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Silicon Valley Graduation Demo Day: Founders Pitch to Investors

Watch [accelerator] Graduates pitch to investors and hear what gets asked first.

Date
Oct 08, 2026
Time
06:00 pm - 07:00 pm
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Graduates spend a semester turning an idea into a company an investor will take a meeting about. This is the session where they find out if it worked. Each founder gets three minutes on stage, followed by live questions from investors and operators in the Silicon Valley network. You see the AI-powered products they built, the traction behind them, and the questions investors ask first.

What You'll See:

  • Three-minute pitches from every graduating Silicon Valley founder, live;
  • The AI-powered products they built during the program, and what they cut to ship;
  • Live questions from investors, including the ones founders get asked first;
  • What pre-seed traction actually looks like at the point of graduation;
  • How to apply to the next Silicon Valley cohort.

Featured Graduates:

  • {NAME}, {Title} @ {Company}
  • {NAME}, {Title} @ {Company}
  • {NAME}, {Title} @ {Company}

(Add up to 8 presenting Graduates)

Featured Investors:

  • {NAME}, {Title} @ {Fund}
  • {NAME}, {Title} @ {Fund}

Who Should Attend:

  • Idea-stage founders who want to see what one semester of work produces;
  • Founders preparing to raise pre-seed;
  • Investors and operators looking for new companies coming out of Silicon Valley.
  • Anyone considering applying to the next Founder Institute cohort.

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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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