Judges Startups Partners Venue

153 Startup Battle in Los Angeles, August 8, 2019

Startups

Gini Health Inc

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Average rate 3.67

ZenSports

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Average rate 3.58

Zeki

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Average rate 3.42

Media Gazelle

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Average rate 3.33

Cuál

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Average rate 3.25

Alexander Isinhue

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Average rate 2.75

BayPOS, Inc.

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Average rate 2.67

Plant Culture

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Average rate 2.33

Bee My Ears

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Average rate 2.25

wollendance

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Average rate 2.17

Judges

Bill Baker

Co-Founder & Inventor at NEWtritionIQ (NQ). Bill is deeply insightful technology-turned-media entrepreneur who truly personifies the ‘think different’ concept. As a Market Creation Strategist Bill has been on the forefront of the most innovative technologies and global markets during the past 2+ decades. Considered one of the founding fathers of broadband and a multi-domain pioneer 'Broadband' Bill continues to connect the dots between online/mobile technologies and new/emerging media markets. With keen vision and unwavering drive Bill has been instrumental in successfully delivering several fundamentally disruptive and patented technologies (wireline & wireless) and video delivery platforms that paved the way for the accelerated adoption and proliferation of consumer broadband worldwide. Subsequently, Bill’s understanding of the underlying broadband infrastructure has allowed him to develop new software platforms and create innovative business models in the globally-exploding online/mobile media markets. As a veteran of emerging markets Bill is not the type to shy away from a challenge and enjoys the concept-to-company creation and evolution processes and has deep and profound understanding of the business transformations associated with the same. Equally comfortable with the creative, technology as well as the business side Bill possesses a rare ability to bridge the gap between these inter-related domains in a truly seamless and holistic manner. As a strategist Bill’s insightful go-to-market initiatives have resulted in optimal industry positioning with high market visibility and early customer acceptance. Bill is also a published author having written numerous articles on broadband infrastructure, content delivery models, entrepreneurship, creative business insights, etc. In addition, several of Bill’s early hires became successful VCs/CEOs demonstrating Bill’s ability to recognize and cultivate top talent.

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Maria Malavenda

Innovator, serial entrepreneur and previous corporate executive. Presently she serves as a Venture Partner for F50 and the Founder, CEO of EVVEMI – a personalized data-driven engagement platform for beauty and wellness services. EVVEMI has repositioned the consumer engagement with beauty and wellness services to be driven by, and operate from personal hair information, epigenetics, personality, and preference data unique to each individual’s needs. Before founding EVVEMI, Maria catalyzed several award-winning high-growth ventures in healthcare and technology–including companies acquired by Microsoft, Bosch, and IMG. Prior, she focused her efforts on Strategy and Corporate Development as a Fortune 50 executive (Johnson & Johnson, Inc) and a”Big 4″ management consultant (Deloitte, Accenture), and immersed herself in the “AI and digital data revolution” for ZoomInfo and Monster Worldwide. In Maria’s off hours she provides her expertise as a judge and mentor to programs like Harvard iLab, TechStars, MassChallenge, Women In Tech, and NAFTE.\r\n

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Lev Filimonov

Forbes 30 under 30 class of 2016. Founding partner at LA Fund, LA Ventures and Check_n Bar. Chief Sales and Marketing Officer in American Nightlife Association. An international nightclub franchise owner with 11 years of experience in the nightclub business, Lev was named by Forbes Magazine in 2016 as one of the 30 most successful Ukrainian entrepreneurs under the age of 30.

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David Mandel

Early Stage startup investor since 2013, investing in over 400 companies. Active member of Pasadena Angels and Tech Coast Angels.

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DC Palter

Angel investor with Tech Coast Angels. CEO of Appsurify, applying machine learning to make software testing smarter.

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Dan Stefanis

Managing Partner at Switchboard Ventures. Prior to Switchboard, he ran a cryptocurrency focused hedge fund and served as Director of UCLA Anderson's Venture Accelerator Program. Dan is also a successful, venture-backed entrepreneur and Techstars alum with an MBA from UCLA Anderson.

