Unicorn CUP – Global Pitch Competition Finals in Summer CUP, July 28 2020
Join Unicorn CUP – the first online Finals of global pitch competition where famous VCs meet the best startups from all over the world!
There will be a special day for each time zone:
- July 28th - Asian Day – Hong Kong time zone
- July 29th – European Day – London time zone
- July 30th – American Day – San Francisco time zone
Only 47 extraordinary startups presenting each their country will pitch live for each time zone at the UNICORN CUP Finals!
Preliminary Unicorn Battles took place in 50 major cities of 35 countries of the world.
Famous VCs and Angel-Investors will join us to find the best deals for their portfolios, and so can you!
You will see extraordinary international startups from different industries – one-day event - four stages – all in one place!
In addition, the best startups from all over the world will participate in EXPO - presenting their solutions and ideas that you can explore and contact directly.
We have already organized more than 220 Unicorn Battles in various cities of Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South America, Africa, Australia, and the USA.
As our statistics show: 140 winners of our battles have raised more than USD 70 mln due to participation in our pitch events worldwide.
Based on the results of the Judges’ voting every day of 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 the 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 First Online Unicorn CUP Finals!
Organizers
Judges
Kazuki Kaneuchi
Manager of Business Development at SoftBank Telecom America Corp.
Dr. Ella Li
Partner of ZGC Innovation fund, and also service as the VP of ZGC Capital Corporation in Silicon Valley leading ZGC’s team in investment and incubator operation
Giles Farley
Co-Head, Venture Capital & Tech Investments at ICU, a leading asset management, private equity and investment advisory firm specializing in Ukraine.
Giles has a long and successful track record in finance. He worked first in investment banking and financial restructuring before moving to investment in technology companies.
Artem Tokariev
Partner 408 Ventures.
Strategic, Innovative, Driven Business Leader and Mentor, Angel Investor, Venture Capitalist with more than 10 years of progressive experience in Business Management and Operations in the High-Tech industry. Hands-on Professional with specialized expertise in Business Development, Operations, Marketing, Sales, eCommerce and High-Tech Consumer. In addition, Artem assists innovation companies in the emerging markets with their US and international market expansion.
Previously, Artem managed of Huawei Direct-to-Consumer eCommerce business in the United States. He was responsible for the P&L and the overall performance of eCommerce business including growth, revenue and margin targets; managing the online customer acquisition, retention and loyalty programs; establishing integrated marketing plans to ensure targets are achieved for average order size, conversion and traffic goals; setting up yearly and quarterly operational plans and business reviews, forecasts and budgets to support demand generation and other marketing efforts.
Whitney Sales
Managing Partner at Acceleprise Ventures and creator of The Sales Method. Prior to Acceleprise, Whitney was instrumental in bringing LoopNet, Joby, Meltwater, and SpringAhead to the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies list.
Eugene Malobrodsky
Eugene Malobrodsky is a Venture Partner at One Way Ventures, an early-stage VC fund focused on backing exceptional immigrant founders. Eugene also serves on the board of Zero Cognitive Systems, a legal tech startup, as well as Geozilla, a consumer startup in family safety. Eugene received Silicon Valley’s Best Tech Manager Award at the 2018 Timmy Awards and was named a 30 under 30 Founder Honoree by Inc Magazine in 2011. Originally an immigrant from Lithuania, Eugene has founded two startups. His latest venture was AnchorFree, which focuses on consumer privacy and security. AnchorFree’s leading product is HotSpot Shield and has over 700 million downloads. Since inception, Eugene was responsible for business growth by managing engineering, operational expansion, and corporate strategy. In May 2018, AnchorFree was acquired by a private equity fund called WondrCo. Eugene continues his involvement as an advisor to the company.
Juan Acosta
Director at Draper University and an early-stage investor with Draper University Ventures. Prior to inspiring people, investing, and accelerating startups Juan began his career studying Aerospace Engineering, but quickly found his love for tech while working as a Product Manager for the largest LATAM video-game distributor where he built software still used today by game publishers. He joined the founding team of Ideal Mobile, a hispanic-focused wireless service provider where he built internal products for distributors and grew its subscriber base to thousands nationwide from scratch. Juan co-founded XtremePlay, the first digital videogame e-commerce store for Chile, Peru, and Colombia. Juan is passionate about product, digital media, neuro-strategies, and helping founders grow into leaders.
