BECOME A CBIC MEMBER
About Membership
Members of CBIC are sponsors of CBIC who receive stratified benefits. You select your level of participation based on your specific objectives and budget (i.e. philanthropic, to ensure CBIC’s longevity, business marketing, community minded, STEM-focused, etc.).
Our newly enhanced membership packages include a wider array of offerings, increased annual partnership levels for year-round exposure, and are tiered for a broad range of inclusiveness: everyone can participate!
Annual Member: Organization
$ 225-425
- 1 Year Membership
- Voting Rights
- Members-Only Events access
- CBIC Member Directory: company listing
- Affiliate Partner discounts (varies)
- 1-9 employees $225 / 10-24 employees $325 / 25+ employees $425
Annual Partner: Contributor
RISING STAR
– An Annual Partner Contributor Level Package –- Includes all Organization Level Member benefits
- CBIC Awards Gala Ticket (1)
- CBIC Homepage: Tiered Logo Placement
- CBIC Weekly Newsletter: Logo Placement
- CBIC Holiday Party (or equivalent) Tickets (1)
PREMIERE
– An Annual Partner Contributor Level Package –- Includes all Organization Level Member benefits
- CBIC Awards Gala: Celebration Activity Sponsor + Tickets (2)
- CBIC Homepage: Tiered Logo Placement
- CBIC Weekly Newsletter: Logo Placement and Job Postings
- CBIC Holiday Party (or equivalent) Tickets (2)
ADVOCATE
– An Annual Partner Contributor Level Package –- Includes all Organization Level Member benefits
- CBIC Awards Gala: Innovators Row Sponsor + Tickets (3)
- CBIC Homepage: Tiered Logo Placement
- CBIC Weekly Newsletter: Logo Placement and Job Postings
- CBIC Holiday Party (or equivalent) Tickets (3)
- CBIC Tech Tour: Bronze Level Sponsorship
- Board Seat Consideration
Annual Partner: Supporter
IGNITER
– An Annual Partner Supporter Level Package –- Includes all Organization Level Member benefits
- Choice: Presenting Award + Tickets (5) or Host Level Sponsor + Tickets (5)
- CBIC Homepage: Tiered Logo Placement
- CBIC Weekly Newsletter: Logo Placement, Job Postings, and opportunity for "vanity content"
- CBIC Holiday Party (or equivalent) Tickets (4)
- CBIC Tech Tour: Silver Level Sponsorship
- Board Seat Consideration
- First Opportunity to Host CBIC Events
CHAMPION
– An Annual Partner Supporter Level Package –- Includes all Organization Level Member benefits
- Choice: Presenting Award + Tickets (5) or Gold Level Sponsor with additional tickets
- CBIC Homepage: Tiered Logo Placement
- CBIC Weekly Newsletter: Logo Placement, Job Postings, and opportunity for "vanity content"
- CBIC Holiday Party (or equivalent) Tickets (6)
- CBIC Tech Tour: Gold Level Sponsorship
- Board Seat Consideration
- First Opportunity to Host CBIC Events
Annual Partner: Patron
VISIONARY
– An Annual Partner Patron Level Package –- Includes all Organization Level Member benefits
- Choice: Presenting Award + Tickets (5) or Platinum Level Sponsor with additional tickets
- CBIC Homepage: Tiered Logo Placement
- CBIC Weekly Newsletter: Logo Placement, Job Postings, and opportunity for "vanity content"
- CBIC Holiday Party (or equivalent) Tickets (8)
- CBIC Tech Tour: Platinum Level Sponsorshiop
- Board Seat Consideration
- First Opportunity to Host CBIC Events
BENEFACTOR
– An Annual Partner Patron Level Package –- Includes all Organization Level Member benefits
- Title Sponsor which confers highest level of attribution and generous ticket provision
- CBIC Homepage: Tiered Logo Placement
- CBIC Weekly Newsletter: Logo Placement, Job Postings, and opportunity for "vanity content"
- CBIC Holiday Party (or equivalent) Tickets (10)
- CBIC Tech Tour: Title Sponsor
- Board Seat Consideration
- First Opportunity to Host CBIC Events
- Tech on Tap Sponsorship (Series)
- Ce2 Sponsorship (Series)
Join CBIC, the familiar, reliable, touchstone organization uniquely positioned to guide our region’s technology and innovation-based entrepreneurial ecosystem. Your membership enables us — a membership-based, non-profit — to further our foundational and ongoing ecosystem building initiatives that nurtures startups, founders, innovators, student entrepreneurs, and tech businesses at all stages of growth.
Tangible and Intangible Benefits of Various Membership Levels in CBIC
- Network with our region’s best and brightest tech professionals and most influential organizations
- Find your next employer, your next investor, your next business partner
- Leverage CBIC’s wide network of professionals through events and The Hub CVA, our connector portal
- Expand your professional network as you simultaneously showcase and bolster your professional talents
- Position your corporate reputation as a market leader and champion of tech and innovation
- Snag those hard to find employees, investors, co-founders
- Give back to the technology community and contribute to the strengthening of the ecosystem
- Access to monthly, quarterly, and annual events at discounted or complementary rates
- Access to member-only events
- Discounted passes to community partner events, conferences, workshops
- Discounted services from community partners such as Common House, which offers $40 off their standard monthly dues
- Invitations to participate in educational events such as panel discussions serving as a subject matter expert
- Opportunities to be sourced to the media for inclusion in relevant stories
- Pay forward the benefits and opportunities that were provided to you by earlier generations of members
- Participate in the development of the organization and steer its future (voting rights on organizational matters)
CBIC’s membership dues structure is based on the philosophy that established organizations and companies with higher revenues pay proportionally higher dues to enable up-and-rising founders and startups to become integrated with the group and established in their sector. This symbiotic relationship supports everything CBIC does, and ultimately contributes to the growth and strengthening of the ecosystem. So much of what we do relies on the volunteerism of members, but we also need your continued and consistent financial support to advance and thrive for the benefit of many. We ask that you please keep this in mind when your membership renewal time rolls around.
All membership support is leveraged to attract future matching grant funds.
