​Off-CES | High-Signal Founders | Real Investors in the Room

​🔥 We have 40+ investors confirmed!

​An investor-hosted, curated mixer designed to create meaningful, capital-relevant conversations between selected startups and active investors.

​CES attracts thousands of startups — but very few get to pitch in a focused, investor-controlled room.

​This private VC ↔ Startup Mixer is hosted during CES for investors and a carefully selected group of founders by an active group of Silicon Valley VCs and Angels. The format is designed for direct, high-signal conversations — without public pitches, panels, or public exposure.

​Format

• ​20-25 curated startups

• ​No stage, no pitching, no demos

• ​8–10 VCs / Angels / FOs

• ​Short, structured introductions

• ​Open, private conversations for the rest of the evening

• ​Private feedback and networking with investors from Silicon Valley

• ​Exclusive private luxury suite near the Strip

• ​Investor-hosted, founder-focused

​Who should attend

• ​Investors

  • ​Venture Capital partners

  • ​Family Office representatives

  • ​Angels & syndicate leads

  • ​Corporate & strategic investors

• ​Startups

  • ​Founder-led teams

  • ​Selected based on relevance to attending investors

​This is not a demo or pitch event. Startups are invited to engage in conversations, not to sell on stage.

​Attendance is by approval.
This is not a public CES event.

​Access is curated to ensure:

• ​balanced investor-to-startup ratio

• ​relevance of conversations

• ​a high-trust, low-noise environment

​CES event series: Exclusive Pitch | VC/Founder Mixer | VC/LP/FO Dinner | CES Investor Pass

​Private venue in Las Vegas (near CES).
Exact location is shared with confirmed guests only

​Hosts:

​Synexis - AI-native OS for private market deals.

​​​Synexis is an AI-native decision infrastructure that turns months-long private-market deal funnels into minutes.

Private-market deals still rely on fragmented tools, static databases, and manual analyst workflows that take months. Synexis replaces this with an AI-native infrastructure for real-time investment decisions. With behavioural agentic AI analysts, Synexis processes inbound, shared, and syndicated deal flow within minutes. Unlike scraped databases, Synexis runs on first-party, live data from founders and stakeholders, creating a defensible, continuously updated intelligence layer. Investors and enterprises reduce screening and diligence time by up to 90%, accelerate sourcing by 11×, and achieve 96% data accuracy.

​​Join as a startup or investor today: https://synexis.io/
Enterprise? Book a call: https://calendly.com/paul-synexis/30min

​Tonya J. Long, Venture Innovator & Strategic Advisor

​Tonya J. Long works at the intersection of capital, frontier technology, and human decision-making. She has repeatedly deployed both personal and fund capital into early-stage companies on the path to market, helping founders sharpen strategic positioning, operational delivery, and investor alignment when it matters most. Tonya actively advises a portfolio of startups across AI, infrastructure, enterprise, and frontier technologies.

Building on her 2025 work on the Wisdom Economy and Human Firmware, Tonya’s next project — Beyond Work — partners with innovators and leaders to prepare for how value is created as roles and organizational structures evolve.

​IFAVH (Abu Dhabi Innovation Hub)

​IFAVH is the premier Incubator, Furnace, Accelerator and Venture Hub that serves as the catalyst for existing companies, transformative startups and visionary entrepreneurs. At the heart of Abu Dhabi, IFAVH is more than just a business hub, it's a vibrant community where innovation, finance, growth, and collaboration are not just encouraged - they're embedded in everything we do.

​Roundtable Ventures

​Roundtable Ventures is a Founder First VC investing in people, ideas and companies with the potential to change the world. We invest at pre/seed & see potential where others don’t. We back founders with vision and technical rigour — helping them turn transformative ideas in DeepTech, AI, and Healthcare into enduring companies.

​We invest across borders, connecting the innovation hubs of San Francisco with the Global dynamic startup ecosystem. Unlike traditional firms, our founder-led, operational mindset combines capital with strategic guidance & deep networks, helping founders scale & navigate complexity across markets.

​GooseRox Ventures

​GooseRox Ventures is a Silicon Valley Angel Group that focuses on Startup advisory, early-stage investing (solo & with partner VCs) & bespoke client collaborations (SMBs & Enterprises).

​We bring over a century of combined business experience from Wall Street to Silicon Valley & Internationally. Every partner at GooseRox Ventures has served as a CEO, growing businesses, making hard choices & delivering results. Now we’re collectively focused on driving a meaningful & positive impact across the World & Silicon Valley. From vision to flight, we give wings to innovations that soar.

​No Talking Capital VC

​No Talking Capital invests in entrepreneurs that don't talk, and walk where others only talk. We strongly believe that talking distracts entrepreneurs from executing. After investing, we do not talk.

​KFC Ventures

​KFC Ventures is a $2B Corporate VC from Silicon Valley. Revolutionizing startups with breakthrough ideas with adequate funds to create a better world to live. KFC Ventures is one of the individual branches of the Nityo Group, which primarily focuses on providing seed and growth-stage funding to the B2B startups that claim to bring a revolutionary change in how we think, believe, and act globally. We help innovative entrepreneurial minds to create exceptional companies and a dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem.

​Dr Pavel Vinitsky

​Dr Pavel Vinitsky - founder & CEO at Synexis, an AI-native decision-making infrastructure for private market deals. Speaker, advisor, VC investor, 25-year serial entrepreneur. VC analyst at KFC Ventures and advisor at Hesperian Ventures.

​Guest investors:

​30+ registered Venture Funds, Family Offices and Angel Investors including:

• ​VU Venture Partners

• ​Bay Area Innovest

• ​Li Family Office

• ​Dragons and Angels Fund

• ​Nirman Ventures

• ​Second Century Ventures

• ​Golden Bay Ventures

• ​FITT IIT Delhi

• ​Tess Ventures

• ​Applied Ventures

• ​ECVC

• ​BridgeX Ventures

• ​Berkeley Frontier Fund

• ​Young and Partners Inc

• ​Starlite VC

• ​A Big Capital

• ​OV Ventures

• ​SF Growth Capital

• ​Dispatch VC

• ​Jinqiu Capital

• ​Collimation LLC

• ​Calderon Safran & Wright

• ​Gobi Partners

• ​and 10+ VCs, FOs, LPs.

​Community Partners

​Founders Bay is a global community of 150,000 founders, VCs, and tech executives — rooted in Silicon Valley and expanding worldwide. We connect innovators through world-class events, curated dealflow, investor roundtables, VIP membership, and a global directory of top venture firms.

​House Rules

• ​No pitching on stage

• ​No PR, media, or press

• ​No filming without consent

• ​Smart casual

• ​This is a private, independent CES-week gathering

​Location

​Private luxury suite near the Las Vegas Strip (off-CES)
(exact location shared after approval & registration)