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Morvareed Salehpour

Attorney and Speaker | Managing Partner at Salehpour Legal Consulting (www.salehpourlaw.com), a law firm specializing in handling a diverse range of complex legal matters both in and outside the courtroom. \r\n\r\nShe is experienced in negotiating a variety of contracts and legal agreements and handling cases from inception to trial and appeal. She has represented clients across the nation ranging from entrepreneurs and small businesses to Fortune 500 companies and works in a variety of industries, including technology, blockchain, cannabis, and real estate among others. \r\nMs. Salehpour is a graduate of UCLA and UCLA School of Law. She also served as a Managing Editor for the UCLA Law Review.\r\nMs. Salehpour previously practiced at BakerHostetler, a national firm, her work included being a member of the legal team seeking to recover the principal lost in the Madoff Ponzi scheme, and then at Strange & Butler, a complex litigation boutique.\r\nMs. Salehpour is also a Trustee of the Santa Monica Bar Association, Board Member of the Rabbit Hole Network Women\'s Blockchain Community, and a regular speaker and writer on blockchain, real estate, and business law issues.

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Stuart van der Veen

Chief Platform Officer for Aerobotics| Founder and Director at Paper Plane Ventures. Stuart was previously Nedbank CIB’s head of disruption and innovation where his work with Aerobotics won the globally recognised Financial Times' The Banker Tech Projects Award for Fintech Partnership. He is a research associate at the University of Cape Town's Financial Innovation Lab and a mentor at Google's Launchpad Accelerator program in San Francisco. Stuart is a Singularity University and University of Cape Town BBusSc and PGDA alumnus, trained with Deloitte and was a 2016 top 35-under-35 CA (SA).

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Josh Schlisserman

Principal at WestWave Ventures. Josh first discovered his passion for entrepreneurship at a tender age while working at a startup company focused on strength and conditioning. With an Economics Degree at Occidental College and further experiences at Vicarious Inc., a seed-stage VR startup, and JUMP Investors, an industry agnostic Venture Capital Firm, Josh developed abilities in the areas of fundraising, pitching, marketing, executive coaching, and leadership development.

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Katheline Coleman

Group Manager, Agency Development at Google. There she helps agencies, startups and Fortune 1000 companies alike scale, grow, and thrive with Google. Prior to her 7+ years at Google, she worked in Technology, Media & Telecommunications at Deloitte and in Product Management at Flickr. Katheline has a Masters in E-Commerce from HEC Montreal and certificates from Wharton and Harvard.

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Keith Herman

Founder & CEO of IPA Equities, a global investment firm. During his career he has owned and restructured more than 50 businesses in the fields of technology, finance, media and real estate. He has raised more than $500M and represented over 200 technology companies. Additionally, he architected, incubated and scaled more than 10 startups. Mr. Herman is also known globally as a public keynote speaker and business growth expert in the fields of technology and innovation. He speaks about Business Growth, Leadership, Innovation, Disruptive Blockchain Technologies, Cryptocurrency, Investing, Raising Capital, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Startups and more.

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Sunny Singh

Executive committee chair at Tech Coast Angels. Dr. Singh has over a decade of experience in investment, research, and business services for both ubiquitous enterprises like Intel (where his work lead to multiple publications on AI-based energy systems), Qualcomm (where he received an innovation fellowship), Lockheed Martin (where some of his systems were used on F-16s), HP (where he was on the board of the top HP consumer IT distributor in South-east Asia) and local California businesses like GI Logic (medical devices), Silvus Technologies (defense / aerospace), UtopiaCompression (computer vision) that he has helped with their business and information technology needs. Presently, he frequently travels internationally for business while spending most of his time actively investing in real-estate and early-stage technology startups as an executive committee chair at Tech Coast Angels in Los Angeles.

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Uri Blackman

Founder and CEO of GIDEON Informatics, a medical decision support company. GIDEON’s web-based application and ebook series are deployed at hundreds of institutions, including the World Health Organization, the CDC and prominent universities and government organizations worldwide. Previously, Uri was Senior Vice President of Applications at UberMedia, where he led the growth of the mobile apps group and tripled annual revenue. Prior to that, Uri was Vice President of Corporate Development at Speedbit, creators of Download Accelerator. There he managed a successful M&A process while developing and managing strategic and revenue relationships. Uri founded a venture backed online home owners insurance firm. He was also a Product Manager for two generations of the Netscape browser, and later managed the computing and download channels on Netscape’s website and business development at AOL. Uri is a member of Tech Coast Angels and has invested in a number of technology companies around the world. He was a commander in the Israeli Defense Forces 8200 unit, and received his BA in Computer Science and Philosophy from Tel Aviv University and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Leonard Grayver

Partner, Grayver Law Group, P.C.

