🚀 Startup Pitch Night | B4SF.com
🚀 Startup Pitch Night SF
Founders, builders, investors, and operators - join us in San Francisco for live startup pitches, direct feedback, and focused networking.
From the organizer behind a recent San Francisco startup event with 770+ registrations.
📅 September 2 - San Francisco, Werqwise, 7th floor
🎟️ Choose Your Access
Free Access - Request to join and wait for approval.
Priority Access + 1 Drink - Direct registration, priority entry ahead of Free Access guests, and one drink.
Founder Pitch Packages - Want to pitch your startup on stage? Founder packages are available below.
👇 See Founder Pitch Packages below for details.
Entry and seating remain subject to venue capacity.
🎤 What to Expect
Live startup pitches
Direct feedback and audience Q&A
Curated networking with founders, builders, investors, and startup operators
Opportunities for hiring, investment, partnerships, customers, and collaboration
A high-energy room built around people who are actually building
⚖️ Meet the Judges:
Alan Zong (Partner & Co-founder at UpScaleX)
UpScaleX is a San Francisco and Palo Alto-based seed fund and founders' community focused on AI-native applications, agentic economies, and vertical AI.Mark Liu | Seed-stage investor at UpScaleX focused on applied AI and agentic systems, bringing a sharp investor lens from his background in software private equity.
Maria Frolova (Fractional CFO and Advisor to Founders
SaaS | AI | FinTech | Financial Services & M&A | Marketplaces & eCommerce, Recovered JPMorgan investment banker with 5 IPOs and $30B in M&A under her belt, Fractional CFO of TrueLeap (AI, SaaS, infrastructure), PortlyAI (AI, Future of Work), Project Pixel (AI, AdTech). Advisor @ Astia. Mentor @Techstars
Founding Partner of ESSNTL (advisory and fractional leadership services), Executive leader in Finance and Data at Fintech unicorn Republic and e-Commerce startup VIDA, Migrated $2B EFI legacy business to SaaS as Corp Dev and Partnerships leader)Pranjal Saxena - Strategy & Operations at Google | AI GTM | Angel Investor (AI GTM) | Ex McKinsey | HBS | ITC | IIT-K | Harvard Business School
🌟 Invited Expert: Arriel Balogun, MBA, PMP, SSYBC
👥 Who Should Join
This event is designed for:
Startup founders
Engineers and AI builders
Investors and angels
Product and startup operators
People looking for co-founders, talent, customers, partnerships, investment, or new opportunities
🚀 Founder Pitch Packages
Want to pitch your startup on stage?
Founder packages are currently offered privately by request and are not available through the normal public ticket selector.
🎤 Starter - $29
Best for a quick startup introduction.
1-minute pitch on stage
Product or company link
Basic company listing on Luma
Startup poster or visual displayed during your pitch
Opportunity to place a limited number of company-provided flyers in the designated event area
Listing in the shared B4SF Startup Directory
🚀 Visibility - $69
Best for a launch or stronger event visibility.
Priority pitch scheduled before Starter pitches
2-minute pitch on stage
Priority product or company link
Priority company listing on Luma
Priority poster placement during your pitch
Placement of one company-provided physical poster in an approved event area
Priority B4SF Startup Directory listing
The participating company must print and bring its physical poster.
🏆 Showcase - $149
Best for maximum event presence.
Top-priority pitch scheduled before Visibility and Starter pitches
3-minute pitch on stage
Dedicated event table for approved promotional and demo materials
Priority product or company link
Priority company listing on Luma
Priority poster placement during your pitch
Placement of one company-provided physical poster
Priority B4SF Startup Directory listing
Media support beginning up to 2 weeks before the event and continuing through 1 week after the event
Exposure through the B4SF email newsletter with an audience of approximately 20K emails
📦 Materials
Participating companies provide their own:
Posters
Flyers
Business cards
Demo materials
Banners, if permitted
Other approved promotional materials
B4SF provides the approved placement and table opportunity included with the applicable package.
