1 year in the Bay Area or Disrupt Fundraising [DraperU Edition]

​1 year in the Bay Area or Disrupt Fundraising 2025.

​What you need to know about how to raise capital and survive in Silicon Valley, building a startup in the AI era.

⚠️⚠️⚠️ This event will take place for the DraperU Stellar Summer25 cohort.

Dr Paul Vinitsky (LinkedIn), a serial entrepreneur, Founder & CEO of Synexis.io, will discuss insights on growing an early-stage startup in Silicon Valley from scratch, the insights from the local and global startup and investor ecosystem, based on 500+ VC interviews, 150+ offline events, and 1000+ founder stories.

​⚠ Why is the fundraising journey so long and complex, and what do VCs truly need? What changed in the AI era?

​⚠ How can startups avoid running out of money during the fundraising journey?

​⚠ How Venture Capital functions in the Bay Area and what investors expect from you here?

​All you need to know:

​📅 Tuesday, Aug 5.

​🕡 3.00 PM - 4.00 PM

​📍 Draper Hero, Theatre

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​About Synexis

​Synexis is a decision-making infrastructure for private markets deals, powered by agentic AI analysts. We go beyond outdated deal flow infrastructure—replacing fragmented sourcing, screening, and memo workflows with a unified system for real-time, AI-native deal decisions. 

​Synexis extracts insights directly from pitch decks and data rooms, generates investment memos, answers diligence questions in real-time, and matches startups to investors, buyers, or partners based on behavioral signals and dynamic context, not just static filters.

​Within minutes, Synexis processes all inbound and shared deal flow and offers access to a proprietary discovery data lake for global sourcing.