Seed Round PitchForce
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Seed Round PitchForce

Register to watch this live pitch event with valuable feedback from a panel of seasoned investors, virtually! Must apply to pitch via e-mail

By PITCH GLOBAL

Date and time

Thursday, June 20 · 3 - 5pm PDT

Location

Online

About this event

  • 2 hours

This Pitch Fest will take place virtually using Zoom Webinars. Once you register you will receive the zoom link to access the meeting!

To access the meeting it is recommended to use the link to Zoom instead of viewing from the Eventbrite website.

WHAT?

PitchForce is a weekly competition style event for early stage startups to deliver a 4-minute pitch with slide deck to a panel of seasoned investors. There will be a Q&A session with the panel and direct feedback from the panel before they vote on a scale of 1 to 5. The winner of the Pitch will receive a 1st place certificate and all presenting startups will get a $5000 credit towards a PeopleConnect Search. This event is free to attend and watch!

TO APPLY TO PITCH... Please send your slide deck and executive summary to Jacob@peopleconnectstaffing.com.


WHO?

Producing the event is Max Shapiro, CEO of PeopleConnect. Max has been hosting monthly pitch events for the past 12 years. PeopleConnect is an established recruiting firm of 22+ years specializing in startup companies, early venture organizations, and businesses in expansion mode. PeopleConnect is the most unique recruiting firm in the world, focused on Startups and they can fill any position at any level that you need!

The VIDEO below will give you a good idea about our company and services!

https://youtu.be/t10h7bW2WWs


PitchForce Virtual Format

6 startups seeking their seed round will deliver a 4-minute pitch with slide presentation followed by a Q&A session with the panel, followed by panel non-rebuttal feedback. The panelists will vote on a scale of 1-5 (5 being highest) to rate the company.

All pitching startups will receive a $5000 PeopleConnect search credit.

Companies that do well often secure meetings with the investors on the panel and/or investors that are in our attendee audience that result in discussions that lead to investment!

Want To Pitch?

To present at this PitchForce or a future event please send your pitch slide deck and executive summary to: Jacob@peopleconnectstaffing.com

Organized by

www.pitchglobal.com

Welcome to Pitch Global ---long term funding& Entrepreneurial education/Mentoring platform backed by California Gov’s Office of Economic Development ---where entrepreneurs have gone on to raise $ 1 b+ over the course of almost a decade of existence. Just in the recent financial year, cos Mentored by our Entrepreneurs-in-Residences as a part of our work as a satellite of State of Ca’s Funding & Mentoring Agencies has gone on to raise $ 100 m+(see more details along with the bios of our EIR’s and Board members & list of Funds which has participated in our events at pitchglobal.com ). Most entrepreneurial education is targeted for early stage whereas our extensive experience in Mentoring and Funding of startups which creates jobs and Economic Impact fast makes us experts in growth stage entrepreneurial education.

We are also long term partners of UC Berkeley, super-Mentors at SJSU etc. Following is one of our funding success story at one of the State of Ca Agency sites www.norcalsbdc.org/client-stories/telemetrak

Our vision is to disseminate the secret sauce of Silicon Valley Funding & Education around the world and also help California cos access global markets for funding and scaling.

Pitch Global CVC: Apart from reputed angels and VC’s like Harvard/Stanford/Wharton/MIT/Caltech/Keiretsu angels, we attract CVC’s to our events. We saw during the pandemic that most CVC’s started investing in early stages as well, so we started “CVC, Govt& Impact” Summits and Conferences. View footage from the latest one co-hosted at SJSU, where we are super-Mentors, with Head of Samsung Catalyst Fund, Korea’s SK Group( Cali Gov’s Office gave them an award on our behalf for committing to President Biden to invest $ 59 b), TDK, IBM, Schlumberger, 3M, Lam Research Cap and others. https://youtu.be/2dfh9It91Sc

We also provide entrepreneurs an opportunity to connect with CVC’s and other investors at exclusive events we organize during CES (see picture of KC—Founding EIR & Laszlo—Board Member at the beginning of the above video running investor event at CES Centerstage), JP Morgan, Milken Global, UN Week, Techcrunch, Global Forum etc.

We are building State of Ca backed PG CVC Accelerator ( pitchglobalcvc.mn.co) which is an invite only platform. For cos in Northern California which has raised $ 5m+, the State is providing some scholarships.

Pitch Global Lifesciences: We have been hosting Lifesciences specific investors events for over 5 years drawing marque CVC’s, VC’s and angel investors. Watch Nobel Laureate Dr Thomas Sudhof of Stanford Medicine+ Sanofi Board member speaking at our Summit during JP Morgan before the pandemic. https://youtu.be/G7AV5g2lTX8

Pitch Global Diversity Funding & Impact: Axel, Founding EIR of Pitch Global & former US CEO of fund of funds+Mass Challenge Board member-- is leading the efforts of California Inclusivity Fund. Watch him speak, along with leaders from IBM and others on Diversity Funding during Milken Global. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1UnIE4gryk ) Watch another of our EIR’s, Newton—former Head Latam @ Singularity U. & SU Ventures, present on How Diversity Funding should lead to Impact. in this video. thelosangelestribune.com/2023/05/07/funding-diversity-and-impact-event-in-beverly-hills-tackles-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei-and-entrepreneurship

Exclusive events partner of sovereign engagement firm where CVC’s/other investors can meet with Sovereign Funds, Head of States of Emerging Markets etc in 10+ Summits/Conferences in US, Europe & Asia: We are hosting the 3rd CVC, Govt& Impact Summit in association with the Founder of sovereign engagement firm who is involved in conducting out reach for India’s PMO’s to sovereign Funds of countries like Netherlands.

Become part of our unique eco system: We are unique since we not only run our own events, we also run/promote events for some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley. The following video, with footage from 2 events we ran, features some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley. Do watch Steve Jurvetson’s words of wisdom about his experiences of investing in entrepreneurs like Elon Musk. https://youtu.be/Kmd2cJvirEQ

Any questions? Please email startups@pitchglobal.com