Pitch Night: Pitch to Flight VC (Dollar Shave Club) & Sozo Ventures (Twitter, Square, Palantir)
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 Shawn Merani, VC at Flight Ventures, a VC firm that made over 50 investments in the last 3 years, focusing primarily on early stage software, internet and mobile startups.and Spencer Foust,
And Spencer Foust, investor at Sozo Ventures, a VC firm whose investments include Twitter, Square, Palantir, Coinbase, Revinate, Insightly, Opower, ServiceMax, MongoDB, etc.
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, 1/26/2016
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
Shawn Merani
Investor
Flight Ventures
Shawn Merani is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder and VC partner at Flight Ventures, a VC firm backed by over 2,000 angel investors that does seed, early stage and later stage venture investments.
Flight Ventures was the first investment firm leveraging Angellist syndicates to crowdsource funds and manage 3 out of the top 10 syndicates on the AngelList platform.
Flight’s main syndicate, the Gil Penchina Syndicate, has thousands of backers and is considered one of the most successful AngelList syndicates. Other syndicates include The SaaS Syndicate, The Late stage Pre-IPO Syndicate and many more.
Flight Ventures made over 50 investments in the last 3 years, focusing primarily on early stage software, internet and mobile companies across a variety of sectors.
Some of Shawn’s portfolio investments include: Cruise Automation, Dollar Shave Club, Pillow, Managed by Q, STRATIM (ZIRX), HOOKED, Sapho, Drive Motors, Kanler, Stance, Madison Reed, Plastiq, Pared, Instamotor, Troops, Winnie, Islands and many more.
Spencer Foust
Investor
Sozo Ventures
Spencer Foust is an investor at Sozo Ventures, a venture capital firm that recently raised $200M fund.
Some of Sozo’s investments include Twitter, Square, Palantir, Coinbase, Revinate, Insightly, Opower, ServiceMax, and MongoDB among others. Recently, General Electric bought ServiceMax, a cloud-based provider of software used in inventory and workforce management, for $915M.
Spencer was a Teaching Assistant at Stanford University, Research Assistant at Virginia Tech and Research Fellow at University of Arkansas. He is currently a Peer Advisor at Stanford University.
He also worked at Apple as Qualification Lead Program Manager for iPhone 5s, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Before Apple Spencer was also Engineering Program Manager at Sandia National Laboratories.
Spencer was Vice President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and President of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society. He is currently Vice President of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences.
Spencer has a Masters degree from Stanford University in Technology Engineering Management and a Mechanical Engineering degree from University of Arkansas.
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