The Founder Showcase is Silicon Valley’s leading international startup pitch event, helping seed-stage startups learn, launch, and connect to investors. On Wednesday, February 10th, 2021 the Founder Institute will host the 19th Global Founder Showcase, which will feature renowned angel investor Jason Calacanis as the Keynote Speaker, and be attended by hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors, media, and executives. Anyone interested is welcome to RSVP to the event for free.
As an international pre-seed startup pitch event, the Founder Showcase gives attendes an opportunity to see pitches from up-and-coming startups before anyone else. As a result, luminary companies like Udemy, Relay Rides, Thumbtack, Realty Mogul, Kaggle, and many more gave some of their first public pitches on the Founder Showcase stage, and previous presenters have gone on to raise over $1.5 billion in funding.
Nearly 200 startups from 14 countries applied to pitch to our February Showcase, but after several rounds of evaluation and feedback only 10 were chosen to present on the live event. These companies are all showing promising early traction, and hail from 10 different cities, 6 countries, and 3 continents.
We proudly present the 10 startups selected to pitch live on the next Founder Showcase:
Founder & CEO: Nick Hegeman
PaintJet, based in Nashville (U.S.), is a robotic service provider that helps building owners and property managers lower the cost to paint large, commercial buildings.
Co-Founder & CEO: Juan Juan
Fanalyze, based in Sacramento (U.S.), is a mobile app that helps fantasy sports players and sports bettors speed up research while providing aggregated data to help with winning decisions.
Founder & CEO: Russell Cole
AGXactly, based in Toronto, is an agriculture informatics SaaS provider that helps farmers of high value crops reduce crop losses and maximize every dollar per acre.
CEO & Co-Founder: Carolyn Peer
Humaxa, based in Cameron Park (U.S.), offers the AI Assistant that predicts and prevents your best employees from leaving.
Co-Founder & CEO: Baker Bozeyeh
Flowless, based in Palestine, provides smart solutions to help utility companies enhance water supply efficiency, utilizing emerging technologies for automated faults detection & process optimization.
Founder & CEO: Matt Belachew
Wearme, based in Shanghai, is a community & marketplace that helps small and medium sized smart wearable developers to increase their sales.
Founder & CEO: Frederic Scherer
JITbase, based in Montreal, is a SaaS that helps manufacturer to optimize the human/machine interaction.
Co-Founder: Annamarie Saarinen
Bloom Standard, based in Hong Kong, is deploying the first autonomous ultrasound imaging tech to democratize access to cardiac + COVID19 screening for resource-limited settings.
Founder & CEO: Majdi Alnabih
ZipLunch, based in Toronto, is a marketplace that helps busy professionals at home or at the office save valuable time and money by simplifying meal ordering from their favorite restaurants.
Co-Founder: Caroline Ndiangui
iFunza, based in Nairobi, is a platform bringing together parents, teachers and administrators to improve education outcomes.
Join Founder Institute, special guest Jason Calacanis, and these 10 up-and-coming startups live on February 10th for the Global Founder Showcase! Event also includes several online networking sessions via Airmeet, to connect with other entrepreneurs and attendees from across the globe.
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