The Future of Work Pitch Night + Open Demos: Worktech, Robotics & Agentic AI
Deadline for startup pitches: Sunday, August 23rd, 23:59 PT
Last batch of decision emails: Monday, August 24th, 23:59 PT
Join us in downtown San Francisco for yet another edition of our Future of Work-themed pitch night + open demos! This is the "origin story" edition. We'd love to hear your "why" — not just your pitch.
When & Where
📍 Tesla Showroom, 999 Van Ness, San Francisco
📅 Tuesday August 25th 2026
🕔 5:00-8:30 PM PT
📅 Agenda:
5:00 - 6:00 PM | Networking, demo setup
6:00 - 6:05 PM | Welcome from Organizers, Sponsors & Jury
6:05 - 6:10 PM | The Ontology of Value® Demo by Natalia Bielczyk, PhD
6:10 - 6:15 PM | Natalie Pan, the Funding Breakthrough Lab
6:15 - 6:25 PM | Sanscritic Technology and TheAgentic Ventures programs
6:25 - 6:35 PM | The New Fundraising Bar - Keynote talk by Dr Pavel Vinitsky, Synexis / Synexis Premium
6:35 - 6:50 PM | Fireside Chat with Nichol Bradford, Human+Tech Week, SHRM, Niremia Collective. Moderators: Patrycja Brzozowska, MOS Health, Natalia Bielczyk, Ontology of Value
6:50 PM | ThirdPlaces.ai Demo by Mike Prince
6:50 - 7:30 PM | Blitz Pitches 🚀
7:30 - 8:15 PM | Open Demos, networking
8:15 PM | The Winner Announcement
8:00 - 8:30 PM | Continued Networking; greetings, farewell
The Tesla Experience:
Take a vehicle on a Full Self-Driving (Supervised) experience guided by a Tesla Advisor
Explore the newest models in the showroom
Chat with Tesla Advisors about ownership options
Witness Tesla’s signature Light Show!
Our Distinguished Jury
Serephina Ha — AXCI Capital
LinkedInTonya Long — Daymaker Ventures
LinkedInMaria Pienaar — Unicorn Growth Capital
LinkedInEllen Damaso — Plus Ultra Capital Partners
LinkedInLauren Dermody — Informal Fund
LinkedInPorter Wong — VCI Fund
LinkedInShawn Trabanino — Berkeley SkyDeck
LinkedInTarun Kishnani — Ramana Capital
LinkedInAmitt Mehta — Angel Investor
LinkedInPancrazio Auteri — Angel Investor
LinkedInSalvatore Gallo — Angel Investor
LinkedInHarsh Verma — Angel Investor
LinkedInDaniel Theobald — Angel Investor
LinkedIn
Pitching Startups
https://projecticeberg.us AI Hiring Intelligence
https://aubric.ai The Publishability Layer for AI-assisted Advertising
https://kavanah.ai/ AI-Native Project Management
https://haffirifreight.com/ Smart Freight Matching for Faster & Reliable Shipping
http://jobsflow.ai Verified Talent Marketplace for Humans and Agents
bydra-ai Fractional Business Development Engine for Lawyers Turning Relationships into Revenue
https://www.thecontextlabs.com AI That Knows Your Firm
https://doo.ooo AI Coworkers That Help Businesses Serve, Sell, and Operate at Scale
https://hrex.io Culture-first Matching: Rex Brings People who fit how your Team Works — Not Another Résumé Pile
https://echoknows.com The portable, user-owned memory layer for the AI-native workforce
https://www.undercurrent.ai Regulated Mid-market Security Teams AI-speed, SOAR-grade Incident-response Orchestration Inside a secure, out-of-band war Room
https://getstello.ai/ Agentic AI HR Platform that automates Payroll, HR and Compensation for Mid-market Companies
https://oakandsparrowsystemsenterprise.com Pre-input, pre-Execution Security Infrastructure for Governed AI and Autonomous Systems
https://uc2c.ai AI-native Industrial Risk Intelligence Platform that Finds the Missed Hazard Scenarios and failing Safeguards Hiding in Industrial sites' own Documents.
https://www.sinaxe.com AI-native Tax Workspace. Tax Work at Scale
https://www.theconcordant.io Unstructured Data Management at Scale for Enterprise
https://beta.yourpurpose.ai/ Agentic Business Card
https://www.andromed.ai/ Helping Brands and Retailers Optimize their Product Catalogs to Increase Traffic and Conversions from SEO, Ads, and Agentic Commerce
https://miraai.ai The Missing Sense for Physical AI: Edge-native 3D Hearing under $200
https://prest0.ai AI Employees for Legal and Finance
https://www.inline-ai.com/ Desktop AI that turns Field Notes into Format-exact Filed Documents
https://barkan.tech An AI Account Manager for every Customer
https://tempodyn.com Designing a Future Where an Operational Service Business Platform is Ready from Idea to Revenue Generation in Minutes
https://aicines.com/ AI-native Creator Platform that Turns Ideas into Films and Connects Creators with Audiences, Collaborators, and Income
https://amme.health/ Building a More Human Financial Experience in Healthcare
https://trackimed.com/ The first AI surgical nurse AI co pilot for operating rooms
How Can I Participate?
