AI Collective Pitch Night — Bay Area AI Founders & Talent (Stanford Edition)
🎤 Calling all founders who are hiring, student builders, and job seekers who want to work for these innovative companies. This pitch night is for you.
If you are a current college student, a recent graduate, or a founder actively hiring, especially early career talent, you should be in this room.
AI Collective Pitch Night — Bay Area AI Founders & Talent (Stanford Edition)
Presented by Jack & Jill
If you are a current college student, a recent graduate, or a founder actively hiring, especially early career talent, you should be in this room.
The AI Collective is hosting its first Student / Early Careers Edition Pitch Night on the Stanford campus at the NVIDIA Auditorium.
This is a community-powered event designed to surface real ideas, real ambition, and real opportunity. Live pitches and honest conversation.
Who should attend
Student founders and builders
Recent grads exploring startups and AI driven careers
Founders actively hiring, especially students or early career talent
Operators and recruiters looking for early signal on emerging talent
What to expect
Live pitches from student teams and startups
A hiring forward audience and ecosystem
Open networking with founders, students, and operators
An evening built for you, by you, with you
🎯 Want to pitch?
Apply to pitch using the link below. Pitch slots are limited.
Important: you must also register for the event on Luma to be considered. Pitches are accepted until 11:59pm PST on the Saturday before the Pitch Night.
MEET THE COMPANIES PITCHING!
🔥 Alka Intelligence - Empower investors with superior, risk-adjusted returns by eliminating human bias through artificial intelligence (Ricardo Raphael C.)
🔥 Freu.ai – Transforming fragmented software into machine-readable functional modules (Mike Jin)
🔥 MaritimeAI – Deploy and host AI agents in the cloud, no infrastructure needed (Maria Gorskikh)
🔥 RIFFAI – Transforming satellite data into decision-ready intelligence for energy, defense & environment (Petch Ounjaroen)
🔥 Trenta – AI-powered compliance and policy automation for healthcare (Raj
🔥 PrecXIMed - Brain tumor care platform that bridges radiologic insight and neurosurgical intervention (Chollette Olisah, PhD)
🔥 Visibl Semiconductors (YC W26) AI-Native Broadcom as a Service Bryce Neil
🔥 Jack & Jill – AI redefining how people and companies connect in the labor market (Bruno Guerra Cunha)
💰 Investor Judging Panel 💰
Meet our incredible judges for the night:
✨ Rio Hodges, Antler ✨
✨ Anisha Ladsaria, Angel Squad, Hustle Fund ✨
✨ Sunil Grover, G2C Ventures ✨
This event offers a groundbreaking interactive format as a community investor for the night. With the Pitch Night App in hand, every attendee is engaged and active– discover the presenting companies, ask questions, share feedback, and signal interest in joining or investing 🙌
When the night wraps up, the entire community will have a say in selecting the winners. Those champions earn a permanent place in our Hall of Fame! 🏆
Parking & Arrival
Please refer to this parking and directions guide for how to access the Huang Engineering Center, where the NVIDIA auditorium is:
https://icme.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj17116/files/media/file/parking_and_directions_to_the_mackenzie_room_huang_building_0_0.pdf
Once inside, head to the first floor for the event.
Allow extra time for parking, especially in the evening.
6:00p: Open mingling and food 🍲
6:30p: Welcome and a word from Sponsors 👋
6:40p: Meet the Investor judges lightning round ⚡
6:50p: Pitches + live feedback 🧑💻
8:05p: Winner announcements
8:10p:Open floor networking 🤝
9:00p: Doors close
We’re excited to bring this first student and early careers edition to life with you.
As always, food and drink, engaging conversation, and incredible company will all be provided!
Please be advised: Unfortunately, space is very limited at these community events and we can not always accept everyone we would like to. If you are not accepted to this event, please keep applying! We appreciate your application tremendously and we are looking forward to seeing you at a future event very soon!
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