Level Up

March 14, 2025

SXSW Pitch, the festival's startup competition, got tougher. But it also got better. There was a time when startup development was similar to the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement: an idea in the head and a PowerPoint in hand.

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Liam O'Toole
Meal Deal Service Twenty Tables Strives to Stoke Charitable Giving Across D.C.

March 8, 2025

Never mind free lunches: Twenty Tables founder and CEO Alex Cohen is devoting all his efforts to building charitable giving into locals’ everyday dining routine. Rather than looking for a handout, Cohen is harnessing this area’s insatiable appetite for exclusive meal deals (his approach: getting restaurants to create $6 lunches and $12 dinners) in order to generate a steady source of revenue for local groups that work to alleviate hunger.

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Hudson Tang