​Rejected by YC? Good. Now come prove them wrong.

​YC Reject Pitch Night brings together ambitious founders, investors, operators, and startup supporters for an evening featuring companies that are still building—regardless of who said no.

​Selected founders will take the stage to pitch their startups, share what they are building, and connect with people who care more about momentum than credentials. Expect raw ideas, determined builders, honest feedback, and a room full of people betting on themselves.

​Apply to pitch or RSVP to support the next generation of founders.

​​​​​Submit your pitch deck here

​YC Reject Pitch Night is an independent event and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Y Combinator.

​Judges

• ​Irene (Huilian) Zhang, Managing Director @LI Family Office, Advisor @AMG Family Trust

• ​Jordan Wahbeh, Managing Partner @SV Venture Group, Partner @Network VC

• ​Roy Wang, Principal @NextSummit Capital Partners

• ​Lan Wu, VC@ Fusion Fund

• ​Kunal Phalak, Vice President @WestBridge Capital

• ​Viktoriia Stepanenko, Venture Partner @Network VC

​Pitches

• ​Dima Syrotkin, CEO & Founder @Pandatron

  • ​AI management consultant

• ​Patrick Neiler, Cofounder @VoPro by Wrkspce

  • ​Voice-first AI tools for construction teams

• ​Anirban Palit, CEO & Founder @Amayi Solutions

  • ​AI-powered startup investment due diligence

• ​Will Drummond, CEO & Founder @Being

  • ​AI-powered mentorship platform that helps colleges improve student belonging, wellbeing, and retention

• ​Nick Knepper, CEO & Founder @EquityNav

  • ​AI native financial planning and tax optimization software

• ​Khanhvy Nguyen, CEO & Founder @Roster AI

  • ​AI-powered scheduling to airline crew and flight operations

• ​Miguel Castillo, CPO @DoQcheck

  • ​Automate the back office of food manufacturing

• ​Alex Embusch, Cofounder & Scientist @NaitAI

  • ​AI-powered platform that helps scientists design and optimize PCR primers and nucleic acid experiments with much higher accuracy

• ​Austin Bosarge, CEO & Founder @Atellagent

  • ​Stateful authority layer for governed AI execution

• ​Vatsal Trivedi, CEO & Founder @Runlog

  • ​Decision-grade Insights from fragmented unstructured data

• ​John Walter, CEO & Founder @ProxyLink

  • ​Do business inside ChatGPT and Claude

• ​Aleks Gollu, CEO & Founder @11Sight

  • ​Teams of voice AI Agents for call centers

• ​Akash Saraf, CEO & Founder @Sanscritic

  • ​Recursive Self-Improving Meta-Reasoning Architecture for Expert Work

​​Sponsor

​About TheAgentic:
TheAgentic provides complete infrastructure for production-ready AI agents, currently powering companies in biotech, healthtech, cybersecurity, and fintech where accuracy isn't optional.

TheAgentic’s Launchpad program partners with early-stage startups to build AI products on our infrastructure at zero cost and zero equity. 

TheAgentic’s Prometheus program lets domain experts and consultants turn their knowledge into revenue-generating AI products, without building or running a startup themselves

​Community Partners:

​Network VC is a venture capital fund with 100+ investments globally, investing in late seed to Series A deep tech, industry-agnostic, primarily focused on US companies. The most recent investments include a couple of dozen YC alumni companies and startups of the a16z Acceleration.

Unicorn.Events is a global startup pitch competition connecting startups with investors, venture capital funds, and industry leaders through curated events around the world. The finalists of the 400+ previous events in 52 countries have raised $1b+.

​​Host

​About Workato:
​Workato is an enterprise automation and integration platform that orchestrates workflows across applications, data, and systems enabling secure, governed execution of complex processes as organizations adopt AI agents at scale. You can explore Workato's end-to-end capabilities here.

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​About Sanscritic:
Sanscritic is building the reasoning layer for the next generation of AI systems. Through its NeoLab, Sanscritic develops meta-reasoning systems, domain foundation models, and infrastructure for more reliable, specialized, and verifiable AI. Join us to learn how Sanscritic is pushing beyond generic LLMs toward AI that can reason, evaluate, and operate in high-stakes domains.

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​​​Agenda

• ​5:00 - 5:45pm: Registration and networking

• ​5:45 - 6:15pm: Intro to TheAgentic and Workato

• ​6:15 - 7:30pm: Startup pitches

• ​7:30 - 8:30pm: Open networking