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​Hosts and partners:

​AI Student Collective at UW

​Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship

​The AI Collective

​Who should attend

​Students and researchers across CS, iSchool, HCDE, ECE, Business, and any major interested in startups, investing, or applied AI. This is open to anyone, AI or VC curious as well. You do not need to be a student.

​Location

​Anthony's Forum - Dempsey Hall, University of Washington Seattle Campus

​Event description

​A live look at how real AI deals come together. A VC partner and a portfolio founder will walk through one investment from both sides of the table. You will see how conviction (market, moat, GTM, risks, safety) is formed, what risks are debated, what early traction matters, and what changes after the check. The session includes a presentation from the partner and founder, an interactive voting exercise, a fireside chat, audience Q&A, and topic table networking.

​Speaker

​Ken Horenstein, Founder and General Partner,

​Pack Ventures

​Satya Singh, Co-founder and CTO, Scispot

​What you’ll learn

• ​How one real AI deal moved from thesis → diligence → term sheet

• ​What investors actually underwrite: market wedge, data/AI moat, cost/safety, early traction

• ​How founders frame the problem, product, metrics, and first pilots

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​The AI Collective is a global non-profit community uniting 100,000+ pioneers – founders, researchers, operators, and investors – exploring the frontier of AI in major tech hubs worldwide. Through events, workshops, and community-led research, we empower the AI ecosystem to collaboratively steer AI’s future toward trust, openness, and human flourishing.

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