC website, increasing your exposure to a broader entrepreneurial audience.
- You can attend a specified number of events throughout the season to augment the personal contacts made at your sponsored event.
- You are invited to CBDC’s Annual Awards Event and other networking events throughout the year.
Your support of the Cambridge Business Development Center will allow the entrepreneurial community of Greater Cambridge to continue to draw on this vital resource.
Please contact CBDC for more details about sponsorship opportunities and levels. Thank you.
Major Sponsors
The Cambridge Business Development Center is grateful to the following corporate and individual sponsors and grantors who have generously contributed financial support to CBDC.
- Cambridge Savings Bank
- The City of Cambridge, Community Development Department
- Fleet Charitable Trusts
- Highland St Foundation
Event Sponsors
Breakfast with the Stars Sponsors
- Hutchins, Wheeler & Dittmar.
- Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton.
- Grant Thornton and Murphy Associates.
- idealab!.
- Edwards & Angell, LLP.
- Edwards & Angell, LLP.
- Hutchins, Wheeler & Dittmar.
Sponsors for the 2nd Annual Awards Ceremony
Lead Sponsors
- Cambridge Incubator
- Cambridge Savings Bank
- Edwards & Angell
- High Ground, Inc.
- Imperial Bank
- OneLiberty Ventures
Supporters
- The Consulting Exchange
- Harvard University, Office of Community Affairs
- I Belong Networks
- IBM
- Jennifer Lawton, Interliant
- Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, P.C.
Contributors
- CB Richard Ellis/Whittier Partners
- Deloitte & Touche LLP
- East Cambridge Savings Bank
- Genzyme Corporation
- Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation
- MIT, Office of Community Relations
Donors
- ADD Inc
- Cambridgeport Bank
- Cambridge Trust Company
- The Catlin Group
- Collaborative Communications
- Cornerstone Financial Group
- Diversified Search, Inc
- Fleet Boston, Women Entrepreneurs’ Connection
- Hastings Tapley Insurance Agency
- Hirtle Callaghan & Co.
- Lucash Gesmer & Updegrove
- MeansBusiness
- Sally Silver Companies
- Scott Goffstein & Associates, CPA
- Shapiro, Israel & Weiner, P.C.
- TENCorp
- Tofias Fleishman Shapiro & Co, P.C.
- Trammell Crow Company
Individual & Corporate Sponsors 1999-2000
- Carole Bellew, Bookeeping & More
- Richard Braun, Shore Net
- Cambridge Trust Company
- Katherine Catlin, The Catlin Group
- ChannelWave Software
- Citizens Bank
- Collaborative Communications, Inc.
- East Cambridge Savings Bank
- Jeanne Strain, CBDC
- Vincent Fulmer, Secretary Emeritus, MIT
- Eva Ghosh, Alliance Group, Inc.
- Petie Hilsinger
- Warren Katz, Mak Technologies
- Kurzweil Technologies
- Jennifer Lawton, Interliant
- Lightbridge, Inc.
- Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove
- Martha E. Mangelsdorf, Inc.com
- Mass. Ave. Realty Trust
- Rachel Rock and Josh Levy
- The Sally Silver Companies
- Sean O’Sullivan, SOS Ventures
- The Telluride Group
- TVisions
Pro Bono Partners
- Collaborative Communications, Inc. – public relations partner
- Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove – legal counsel
- Interliant – web space and e-mail

