Ga^3in VC AI+ Investor Forum | New York

Ten AI startups. One VC bench. Thursday in Manhattan.

Thursday, October 29 · 5:00–7:30 PM · Hosted with Fenwick

At a glance

• 38 pitch competitions · 303 startups · 108 judges since 2023
• Alumni include Blaze (YC S24), Flashback (Outlier Ventures) and Haiku ($1M pre-seed, Big Brain Holdings)
• A room of VCs, angels and family offices. Every guest is approved by hand

What you get

• Founders: 3 minutes on stage, then 4 minutes of Q&A with the investor bench. Every founder who pitches gets an initial legal consultation from Fenwick. Apply to pitch: bit.ly/gainpitch
• Investors: 10 screened AI startups in 70 minutes, and the founders in the room afterwards. Join the bench: gain.ventures/apply

How the lineup is chosen: social voting, the judges' picks, and 2 wild cards drawn live from ticket holders who have submitted a PDF deck.

Agenda

5:00 PM guests gathering / networking
5:30 PM pitch competition
6:40 PM winner announcement and VC networking
7:30 PM close

Investor Bench: Ross Lukatsevich (Partner, One Zero Capital), Chris Crawford (Partner, Fenwick) and several other investors

Why Ga^3in VC

• Capital: Ga^3in VC has invested in Anthropic, SpaceX, Kraken, Circle and Discord
• Judges: past judges came from Sony Innovation Fund, Antler, Draper, OKX Ventures, Polygon Ventures, PwC, Revolut, Kraken and ConsenSys
• Network: 22,000+ founders, investors and operators in the Ga^3in VC community

The exact Manhattan address goes to registered guests.

Premier Legal Partner: Fenwick. Community Partner: DukeGEN.

Past pitch competitions and judges: gain.ventures/judges