📅4: CVC Accelerator - Pitch to Corporate & Strategic Investors @MLK Library
📍 SJSU MLK Library: 49 S Van Ness Ave, San Jose, CA 95112, United States
🕛 10:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND!
Direct access to top Corporate VCs and leading VCs
High-signal fundraising knowledge panels
Best-in-class startup pitches in a highly selective format
With this event Pitch Global has now completed the third year of its CVC Accelerator — a deliberately selective platform that has become one of the most trusted bridges between high-potential startups and active corporate venture capital. Over three cycles the program has refined an uncompromising model: limited cohorts, direct access to decision-makers, and a relentless focus on capital, partnerships, and strategic customers rather than volume or spectacle. The same rigor that defines our work across AI, semiconductors, and other verticals shapes every element of the CVC Accelerator.
This year the program deepens its educational foundation through the participation of TiE-U Bay Area. Their involvement brings structured learning, mentorship, and network fluency that prepare founders not merely to pitch, but to engage corporate investors with clarity, credibility, and long-term perspective.
The educational backbone of the CVC Accelerator is delivered directly by Kaustav Chaudhuri and Axel Tillmann. Their mentorship is rigorous, practical, and uncompromising — shaped by years of operating inside technology companies, guiding founders, and navigating the realities of corporate venture capital. They do not offer surface-level coaching. They teach founders how capital decisions are actually made, how strategic partnerships are structured, and how to earn the trust of sophisticated investors.
This level of hands-on leadership is what distinguishes the program: a high-trust environment where teaching and mentorship are provided by people who have lived the outcomes they demand from every entrepreneur in the room.
The result is not another accelerator or open pitch event. It is a curated, high-trust environment built by people who understand how corporate capital, technology roadmaps, and founder ambition actually intersect — and who insist on putting only the right people in the same room..
Why Silicon Valley Access?
Powered by more than 10 years of Pitch Global experience. Alumni of our programs have collectively raised more than $1 billion. That is measurable success — not marketing language. Our long-standing affiliation with NorCal SBDC has independently documented many of these outcomes.
Most events charge anywhere from $99 to $5,000 (and higher). We regularly hear from participants and alumni — sometimes the same day they attend another program — that they wish they had not spent the money. “You gave us more than any of the mega-events” is a comment we receive often enough that it has become a pattern.
We work with both first-time founders and seasoned operators. Since inception we have engaged with more than 4,000 companies; many stayed with us through multiple stages of their journey. Our ecosystem rarely jumps into a deal on day one. Like any serious relationship, the parties need time to evaluate one another. Investors in our network pay close attention to how founders respond to mentorship and how quickly they absorb feedback — it is one of the clearer signals they use when deciding where to allocate capital and attention.
Don’t take our word for it. Hear it directly from the entrepreneurs who have been through the process.
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This registration page is only for audience tickets that want to attend more than one event (maybe even all 4 events)
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Some Pitch Global Updates:
As a long-term affiliate of the California Governor's Office of Economic Development Agencies such as Norcal SBDC, TFG, SJSU Innovation, etc., Pitch Global has been building the Silicon Valley CVC Network on their behalf.
Check out the YouTube video below to get an idea of the caliber of investors at Pitch Global events. This video is from a recent event in August 2024, which featured investors like Norm Fogelsong, Co-founder of IVP; Vish Mishra, Clearstone VC & former long-term President of TIECON; Don Su Kim, CEO of LG Tech Ventures; Jon Soberg, Managing Director of MS&AD Ventures (5th largest Insurance company in the world); David “Dede” Goldschmidt, Managing Director of Samsung Catalyst Fund; Kevin Chen, CEO of Lam Research Capital; Abhishek Sud of Applied Materials Ventures; Dr. Shuman Mitra of L’Oreal Innovation, etc.
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