🌍 Global to Silicon Valley: Founder Pitch & VC Feedback (Monthly series)
​Global Pitch Event + Featuring live investor feedback from
​Evan Buhler (Talok Capital - investor in xAI, Neuralink)
​Arisa Chelsea Uno (DraperU Ventures)
​Ulvi Rashid (Traction Fund - investor in Anthropic, Anduril, Crusoe)
​🕗 8AM PT | 11AM ET | 4PM UK | 5PM CET (📍 Zoom - connecting a global community)
​Agenda:
​Quick introductions
​Investor Fireside Q&A (15 min)
​Founder Pitches: 3-min pitch + 2-min feedback (30min)
​Investor AMA (15min)
​Who's this for?
​Early-stage Global Founders (US expansion, fundraising, Silicon Valley insights)
​Global Investors (Early stage VCs/LPs/Family Offices exploring global deal flow)
​Ecosystem Builders
​Limited spots. Apply to pitch.
​Pitch format : 4–5 slides max, Problem → Solution → What you’re raising/looking for
​Judges:
​Evan Buhler, Founder & GP, Talok Capital
​Evan is an early-stage investor, former founder and startup attorney. His portfolio includes xAI (Series B), Parafin (Series B), Subconscious (Pre-Seed), Keeper (Seed), Neuralink (Secondary) and other bets in AI, enterprise software and consumer. He backs founders at the earliest and riskiest stages of their journey and cares most about the founding team, product vision, markets and timing.
​Arisa Chelsea Uno, VC, DraperU Ventures & Draper University (Founded by seasoned VC - Tim Draper)
​Arisa is an early-stage investor with experience scaling global tech companies. She led market expansion at Noom, Shopify, and StockX - serving as Shopify’s first hire in Japan and helped thousands of cross-border eCommerce businesses. Now investing and advising globally, with experience at Plug and Play and Draper University, she backs founders building at the intersection of technology, culture, and global markets.
Why Attend
​​Because the best opportunities don’t start with decks only - they start with conversations.
​Hosted by:
​​Venture Bridge Hub (Adeep Chooramun - Global connector, Ecosystem builder, Investor & Tommaso Tonina - 2x Founder, & Shishir Karki) connects people, capital, and innovation across global ecosystems.
​​​​Deepak Chawla – AI Entrepreneur, Founder of HiDevs
​​​​Deepak is on a mission to build the world’s largest Gen AI workforce. He has trained 5000+ learners, hosted 100+ AI workshops, hackathons, hands on session and is actively building real-world applications with LLMs, LangChain, and vector databases.
​​This event reflects how we believe ecosystems should work:
human-first, global, and built on conversations.