Itai Maron
Venture Partner at Heroic Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Palo-Alto, which is focusing on first-money-in and formation investments in Silicon Valley and Israel.
Itai’s background and expertise are in scaling early-stage businesses and in developing and leading cross-functional teams and technological projects.
He has held leadership roles both in start-ups and in global high-tech companies (Rolls-Royce, Intel, Elbit Systems) in diverse disciplines, such as Operations, Business Development, Program/Project Management, and Product Strategy.
Itai holds a B.Sc degree in Information System Engineering from Ben-Gurion University in Israel and an MBA from INSEAD Business School in France and Singapore.
Jiazi Guo
Angel Investor. Partner at LEGO Ventures.
UC Berkeley Alumni, entrepreneur since age 16. Formerly investment banker, hedge fund. Currently active venture capitalist and mentor at alchemist accelerator and more.
Jules Walker
Senior Director, KPMG’s Emerging Technology Practice.
Jules leads the business development efforts for KPMG’s Emerging Technology Practice in the Bay area and Pacific Northwest, focusing on creating and expanding relationships with VC-backed technology companies. He works closely with early-stage startups as well as mature private companies approaching IPO. He has spent his 20+ year professional career in financial services working for companies such as Bank of America, Robert Half and Textron Financial. Most recently, Jules was a Principal with Ravix Group, providing finance/accounting and HR solutions for early-stage companies. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Connecticut and his MBA from Middlebury College.
Alexandra Johnson
Co-Founder and Managing Director at HEED Capital, Founder and Managing Director at Global Technology Capital and President of Global Technology Symposium. Sasha is an experienced investor at early-stage companies and was one of the first female partners in the VC community, starting her fund in 2003. She is a board-member of science-enabled tech companies based in Silicon Valley.
Corey Pigott
Venture Partner at DraperFoster.
Investor and advisor with a passion for accelerating adoption within nascent markets. Portfolio Manager for M31 Capital, a hybrid hedge fund/vc with a focus on active participation within blockchain networks. Venture Partner at DraperFoster. Blockchain advisor to Trokt. Active investor within crypto/blockchain since 2013.
Brett Noyes
Brett Noyes is Founder and Managing Director of Unbank.Ventures. Unbank.Ventures is an early stage FinTech/Blockchain program located in Silicon Valley. The program has successfully incubated 45 companies since 2016. Prior work includes building incubator programs with Techstars, Jason Calacanis (This Week in Startups) and famous investor Tim Draper.
Purvi Gandhi
Partner, CFO at Hone Capital.
Purvi has over 20 years of experience in CFO roles in the international investment management industry, across Silicon Valley and Asia, along with startup company experience.
Through her roles as CFO at H&Q Asia Pacific (spin-out from JP Morgan Chase), Taiyo Pacific and Allegis Capital, Purvi was involved in private equity, venture capital, public equities/hedge funds, and distressed assets.
As CFO of healthcare informatics start-up MedVantage, she helped lead the company through a Series A round at a valuation of $30M, and scaled it from 12 to 60 employees prior to its acquisition by IMS.
Beyond core CFO expertise, Purvi has in-depth experience in capital raising and operational expansion in Asia, and has served as a strategic advisor and board member to startups in the US and Asia.
Purvi started her career at Deloitte and also worked at Charles Schwab.
Purvi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from UC Berkeley. She passed the CPA exam in the State of California.
Mike Zayonc
FOUNDER
PLUG AND PLAY SUPPLY CHAIN
Mike is responsible for founding Plug and Play's global Supply Chain & Logistics vertical. The program is based in Silicon Valley, Northwest Arkansas, Hamburg, and Shanghai and is in partnership with 50+ industry leading corporate partners like Walmart, TJX, Tyson Foods, JB Hunt, Shell, DHL, FedEx, Japan Post, Yamato, Panasonic, Union Pacific Railroad, CMA CGM, Kansas City Southern Railroad, Ryder, Ryder, Prologis, BNSF Railway, ArcelorMittal, ExxonMobil, United States Postal Service, ArcelorMittal, Geodis, and the Canadian National Railway. This program is responsible accelerating and investing in startups in the areas of analytics, AI, machine learning, augmented reality, smart warehousing, blockchain for supply chain, customer support solutions, inventory management, IoT sensors, drones, last mile delivery, disruption of the freight brokerage model, end-to-end supply chain optimization, autonomous driving, predictive analytics for demand planning, and transportation management systems.
