Pitch: Harvard Angels & Fenox Capital- coinvestors w/ Y Combinator, SVAngel, etc

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, 05/28/2015

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6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Location:

Founders Floor

2 North 1st St., 5th Floor

San Jose, CA 95113

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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

Brent Traidman

General Partner

Fenox Venture Capital

Brent Traidman is a General Partner at Fenox Venture Capital, a VC firm that coinvested with Y Combinator, Ron Conway (SV Angel), Bessemer Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Techstars, etc.

Brent heads deal sourcing activities in the USA, Asia and the Middle East.

Brent is an advisor to multiple startups around the world, provides business development to portfolio companies, and is currently fundraising for Fenox VC’s fourth investment fund.

Brent has many years of technology sales, marketing and management experience and has been responsible for annual sales that exceed $150 million.

Brent worked at both CDW, a Fortune500 company that had an IPO in 2013, and Active Network, a $1Billion acquisition to Vista Equity Partners in 2014.

His expertise includes enterprise software/SaaS, security, storage, data center networking, and cloud computing.

Monali Jain

Angel Investor

Harvard Angels

Monali Jain is an angel investor focused on software, mobile and cloud technologies.

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.

Dea Wilson

Founder

Lifograph

Dea Wilson is the founder of Lifograph, the encyclopedia of people and companies in Silicon Valley and tech.

She is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Silicon Valley Incubator.

As an Executive Director at The VC Network and LifographTV, Dea interviews many prominent VCs, angels, executives and founders in Silicon Valley and tech.

Dea is also involved in business development at VC Taskforce.

She has a Master Degree from University of Washington and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania).

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