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Simon Bogdanowicz

Founding Partner of BlockTeam Ventures, a global strategy consulting firm dedicated to supporting the world"s most promising blockchain companies. As a result of over 12 years of experience in the capital markets, enterprise technology sales, and marketing, Simon is able to combine acute business acumen with deep Fortune 1000 relationships to help start-up companies build for the long-term. Since 2017, BlockTeam Ventures has worked with over 40 blockchain companies to date, which have raised nearly $500 million collectively. Previously, Simon co-founded LaunchTeam, a niche international marketing agency. Prior to that, he worked for some of the world’s leading technology companies, including Thomson Reuters and Selligent, where he led multi-million dollar business development efforts for enterprise technology solutions. Simon started his career on Wall Street, as a top-tier M&A banker for the Royal Bank of Canada, the 11th largest bank global investment bank.

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Barbara Bickham

Founder & Managing Director of Women’s Innovation Fund Accelerator | Founder/CTO - Trailyn Ventures - Blockchain Advisory | Chief of the Block - Blockchain Accelerator for Global Growth. Barbara Bickham, CTO with extensive experience in Technology and Entrepreneurship. Her current areas of expertise are in the Internet of Things, Blockchain, Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence. Barbara is the Managing Director for Women’s Innovation Fund (WifAx.VC), an opportunity zone fund, accelerating growth by using a mix of incubation, shared workspace, and business finance while requiring participants to have a C-suite made up of at least 50% women. Barbara is currently Founder and CTO of Trailyn Ventures, a Blockchain Advisory Company. She provides strategic advice and technical execution for companies incorporating Blockchain and/or Artificial Intelligence into their company and products. Companies include The Aclyd Project - Payment and Remittance on the Blockchain; 2TransFair - Payment and Remittance on the Blockchain; Plaak - Exchange; EVRealities - AR/VR Attribution on the Blockchain; Rechain - Universal Rewards on the Blockchain, and others. Barbara is also The Chief of the Block at the Blockchain Accelerator for Global Growth. The Blockchain Accelerator for Global Growth helps companies become fundable with the Due Diligence. Intensive, a 31-page analysis of the company for traditional and blockchain funding and International Business Focus for growing and scaling a company globally. Previously, Ms. Bickham was the Director of Engineering for Flexeye where she architected, designed and coded the 2014 Gartner Cool Vendor Award Winning REST API for their IoT Platform eyehubiot.com. Ms. Bickham founded TechGenii, Inc., a digital strategy company; Wilderforex.com, a Forex Software company; and PCNLA an investment association connecting Southern California businesses with venture funding. She has 7+ years of experience preparing and evaluating companies for private equity and venture capital financing. She is on the Advisory Board of the MIND Institute, MindMusic and Yummy Society; and a Mentor for Springboard Enterprises, Stubbs Alderton PreCellerator, and MakeInLA. She is an Advisor and EIR at the Bixel Exchange. She holds degrees from the University of Chicago, New Entrepreneurs Program, an MSCS from West Coast University and a BACS from University of California, Berkeley.

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Jor Law

Business advisor, finance and securities attorney. Jor is a pioneer in building out the ecosystem for digitizing and trading securities on the blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies. A finance and securities attorney, he is most well-known for his expertise in secured lending and alternative finance, including EB-5, venture capital, crowdfunding, and tokenized securities, including initial coin offerings (ICOs) or security token offerings (STOs). He co-founded VerifyInvestor.com which was the dominant accredited investor verification service in the world at the time it was acquired. A trusted consultant/adviser to technology companies primarily in regtech, fintech, and crypto, Jor has has advised prominent companies such as tZERO, Polymath, and Prime Trust. Within the crypto space, he's most passionate about securities regulations affecting tokens, identity for regulatory purposes vs privacy and anonymity, and cross-ledger or cross-chain technologies.

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Dylan Bergenfeld

Director at Interstate Venture Capital. Dylan Bergenfeld is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University earning his B.A. in Advertising, Public Relations and Economics. Dylan is the director of Interstate Venture Capital firm. Before that, Dylan has worked as a website developer for Lexus automobile under Lexus.com. Music has always been a passion for Dylan. He served as a booking agent in college, booking artists such as Kanye West which generated thousands of audience members. After graduating college, he created a concert party series, planning and executing events from start to finish while producing over 300 attendees at each performance. Dylan has also worked on executing business and brand strategies for charities and website development for a cannabidiol company specializing in patients undergoing chemotherapy. Through these positions, Dylan has established numerous relationships in the entertainment, education, tech, and art industry along the East and West coast.

