Fintech x AI Founders Pitch plus Mixer | Stripe Sessions side event by DigitalOcean & Catalyst Bay
An evening Fintech x AI event during Stripe Sessions week, hosted by Catalyst Bay and DigitalOcean.
We're bringing together fintech x AI founders, investors, and builders for an evening of real content and curated pitches, a short walk from Moscone.
What's happening
🟢 Speakers
Mayra Ceja - VP, Startup Banking, JP Morgan
Daniel Kivatinos - Co-founder, JustPaid.ai (helping startups get paid)
Ed Giansante - Head of Community & Startup Program, Persona
Kourosh Adlparvar - Head of Payment Partnerships, Silicon Valley Bank (a division of First Citizens Bank)
Moderator - Juliana Chyzhova - co-founder, Catalyst Bay & Head of Marketing, AGI, Inc.
🟢 Pitch Competition, 8-10 early-stage fintech x AI startups pitch to a panel of investors and operators. Three minutes to pitch, two minutes of Q&A.
🟢 Winners announced live, with DigitalOcean credits and Startup program fast-track for top teams.
🟢 Open networking before and after.
Prizes from Digital Ocean:
1st Place: $300,000 in credits
2nd Place: $150,000 in credits
3rd Place: $100,000 in credits
Apply to Pitch
We're looking for pre-seed to seed-stage startups building in fintech, payments, or financial infrastructure with AI.
Criteria: up to $500K raised (pre-seed) or $500K+ raised / $10K+ MRR (seed).
→ Apply here
Investors, join the judging panel or stay in the loop
→ Drop your info here
Hosted by:
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is the Agentic Inference Cloud built for production AI. We deliver predictable cost efficiency, radically simple operations and high performance at scale so teams can focus on building AI products instead of managing infrastructure or absorbing surprise costs.
DigitalOcean Startups
DigitalOcean Startups is designed to help founders build and scale faster than ever on the inference cloud. With fully customized core and GPU credit packages, support, community, and more, the Startups program empowers you to scale your AI ambitions, not your expenses.
Catalyst Bay
Catalyst Bay started with Techstars Startup Weekend SF hackathons. Now it's a 10,000-person SF community running pitch nights, fireside chats, and meetups for the people building and betting on AI products: founders, investors, engineers, designers, PMs, marketers, and devrels.
Hosted at Persona
Persona is an online identity verification platform that enables businesses of all sizes to collect, verify, and manage user identities throughout the customer lifecycle. Trusted in over 200 countries and territories. Learn more → withpersona.com