Unicorn CUP – Global Pitch Competition Finals in Silicon Valley, April 22, 2020
Join Unicorn CUP – much more than Silicon Valley Finals of global pitch competition!
It is also a VC House (private function for LPs and GPs) and Silicon Valley Syndicate Club https://svsy.club/ meeting (special tickets available)!
Only 50 startups - winners of preliminary Unicorn Battles that took place in 25 countries of the world will participate in the UNICORN CUP Finals on April 22, 2020
You will see best international startups from different industries – one day - one place!
Famous VCs and angel-investors will join us to find the best deals for their portfolios, and so can you!
Startup.Network has already organized more than 170 Unicorn Battles in various cities of Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the USA.
More than 200 Entrepreneurs have received funding due to participation in our pitch events worldwide
Based on the results of the Judges’ voting during the event one startup will be chosen as the winner of the Unicorn CUP Finals!
Guests of the event will also vote online for the Best Startup in the Audience Awards nomination.
Be our Guest to:
- enjoy great networking with famous people;
- find best investment opportunities;
- open up new ways for business development
- become a part of the disruptive startup community
- learn how to launch the startup
- be inspired by the amazing ideas
- meet your potential investors and partners
See you at the Unicorn CUP on April 22nd!
Judges
Kazuki Kaneuchi
Dr. Ella Li
Artem Tokariev
Whitney Sales
Juan Acosta
Itai Maron
Jiazi Guo
Jules Walker
Corey Pigott
Purvi Gandhi
Mike Zayonc
Anupam Rastogi
Alexandra Johnson
Ajoy Mallik
Ossama Hassanein
Roger King
Marisa Alma McGinnis
Takashi Kato
Jesus Mauricio Flores
Vasily Nikolaev
Veronica Gabriele
Brian Mac Mahon
Jordan Wahbeh
Tom Kosnik
Wade Bitaraf
Sunil Ranka
Funds
Startups
Caer Sidi
Trusty.care
Just
TGP Bioplastics Pvt. Ltd.
OmegaLambdaTec GmbH
JANDI
Smart Mobile Labs AG
BEEsharing P.A.L.S. GmbH
LSky
Agenda
8:30 – 9:30 – Registration (all participants)
Hanh Auditorium
9:30 – 10:00 – Opening remarks & organizers presentation
10:00 – 11:00 – LP’s Panel discussion with famous SFO’s: Performance in Private Equity and VC: an Overview of European and US performance and trends
11:30 – 13:00 – Startup Pitch session (Seed and pre-Seed stage startups)
14:30 – 15:00 – Official announcements & partner’s presentation
15:00 – 16:00 – Panel discussion with Venture Industry Experts - GP
16:00 – 17:30 – Startup Pitch session (A-round + later stages startups)
17:30 – 18:00 – Official Closing ceremony of Unicorn Cup Finals, winners announcements
Grand Lobby
8:30 – 9:30 – Networking over refreshments
11:00 – 11:30 – Networking over coffee & snacks
13:00 – 14:30 – Network over lunch
18:00 – 19:00 – Networking over tea party
Grand Hall
9:15 – 19:00 – Exposition of stands and startups’ presentation from all over the world (all stages)
Lovelace Room
11:30 – 13:00 – VC House - LP/GP event (invitation only private function)
16:00 – 19:00 – SVSY Club meeting (special entrance pass is required)
Boole Room
13:00 – 14:30 – LP/GP networking lunch (invitation only)
Partners
Venue
Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94043
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.
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.
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.