Vibe Your SaaS: Startup Pitch Competition + VC/Founder Mixer @ Atlassian HQ
The VYS Startup Pitch Competition:
Big News! We are now featuring 10 pitches and crowning first-, second-, and third-place winners. We wanted to give even more opportunities to early-stage founders to pitch and present.
The overall winner will still receive the highly coveted $39.99 Nano Pac-Man trophy in front of an audience of 150+ elite Bay Area founders and investors.
All three also get a feature in the VYS newsletter, which goes out to more than 7,500 founders, investors, and tech professionals at startups like Anthropic, Perplexity, Cursor, Scale AI, ElevenLabs, Writer, and Pinecone, plus Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.
Past pitch competition winners
Abrial AI, Enterprise-grade software for airline pricing automation
Cara AI, Vision AI that analyzes home photos for safety
Pesito.LA, Send money to Mexico for 1%
Produced by:
Gregory Kennedy, Founder and GTM Advisor, Vibe Your Saas
Arjun Dev Arora, Advisor to Founders & VCs
Hosted by:
Fireside chats with:
Scott Beechuk is a partner at Norwest Venture Partners, which manages $15.5 billion in capital and has backed more than 700 companies. His investments include Harness, You.com, Qualified (acquired by Salesforce), Phiar (acquired by Google), and Galvanize (acquired by Diligent for $1 billion).
Salil Deshpande founded Uncorrelated Ventures, which manages over $750 million across three funds. A Forbes Midas List investor and former Managing Director at Bain Capital Ventures, he backed MuleSoft, acquired by Salesforce for $6.5 billion, and Crusoe, now valued at $30.9 billion.
Guest judge:
Our guest judge this November is Karl Harris. He was on the founding team at Flurry, which Yahoo bought for $270 million, and later served as CEO of Lex Machina. Now an angel investor with LucidFog, he and his partners have invested in or advised more than 100 startups.
Agenda:
5:30 PM Doors open
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM Networking, food, and demos
6:30 PM to 7:15 PM Fireside chats
7:15 PM to 7:45 PM Pitches
7:45 PM We crown our winning startup of the evening 👑
7:45 PM to 8:30 PM More networking
Pitch Competition:
For this event, we will select 10 startups to pitch to our panel. Three finalists are selected, and only one startup will be crowned the winner of the evening based on a 5-point criteria:
1. Innovation: Originality of the idea and strength of the AI advantage.
2. Market Potential: Size of opportunity and clarity of target customer.
3. Product Execution: Quality, usability, and stage of product development.
4. Team: Capability, vision, and ability to execute.
5. Business Model: Revenue strategy, scalability, and traction potential.
How to apply? Request to join the event and click the checkbox, "I have a startup and want to pitch."
If you need a pitch template to follow, use this.
*Space is limited, and all attendees must be approved.
Already applied and need to submit a pitch?
Use this link to submit a pitch if you applied but didn't send it. We review them two weeks before the event.
Photos from our events:
Companies and brands who attended:
💰 Investors
Angel Hub Ventures
Arc5 Ventures
Arka Venture Labs
Axial
E12 Ventures
Entrepreneurs First
Esalen Ventures
Founder Factor
Gaorong Ventures
Georgian
Hustle Fund
ID3 Ventures
J2 Ventures
Jabroni Capital
Marubeni Power
Matter Bio
Mavka Capital
Mercedes-Benz AG Investments
Morgan Stanley
Mighty Capital
Nomura Strategic Ventures
Noveus Capital
Overlook Ventures
Pacific Community Ventures (PCV)
Precursor Ventures
Progressive Ventures
Rain Capital
Resilient Earth Capital
Rizoma Advisors
Samsung NEXT Ventures
Streamlined Ventures
Sorenson Impact
Synergis Capital
Techstars
TPH Ventures
Vectors Capital
🧑💻 Founders
Asendia AI
Adhera Health
AgentDynamics
AGIGA
Algebras AI
ArcheanX
Azcare AI
Berkeley Compute
BITFLUX.AI
Biocompile
BrainBit
Brighthive
Caber Systems
Connectrate AI
Contextual, Inc.
Channl AL
Chord Communities
CouldAI
Cloud Avenue
Compliagence
Credio
CrowdCore
ContinuEM
Daboss AI
Deep Insight Labs
Dhisana AI
The Ensynble
FizzBee
Flexhaul AI
Floatz AL
Fulgor
GENUM
GeoLiquefy
Goharvest AI
Glam AI
GLX Studio
Gracker AI
EquityNav
HeyJarvis AI
Incantio
Leoads AI
Impulse AI
Loud Labs
LucidAct Health
LuminaData
Maestrix AI
Miraii AI
MyTongueAI
NailedIT Labs
Neatly Heath
Nekonomikon Games
Nexacore Solutions
Orby
Paper Planes
Pantheon AI
Peazy Labs
Propensity AI
Philo Homes
ProsGrow AI
ScienceForBrain
SigmaRemote
Skyp AI
Skillprint AI
SmartNurse AI
Space Copy
Super AI Lab
Swytchcode
Syft Data
TakeBridge
Talk2Me
Teamcast AI
Threddle
Trotta
Vibeslist AL
Vidya AI
Visenty
Walnut AI
Wavv
Yektasonics
Ziply AI
🤓 Enterprises
Amazon
Apple
Arm
Figma
Meta
Microsoft
Mitsubishi Research Institute
Roche
SAP
Salesforce
Samsung
Tesla
TikTok
Wells Fargo
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Zscaler