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How To Build A Top 1% Pitch Deck with Open VC
How To Build A Top 1% Pitch Deck with Open VC
Date
Nov 03, 2026
Time
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Address
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Investors are pissed off with decks right now. This is because founders are creating AI slop.
Learn how to create the perfect deck with Shaun Gold from OpenVC and Mercedes Bankston from Loyal VC.
Then, for sixty seconds, you pitch. Everyone else in the room learns from your mistake so they do not have to make it themselves.
Any stage counts, including an idea you have never said out loud. Register now and bring it.
What You'll Learn:
- How to create an excellent deck
- How to avoid the AI slop
- How to open a pitch so the room knows what you do in one sentence;
- The structure investors and mentors expect, in the order they expect it;
- How to talk about traction when you have none;
- The mistake most founders make at this stage, and the fix;
- How to take feedback in the room without arguing with it.
Featured Mentors:
- Shaun Gold, OpenVC
- Mercedes Bankston, Loyal VC
Who Should Attend:
- Founders preparing to pitch investors, mentors, or an accelerator;
- Founders not getting anywhere with VCs
- Idea-stage founders who have never pitched to strangers;
- Anyone who has pitched and could not tell why it did not land;
- People who want to learn by watching others get honest feedback.
Additional Resources: Find more Startup Events, sharpen your One-Sentence Pitch, or read How to Pitch Your Startup before you arrive.
About Founder Institute: The Founder Institute is the World's Largest AI-Native Company Builder, giving idea-stage, first-time founders, and employees making the leap to entrepreneurship the tools, global network, and proven methodology to build an AI-powered startup from zero to funding. Since 2009, our structured programs have helped over 9,000 founders across 100 countries raise more than $2BN in funding. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 6 continents, our mission is to empower talented and motivated people everywhere to build impactful, AI-powered companies.
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