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Jonathan Wallace

Investment director at Expert Dojo. Jonathan Wallace joined Expert Dojo upon its inception as an investment analyst. Over the course of the next 4 years, he established relationships with some of the largest venture capital funds in the world and helped dozens of startups raise investment. Jonathan is now the investment director for Expert Dojo and oversees all investments. Expert DOJO is an international and domestic accelerator in Southern California based in Santa Monica. They have an international cohort now active is which they are investing in 20 companies.

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Tolga Onuk

Investor at Canadian based New Wave Esports Investment Company | Adviser at multiple funded tech companies. Tolga Onuk has 5 years of experience in co-founding an official sports federation and 15 years of entrepreneurial background in design, technology development, and marketing involving LA’s top interactive agencies, tech startups, and publicly traded gaming companies. He has contributed into the success of more than 40 startups and he founded and co-founded several tech companies. Tolga is currently an investor at Canadian based New Wave Esports Investment Company and he is advising multiple funded tech companies.

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Artur Kiulian

Partner at Colab, a Los Angeles-based venture studio that invests and helps early stage startups build technology products using the benefits of machine learning. Colab has combined company valuations of over $700 million. Artur has a degree in Systems of Artificial Intelligence and wrote best seller “Robot Is The Boss: How To Do Business with Artificial Intelligence”, a book that teaches companies how to incorporate machine learning into their businesses. https://www.amazon.com/Robot-Boss-Business-Artificial-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B074PYB2Q3 Artur Kiulian is a frequent commentator on topics of artificial Intelligence and machine learning, writer for Entrepreneur.com, Forbes, been mentioned on Inc.com and HuffingtonPost. https://www.entrepreneur.com/author/artur-kulian Artur Kiulian is a judge on the panel for the first and biggest independent Achievement Awards for Artificial Intelligence http://awards.ai/judges/ Artur Kiulian is a Member of Forbes Technology Council https://forbestechcouncil.com/

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Speakers

Jor Law

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Maria Malavenda

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Leonard Grayver

Partner, Grayver Law Group, P.C.

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Morvareed Salehpour

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Uri Blackman

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Miguel Francis

Editor in Chief at The Future is Now. Miguel runs a community driven decentralized film series on disruptive technologies called The Future is Now and same titled media network aimed at mass adoption through cinema, covering fintech, blockchain, A.I. and IoT, while producing everything from branding videos to educational documentary films through his production company Oneday Productions. Miguel holds a Bachelor"s degree from UCLA in Film & Television.

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Keith Herman

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Bill Baker

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Funds

F50

Women’s Innovation Fund Accelerator

Interstate Venture Capital

About:

Meet the winner - Gini Health Inc, personalized health & nutrition powered by your genetic code!

Startup.Network with the support of Convene has successfully conducted the 153 Startup Battle in Los Angeles on August 8th.

10 promising Startups were presented to wide audience of Venture Community.

According to the Judges’ voting results, the Gini Health Inc became the Winner of the Pitch Competition.

Gini offers a revolutionary new approach to highly personalized health, nutrition & wellness for you and your family.

Gini breaks down complex health-nutrition-gene relationships, functions as a guide for micro or macronutrient needs, and helps identify the best food sources optimal for a specific genetic profile. All health reports are classified based on hard data from ongoing research and the service is designed with a privacy-first mindset.

The Startup Battle was started with the Panel Discussion.

Jor Law became a Moderator of the Discussion. Jor is a business advisor, finance and securities attorney.

You can find all Speakers at https://battle.startup.network/events/395044/#speakers.

This time our sophisticated Speakers talked about the Term Sheet. They clarified and explained the data what had to be in Term Sheets as well as revealed all pitfalls what might occur through signing it.

Second part of the event was dedicated to the Pitch Competition. Judges ranked each startup.

Find the list of Judges at https://battle.startup.network/events/395044/#judges

Full list of attended startup could be reached on: https://battle.startup.network/events/395044/#startups

We truly believe that all attendees had good experience and gained new knowledge!

One of the Entrepreneurs who took part at the competition, Anders Heie, Co-Founder & CEO at Media Gazelle Inc., has commented his experience so:

“Thank you for organizing the Startup Battle. It was a lot of fun, and met a bunch of potential investors which is why we went. Interest in Media Gazelle was pretty good. Thanks for your help, and good luck with the next Battles to come.”

