Online Event
Penn West Startup Pitch Practice: Get Live Feedback From Investors
Pitch live and hear feedback from Real VCs in front of a room of founders.
Date
Sep 21, 2026
Time
09:00 am - 10:00 am
Address
Online Event
Your pitch has a problem you cannot hear. You have said it enough times that it sounds fine to you.
Mentors hear it in the first ninety seconds. In this session founders pitch live and get structured feedback on the spot, and everyone else learns from watching someone else's mistake instead of making it. Real investors, honest feedback and smart guidance!.
Bring a pitch at any stage, including one that is still only an idea. Register now and say it out loud to people who will tell you the truth.
What You'll Learn:
- How to open a pitch so the listener knows what you do in one sentence;
- The structure investors expect and the order they expect it in;
- How to talk about traction when you do not have any yet;
- The most common mistake in pitches at this stage, and the fix;
- How to handle the question you were hoping nobody would ask.
Who Should Attend:
- Founders preparing to pitch investors, mentors, or an accelerator;
- Idea-stage founders who have never said their idea out loud to strangers;
- Anyone who has pitched and could not tell why it did not land;
- Founders who want to learn by watching others get feedback.
Investors for Your Pitches:
Founder Capital: www.foundercapital.vc
Founder Capital is the Founder Institute's global VC fund, investing $25,000 in top FI companies. By leveraging the network of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, we provide startups with the capital and connections they need to scale.
3L: www.livelong.life
3L supports transformative technologies that shift the world’s mindset from treating illness to maintaining health.
3L offers personalized investment support for investors seeking high-potential health tech opportunities in Israel and the U.S. Tailored solutions for health tech startups, driving growth and maximizing value creation.
Boot64 Ventures: www.boot64.com
Boot64 Ventures is a New Orleans based seed fund that discovers, invests in, and supports early-stage founders.
Founder Capital: www.foundercapital.vc
Founder Capital is the Founder Institute's global VC fund, investing $25,000 in top FI companies. By leveraging the network of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, we provide startups with the capital and connections they need to scale.
3L: www.livelong.life
3L supports transformative technologies that shift the world’s mindset from treating illness to maintaining health.
3L offers personalized investment support for investors seeking high-potential health tech opportunities in Israel and the U.S. Tailored solutions for health tech startups, driving growth and maximizing value creation.
Boot64 Ventures: www.boot64.com
Boot64 Ventures is a New Orleans based seed fund that discovers, invests in, and supports early-stage founders.
A hands-on seed fund uniting Louisiana know-how and grit with Gulf South expansion to back relentless founders where they are, finding them where the coastal funds aren’t looking.
Additional Resources: Find more Startup Events, sharpen your the One-Sentence Pitch, or read How to Pitch Your Startup before the session.
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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