Online Event
Pitch Your AI Startup to Investors and Experts (Live Feedback Session)
Pitch live and get structured feedback from mentors in front of a room of founders.
Date
Oct 14, 2026
Time
03:00 pm - 04:00 pm
Address
Online Event
Your pitch has a problem you cannot hear. You have said it enough times that it sounds fine to you.
Investors hear it in the first ninety seconds. This is a live Zoom meeting, not a webinar — you are on camera, you pitch directly to Kevin and Ken, and you get structured feedback on the spot. You also watch other founders get the same treatment, which is where most of the learning actually happens.
Bring a pitch at any stage, including one that is still only an idea. AI startups are especially welcome, but every sector is fair game.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Kevin Siskar — CEO and co-founder of Finta, a fundraising CRM that founders use to run their raise, and founder of Firehouse Fund, through which he invests in early-stage startups. He has mentored Founder Institute founders in New York and Silicon Valley since 2015, and hosts Ambition Today, a long-form interview podcast with founders and investors. Based in Buffalo, built in New York.
Ken Parker — Chief Business Officer at Humans for AI, and a Founder Institute mentor across New York and Philadelphia since 2022, where he has worked with founders on business models, go-to-market, and getting a company to the point where it is fundable.
Seats are limited and the pitch slots go first. Register now for Wednesday, October 14, 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.
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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