Plug and Play is was a seed investor in companies like Dropbox, Lending Club, PayPal, Rappi, and over 1000 startups across all verticals.
Anupam Rastogi
Partner at Emergent Ventures and focuses on seed and early-stage investments in transformative startups in the AI, Data, Cloud and Smart Mobility spaces. Anupam has led or played a substantive role in over 15 successful technology investments globally, ranging from early to expansion stage, and several large exits. Prior to Emergent, Anupam founded NX Partners to help high-potential SaaS companies accelerate growth rates and outcomes, and worked closely with half a dozen startups across the enterprise landscape. Previously, Anupam held investing roles of increasing responsibility at NGP Capital, a global venture firm with $1.2B+ AUM. At NGP Capital, Anupam led the Intelligent Enterprise investing team, identifying and investing in companies at the intersection of data, IoT and machine intelligence. Earlier, he helped drive the firm’s smart mobility and logistics investment practice. Prior to his investing career, Anupam spent several years in the mobile, enterprise and data analytics spaces, bringing to market four new products, setting up a big data analytics stack in a Fortune 100 environment, and authoring five international patents and publications. Anupam holds Computer Science degrees from IIT Delhi and UT Austin, an MBA from The Wharton School, and studied Technology Commercialization at MIT. He can be reached via Twitter at @anupamr.
Ajoy Mallik
Founding Partner at Follow[the]Seed VC Fund. Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, CEO, Executive Management, Operations, Strategist, and Business Architect
Ossama Hassanein
Chairman of Rising Tide Fund. Dr. Ossama Hassanein is an entrepreneur, mentor, and venture capitalist based in Silicon Valley. Over the last 35 years, he has managed over $1 billion of international technology funds in diverse leadership roles including Executive Vice President (EVP) of Berkeley International in San Francisco, Chairman of Technocom Ventures in Paris, President of Newbridge Networks Holding in Canada, Senior Managing Director of Newbury Ventures, and Chairman of the Rising Tide Fund in Silicon Valley. In the eighties, he led the mezzanine financing of 80+ Silicon Valley based IT companies that became spectacular successes including: Adaptec; Cirrus Logic; Atmel; PMC-Sierra; LSI Logic; Linear Technologies; and Oracle. Combined market value today exceeds $200 billion. In the last 25 years, he was chairman or co-founder of seven leading-edge high technology startups in the U.S., UK, France and Switzerland including ACC in Santa Barbara (routers, acquired by Ericsson), Algety in Lannion (soliton transmission, acquired by Corvis), HighDeal in Caen (rating engines, acquired by SAP), HighWave in Bretagne (fiber optic amplifiers, Listed on Euronext), NetCentrex in Paris (VoIP, acquired by Comverse), nCipher in Cambridge (encryption, listed on LSE), and Zong in Menlo Park (acquired by eBay). Currently, he is Director of Bank of the West in San Francisco and of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund in Dubai. He is a charter member of the C100, a Silicon-Valley based association dedicated to mentoring and angel financing Canadian entrepreneurs. Dr. Hassanein is a President Cabinet member at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he also serves on the Dean of Applied Sciences Board of Advisors. He is the Chairman of the UBC Silicon Valley advisory board for the Personalized Medicine Initiative. He has served on the Board of Advisors of Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies and of University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine. He served for six years as Chairman of TechWadi, focusing on mentoring, financing and business acceleration of leading Middle East and North Africa (MENA) entrepreneurs. He also served on the Board of Directors of Relief International, a non-profit, focusing his efforts on social entrepreneurship and women development in the Middle East. He was vice-chairman of the Board of PSD, an NGO focused on providing One Netbook per Child for up to 130,000 Palestinian and Syrian children in need of education. Dr. Hassanein was the Willard Brown Distinguished Visiting Professor at AUC (American University in Cairo) School of Business, where he is also member of the Board of Advisors. He lectured on Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and the University of San Diego, and on international business at University of California, Berkeley and Santa Clara University. He was also guest speaker on entrepreneurship in diverse venues including the White House, the State Department, the Commonwealth Club, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, and Qatar Computer Research Institute.