🔐 How to Request a Founder Package
Choose Starter, Visibility, or Showcase.
Message the organizer on LinkedIn with the package you want.
You will receive a private one-use access code.
Use the code to purchase your Founder Pitch Package.
Founder packages are not currently available for direct public checkout.
📍 Location: 465 California Street, Werqwise (7th floor) at Merchants Exchange Building, San Francisco, California
Exact venue details and additional speakers and judges will be announced.
📸 Community Highlights from Previous Events
A look at startup pitches, builder conversations, direct feedback, networking, and community moments from previous events organized by the host in San Francisco.
Important: Photos shown below are from previous events. The people, venues, companies, and brands appearing in these photos are not confirmed speakers, sponsors, partners, judges, or participants for this event.
🏆 Pitches, Recognition & Community
🎤 Speakers, Feedback & Builder Conversations
🤝 Community Energy & Networking
🚀 Interested in Pitching?
Message the organizer on LinkedIn to request access to a Founder Pitch Package.
Builders for San Francisco | B4SF team
Agenda:
📅 September 2, 2026 (Tuesday)
6:00 p.m. - Doors Open and Networking Begins
6:45 - 7:15 p.m. - Opening, Panel
7:15 - 8:15 p.m. - Pitches
8:15 - 9.00 p.m. - Giveaway section + Networking
Panelists:
Mark Liu, Seed-stage investor at UpScaleX.
Maria Frolova , Fractional CFO and Advisor to Founders, JPMorgan investment banker, Mentor @Techstars, Founding Partner of ESSNTL
Pranjal Saxena - Strategy & Operations at Google, Angel Investor, Ex McKinsey
Renuka Mujumdar, founder of Nullspace (community of 140K+ Community, Keynote Speaker)
Andrea Tortella, CEO @ thrad - Paid ads in LLMs
The pitchers:
Nelly Perchatkin, Founder & CEO of Midnight Mastermind Technologies, is a trauma survivor who rewired her mind after her brother’s fatal plane crash and years of complex trauma. She now blends neuroscience, ancient practices, and technology to help shape the future of health tech.
Master My Mind is a psychotherapist-backed subconscious reprogramming platform that uses personalized AI-generated affirmation scripts, brainwave audio, and subliminals to help users form habits, reach goals, and manifest. https://b4sf.com/companies/master-my-mind
Francesca Scipioni, Co-founder & CEO Rigel (Rigel is a skills-first recruiting platform that scores candidates on what they can actually do, not on the keywords in their CV. Every match score is a transparent weighted sum the recruiter controls — decomposable, reproducible by hand, with AI used to read CVs and never to make the decision. Candidates never click "apply": once a profile is confirmed it is scored automatically against every open role, and both sides stay anonymous until a recruiter shortlists). https://b4sf.com/companies/rigel
Avinash Gujje, Founder & CEO @ ZUUZ (a platform that turns sales email into pipeline automatically. ZUUZ connects with existing CRMs and sales mailboxes to identify deals, renewals, and RFPs that were happening in email but never made it into the CRM, without changing how sales teams already work. https://b4sf.com/companies/zuuz
Bogdan Barchuk, Founder & CTO, Insomnia by CQR Cybersecurity LLC (an all-in-one cybersecurity toolkit for authorized security testing. Insomnia combines vulnerability discovery, web and API testing, network and Active Directory assessment, OSINT, mobile analysis, exploit validation, AI-assisted workflows, and reporting in one integrated platform). https://b4sf.com/companies/insom-ai
Yezhisai Murugesan, Funder @ Ask The W (a human-facing product layer around AI agents. Ask The W helps builders set the direction, orchestrates work across specialized AI agents, and carries projects from idea to execution without losing context). https://b4sf.com/companies/ask-the-w
Josephine Lee
🎤 Speakers, Feedback & Builder Conversations
🤝 Community Energy & Networking