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
As the next Founder Institute cohort prepares to launch, we are inviting aspiring Founders to join an exclusive Pitch Practice Session with investors from the Penn West Accelerator. On this online event, you can share your startup idea and pitch with a panel of Mentors and Investors for constructive feedback. Even if you don't want to pitch, you are invited to hear startup ideas and watch how experts analyze and critique new startups.
Pitching is optional, but if you want to pitch on this event we will be using this pitch format: Elevator-Pitch-Worksheet.fi.co
What You'll Learn:
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.
Geek Ventures: www.geek.vc
Committed to investing in bold, innovative, and brilliant immigrant entrepreneurs, coming to the US from all over the world. We believe that the challenges immigrants face when coming to a completely new environment nurture resilience and determination.
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.
Geek Ventures: www.geek.vc
Committed to investing in bold, innovative, and brilliant immigrant entrepreneurs, coming to the US from all over the world. We believe that the challenges immigrants face when coming to a completely new environment nurture resilience and determination.
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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