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

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

​This is a private, off-CES VC pitch night hosted by active Silicon Valley investors. No expo halls. No demo-stage theater. Just founders and investors in a closed setting designed for real conversations and follow-ups.

​Format

• ​15 curated startups

• ​3–4 min pitch + short Q&A

• ​12-15 host investors + invited VCs

• ​Private feedback and networking with investors from Silicon Valley

• ​Exclusive private luxury suite near the Strip

​Who should attend

• ​Founders actively raising

• ​AI, Infra, Enterprise, Frontier Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech, Cybersecurity, B2B, B2C

• ​Teams already attending CES

​This is not a public event.
Access is limited and curated.

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

​Tickets

​Startup Pitch Slot

• ​Prci

• ​Startup tickets are subject to approval.
  If approved, payment will be confirmed automatically.

​Demo Table

• ​Dedicated table during networking with the pitch slot

• ​Includes a dedicated table during networking and post-pitch discussions, with priority investor access.

​Investors (FO / CVC / VC / Angel): 

• ​Choose your price on how you'd like to support us.

• ​The initiative helps cover venue and curation costs. Opportunity to share a contextual investor introduction.

​Sponsorship for startups and service providers

• ​Sponsorship options for startups and service providers - $10k for the 3 events series, $6k for the dinner. (Special options for early-stage startups)

​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:

​35+ 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.

​Location

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