Roger King
Roger founded BayAngels in 1996. He is an active angel investor and the Founder of an executive search firm, ChiefPeople. Roger has judged start-up events in Beijing, Seoul, Athens, Prague, and Havana. He's an accomplished photographer whose portfolio includes all things Cuba.
Marisa Alma McGinnis
LP in Blumberg Capital Fund III and a Managing Director at Golden Seeds.
Marisa is a startup investor in 25 startups including RenovoRx, Merge, Namogoo, Kreditech Holding SSL GambH, FundBox Ltd, FeeX Wisdom of the Crowds, Inc. Trulioo Information Services Ltd., WunderCar Mobility Solutions GabH, Yotpo Ltd, Seek Mobile Ltd., Sqream Technologies Ltd., Seek Mobile Ltd., Roam Analytics, SimplyCredit Inc., Arcadia Data, BioCatch, Ltd, Zibby, Inc. Acquired startups are Cyvera by Palo Alto Networks and Zooz (acquired by PayU).
She has an undergraduate degree in Microbiology, a law degree (member of the California State Bar) and a broker’s real estate license (licensed by the California Department of Real Estate).
Takashi Kato
Partner in charge of US. Global Brain Corporation.
Built a career in Amazon, Microsoft and TripAdvisor as an expert on the Sales & Marketing field. Joined GB on 2013 and engaged in the investment on Media / AdTech industry. Appointed to the current position in 2019.
Jesus Mauricio Flores
Principal at HACK Fund.
Civil engineer and Commercial Diver from Venezuela. Relationship in business development in Latam for H/F. Developed my own 100k fund, Capital Kreation, in 2017. Focus in growing Startups Ecosystems in LATAM.
Vasily Nikolaev
Partner in Network.VC and Quantum Wave Fund, based in Silicon Valley.
Former CEO of Coda Devices, developing coded aperture Raman spectroscopy technology (acquired by a US strategic investor). Former CEO of Nanooptic Devices, developing digital planar holograms technology.
Has over 12 years of experience in Venture Capital, Private Equity, Investment Banking and Management consulting in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine and Russia. Worked in Da Vinci Capital, Moellendorf and Company, McKinsey and Company. Worked with Yury Milner on Mail.ru strategy.
Has an MBA degree from IESE (one of top 3 business schools in Europe) and an MS degree in physics from the Moscow State University (cum lauda).
Jonathan Baer
Managing Partner of StoneHearth Ventures (formerly named Threshold Ventures) and a
recovering venture capitalist who loves working with companies around the world. He was a general partner at a Sand Hill Road venture fund and the founder and CEO of two venture backed companies. He now spends his time teaching, mentoring, and advising early-stage companies at leading accelerators and universities as well as serving on several boards. Jon is expert at training startups, mentors and early stage investors around the world in Silicon Valley best practices. He believes that startups require tough love; and need to focus on money, metrics, and milestones. Jon teaches startup CEOs to say less, because less is more.
Veronica Gabriele
Investor at Munich Re Ventures in San Francisco.
Veronica works across multiple industries including cyber, IoT, mobility, digital health, insurtech, and geospatial tech. Previously Veronica worked for a growth equity and venture firm in LA focused on consumer products and technologies as well as B2B2C platforms. Prior to her venture career Veronica studied Business and Political Economy at NYU Stern and lived in Shanghai, London, and Rome.