Startup.Network is thankful to Startups' teams, Judges, Speakers, Guests, and Partners for attending the event and involvement to the Startup Battle community.

Feel free to invest in promising Startups with Startup.Network!

Join our upcoming events:

155 Unicorn Battle in San Francisco on September 26;

156 Unicorn Battle in Silicon Valley on October 1;

157 Unicorn Battle in Los Angeles on October 10.

See you at Unicorn Battles (former Startup Battles)!

Testimonials

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Open profile Liz Polizzi Oertle, CEO and Co-Founder Nanno Startup Profile

Ok, yes I'm excited that we won the Startup Battle this week. But mostly I want to let my other entrepreneur friends out there know that this event is really great. The Judges were all very impressive active investors - and all super engaged with Q&A and feedback - the programming beforehand was excellent, and all the companies that pitched were outstanding. If you have an opportunity to participate in one of these events, do it!

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Open profile Anna Mesheryakova, CEO Third Opinion Care Startup Profile

The main thing I would like to share is the event went beyond our expectations.

The venue was really full of interested people and even overcrowded, and that created the right emotional state for the pitching startups and for the audience. We met a few potential investors and made very valuable connections during networking.

After 1 month we are still in connection with the attendees of that Startup Battle. We are working on the Third Opinion Care development together.

We will definitely consider participating in the next events organized by the same team.

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Open profile Juan Juan, CEO & Co-Founder of Fanalyze, Inc. Fanalyze Startup Profile

Thank you Startup Network for giving Fanalyze the opportunity to pitch at your event! I met some awesome founders and was able to network with several investors. I enjoyed pitching and learning about the other startups in different industries.

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Open profile Petr Neustroev, Founder and CEO Nexus Intuitive Surgical technologies Startup Profile

After participating in the Startup Battle, which was held by Startup.Network in the Silicon Valley, we gained tremendous amount of experience on how to build the startup and attract investments. Especially it was very cool to talk with MS. He gave us a lot of advice. If it were no it for this event, we would not be able to get such advice. Then we actively worked on searching for investors which we did. We began due diligence but we realised that we did not want to take any investments on the early stage. Again, useful advice from Mike Sandler, his criticism to be precise, helped us to find the way. At this point, we have several investors from among the surgeons, but for now, we are managing on our own.

Now we have an MVP that is not just a set of tools but a surgical robot. The manufacturing of the primary product is taking place in Taiwan. At this point, it is on the stage of being certified.

If somebody asks me whether I need any investments in the early stages, I will say no. It is significantly more important to develop the right network and to get proper advice.

Everything that happened is the credit to Startup.Network!

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Open profile Svitlana Malovana, CEO & Founder Raccoon.World Startup Profile

I want to thank Statup.Network for precious experience and help we've got during startup battles in USA and Berlin.

Mentors your team chooses for jury on battles are always very professional and ready to help.

We got valuable feedback and a good quantity of insights.

Raccoon.World team continues communication and builds relationships with several investors we met on the battles.

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Open profile Vladimir Goloborodko, Co-Founder SmartPay - hands free payment service Startup Profile

Hello!

We took part in several Startup Battles, organised by Startup.Network, in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Minsk, Almaty, Kharkov and attended Startup Battle in San Francisco.

I believe that it helped us to be selected from more than 1000 competitors for acceleration program in the Netherlands, where we were the only startup from Eastern Europe.

Attending the Startup Battles is very beneficial for expending networking and gaining useful feedback. In particular, the feedback, what we got on Startup Battle, from the investor form the Silicon Valley helped us to find new and more perspective niche and make the pivot. We would be glad to collaborate with the Startup.Network team again.

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Open profile Ivan Terekhin, Co-Founder BINO Startup Profile

We took part in two Startup.Network events: Startup Battle in Moscow and Startup BAttle in Silicon Valley.

We won the 1st place in Moscow and got a lot of attention from the media and investors. After that event, we received lots of useful pieces of advice and attended meetings with investors.

And we won the 3d place in Silicon Valley, and right after the pitch Marvin Liao
(Partner 500 Startups) offered us to join 500 Startups accelerator. Being acquainted with Marwin helped us one more time in Moscow in some time.

We would be glad to pitch at Startup Battles again!

Thank you.

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