Pitch Night: Pitch to angel investors Monika Raj & Roger King (Bay 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, 08/27/2016
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
Monika Raj
angel investor
Monika was part of the early team at Linkedin where she led key marketing campaigns leading up to the first million users on LinkedIn.
She also worked closely with many companies as an advisor and mentor at critical inflection points: launch of LinkedIn, acquisition of ILOG by IBM, launch and funding of IndoorAtlas, Sky Tree and numerous others, acquisition of Flag Communication by Reliance, etc.
Previous to this, Monika was Managing Director at Allison + Partner, one of the fastest growing public relations and public affairs agencies. Clients of the agency include WhatsApp, YouTube, and DropBox. Allison has a strong media and entertainment practice including working with some of the leading Hollywood brands like DreamWorks, red carpet celebrities, etc.
Raj also served as the CEO of Influent Communications, a startup consulting firm providing marketing, branding and communications services for launch of global startups in the US. The company was ranked one of the fastest growing boutique agencies for marketing strategy and communications.
She is a Board Member of No More Tears, a charitable organization, Committee Member at VC TaskForce and the Innovation Catalyst Award.
Monika has also worked on strategy for clients in consumer, tech, and lifestyle in her role at Shift, a leader in the Bay Area. Clients include McDonalds, H&R Block, Overstock, and Google.
During her career, Monika developed powerful business press strategy with regular placements in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, BusinessWeek, CNN, NBC, The New York Times, Forbes, Newsweek.
Monika worked extensively with leading media powerhouses including KTVU (Fox), KPIX (CBS), NDTV (BBC affiliate), etc.
Roger King
Seasoned Entrepreneur
Roger is the Founder of Bay Angels, which helped launch a number of early stage companies including: OpenTable, Zoom Systems, and PhotoBucket. Some current portfolio companies include; CashBet, GetPinn.co, Schiller Bikes, www.pree.it.
Roger is the Founder & CEO of ChiefPeople, one of the top technical recruitment firms in the Bay Area, specializing in building the engineering and executive teams of early stage tech companies.
Roger serves on a number of Advisory Boards including: Manage.com, CashBet, VoicePark, and Sea of Change Trading Co.
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