AMA with VCs Featuring Pras Hanuma (NextUnicorn.Fund)

With over 25 years of pioneering enterprise technology, Pras Hanuma has helped transform complex business challenges into scalable, high-impact ventures through his leadership at NextUnicorn.Fund, he supports startups that are redefining the future of industries and human living through cutting-edge technologies.

Bring your toughest questions on fundraising, AI innovation, or building scalable deep tech solutions, and Pras will provide real, actionable insights based on his global experience as an investor, advisor, and mentor.

This AMA offers a unique opportunity for founders to gain insights into early-stage investing, frontier technology trends, and the VC landscape shaping global innovation. 

Moderator:
Erdinc Ekinci - Founder, Investment Lead of Co-capital.vc, Co-Founder, CEO of Openfor.co, Managing Director of Founder Institute Japan/Korea/Taiwan

📌 Who Should Attend
-Founders building AI, Quantum, Blockchain, or Deep Tech startups
-Early-stage entrepreneurs preparing to raise funding or join accelerators
-Innovators exploring how to transform technology into scalable business models
-Startup teams seeking insights from experienced deep tech investors
-Anyone curious about the future of frontier technology investing

📌 What You Will Learn
-How VCs identify and evaluate deep tech opportunities
-What investors look for in AI, Quantum, and emerging tech founders
-How to position your startup for Idea2Unicorn growth
-The evolving investment landscape in deep tech and frontier technologies
-Real-world examples of innovation-to-scale journeys
-How to build strong investor relationships and strategic partnerships

About Founder Institute:
-Founder Institute: Founder Institute, which originated in Silicon Valley, is a founder and idea stage accelerator, and with its Founder Capital, backs the best performing FI alumni as early as the angel stage. FI has over 8K+ startup portfolio (Including leading e-learning platform Udemy, IPO in Nasdaq $3,8B) across 200 cities in 100 countries around the world.) We are also the largest mentor network in the world, with over 35,000 mentors, and our alumni have already raised over $2 billion in US dollars and have recently exceeded the 10K mark of investors network as the FI-Venture-Network.

-FI’s sister program, called VC Lab, helps launch aspiring investors into launching VC firms. As an accelerator that allows both sides of the table, 70% of the activities we do are advocacy of entrepreneurship and ecosystem creation, which means we do way more activity than the accelerator to promote entrepreneurship to solve real-world problems with entrepreneurship in an economically feasible way, build a company that grows into a venture-scale.

-Openfor.co: A “Global Partnership Accelerator” originated in Silicon Valley that combined with an online platform and marketplace for learning, building, launching, monetizing, and growing partner ecosystems and a collaborative community around you for achieving effective marketing, sales, community building, GTM, fundraising, and many more.

-Co-Capital: Pre-seed & Seed stage new firm that focuses on hands-on GTM, sales, and partnership support, focusing on English-speaking Asian founders who have global ambitions from day ONE. Domiciled in the USA, with regional appearances in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Utilizes partnerships with the GTM expert network and the venture partner network across 20 major hubs and a network of 35 other VC networks who are willing to co-back our founders!