156 Unicorn Battle in Silicon Valley, October 1, 2019
During the startup event, promising Startups will compete for the attention of selected members of Venture Funds and Angel Investors.
We have already organized more than 150 Unicorn Battles in various cities of Europe, the Middle East, and the USA. We have helped more than 100 Entrepreneurs raise money.
Join Unicorn Battle to find Diamonds in the Rough to Invest in or the Startup Investors for your Current Venture.
Pitching at the Unicorn Battle is a great opportunity to:
- find investors;
- raise money fr om venture funds and private investors;
- acquire practical advice from experienced venture capital professionals;
- find partners and clients, expand your network;
- present your startup to a wide audience and the investment community.
If you are going to build a successful startup, try your hand at investment battles! Apply on the Event Page. Upon reviewing your Application we will contact you with feedback.
For the event, we will select up to 10 Startups, others will be put on a waitlist until the next events.
- Early Bird - $300;
- Optimal - $400;
- Sleepy Owl - $500.
Based on the results of the Judges’ online voting, one startup will be chosen as the winner of the Unicorn Battle.
Join as a Guest our startup conference to:
- learn wh ere to invest money to get good returns;
- learn how to invest in startups;
- meet the best startups;
- learn how to find investors;
- learn how to start a startup;
- become a part of the startup community.
The Ticket Cost for Guests is:
- Optimal - $30;
- Sleepy Owl - $50.
Date and time: October 1, 2019, 6pm - 10pm.
See you at the156th Unicorn Battle in Silicon Valley on October 1!
Don’t miss:
155 Unicorn Battle in San Francisco on September 26.
157 Unicorn Battle in Los Angeles on October 10.
161 Unicorn Battle in New York on November 12.
162 Unicorn Battle in Boston on November 14.
Judges
Brad McManus
Ossama Hassanein
Jennifer Azapian
Anupam Rastogi
Sudhir Kadam
Ajoy Mallik
Allison Steitz
Jesus Mauricio Flores
Kazuki Kaneuchi
Ashish Bhatia
Mallika Ramamurthy
Cigdem Toraman
Juan Acosta
Speakers
Allison Steitz
Anupam Rastogi
Juan Acosta
Live stream is not available during the event
Startups
Agenda
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Registration, welcome Pizza.
6:00 pm - 6:15 pm: Introduction by Organizers.
6:15 pm - 7:00 pm: Panel Discussion on the topic: "Crowdfunding vs Angel-funding vs Venture Capital".
During this section, the true sharks of the investment industry will share their own experiences.
7:00 pm – 7:15 pm: Coffee Break.
7:15 pm – 9:15 pm: Startups Competition.
Each founder will have 4 minutes for a pitch, and another 5-10 minutes for questions, comments, and suggestions by Judges.
9:15 pm - 10:00 pm: Networking.
It is a good opportunity to spend time with the right people of the venture community in an informal setting with pleasure and profit.
Testimonials
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.