40+ and Dangerous. The Pitch Night
SF Bay Area’s Tech culture loves the myth of the young genius — but the data couldn’t be clearer: founders over 40 outperform younger founders across nearly every measurable dimension, especially in go-to-market execution, decision-making, customer understanding, and operational discipline.
And yet this group remains one of the most overlooked, underestimated, and underfunded segments in the entire startup ecosystem.
This event is designed exclusively for founders aged 40+ — experienced operators, domain experts, late-career innovators, and industry veterans who bring something AI can’t replicate: deep contextual intelligence shaped by decades of real-world experience.
We’ll talk openly about why founders 40+ are often undervalued:
• VC pattern matching biased toward youth
• Misconceptions about pace, adaptability, and “fresh ideas”
• Tech culture that glorifies inexperience
• Age-coded assumptions about risk-taking
• A lack of investor awareness around the ROI of founder maturity
And we’ll spotlight the reality: founders over 40 are statistically more likely to build durable, profitable, and scalable companies — especially in enterprise, AI, future of work, and deep tech.
But here’s the part almost no one says out loud:
Leaving a well-paid job at 40+ to start a company is radically different than doing it at 20. You may be supporting a family, paying a mortgage, or carrying responsibilities that make risk feel heavier and consequences more real.
This is exactly why founders 40+ need a support system — a community that understands the unique pressures, trade-offs, and emotional landscape of building something big at a later stage in life.
This event will create that space.
Let’s explore:
• How to navigate the identity shift of leaving a stable career
• How to pitch investors who aren’t accustomed to “non-traditional” founders
• How to turn your experience into your unfair advantage
• How to build momentum without burning out
• How to grow alongside peers who understand the journey
This isn’t a conversation about “inclusion.” It’s a conversation about performance, probability, and the extraordinary edge of experienced founders.
If you’re building in AI, Future of Work, enterprise, robotics, or health tech — and you’re 40 or older — this is your room, your network, your moment.
Agenda
5:00 - 5:45pm: Registration
5:45 - 6:00pm: Natalia’s 40th bDay Intro + short standup
6:00 - 6:15pm: Intro to TheAgentic
6:15 - 6:30pm: Showcase theAgentic Launchpad Pitches
6:30 - 7:00pm: Open Pitches (10 total)
7:00 - 8:00pm: Networking and Dinner
Hosts
TheAgentic provides a complete suite of agent infrastructure: reasoning LLMs, a Digital Worker Framework, and web automation to enable startups, AI founders, and SaaS companies to build, deploy, and scale with ease at an unmatched value.
TheAgentic's Launchpad program partners with early stage startups to build and launch AI products at no cost and with no equity taken until a successful fundraise. Admission is selective, focusing on teams with clear ideas and high potential.
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Ontology of Value® is a high-end career incubator that will help you become agile, take control over your professional life, strategize, and play your best game in times of AI using our proprietary tools.