Brian Mac Mahon
Serial entrepreneur and investor. Brian has owned companies in over 35 countries. He is also the owner of Expert DOJO, who is the largest International startup accelerator in Southern California. At Expert DOJO early-stage startups receive investment, success coaching, advice, and specialist help in all areas of their business growth. Their patented 12 step accelerator is unlike any other program available and gives direct access to specialists in branding, design, business planning, product fit, strategic planning, web development, growth hacking and so much more. In 2018 Expert DOJO brought 400 companies through their startup programs and made 18 investments. They are planning to bring 2,000 companies through their program this year and make 25 investments. All you want to know about Brian is contained in his TEDx talk - https://youtu.be/Y6f7lFy0oW0
Jordan Wahbeh
Managing Partner at Bay Angels | Partner at Andra Capital. Jordan partners with startups and investors to grow, scale, fundraise and achieve their objectives through operations, fundraising, business development, product development, and team leadership. As an experienced leader and advisor, he assists or leads in business operations and development, market growth, org transformation, and customer management. As a Partner at Andra Capital, and Bay Angels’ Managing Partner, Jordan has a strong network of resources and SMEs along with a varied portfolio of startups companies. His engagements include VCs, Angels groups, Accelerators, and Corp VC in Silicon Valley, across USA, Korea, Dubai, Brazil, MENA region, and EC. With 20+ years’ hands-on and leadership experience, he is quite skilled in engineering, business, SW development, IT, Hi-Tech, customer management, AI, Big Data/Analytics, Industrial IoT, and manufacturing.
Tom Kosnik
Venture Partner at FoundersX Ventures, a VC firm focused on ventures using AI, big data in: Ed Tech, Fintech, Health AI, Supply Chain with AI. Robots and Autonomous Vehicles, Food Tech, Agri Tech, Clean Water, Green Energy, Space. Investing in U.S. Startups; Helping Startups in Silicon Valley and Key Cities in China, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia Professional education/leadership development: Help business and government leaders to: create and execute real-time learning programs for employees, customers, and channel partners. These workshops help the participants to:
Assess attractiveness of target markets
Accelerate global growth
Negotiate across borders
Attract, retain, and motivate talent
Raise money.
Gear Up: How to create new markets and disrupt existing markets
Circles of Influence: Getting entrepreneurial players in different regions to bet on your new venture
Negotiating the Triple Chasms of Generation, Gender and Culture: Building trust across borders
Global Entrepreneurial Marketing: Marketing new products and entering new country/markets.
Academic Career
Adjunct Professor, Stanford Department of MS&E (1990-2018)
Consulting Professional National University of Singapore College in Silicon Valley (2002-2019)
Visiting Professor, launched HBS’s Entrepreneurial Marketing course in 1995-97.
Assistant Professor, Marketing at Harvard Business School (1985-89)
I am a co-author of a book with Lena Ramfelt, Jonas Kjellberg, and Tom Kosnik (2014) Gear Up: Test Your
Business Model Potential and Plan your Path to Success. Gear Up is a practical framework to help you create new
markets and disrupt existing markets. It is available in Mandarin, Thai, Vietnamese, Spanish and other languages.
Wade Bitaraf
Founder, Energy and Sustainability at Plug and Play Tech Center
Sunil Ranka
Partner at ZNL Ventures and founder of Predikly, a Data Innovation and Automation Solutions company. A proven Analytics leader, an entrepreneur, and an investor passionate towards RPA, Data, and Analytics with a progressive mindset of a startup with the process execution experience of working with fortune 500 companies.
Sunil has invested in 16 YC startups at the seed round.
Greg Shepard
Founding partner at BOSS Capital Partners, a global investment syndicate that focuses on series seed technology businesses that prefer operational expertise and guidance to achieve capital-efficient and rewarding outcomes.
He is also the creator of BOSS (Business Operating Support System), an open-source business operating system based on his 20+ years of entrepreneurial and investor experience. BOSS was developed to empower entrepreneurs and increase the overall startup success rate.
Greg Shepard has built and sold 12 businesses in BioTech, TransitTech, AdTech and MarTech. He is a Forbes Book Author & contributor and has been featured or quoted in publications like Fortune, Entrepreneur, The New York Observer, The DEAL and Thrive Global. A recipient of four private equity awards for transactions between $250M to $1B, Greg has appeared on TV, Radio, and popular Podcasts.
