Pitch Night: Pitch your startup to Band of Angels and VC firm Naiss.io

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, 02/25/2016

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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

Bruce Schechter

Angel Investor

Band of Angels

Bruce Schechter is an angel investor at Band of Angels and mentor at Stanford’s StartX startup accelerator.

Bruce Schechter is an active advisor/investor in a variety of tech startups, including Life360, Proformative, TreasuryCurve, and Simplure.

He is a member of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley’s oldest angel group.

He is also the founder and President Emeritus of the Intel Alumni Network.

Bruce is active in mentoring student entrepreneurs at bothStanford (StartX Accelerator) and Purdue University.

Bruce received a BS in Physics and Math from Purdue University, where he graduated with Highest Honors and Phi Beta Kappa, and he received an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Ed Fernandez

Partner & Cofounder

Naiss.io

Ed Fernandez is Partner & Cofounder of Naiss.io, a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, focusing on tech startups and early stage companies.

He started as an early stage VC and Venture Partner in a $10MM venture fund.

Ed is a regular contributor to CNBC and author at publishing housePlataforma Editorial.

He is also a mentor at Singularity University and visiting lecturer at UIMP University and IE Business School.

Ed is a seasoned mobile industry veteran with more than two decades of experience combined holding various high executive positions at BlackBerry and Nokia (where he received Nokia Circle of Excellence Award).

He is member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and is also member ofHigh IQ societies EPL & TenIQ. He made it to the World Genius Directory in 2015. 🙂

Ed finished his post-graduate degree at University of Chicago School of Business & IE Business School. He also graduated from the Global Engineering Leadership Program at UC Berkeley.

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