Pitch Night: Pitch your startup to Sand Hill Angels and Harvard Angels
The Pitch Night & Networking Event is an opportunity for startups to pitch a panel of investors and network with other startup founders and entrepreneurs.
You are invited to pitch to Neda Blocho, VC Partner at Pear and and Nitin Pachisia, Founder of Unshackled Ventures.
Pear, formerly known as Pejman Mar Ventures, is an early stage venture fund that does seed and early stage venture investments ranging from $500K to $5M. Some of Pear’s investments include DoorDash, Bluesmart, Polarr, Memeobox, BetterWorks, Washio, WeddingParty, WeWorce, BranchMetrics, etc.
Unshackled Ventures is a seed stage venture firm focused on backing immigrant entrepreneurs.
Unshakled Ventures investors include First Round Capital, 500 Startups, Structure Capital, Brad Feld of Foundry Group and Techstars, AngelList founder Naval Ravikant, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, AME Cloud Ventures led by Jerry Yang (cofounder of Yahoo) and Emerson Collective founded by Laurene Powell Jobs (wife of Steve Jobs).
Food and beverages are provided.
Agenda
6:00pm – 6:45pm – Registration, food and networking
6:45pm – 7:00pm – Sponsors & Demo Table mentions
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Startups pitch to the investor panel
8:30pm – 9:00pm – Meet the investors and network
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Date:
Thursday, 07/28/2016
Time:
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location:
Founders Floor
2 North 1st St., 5th Floor
San Jose, CA 95113
COWORKING ACCELERATOR
Interested in taking your startup to the next level?
Who Should Attend
Startup founders looking to raise funding. This is an opportunity to pitch a panel of investors and receive constructive quality feedback specific to your company. Also a great opportunity for any founder to fine-tune their pitch delivery for a specific time limit, gain further experience holding a mic and speaking in front of large crowds.
In addition, startup founders and entrepreneurs who are NOT ready to pitch are welcome to attend as audience members and watch. This can be a highly valuable learning experience to better understand the pitch process and what investors look for, and learn from feedback given by the investor panel. Then, apply these learnings to your own startup!
The Pitch Night Format
The Pitch Night event has a limited amount of pitch slots available, so purchase your pitch ticket now before they are all gone. Each startup will have 90-seconds to verbally pitch the investor panel (no pitch deck). Each investor on the panel will then provide feedback to that startup.
At the end of the event the investor panel will choose the best pitch of the night, who will receive one free demo/sponsor table ($75-$100 value) at one of our future events held within the next 30 days.
Investor Panel
Jim Connor
stage investor
Sand Hill Angels
Jim currently serves in the Board of Directors of the Angel Capital Association, an organization with 12,000+ accredited angel investors and 220 angel groups.
The Angel Capital Association is the largest angel professional development organization in the world. He is a Board Member of Liftopia, First Focus Learning Systems, Tabtor, Startup Learning, and KMVT Silicon Valley. Jim is also the CEO of First Focus Learning Systems, which provides a series of highly effective programs to teach reading, writing, and math to students in grades Kindergarten through 6th grade. Jim was the Founder and CEO of SymPro, which was acquired by JP Morgan Chase. He then served as the President of JPMorgan SymPro, and was in charge of providing treasury and portfolio management software solutions
He currently is the producer and host of “Game Changers: Silicon Valley”, a talk show about innovation.
Monali Jain
angel investor
Harvard Angels
She is currently an active member of three angel investor groups- Keiretsu Forum, Tie Angels and Harvard Angels.
Monali has 16 years of experience in developing and launching highly scalable, highly profitable internet software products and services. She held leadership positions at Paypal, eBay, Interwoven, Good Technology and GE.
Monali also loves to travel and has visited 17 countries so far. Her hobbies include hang gliding and Indian classical dance. She successfully climbed to top of Kilimanjaro, highest mountain in Africa.
She has completed a Bachelor in Engineering from University of Mumbai, India and has an MBA from Santa Clara University.
She has also completed an executive education program at Harvard Business School.
Free street parking
Abundant street parking is available for free after 6:00 p.m. in downtown San Jose. Streets closest to Founders Floor with free street parking are Santa Clara St., North Market St. and St. John St.
Free parking garage
Founders Floor will provide a 2 hour free parking voucher to the Market & San Pedro Square Parking Garage. This garage is only one block away from Founders Floor. It’s located at 45 N. Market St., between W. Santa Clara St. and W. St. John St. Upon check-in at the Founders Floor event, make sure you ask for the 2 hour free parking voucher.
Public transportation
VTA Light Rail is right outside our building, and runs every 20 minutes making public transportation fast and easy. Both the Mountain View-Winchester and the Alum Rock-Santa Teresa VTA light rail stop at the Santa Clara Station(s) which is located just a block away.
Refund Policy
You may request a refund up to 48 hours before the event. Unfortunately, any refunds requested less than 48 hours before the event cannot be honored. Thank you for your understanding.
Disclaimer
By participating in this Founders Floor Event, you agree to this liability disclaimer: www.foundersfloor.com/disclaimer