16th Edition

SILICON VALLEY FUNDING SUMMIT

SEPT 18 2023, PALO ATO CA 1:00pm to 7:00pm





STARTUPS PITCH TO 120 ACCREDITED INVESTORS, VIEW INVESTORS HERE


VIEW VIDEO LINK OF ENTIRE EVENT HERE


Connecting Multi million dollar Investors to global startups for funding and deal-making for tech and nontech.

Free to first 500 to attend, only pay for VIP Tix or to Pitch.

Silicon Valley AI

Funding Summit

Dec 4 2023 Palo Alto

RSVP HERE

Contact Us;

Angel Launch: 310 621-6850

Info@Angellaunch.com



Connecting Silicon Valley investors to global startups in tech and nontech for high level networking and deal-making to build successful ventures.

Open to seed, early stage, Series A and B startups.


View our past Silicon Valley Funding Summit on Jan 4 2023 in Las Vegas.

STARTUPS PITCH 100+ ACCREDITED INVESTORS FROM SILICON VALLEY AND OTHER REGIONS



INVESTORS CAN REGISTER TO ATTEND OR JUDGE FOR FREE.


IF YOU ARE A GP FUND SEEKING LPS, YOU CAN ALSO SPONSOR TO PRESENT YOUR FUND TO LPS.

  • Academic
  • Accelerators
  • Accredited Angels
  • Corporate
  • Family offices
  • Government agencies and grants
  • Hedge funds
  • Incubators
  • Investment Banks
  • Strategic
  • Venture capitalists


Exhibit in Demo Showcase

Startups or vendors can exhibit in the Demo Showcase area to meet investors, partners and customers for dealmaking and maximize exposure.


The Demo Showcase is open for a 30 minute period after the pitch session and one hour for the networking reception for 1 on 1 meetings. You can also hold 1 on 1 meetings in our meeting area.


TECH OR NONTECH Startups Pitch From Stage

There is no selection process to pitch, Startups simply self register on our site. Pitch your startup if you are: seed, early, or advanced growth startups seeking to scale including Series A, B or pre IPO.


You register to pitch for 4 or 6 minutes followed by a rapid-fire q/a session from the investor judge panel. You also get a free table to exhibit in the Demo Showcase and 3 VIP tix. Past startups received millions in funding from our investors.


INVESTOR JUDGES

ASHMA SETHI, ANGEL,

SR PERFORMANCE ARCH MANAGER, NVIDIA

LINKEDIN

STRATOS DAVOS

EVINE

MANAGING PARTNER

LINKEDIN

KENDRICK KHO

SIERRA MADRE VC

PARTNER

WEBSITE

ADRY ELMILADI

SAMSUNG CATALYST FUND

PRINCIPAL

LINKEDIN

JASON ROUSE

TAIYO PARTNERS CVC

STRATEGIC GROWTH

AND VENTURES

WEBSITE

AL BUDA

AWARE PARTNERS

MANAGING PARTNER

WEBSITE

FREDRICK KASTER

AWARE PARTNERS

HEAD OF DATA SCIENCE

WEBSITE

LINUS LIANG

KYBER KNIGHT CAPITAL

PARTNER

WEBSITE

BHARAT GUPTE

ANGEL

LINKEDIN

Virender Ahluwalia

Yes Labs

PARTNER

LINKEDIN

CHRISTOS KOLIAS

ANGEL INVESTOR

WEBSITE

Bernie KONG

COFOUNDER

LANGRENUS FUND

WEBSITE

ALEXA FEDYUKOVA

SENTINELONE

VP CORPORATE DEVEOPMENT AND VENTURES

WEBSITE

JAI BALANI

ANge and NETFLIX

Lead - Security & Privacy Platform

LINKEDIN

DR. JULIET SINGH

GLOBAL STRATEGIC MEDICAL

INVESTOR

LINKEDIN

AARON ROSE

ANGEL

GLOBAL TACTICS

LINKEDIN

NIRAJ SARAN

ANGEL

LINKEDIN


HOWARD POKASH

Investor

Tek Start

WEBSITE

Utkarsh MALHOTRA

VICE PRESIDENT

NExUS VENTURE PARTNERS

WEBSITE

SUKHWINDER LAMBA

ANGEL INVESTOR

LINKEDIN

DOMINIK PASLER

GENERAL PARTNER

ICEO Red1 Fund

LINKEDIN



HERMANN SCHINDLER

CEO

SCALATOR VENTURES

LINKEDIN

YE CHEN

VENTURE PARTNER

LIGHTHOUSE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

LINKEDIN

LUKE YANG

TAL EDUCATION GROUP

INVESTMENT ASSOCIATE

WEBSITE

VENKAT RANGA

ANGEL INVESTOR

LINKEDIN

INVESTORS SEEK EARLY, MID, OR ADVANCED STAGE STARTUPS IN THESE MARKETS


NEW FEATURE! DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND WE NOW ALLOW NON TECH VENTURES TO PITCH FOR FUNDS





BIOTECH &

HEALTHTECH

ENTERPRISE TECH

  • Al/Robotics/Sensors
  • Automotive
  • Big Data
  • Clean tech
  • Cybersecurity
  • Deep tech
  • Drones
  • eCommerce
  • Energy and water
  • Frontier Tech/Space
  • Homeland Security
  • Internet of Things
  • Metaverse
  • Mobile and telecom
  • Retail
  • Security
  • Semiconductors
  • Smart City
  • Transportation
  • Workplace


