Pitch Night: Pitch your startup to Harvard Angels and Sazze Venture Capital

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

Event Starts In

Day(s)

:

Hour(s)

:

Minute(s)

:

Second(s)

Date:

Thursday, 04/28/2016

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?

Schedule a Meeting

Please Support Our Sponsors

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

Yasemin Kliman

Member Selection Committee

Harvard Angels

Yasemin has been an active member of the Harvard Angels where she is part of the Selection Committee. With her investor team she reviews hundreds of angel investment opportunities each year.

An engineer by background, Yasmin was most recently the Head of Marketing for Yahoo Developer Network.

Prior to that she ran product marketing for a number of digital advertising products where she received Yahoo’s Superstar Award for the success of her product launches. She has extensive experience closing deals with Fortune 500 companies.

Yasemin was also the General Manager of the Transportation Industry Solutions at Siebel Systems where she was a member of the Siebel Systems CEO’s Circle.

She was also in charge of the Communications and Media vertical, a $300 million product line for Siebel Systems.

Yasemin was also part of the Information Management Leadership Program at GE Capital and served as an advisor to numerous startups.

She earned her MBA from Harvard Business School and received her undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania.

Her expertise and investment interest include search, advertising, social media, social gaming, enterprise software, etc.

Jake Chapman

Partner

Sazze Partners

Jake Chapman is Partner at Sazze Partners, a venture capital firm focused on seed stage startups who are solving hard problems with innovative and scalable solutions.

He is also a Founding Investor and Advisor at The Batchery, an incubator based in Berkeley.

Jake invests in companies of all types, especially in those where his operational expertise, business development, customer acquisition and related skills can be a difference maker.

Jake is a published writer with articles appearing in peer reviewed journalsas well as in TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Pando and WIRED Magazine. Last year he was also on air guest judge for the TechCrunch pitch off competition.

Jake has a BA in Political Science from UC Berkeley and as well as a JD from Berkeley School of Law, where he was Research Assistantand Managing Editor of the Berkeley Business Law Journal .

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