✨ This series happens every 2 weeks on Wednesday, 4 PM – 5 PM (JST), giving founders the chance to:
- Practice delivering their startup pitch in English
- Gain constructive feedback from experienced mentors
- Build confidence to pitch to international investors
- Enhance their chances of raising global funding
Pre-submit your pitch IF YOU ARE GOING TO PITCH (3-5 MIN) for priority feedback, or pitch live from the chat for a chance to be selected during the session. To pre-submit your pitch, visit - https://forms.gle/CnD57357LfWVJAXG7
📌 Note:
-RSVP must be done in Google Forms.
-You’ll receive a calendar invitation if your pitch is accepted. Limited slots available (5–10). Early and new applicants who have not pitched before will have the best chance to pitch at this event.
Agenda:
- Welcome & Introduction
- Pitch Practice Session
- Feedback Session
- Closing
Judges:
- Erdinc Ekinci - Founder, Investment Lead of Co-capital, Co-Founder, CEO of Openfor.co, Managing Director of Founder Institute Japan/Korea/Taiwan
- Yu Li Shein - Venture Partner of Co-capital, Co-Founder, COO of Openfor.co, Director of Founder Institute Japan/Korea/Taiwan
What You'll Learn:
-How to clearly and confidently pitch your startup.
-Honest, actionable feedback from experienced leaders.
-Insights into what VCs look for in startups.
-Ways to improve your business strategy and approach.
-Learn by observing other founders and expert analysis.
About the Ecosystem:
- Founder Institute: Founder Institute, which originated in Silicon Valley, is a founder and idea stage accelerator, and with its Founder Capital, backs the best performing FI alumni as early as the angel stage. FI has over 8K+ startup portfolio (Including leading e-learning platform Udemy, IPO in Nasdaq $3,8B) across 200 cities in 100 countries around the world.) We are also the largest mentor network in the world, with over 35,000 mentors, and our alumni have already raised over $2 billion in US dollars and have recently exceeded the 10K mark of investors network as the FI-Venture-Network.
- FI’s sister program, called VC Lab, helps launch aspiring investors into launching VC firms. As an accelerator that allows both sides of the table, 70% of the activities we do are advocacy of entrepreneurship and ecosystem creation, which means we do way more activity than the accelerator to promote entrepreneurship to solve real-world problems with entrepreneurship in an economically feasible way, build a company that grows into a venture-scale.
- Openfor.co: A “Global Partnership Accelerator” originated in Silicon Valley that combined with an online platform and marketplace for learning, building, launching, monetizing, and growing partner ecosystems and a collaborative community around you for achieving effective marketing, sales, community building, GTM, fundraising, and many more.
- Co-Capital: Pre-seed & Seed stage new firm that focuses on hands-on GTM, sales, and partnership support, focusing on English-speaking Asian founders who have global ambitions from day ONE. Domiciled in the USA, with regional appearances in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Utilizes partnerships with the GTM expert network and the venture partner network across 20 major hubs and a network of 35 other VC networks who are willing to co-back our founders!