  • AgTech
  • AI for Medical
  • Biotech/Pharma
  • Cannabis
  • Digital Health Solutions
  • Diagnostics
  • Drug Discovery
  • Fitness
  • Food products
  • Food tech
  • Healthcare
  • Health and wellness
  • Life sciences
  • Medical devices
  • Medical monitors
  • Med Tech
  • Management
  • Sports
  • Therapeutics

FINTECH/WEB3

  • Accounting
  • Analytics
  • Banking
  • Bitcoin
  • Blockchain
  • Crypto
  • Def Fi
  • Digital currency
  • eCommerce
  • Finance
  • Hedge Funds
  • Insurance
  • NFTs
  • Personal Finance
  • Payment and billing
  • Stocks and trading
  • Web 3

NON TECH VENTURES

  • Apparel/Clothing
  • Consumer Goods
  • DEI
  • Entertainment
  • ESG
  • Film
  • Food and beverage
  • Furnishings/Decor
  • Games
  • Hardware
  • Manufacturing
  • Mining
  • Music
  • Non-profts
  • Retail
  • Real Estate
  • Social Impact
  • Other Markets-just ask us for approval

CONSUMER TECH

  • Advertising
  • Connected cars
  • Consumer electronics
  • Consumer apps
  • Digital media
  • Ed Tech
  • eCommerce
  • Entertainment
  • Fashion
  • Games, AR, VR
  • Hardware
  • Internet of Things
  • Lifestyle
  • Media/Publishing
  • Metaverse
  • Mobile
  • Music /Audio
  • Streaming/TV
  • Wearables

INVESTORS REGISTERED TO ATTEND OR JUDGE

  • JUDGE: Angel, Niraj Saran


  • ANTREA Investments and Trading LLC, President, David Rubinstein


  • ASUS Computer, VP, Strategy & Partnership,William  Sheu


  • JUDGE: Aware Partners, Founder, Managing Partner, Al Buda


  • JUDGE: Aware Partners, Head of Data Science, Frederik Kaster


  • JUDGE: Axcel Group, Investor, CHRISTOS KOLIAS


  • Bania.ai , Co-founder  Vivian Gomes


  • BBM, Founder and CEO,   Daniel  Daniel


  • Bluestone Flagship,  CIO, BD Dweik


  • Bosch Ventures,  Principal  Paulina  Szyzdek


  • Cardinal Consulting Intn, Managing Directo,r Yutaka Kuroda


  • Cedar Investments Partner, Jayan Ishwar


  • Centana Growth Partners, Investor. Riddhi Panchal


  • JUDGE: Evline, Investor, CEO Stratos Davlos


  • Generation Space, Accelerator Manager, Ellie Gyaurova


  • JUDGE: Global Strategic Medical, Investor, Dr. Juliet Singh


  • JUDGE: Global Tactics, Angel, Aaron Rose


  • Google,  Senior Software Engineer, Sowmya  Hariharan


  • Green Light Equity Partners,  General Partner, Shannon Harris


  • Green Light Equity Partners, Venture Partner, Edson Oliveira


  • GVC,   Angel Investor, Katerina Ioakeimidi


  • Hanwha Corp., SVP, Open Innovation, Chris Lee


  • Health2047, Senior business analyst Did Xie


  • Kera Capital, SVP Wealth Mangement, Jeff White


  • kk Lab, Partner, Nicole Fan


  • JUDGE: Kyber Knight Capital, Partner, Linus Liang

  • JUDGE: Langrenus Fund, CoFouonder, Bernie Kong


  • Lumeira Ventures , Fakhro VC, Managing Partner, Charles Tan


  • Lyon Enterprises, LLC, CRO, Bradley LyonMake Startups, Co-Founder, Grace Belangia


