Vegas Startup Scene

Las Vegas startups get a rare shot this week: a room of angel investors, in town, listening — and presenting is free.

Tokenize! — AI, Politics, Payments & Entertainment — returns to Las Vegas Oct 19-21, presented by the angel network BitAngels. The venue is a private estate called the Tiger Mansion; no address is published. On Oct 21, 2:30-5:00, BitAngels runs pitch sessions for pre-seed, seed and Series A plus...

Las Vegas startups just got a 175-acre reminder of who else is bidding for this valley's power.Switch has filed plans with North Las Vegas for Core 2.0: phase one is 175.8 acres across 14 parcels in the Apex Industrial Park, 486,250 square feet, two data centers, plus its own substation and switching station. Filed in August; the city still has not scheduled it for Planning Commission or City Council — so the land-and-power f...

Las Vegas startups just got a clean-energy accelerator class, and half the program is ours.Electrify Nevada named its Fall 2026 cohort, doubling down on Las Vegas and Reno. Jason LeDuc breaks down the program, a Governor's Office of Economic Development and gener8tor partnership running a twelve-week startup accelerator in each city, and what it means for Nevada startups who used to fly out for a room like that.More from the Vegas ...

Las Vegas startups don't usually begin with prehistoric shark teeth. Odditt did.

Matt Bresler spent seven years reselling fossils on eBay, left Tufts at 21, and used that money to bootstrap a sportsbook software company - now generating 100,000+ contextualized bets and parlays a day across 115 leagues. He moved it here in 2024 and hired DraftKings' first data hire as CTO. They work out of UNLV Black Fire Innovation.

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Nevada startups just got a reminder of what deep science looks like: a Las Vegas lab grew a burn patient's own skin one hundred times over in twenty-eight days.This week on Vegas Startup Scene, Jason LeDuc covers the week of September 14, 2026. Regenicin, headquartered in Las Vegas since 2024, is preparing its FDA Investigational New Drug filing for Tiscela, a lab-grown skin graft built from a patient's own cells at the Roseman Bio...

Nevada startups just got a new on-ramp: Henderson opened its first accelerator this week.Jason LeDuc breaks down Southern Nevada's startup week of September 7, 2026 — Innovation Henderson's LaunchLab starting its first cohort, a Las Vegas payments company putting cashless play on Station Casinos slot floors, and the regulator publishing the approval path gaming-tech founders have been guessing at for years.More from the Vegas...

Nevada startups have $400,000 on the table this fall, and applying costs nothing.Jason LeDuc breaks down Southern Nevada's startup week of August 31, 2026: Angel.nv's sixth cycle and its $400K prize, Zero Labs' free no-equity accelerator inside G2E, and BIZLINK's capital-and-procurement day.RUNDOWN- Angel.nv 6: $400K, free bootcamp Oct 20, apply Nov 20-Jan 1- Zero Labs Launchpad: free, no equity, at G2E Sept 25-27- BIZLINK: capital...

A Las Vegas startup just raised $4M to pull drinking water straight out of desert air.WAVR Technologies, a UNLV spinout working out of a lab at Roseman Bioventures, harvests water from air at humidity as low as 10% — a biomimetic design copied from an Australian tree frog. Desert Forge Ventures, the fund led by former UNLV president Len Jessup, is leading the seed round, which qualifies WAVR for a state match of up to $1M. On...

Southern Nevada tech jobs just got a $55 million vote of confidence. Four projects cleared the state’s economic development board on August 5, bringing more than 430 new positions to North Las Vegas, Henderson and Clark County — and putting a circuit board plant’s decision between Las Vegas, Fort Worth and Phoenix squarely on the table.

In this episode of Vegas Startup Scene, Jason LeDuc breaks down what’s ha...

P-1 AI Raises $50M to Build an AI Engineer — Vegas Startup Scene August 10th 2026

Southern Nevada's startup scene is punching way above its weight this week: a Las Vegas AI startup story out of Henderson just pulled in $50 million and a former GE CEO, and it's only the beginning.

In this episode of Vegas Startup Scene, Jason LeDuc breaks down the biggest moves across the Southern Nevada tech and startup ecosystem for the week o...

Las Vegas startup news just went big: a North Las Vegas company that folds houses flat is now a publicly traded, multibillion-dollar business — and the valley is being pitched as the next finance hub of the West.

In this episode of Vegas Startup Scene, Jason LeDuc breaks down the biggest moves across Southern Nevada's tech and startup ecosystem for the week of August 3, 2026 — from a landmark public-markets debut to a bo...

Startup Week Las Vegas just opened its doors — and its Pitch Room — giving Southern Nevada founders their biggest, lowest-cost shot at local investors this fall. If you build in the valley, this is the week to plan around.

In this episode of Vegas Startup Scene, Jason LeDuc breaks down what's happening across Southern Nevada's tech and startup community for the week of July 27, 2026 — the ecosystem's marquee week, ...

Nevada's startup story is shifting from simply attracting tech to owning it — and this week shows exactly why founders, investors, and builders should be paying attention. Home-grown capital just finished going to work, and a new advanced-manufacturing plant broke ground on American soil.

In this episode of Vegas Startup Scene, Jason LeDuc breaks down the biggest updates across Nevada's growing tech and startup community for t...

Southern Nevada's startup ecosystem just put up one of its biggest weeks yet — and it's proof that serious, world-class technology is being built right here in the valley.

In this episode of Vegas Startup Scene, Jason LeDuc breaks down the biggest stories, opportunities, and events across Southern Nevada's tech and founder community for the week of July 13, 2026 — from a medical-device breakthrough and a local robotics r...

Nevada’s startup ecosystem is not slowing down.

This week on Vegas Startup Scene, Jason LeDuc breaks down the biggest stories, events, and opportunities happening across Southern Nevada’s tech and founder community for the week of July 6, 2026.

We start with a major healthtech story out of Henderson, where Medaica is using AI, telehealth, and at-home heart screening technology to help detect potential heart disease earlie...

Nevada’s startup ecosystem is moving fast — and this week shows exactly why founders, investors, and entrepreneurs should be paying attention.

In this episode of Vegas Startup Scene, Jason LeDuc breaks down the biggest updates across Southern Nevada’s growing tech and startup community for the week of June 29, 2026 — from AI-powered infrastructure platforms and clean energy innovation to critical minerals, fo...

Southern Nevada’s tech ecosystem is entering a new phase — and this week’s Vegas Startup Scene breaks down why founders, investors, university builders, and startup community leaders should be paying attention.

In this episode, Jason LeDuc covers a major move from one of Las Vegas’ largest technology companies as Skillz restructures and rebrands as Firy, a new technology holding company bringing together real...

Southern Nevada’s startup ecosystem just hit another major milestone.

This week on Vegas Startup Scene, Jason LeDuc breaks down why Las Vegas is gaining national and global recognition as one of the fastest-growing startup hubs in the country. StartupBlink’s Global Startup Ecosystem Index 2026 ranked Las Vegas #2 in the world for Startup Community Activity, while the city climbed to #23 in the United States and #67 globa...

Nevada’s startup ecosystem just got another major signal that something real is happening here.

This week on Vegas Startup Scene, Jason LeDuc breaks down one of the biggest Nevada startup stories of the year: SendCutSend securing a $110 million investment and crossing a $1 billion valuation, while committing more than $1.25 billion toward domestic manufacturing, jobs, materials, facilities, and expanded manufacturing hubs.

That...