Greg has also been a TEDX and Keynote speaker at multiple universities and conferences worldwide.
Gary Fowler
CEO, President, and Co-founder of GSD Venture Studios.
Previously, he co-founded top CIS accelerators GVA and SKOLKOVO Startup Academy, where over 30% of the companies went on to achieve success. He has founded 15 companies, including Yva.ai and DY Investments, and has a successful IPO and CKSW under his belt. At the AI startup Yva.ai, Gary Fowler contributed extensively to the growth of the company and helped it reach a significant valuation in just over three years. He has won numerous awards, and most recently he was named one of the "Top 10 Most Influential AI Executives” by Analytics Insight and one of the “Top Transformational Business Leaders of 2019” by IndustryWired Magazine. He was named "Top 10 AI Executives to Watch in 2020”. He is also a contributing writer for Forbes.
Aniko Szigetvari
Founding Partner of Atlantica Ventures, an African impact venture capital fund. Atlantica Ventures invests in seed to Series B funding rounds in tech and tech enabled startups.
Prior to founding Atlantica Ventures, Aniko spent 20+ years at the International Finance Corporation ("IFC"), most recently as Global Head of the TMT Group, leading the firm's efforts from deal origination through portfolio management for 4 years. In this position, Aniko oversaw a ~US$1.2 billion portfolio of investments across the capital structure and managed a team of ~50 professionals across eight regional hubs from Colombia to Singapore, including 2 hubs in Africa. Prior to becoming Global Head, Aniko was Head of the Africa and Latin America TMT Group at IFC for 4 years.
Prior to IFC, Aniko worked for McKinsey & Company, Kraft Foods International and DHL Worldwide Express.
Throughout her 20+ year career, Aniko has built a wide range of contacts across Africa and emerging markets, including entrepreneurs, companies, co-investors, bankers and consultants, as well as government ministers and regulators.
Aniko has three graduate degrees, including an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the Wharton School, and an MA in International Studies from the Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania. Aniko received her undergraduate degree in business from the College of Finance and Accountancy in Hungary.
Volker Heistermann
Venture Partner at the US$ 100M TPTF fund and previously worked at Google, AT&T, Commerzbank and investment bank Rutberg & Co.
Volker Heistermann brings to bear over 20 years of investment, business development and
innovation management experience in USA, Germany, Greater China and SE Asia. In 2011 Mr.
Heistermann co-founded early-stage technology scouting and investment firm Yushan Ventures
in Taiwan, and in 2019 he launched Mosaic Venture Lab - powered by Audi AG and Taiwan’s
Ministry of Economic Affairs - to create and deliver the new realities of urban mobility.
Mr. Heistermann is Venture Partner at the US$ 100M TPTF fund and previously worked at
Google, AT&T, Commerzbank and investment bank Rutberg &Co.
He holds a B.A. of Financial Law, and a Marketing diploma from the University of California. He
frequently speaks at tech industry conferences and he’s an Advisor to APEC and a member of
the Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) – SAE Work Group.
Phil Nadel
Founder and Managing Director at Forefront Venture Partners.
Phil has been a serial entrepreneur for many years, having founded and exited several startups. He is now the Managing Director of Forefront Venture Partners, one of the largest and most active AngelList syndicates.
Phil is also a published author, frequent conference speaker, and one of the co-hosts of "The Pitch" podcast.
Ruchi Dana, MD, MBA
Venture Partner of FundRx, Board Member of DANA Group
Forbes Power Businesswoman 2020| Forbes NexGen 2017,2018,2019| Stanford MBA| Doctor| Board Member| Entrepreneur| Speaker
Dr Ruchi Dana is a multi-award winning doctor, thought-leader, innovator and entrepreneur. She is a frequent keynote speaker, panelist and moderator at various industry conferences and sits on several corporate, startup and NGO boards. As a Board Member of Dana Group, Dr Ruchi Dana is responsible for the company’s strategy throughout the GCC and Arab world region, advancing Dana Group’s position as an innovative industry leader, and a socially responsible enterprise that recognizes diversity and inclusion.
Ruchi has also worked with Golden Seeds, a women focused Angel Network in New York and New Silk Route Growth Capital, a PE firm in Dubai, she has mainly focused on healthcare related investments at both these firms.