  • Mighty Capital, Venture Partner, Matthias Weber


  • MUFG Innovation Partners Co, Ltd., Director, Kaoruko Margeson


  • Na Pm, Sara Daneshvar


  • JUDGE: Netflix, Jai Balani, Lead Security Engineer, Angel


  • JUDGE: Nexus Venture Partners, Vice President, Utkarsh Malhotra


  • Nvidia, Senior System Software Engineer, Ankit Sharma


  • JUDGE: NVIDIA, Sr Performance Arch. Manager, Angel, Ashma Sethi


  • Openner Venture Studio, Growth Advisor, Cesar Viana Teague


  • JUDGE: PanCosmic Capital, Managing Partner, Vishal Arora


  • Pilot, Head of Partner Development, Gadiel Morantes


  • Polar Star Investments Limited , Director, Evgeny Fioletov


  • Protrain Capital, Principal, Roy Peterkofsky


  • Pyramid Cyber Security America, Inc., Board of Directors, Bharat Gupte


  • Robert Bosch, Venture Capital Investment Principal, Paulina Szyzdek


  • JUDGE: Samsung Catalyst Fund , Investment Principal, Adry Elmilady


  • Samsung Ventures, Managing Director, David Suh


  • JUDGE: SentinelOne, Alexa Fedyukova, VP Corporate Development and Ventures


  • JUDGE: Sierra Madre, General Partners, Kendrick Kho


  • Superset, Principal, Ayush Khanna


  • Sutter Securities,Inc., Managing Director, Anders de Jounge


  • JUDGE: Taiyo America CVC, Strategic Growth & Ventures (CVC) Jason Rouse


  • JUDGE: TAL Education Group, Investment Associate, Luke Yang


  • JUDGE: Tek Start, Investor, Howard Pakosh


  • The CLEVER Group,Financial Planner, Quintarius Queen


  • TSVC, Venture Partner, Cindy Zhang


  • Univest Securities, CEO, George Yu


  • Us Equity Holdings , Business Development, Tony Shapiro


  • Value Create Inc., Venture Partner – Impact Investing, Shinn Wolfe


  • Visa Garage (Corporate Ventures), Sr Manager , Pamel Schau


  • VITALIZE Angels, Angel Investor, Rishabh Banga


  • WI Harper, Investor, Amanda Liu


  • WIT Angels Clu, Founder, Rux Muys


  • YellowRocks. vc, Investment partner, Alena Petrova


  • Yes Labs, Partner, Virender Ahluwalia

INVESTORS ARE INVITED TO REGISTER TO ATTEND OR JUDGE FOR COMP TICKETS


REGISTER HERE


We invite investors to judge startups pitching for 1 1/2 -2 hour sessions. There is no fee and you get a free VIP ticket. You will introduce yourself and listen to pitches, and give feedback or ask questions. You will also rank the best presentations.


If you don't want to be a judge, you can still attend in the audience. We offer a meeting area if you want to set up 1 on 1 meetings. We invite you to give a 30 second introduction before the session.



Investors judging must be actively engaged in investing their own funds. making decisions for their firms, or fund advisors such as:

  • Angels
  • Strategic investors
  • Corporate
  • Family offices
  • Venture capitalist
  • Private equity
  • Investment bankers
  • Incubators or Accelerators
  • Micro-funds
  • Crypto investors
  • Hedge Funds
  • Fund advisors or managers


GPS OR INVESTOR RAISNG FUNDS:

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR LPS TO INVEST IN YOUR FUND:

If you are an GP seeking LPS to invest in your fund, we now offer you a partner option to speak from the stage about an industry trends or your specific fund.


You can become an investor partner and promote your fund as a sponsor. Silver sponsor gets 5 minutes and Gold sponsor gets 10 minutes, with a free table in the demo showcase. View options and benefits here.


If you are prohibited from soliciting directly for your fund due to SEC regulations, you can give a short talk on tech trends or industry insights instead and encourage accredited investors to find you.

IN

STARTUPS PITCHING FROM STAGE WITH NUMBER OF MINUTES

STARTUPS PITCHING:




  • Jeff Hanning, Pres. Inventor/Product Developer, Paradax, LLC 8/4




  • Dr Jason Finder 8/4



  • Viktoriia Miracle, Chief Communication Officer, Cheelee.io 6/2




  • Henry Kaiser, Chairman Emeritus, Thomsensinc 6/2



  • David Adler, Founder/CEO, OpenWorkspace® 4/2











  • Farid Ismayilzada, CEO, Smart Spinal Solutions, 3/0



Demo Tables Only:



  1. Andrew Filo, Engineer, 4Special Projects
  2. Ozdemir, Founder, Agribotist
  3. Ash Mascarenhas, CEO, Airthreads
  4. KOJI TOKUDA, CFO , AICU Inc.
  5. Graeme Speak, CEO/Founder, BankVault Cybersecurity
  6. Sujit Dalai, CEO, Caritra Inc.
  7. Alan Gonzalez, CEO, DevMatch
  8. Graham Quigley, Founder, DynaBliss
  9. Hubert Chan, Founder and CEO, Helppo SaaS
  10. Tore Nilsen, Founder & CEO, iBOS.cloud Inc
  11. Rashid Refai, CEO, Knowtify AI - Meta Bang LLC
  12. Rabie Zahri, CEO, Positon IncY
  13. ige Huang, Co-Founder & CEO, Power Meta Corp
  14. Steven Colby, Partner, Rimon Law
  15. Benjamin Droguet, Founder & CEO, Sparxell
  16. Anthony King, CEO, Synchronous
  17. Lorenzo Cerrone, CEO, Weagle



SPONSORS AND PARTNERS

SPONSORS:

  • Howard Potash, Founder, Tek Start
  • Shawn Flynn, Consultant, Tech Futures
  • Sebastien Torre, Tech Futures and Enrich in the USA