On February 8, 2023, Founder Institute hosted a global pitching event featuring five up-and-coming pre-seed startup companies. Founder Showcase, Silicon Valley's leading startup pitch conference, attracted more than 1500+ entrepreneurs, investors and tech execs from around the world who registered to join the virtual networking event.
We were pleased to welcome to the Founder Showcase stage for a special Keynote Adrian Mendoza, Founder and General Partner of Mendoza Ventures who shared his invaluable insights on being a part of a community, the impact of increasing diversity in startup ecosystems, and more. Watch his opening interview with FI's Entrepreneur in Residence, Martin Martinez.
This Founder Showcase event featured pitches of five fast-growing international pre-seed stage companies. Previous startups of the Founder Showcase event have gone on to raise more than $1.5+ billion in funding, and include industry titans like Udemy, Relay Rides, Thumbtack, Realty Mogul, Kaggle, and many more.
The following five companies were chosen to pitch from hundreds of startup applicants around the world, because all are showing impressive early-stage traction. Watch the founder pitches + investor Q&As from the February 2023 Founder Showcase event, linked below:
Chambr - Co-Founder & COO: Gabriela Constantinescu
Chambr, based in New York, is a SaaS that helps learning managers create learning games that increase content retention.
Tempest Droneworx - Founder & CEO: Ty Audronis
Tempest Droneworx aggregates data from hundreds of sources, including drones, robots, static sensors, and even crowdsourced video to generate intelligence in the form of real-time multispectral 3D maps.
Verde Code - CEO & Founder: Leon Vanstone
VerdeCode, based in Austin, is a SaaS platform that helps developers and executives at companies with a significant software footprint, quantify and reduce cost and power usage.
OnePurse - Co-founder and CEO: Samuel Adewole Dotun
OnePurse, based in Denver, is a currency exchange platform for African businesses and the diaspora to send money between the US and Africa.
Vestis Labs - Founder & CEO: Fonny Bunjamin
Vestis Labs, based in Luxembourg, is a cloud-based platform that helps small to medium-sized fashion brands reduce costs, waste, and time in their product development process.
About the Keynote Speaker: Adrian Mendoza
Born in Los Angeles to parents who immigrated from Mexico. Adrian moved to Boston for Graduate School at Harvard. He has spent the last 20 years leading technology teams and building products for financial services and fintech. After founding two VC-backed startups in the mobile technology space, Adrian started Mendoza Ventures to address the funding gap for people of color in early-stage investments.
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The Founder Showcase is Silicon Valley’s leading international startup pitch event, helping seed-stage startups learn, launch, and connect to investors.
These free online events feature presentations from up-and-coming pre-seed startups across the globe, and attendees can learn from world-leading venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. In addition, each Showcase features several networking sessions to connect with the featured companies, and other attendees from across the global startup ecosystem.
Since 2008, speakers like Elon Musk and startups like Udemy and Thumbtack have presented on the Founder Showcase stage. Learn more at FounderShowcase.com.
