🎤🎤 AI Pitch Night on Comedy Stage - An “Anti-Shark Tank” 🦈🦈
We're putting 8 AI founders on a stand-up comedy stage
🚪Room 52 - the NYC club where some of the country's sharpest comics get their reps in before they hit national TV
This Jun 3 , UpScaleX is linking up with Startup Intros, Room 52, and Ugly Talk to drop NYC's first-ever Anti-Shark Tank❗️❗️❗️ Live, on a real comedy stage. Founders pitch. Anti-sharks pounce. Comics roast. Everyone learns something (and at least one person gets humbled) 🤣🤣🤣
🎤MC of the Night 🎤
The night will be MC'd by Peter Ballmer, one of Room 52's regulars — a former tech PM who came up through the industry and now roasts it for a living.
🦈 Anti-Shark Tank
🔥🔥 Eight AI founders will take the mic for short, candid founder sets - what they're actually building, what's harder than it looks, and what they think the market is still sleeping on. Then the Anti-Sharks step in: live, on-the-record reactions from operators and builders who've been in the trenches.
Expect sharp founder stories, live "anti-shark" feedback, drinks, light bites, and curated networking with AI builders, operators, investors, and ecosystem partners working across Agentic AI, Commerce, Finance, Media, Workflow Automation, and Applied AI. 🌟🌟
Apply to Pitch 👉 https://tally.so/r/kdkj8M
🚀 Event Hosts
Startup Intros is a media and intelligence platform that helps early-stage founders find and win the right investors. Register as a founder here.
UpScaleX is a San Francisco & Palo Alto-based seed fund and founders' community, built to empower the next generation of AI innovators. Visit us at UpScaleX.AI
Ugly Talk is a multi-city speaker panel series for entrepreneurs, where proven founders and builders share unfiltered, honest stories about their failures, hard lessons, and real-world breakthroughs, with no slides and no spin.
Room 52 is the goto entertainment venue in NYC featuring creative performances and comedy shows.
Yashreeka Huq @ Perkins Coie is a leading international law firm dedicated to helping clients solve the legal and business challenges of tomorrow.