Startup Grind Urbana-Champaign is the Startup Grind chapter in East Central Illinois. We bring together community and university entrepreneurs to allow everyone to share ideas, best practices, and passion for changing the world through lean, customer-focused innovation. We host events on the last Wednesday of each month, including AMAs, pitch battles, panel discussions, and startup speed dating. Startup Grind is the world’s largest community of startups, founders, innovators, and creators. We bring like-minded yet diverse individuals together to connect, learn, teach, help, build, and belong. We do this daily through our local events, flagship conferences, startup program, partnerships, and online media + content - collectively reaching over 3.5 million individuals worldwide.