Vibe Your SaaS: Startup Pitch Competition + VC/Founder Mixer @ Atlassian HQ

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The VYS Startup Pitch Competition: Big News! We are now featuring 10 pitches and crowning first-, second-, and third-place winners. We wanted to give even more opportunities to early-stage founders to pitch and present.

The overall winner will still receive the highly coveted $39.99 Nano Pac-Man trophy in front of an audience of 150+ elite Bay Area founders and investors. All three also get a feature in the VYS newsletter, which goes out to more than 7,500 founders, investors, and tech professionals at startups like Anthropic, Perplexity, Cursor, Scale AI, ElevenLabs, Writer, and Pinecone, plus Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.

Past pitch competition winners: Abrial AI, enterprise-grade software for airline pricing automation; Cara AI, vision AI that analyzes home photos for safety; Pesito.LA, send money to Mexico for 1%.

Produced by: Gregory Kennedy, Founder and GTM Advisor, Vibe Your Saas; Arjun Dev Arora, Advisor to Founders & VCs.

Fireside chats with: Scott Beechuk, a partner at Norwest Venture Partners, which manages $15.5 billion in capital and has backed more than 700 companies. His investments include Harness, You.com, Qualified (acquired by Salesforce), Phiar (acquired by Google), and Galvanize (acquired by Diligent for $1 billion). Website: https://www.norwest.com/

Salil Deshpande founded Uncorrelated Ventures, which manages over $750 million across three funds. A Forbes Midas List investor and former Managing Director at Bain Capital Ventures, he backed MuleSoft, acquired by Salesforce for $6.5 billion, and Crusoe, now valued at $30.9 billion. Website: https://uncorrelated.com/

Guest judge: Our guest judge this November is Karl Harris. He was on the founding team at Flurry, which Yahoo bought for $270 million, and later served as CEO of Lex Machina. Now an angel investor with LucidFog, he and his partners have invested in or advised more than 100 startups.

Agenda: 5:30 PM Doors open; 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM Networking, food, and demos; 6:30 PM to 7:15 PM Fireside chats; 7:15 PM to 7:45 PM Pitches; 7:45 PM We crown our winning startup of the evening 👑; 7:45 PM to 8:30 PM More networking.

Pitch Competition: For this event, we will select 10 startups to pitch to our panel. Three finalists are selected, and only one startup will be crowned the winner of the evening based on a 5-point criteria: 1. Innovation: Originality of the idea and strength of the AI advantage. 2. Market Potential: Size of opportunity and clarity of target customer. 3. Product Execution: Quality, usability, and stage of product development. 4. Team: Capability, vision, and ability to execute. 5. Business Model: Revenue strategy, scalability, and traction potential.

How to apply? Request to join the event and click the checkbox, "I have a startup and want to pitch." If you need a pitch template to follow, use this. *Space is limited, and all attendees must be approved. Already applied and need to submit a pitch? Use this link to submit a pitch if you applied but didn't send it. We review them two weeks before the event.

Photos from our events and a list of the companies and brands who attended are available, spanning investors such as Angel Hub Ventures, Arc5 Ventures, Arka Venture Labs, Axial, E12 Ventures, Entrepreneurs First, Esalen Ventures, Founder Factor, Gaorong Ventures, Georgian, Hustle Fund, ID3 Ventures, J2 Ventures, Jabroni Capital, Marubeni Power, Matter Bio, Mavka Capital, Mercedes-Benz AG Investments, Morgan Stanley, Mighty Capital, Nomura Strategic Ventures, Noveus Capital, Overlook Ventures, Pacific Community Ventures (PCV), Precursor Ventures, Progressive Ventures, Rain Capital, Resilient Earth Capital, Rizoma Advisors, Samsung NEXT Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, Sorenson Impact, Synergis Capital, Techstars, TPH Ventures and Vectors Capital; founders from Asendia AI, Adhera Health, AgentDynamics, AGIGA, Algebras AI, ArcheanX, Azcare AI, Berkeley Compute, BITFLUX.AI, Biocompile, BrainBit, Brighthive, Caber Systems, Connectrate AI, Contextual, Inc., Channl AL, Chord Communities, CouldAI, Cloud Avenue, Compliagence, Credio, CrowdCore, ContinuEM, Daboss AI, Deep Insight Labs, Dhisana AI, The Ensynble, FizzBee, Flexhaul AI, Floatz AL, Fulgor, GENUM, GeoLiquefy, Goharvest AI, Glam AI, GLX Studio, Gracker AI, EquityNav, HeyJarvis AI, Incantio, Leoads AI, Impulse AI, Loud Labs, LucidAct Health, LuminaData, Maestrix AI, Miraii AI, MyTongueAI, NailedIT Labs, Neatly Heath, Nekonomikon Games, Nexacore Solutions, Orby, Paper Planes, Pantheon AI, Peazy Labs, Propensity AI, Philo Homes, ProsGrow AI, ScienceForBrain, SigmaRemote, Skyp AI, Skillprint AI, SmartNurse AI, Space Copy, Super AI Lab, Swytchcode, Syft Data, TakeBridge, Talk2Me, Teamcast AI, Threddle, Trotta, Vibeslist AL, Vidya AI, Visenty, Walnut AI, Wavv, Yektasonics and Ziply AI; and enterprises including Amazon, Apple, Arm, Figma, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Roche, SAP, Salesforce, Samsung, Tesla, TikTok, Wells Fargo, Zoom Info and Zscaler.

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