SPEAKERS

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
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Bill Reichert
Partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures
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JUDGES

Evgeny Bazhan
Head of Global Project Operations and Startup Relations at IxD Capital
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Bill Baker
Co-Founder/CBO & Initial Investor at NuQ
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James Sowers
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Svet Sedov
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Charles Yu
Principal at Bling Capital
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João Luis Olivério
Founder at Sales as a System and investor at Mucker Capital.
Serial entrepreneur, investor and executive for global tech companies and investment funds, Joao Luis Oliverio build his first company while still at high school, having his first exit still in
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Guillaume Kloof
Managing Partner at Valley Date Venture Partners, assisting high potential startups to expand and grow through business development and ultimately getting them funded.
After various successful cases, we're looking to give startups the best chance to
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Abraham van Wyk
General Partner of Acquipharma
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Anna Degtereva
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Dave Martinez
CEO and Founder of Dave Martinez Ventures.
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Keith Herman
Founder of IPA Equities
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Kirill Babich
Founding Partner at Malamute Startups Agency | Advisory Board member for Fintech & Venture Capital at Istern Capital
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Ik Kanu
Founding Partner at Atlantica Ventures, Kauffman Fellow Class 23. Experienced in the technology, media and telecom space: Private Equity, Venture Capital, strategy and operations consulting, technology commercialization and due diligence, business modelli
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Abhijeet Kumar
Co-Founder, ah! Ventures
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Stas Khirman
Co-founder of SVOD. Managing Partner of TEC Ventures
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Michelle E. Messina
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Danil Kislinskiy
Partner & VP of Global Business Intelligence at GSD Venture Studio (Santa Clara, California)
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Marcelo Carrullo
Managing Partner at Drummond Ventures
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Sudhir Kadam
Venture Partner at FYDA Growth Partners
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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
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Ruchi Dana, MD, MBA
Partner of DANA Group, Venture Partner of FundRx
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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. Startu
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Brett Noyes
Founder and Managing Director of Unbank.Ventures
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Vasily Nikolaev
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Jesus Mauricio Flores
Principal at HACK Fund
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Gary Fowler
CEO, President, Co-Founder at GSD Venture Studios
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Victoria Mehran
Venture Partner at Expert Dojo
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Sunil Ranka
Partner at ZNL Ventures and founder of Predikly
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Jordan Wahbeh
Managing Partner of SV Venture Group
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Eugene Malobrodsky
Venture Partner at One Way Ventures
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Kate Seledets
Investment Team at 500 Startups
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Itai Maron
Venture Partner at Heroic Ventures
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Roman Nikitov
Head of ICU Ventures
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Marisa Alma McGinnis
LP, Blumberg Capital Fund III and Golden Seeds Silicon Valley Alum
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Alexander Soroka
Managing Partner at Network VC
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ORGANISERS

Startups pitching live

Mi Terro
Average rate:
4.10
Absolute winner
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Moonshot Junior, Inc
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4.05
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Stitched Insights
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3.86
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Ziscuit
Average rate:
3.52
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Fanalyze
Average rate:
3.09
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Pigeon Networks
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2.95
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Got it
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2.90
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RedApple Digital Health
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2.43
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ReferMeJob
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Global partners

Unicorn Battle,
July 14, 2020

The Winner of the Online Unicorn Battle in California is Mi Terro.

Mi Terro

Re-engineer milk waste into fibers to replace plastic.  

Mi Terro is the world's only biotechnology company that rescues food waste and re-engineers it into sustainable fibers and biopolymers to replace plastic in the fashion, medical, and packaging industries. 


The second place went to:

Moonshot Junior, Inc

Product 1st, STEAM & Entrepreneurship Education.


The third place went to:

Stitched Insights

e-Motional Intelligence™ for Big Brands.

We are grateful to the experienced and influenced VCs and Angel Investors, which joined the Judges’ Panel at the Online Unicorn Battle! 

You can find full list at the section Judges on the event page: https://battle.startup.network/events/409268/#judges

Many thanks to our Global Sponsors:

Network.VC (https://network.vc/

ICU (https://vc.icu.ua/)) - Kyiv-based venture capital fund that invests in technology companies with strong ties to Ukraine and Eastern Europe making late seed and series A investments across the tech spectrum.

 ICU Ventures is part of the ICU Group, an independent asset management firm founded in 2006 by senior investment professionals from ING. It is one of the largest and most diversified asset managers in the CEE region.  

Silicon Valley Syndicate Club (https://svsy.club/).

The next part of the Battle was dedicated to the Pitch Competition. 

Ten  pre-selected Startups were presented to the wide audience of the venture community.

During the Pitch Competition, Judges marked each startup. 

You can find the rating of all Startups according to the Judges' voting at the section Startups on the event page https://battle.startup.network/events/409268/#startups.

Startup.Network is grateful to Investors, Experts, Entrepreneurs and Guests who attended the Unicorn  Battle in California.

Special thanks to our Partners:

Silicon.Finance and our media partner EVENTBROWSE

Link to the Live Stream: https://www.facebook.com/StartupN/videos/663435460919741



After Pitch Competition was Fireside chat on the topic: Investments during pandemics with Sasha Johnson and Bill Reichert.

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Looking forward to seeing you all in our next events!


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AGENDA

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09:50 am - 10:05 am: Registration.



10:05 am - 10:15 am: Introduction by Organizers.



10:15 am - 11:00 am: Jury introduction.



During this section, Jury will have 1 minute each to introduce themselves.



11:00 am – 11:55 am: Startups Competition.



Each founder will have 3 minutes for a pitch, and another 3 minutes for questions, comments, and suggestions by Judges.



11:55 am - 12:00 pm: Winners announcement.



12:00 pm - 12:15 pm: Fireside chat on the topic: Investments during pandemics with Bill Reichert and Sasha Johnson


12:15 pm - 12:30 pm: Networking

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