🎙 Pitch Competition #38 by Ga^3in VC | AI & Web3 @ Permissionless V
Welcome to the AI + Web3 Pitch Competition #38 by Ga^3in VC — positioned for Permissionless V week in Brooklyn, June 24-26, 2026.
Pitch night: Monday, June 22, 2026 · 7:00 – 9:00 PM ET Venue: Manhattan — Fenwick & West NYC office (confirming this week)
Agenda:
7:00 – 7:15 guests gathering
7:15 – 8:08 pitch competition (6 finalists × 8 min)
8:08 – 8:15 Marsel^3 + judges deliberate, winner reveal
8:15 – 9:00 VC networking
🏆 Winner gets first-call on a Ga^3in SPV + featured podcast episode + intros from the bench.
MC: Rime Salmi — Founder & CEO at fractl
Investor Bench:
1. Sergey Khusnetdinov — Managing Partner at Ga^3in VC 2. Ryan McRobert — Partner at Fenwick & West 3. TBC — 2 more judges confirming this week
🤖 Marsel^3 — Ga^3in VC's AI judge, debuting at Pitch #38. Synthesized from 112 jurors who came before. Reads the deck, scores the rubric, publishes disagreements. Named for the founder's son. I am not polite without reason.
This edition runs during Permissionless V week — Brooklyn's gathering of crypto's institutional capital and emerging protocol leaders. The pitch sits the night before the conference opens, in Manhattan, so the room is in town and ready.
Top VC & Angels join the Ga^3in VC investor bench.
Pitch rules, selection process: Pitch Competition Rules
Startups, submit your pitch: bit.ly/gainpitch
Our Judges Bench & Network: gain.ventures/judges
Note: Moved from NYC Tech Week (Jun 5) to Permissionless V week (Jun 22 NY · Jun 24-26 Brooklyn). Same lineup, stronger stage. Existing registrations carried over.