The Founder Showcase is Silicon Valley’s leading international startup pitch event, helping seed-stage startups learn, launch, and connect to investors. On December 16th, 2020, the Founder Institute hosted the 18th Global Founder Showcase, the second-ever online Global Showcase event. Watch the presentations below from ten promising pre-seed startups across the globe, and learn from the feedback and critiques of world-leading venture capitalists and experienced entrepreneurs.
Tim Chang, Partner at Mayfield Fund, joined us live as a featured keynote speaker. At the Mayfield Fund, Tim focuses especially on investments in Consumer Internet, Digital Media, eCommerce/Marketplaces, and Health/Wellness. Tim Chang has been twice named on the Midas List of top 100 VCs, and was previously a Partner at Norwest Venture Partners; and prior to joining Norwest, was a Principal at Gabriel Venture Partners, where he established and led their wireless practice. Before entering the venture capital industry, Tim was a Product Manager at Gateway, where he launched Enterprise products into the Japanese market, and began his career as a tri-lingual development engineer for General Motors, working across China, Korea, and Japan. Watch the keynote fireside interview with Founder Institute CEO Adeo Ressi below:
Without further ado, we proudly present the following Founder Institute portfolio company pitch presentations from the 18th Founder Showcase:
B2C Companies
- Play Out Apparel (FI Silicon Valley), based in NYC, is an eCommerce underwear and athleisure brand that helps Gen Z shop by style and not by gender, expressing themselves authentically and supporting their values.
- PaketConcierge (FI Berlin) is a consumer-centric app-based B2B2C marketplace that helps carriers to realize huge cost savings on the last mile.
- Silatha (FI Berlin), based in London & Amsterdam, is a subscription app that empowers women toward long-lasting mental health improvement.
- DILMUN (FI Mexico City) is developing an ecom marketplace that helps food-conscious and foodies get fair-priced healthy and specialty products while saving time.
- RePicture (FI Washington DC) is a virtual community where you can learn about engineering and STEM projects helping people across the world and connect with STEM professionals shaping the future.
B2B Companies
- Fairly AI (FI Waterloo-Toronto) is a platform for organizations to audit multiple AI systems used across all business units to eliminate bias, protect privacy, and ensure transparency of automated decisions.
- AI Retailer Systems (FI Zurich) is a B2B SaaS retail-tech startup that helps retailers to operate 24/7 convenience stores with a computer vision-based, hands-free checkout solution.
- Visualyst (FI Oslo) is a SaaS solution that helps the film and TV industry to perform video compliance reviews faster and more accurately than they do today.
- PredictNow.AI (FI Toronto) is a financial machine learning SaaS that helps investors predict the probability of profit for each investment.
- Neomente (FI Buenos Aires) is a telehealth platform that helps mental health therapists to provide precision treatment.
The Founder Institute (FI) is the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, with 4,500 Alumni across 90+ countries. This online event features presentations from select entrepreneurs that completed recent accelerator programs.
To join the Founder Institute live for future free, interactive online startup events like this Founder Showcase, visit our Events page.
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