While still in her early thirties, Ruchi is a serial entrepreneur and has co-founded three businesses: Jugaad, an on-demand last mile logistics provider in the UAE, Pik A Venture, a crowdfunding accelerator platform for South-East Asia and One Big Family, an app for the elderly. Ruchi has been recognized by Forbes Middle East as the “Next Generation Business Leader, Arab World” for 3 consecutive years 2017, 2018 and 2019 and she has also been recognized by Campden Wealth as the “Women to Watch” in September’18 issue. Ruchi has also been recognized as “Top 75 Family Business Leaders” 2019 by Campden Research (UK)and was conferred with the Yuva Ratna Award, 2018. Most recently, Dr Ruchi was featured by Forbes on Power Businesswomen 2020 Middle East list.
Ruchi is the President, COO of Duluth Medical Technologies Inc, a Silicon Valley based Robotic Medical device startup. Duluth is focused to develop intelligent, agile and affordable surgical robots, to improve patient care. Ruchi has been working on medical devices right through her undergraduate college days and has published & presented various papers on low-cost medical devices at international conferences. While at Stanford, Ruchi was part of the Stanford BioDesign Team and her team won NIH grant for needs finding under the C-IDEA consortium at Stanford university.
Dr Ruchi Dana is an Experienced Board Member with a demonstrated history of working in the Investing, Startups, MedTech, Life Science, industrial engineering and retail industry.
Ruchi completed her MD from AMU and got her full-time MBA and PMP (Public Management and Social Innovation) degrees from Stanford University
Ruchi mentors startup founders & also volunteers her time for Médecins Sans Frontières, TiE and AIF (American India Foundation).
For speaking & interview opportunities, plz email ruchi AT danagroups.com
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Alexandra Johnson
Co-Founder and Managing Director at HEED Capital, Founder and Managing Director at Global Technology Capital and President of Global Technology Symposium. Sasha is an experienced investor at early-stage companies and was one of the first female partners in the VC community, starting her fund in 2003. She is a board-member of science-enabled tech companies based in Silicon Valley.
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Agenda
July 28, 2020: Asian Day, Hong Kong time
08:30 - 09:00 Registration and test session
09:00 - 09:30 Opening remarks & organizers presentation
09:30 - 10:00 Judges introduction
10:00 - 11:30 American Startups Pitch session (1st Batch ## 1 -12)
11:30 – 11:40 BRAKE
11:40 – 12:00 Judges introduction
12:00 – 13:00 European Startups Pitch session (2nd Batch ## 13-23)
13:00 – 13:10 BRAKE
13:10 – 13:30 Judges introduction
13:30 – 15:00 European Startups Pitch session (3rd Batch ## 24-35)
15:00 – 15:10 BRAKE
15:10 – 15:30 Judges introduction
15:30 – 17:00 Asian/Australian Startups Pitch session (4th Batch ##36 - 47)
17:00 – 17:15 Final remarks and announcements
17:15 – 18:00 Official Closing ceremony of Unicorn Cup Finals
July 29, 2020: European Day, London time
08:30 - 09:00 Registration and test session
09:00 - 09:30 Opening remarks & organizers presentation
09:30 - 10:00 Judges introduction
10:00 - 11:30 American Startups Pitch session (1st Batch ## 1-12)
11:30 – 11:40 BRAKE
11:40 – 12:00 Judges introduction
12:00 – 13:00 European Startups Pitch session (2nd Batch ## 13-23)
13:00 – 13:10 BRAKE
13:10 – 13:30 Judges introduction
13:30 – 15:00 Asian/Australian Startups Pitch session (3rd Batch ## 24-35)
15:00 – 15:10 BRAKE
15:10 – 15:30 Judges introduction
15:30 – 17:00 European Startups Pitch session (4th Batch ## 36-47)
17:00 – 17:15 Final remarks and announcements
17:15 – 18:00 Official Closing ceremony of Unicorn Cup Finals