We are a community focused on building (and disrupting!) the future of work — sharing and promoting innovation in work tech, agentic AI, and robotics so that humans and AI can happily cohabitate in the labor market and build a wonderful economy together.
This time around, we are putting together a social mixer.
This isn’t your standard pitch night.
This gathering is for founders, operators, investors, and builders who want to shape how humans and AI collaborate in the workplace of tomorrow.
It's a tiny festival of bold, cross-disciplinary innovation, surrounded by music and top-tier modern urban cars.
It’s your chance to connect authentically, get feedback for your project, talk to investors in powerful, intimate one-on-one conversations, and see where the future of work is headed.
🍀 My project is not in Worktech. Shall I still submit my pitch?
The Future of Work is a broad category, with a variety of tech projects influencing the job market, either directly or indirectly. When in doubt, just give it a try, and we will get back to you!
The Demos
We will open several demo tables. If you'd like to pitch, choose the "Pitching Startup" ticket type during registration and bring your laptop! It is that simple.
Carpooling
Looking for transport to our event? Or, to make new friends on the way? Carpool & save $; give or get a ride & network on your way: https://crewz.co/event/fow-2026-08-25
About Us
Organizer
Ontology of Value® by Natalia Bielczyk, PhD is a high-end career incubator and talent intelligence platform for managing careers and teams in the AI-first economy. We build lighthouses and telescopes for the leaders of the future.
Watch Natalia’s recent TEDx talk "Knowledge Is Power: How To Stay Free in the Age of AI"
Watch Natalia's AGI Summit 2026 talk "Brain Economy & Cognitive Debt: Protecting Human Intelligence in an AI-Driven World"
Sponsors
Sanscritic - metareasoning and recursive self-improvement technology for expert work
Sanscritic platform helps organizations build complex reasoning systems, create simulations more easily, and enables specialized AI startups to develop their own self-improving AI products.
TheAgentic - building AI products at zero cost
TheAgentic’s Launchpad program partners with early-stage startups and domain experts to build AI products on our infrastructure at zero cost and zero equity.
Community Partners
Synexis - AI decision infra for private markets.
Synexis is an AI-native decision infrastructure that turns months-long private-market deal funnels into minutes.
Private-market deals still rely on fragmented tools, static databases, and manual analyst workflows that take months. Every player: founders, GPs, investors, enterprises, private equity, play the guess game. Synexis replaces this with an AI-native infrastructure for real-time investment decisions. Cut through the noise.
Check today to know more: https://synexis.io/
Raising now? Want highly curated investor access? Apply to the exclusive Synexis Premium sprint program, pitch, and get direct access to funds GPs and family offices who deploy today:
Apply here: https://synexis.io/premiumfull
Funding Breakthrough Lab
Check today to know more: https://synexis.io/
Founder? Want highly curated investor access? Book a call: https://calendly.com/paul-synexis/30min
Funding Breakthrough Lab is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit pre-accelerator with a mission of creating a supportive community (24,000+ subscribers) to build a better tomorrow. We support founder success not just startup success by ensuring founders have access to education, networks, and resources to unlock their potential. Founded by Natalie Pan, an engineer, community builder and executive coach. Apply for the next cohort here https://fundingbreakthroughlab.org.
Drink Sponsor:
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Previous events in the series:
The Future of Work Pitch Night #5 (Tesla Showroom, 999 van Ness Avenue): https://luma.com/k0r1yhe5
The Future of Work Pitch Night #4: Social Mixer & Open Demos (LongHouse SF, 83 Minna St): https://luma.com/pgvpc0sl
The Future of Work Pitch Night #3: Social Mixer & Open Demos (Minna Gallery, 111 Minna St): https://luma.com/mgnddbk4
The Future or Work Pitch Night #2 (Minna Gallery, 111 Minna St): https://lu.ma/qzgpv6kw
The Future of Work Pitch Night #1 (JLL, 1 Front st): https://lu.ma/lrt26pot