July 30, 2020: American Day, San Francisco time
08:30 - 09:00 Registration and test session
09:00 - 09:30 Opening remarks & organizers presentation
09:30 - 10:00 Judges introduction
10:00 - 11:30 European Startups Pitch session (1st Batch ## 1-12)
11:30 – 11:40 BRAKE
11:40 – 12:00 Judges introduction
12:00 – 13:00 European Startups Pitch session (2nd Batch ## 13-23)
13:00 – 13:10 BRAKE
13:10 – 13:30 Judges introduction
13:30 – 15:00 Asian/Australian Startups Pitch session (3rd Batch ## 24-35)
15:00 – 15:10 BRAKE
15:10 – 15:30 Judges introduction
15:30 – 17:00 American Startups Pitch session (4th Batch ## 36-47)
17:00 – 17:15 Final remarks and announcements
17:15 – 18:00 Official Closing ceremony of Unicorn Cup Finals
08:30 - 09:00 Registration and test session
09:00 - 09:30 Opening remarks & organizers presentation
09:30 - 10:00 Judges introduction
10:00 - 11:30 American Startups Pitch session (1st Batch ## 1 -12)
11:30 – 11:40 BRAKE
11:40 – 12:00 Judges introduction
12:00 – 13:00 European Startups Pitch session (2nd Batch ## 13-23)
13:00 – 13:10 BRAKE
13:10 – 13:30 Judges introduction
13:30 – 15:00 European Startups Pitch session (3rd Batch ## 24-35)
15:00 – 15:10 BRAKE
15:10 – 15:30 Judges introduction
15:30 – 17:00 Asian/Australian Startups Pitch session (4th Batch ##36 - 47)
17:00 – 17:15 Final remarks and announcements
17:15 – 18:00 Official Closing ceremony of Unicorn Cup Finals
July 29, 2020: European Day, London time
08:30 - 09:00 Registration and test session
09:00 - 09:30 Opening remarks & organizers presentation
09:30 - 10:00 Judges introduction
10:00 - 11:30 American Startups Pitch session (1st Batch ## 1-12)
11:30 – 11:40 BRAKE
11:40 – 12:00 Judges introduction
12:00 – 13:00 European Startups Pitch session (2nd Batch ## 13-23)
13:00 – 13:10 BRAKE
13:10 – 13:30 Judges introduction
13:30 – 15:00 Asian/Australian Startups Pitch session (3rd Batch ## 24-35)
15:00 – 15:10 BRAKE
15:10 – 15:30 Judges introduction
15:30 – 17:00 European Startups Pitch session (4th Batch ## 36-47)
17:00 – 17:15 Final remarks and announcements
17:15 – 18:00 Official Closing ceremony of Unicorn Cup Finals
July 30, 2020: American Day, San Francisco time
08:30 - 09:00 Registration and test session
09:00 - 09:30 Opening remarks & organizers presentation
09:30 - 10:00 Judges introduction
10:00 - 11:30 European Startups Pitch session (1st Batch ## 1-12)
11:30 – 11:40 BRAKE
11:40 – 12:00 Judges introduction
12:00 – 13:00 European Startups Pitch session (2nd Batch ## 13-23)
13:00 – 13:10 BRAKE
13:10 – 13:30 Judges introduction
13:30 – 15:00 Asian/Australian Startups Pitch session (3rd Batch ## 24-35)
15:00 – 15:10 BRAKE
15:10 – 15:30 Judges introduction
15:30 – 17:00 American Startups Pitch session (4th Batch ## 36-47)
17:00 – 17:15 Final remarks and announcements
17:15 – 18:00 Official Closing ceremony of Unicorn Cup Finals
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I am so happy that I have participated in Dubai Unicorn Battle. Winning the 1st place of this prestigious award is one of many excitements. As an entrepreneur I am actively raising funds and super busy scaling my startup, therefore I was looking for battles with cash prizes! but after I attended the Unicorn Battle, the benefits were more rewarding than immediate cash. All the 18 judges were active investors or consultants who help raising investment, their feedbacks and advices were impressive and helpful to scale to the next level. The organization by Lena and Kateryna was great, the networking and coffee breaks allowed me to make new connections, and we got approached by two interested investors right after the award ceremony.
Will definitely participate again in the future.
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!
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