Startups

Meet Multi-Million Dollar Investors

Startups: Pitch your startup to meet accredited investors with millions in funding from $100K to $20M. You register yourself on our website to pitch, that's all you have to do.


Investors: Hear from the hottest and most promising early and advanced global startups from North America and Europe with revenue streams, customers, traction and partners.

Don't miss out on the next opportunity!

Connecting Silicon Valley investors to global startups for high level networking and deal-making to build successful ventures

Exhibit in Demo Showcase

Startups or vendors can exhibit in the Demo Showcase area to meet investors, partners and customers for dealmaking and maximize exposure.


The Demo Showcase is open for two 30 minute periods before and after the pitching sessions and two one hour perods during lunch and Awards reception for networking 1 on 1 meetings. We also have a meeting area which you can use throughout the day.

STARTUPS PITCH 50+ ACCREDITED INVESTORS FROM SILICON VALEY AND OTHER REGIONS

  • Accredited Angels
  • VCs
  • Family offices
  • Corporate
  • Strategic
  • Accelerators
  • Incubators
  • Government agencies
  • Hedge Funds

There is no selection process to pitch, startups simply self register on our site. Pitches are open to seed stage, early and advanced growth startups seeking to scale. We offer "Perfect Pitch" Training sessions online in advance to presenting startups.


You can register to pitch for 4 or 6 minutes followed by a rapid-fire question and answer session from the investor judge panel. You also exhibit in Demo Showcase. Many startups have received millions in funding from past events over the 12 years.


We also select top startups for our special awards announced at the closing party.

Startups Pitch From Stage

Pitch and demo opportunities for startups

Sponsorship opportunities for service providers, corporate partners and regions/states

• Pitch Silicon Valley investors and potential corporate partners by registering for your pitch spot on stage


Discover how to raise funding for your startup


Exhibit at the Demo Showcase area during networking breaks to meet investors and potential corporate partners for 1 on 1 meetings


Network over lunch with partners, investors and key industry players


Understand tech trends and emerging technologies across all industries


• Pitching tickets include investor lunch with investors at your table, Awards reception, demo tables, pitch from stage to investor judges for 4 to 8 minutes followed by investor/judge questions.


Awards (in kind and in cash) for the top 5 winners.


And we offer a few passes to attend CES 2023 in person or on-demand for the speakers, judges, sponsors, and startups subject to our discretion.

INVESTORS SEEK EARLY OR ADVANCED STAGE STARTUPS IN THESE MARKETS:

CONSUMER

  • Advertising
  • Connected cars
  • Consumer electronics
  • Consumer apps
  • Digital media
  • Ed Tech
  • eCommerce
  • Entertainment
  • Fashion
  • Games, AR, VR
  • Hardware
  • Internet of Things
  • Lifestyle
  • Media/Publishing
  • Metaverse
  • Mobile
  • Music /Audio
  • Streaming/TV
  • Wearables

ENTERPRISE

  • Al
  • Robotics
  • Automotive
  • Big Data
  • Clean tech
  • Cybersecurity
  • Deep tech
  • Drones
  • eCommerce
  • Energy and water
  • Frontier Tech/Space
  • Homeland Security
  • Internet of Things
  • Sensors
  • Metaverse
  • Mobile and telecom
  • Retail
  • Security
  • Semiconductors
  • Smart City
  • Transportation
  • Workplace


BIOTECH/

HEALTHTECH

  • AgTech
  • Cannabis
  • Digital Health Solutions
  • Diagnostics
  • Fitness
  • Food products
  • Food tech
  • Healthcare
  • Health and wellness
  • Medical devices
  • Sports tech

FINTECH/WEB3

  • Accounting
  • Analytics
  • Banking
  • Bitcoin
  • Blockchain
  • Crypto
  • Def Fi
  • Digital currency
  • eCommerce
  • Finance
  • Hedge Funds
  • Insurance
  • NFT
  • Personal Finance
  • Payment and billing
  • Stocks and trading
  • Web 3

MEET LAST YEAR’s INVESTORS

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William Andre Buchanan

Will Buchanan Investments

CEO

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Bob Bilbruck

Angel Investor

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Richard Bristol

Bristol Advisory

President & Founder

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Vinod Joseph

Samsung

Senior Director

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Wenli Yu

Archimedes Controls Corp.

CEO

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Kyle Sugiyama

Kanematsu Ventures Inc.

Investor

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Han Ko

USAKO Group

CEO

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John Richards

Startup Ignition Ventures

Managing Partner

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TB Innovations Ltd

Corporate investor

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Porter Wong

Angel Investor

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Howard Pakosh

TekStart

President

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Aaron Rose

GT Ventures

Principal

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Steve Stein

Infospectrum

CEO

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Tyler Richards

Startup Ignition Ventures

General Partner

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Gena Vazquez

Fundpire

Investor

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Shrikant Sathe

Vedanta Capital

Partner

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Samira Gholami

EIT Hub

Director USA

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Glen Gaddy

Robin Hood Ventures

Managing Member

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Tae Yun Yee

Carlsson Fahrzeugtechnik

CEO

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Edoardo Mainella

Google

Global Product Lead

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Jill Finlayson

Managing Dir Citris Innovation Hub

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Dmytro Kuzmenko

UVCA

Executive Director

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Matthias Niklowitz

HZ Insurance

Owner

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Howell Niren

MLVDVD

CEO

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Iqbal Khowaja

State of Hawaii

CTO and Angel Investor

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James Shen

Pioneer Ventures

Managing Director

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Robson Longwell

RTL Management

Analyst

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Kenneth Lee

PXG Capital

CEO

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Caroline Wachteister

IndustriFonden

Investor

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Mohit Bathija Angel Investor

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So Wata

Kanematsu Corp

Business Dev. Strategist

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Edoardo Guidice

Asset Street SA

Director

AND MORE

STARTUPS pitching

Startups register to pitch on our site.

The final selection of startups is announced in the detailed agenda.

AGENDA

All startups pitch for total of 6 to 12 minutes (4 to 8 minutes pitch and 2 to 4 minutes q/a) to panel of startup ecosystem stakeholders partnering with ENRICH Hubs, investors (angels, acceleraors, VCs and CVCs) and audience members.

8:30 - 9:00 am Registration

9:15 am - 12:15 pm Session 1

NVESTING TRENDS ACROSS TECH MARKETS - SPECIAL AI FOCUS

Moderated Panel followed by pitches

12:15- 1:15 pm DEMO SHOWCASE OPEN & NETWORKING LUNCH

All startups presenting (am or pm) meet with investors and corporate partners and audience in the Demo Showcase

1:15 - 4:15 pm Session 2 - Dedicated to EIC Beneficiaries

RAISING FUNDING & CAPITAL THROUGH UNIVERSITY ECOSYSTEMS INCLUDING ANGEL NETWORKS AND INSTITUTIONAL/CORP INVESTORS

Moderated Panels followed by pitches

3:30 - 5:30 pm AWARDS DEMO SHOWCASE AND RECEPTION

DETAILED AGENDA

PUBLISHED DEC, 1ST, 2023

Investors Attend or Judge Sessions

We invite investors to speak on introduction panels and judge startups pitching for 90 minute sessions.

We select investors who apply as judges. They will introduce themselves in panels and then listen to pitches, and give their feedback to the entrepreneurs. They will also vote for the top 5 presentations.


Investors judging must be actively engaged in investing their own funds or making decisions for their firms, and not solely advisors.

  • Angels
  • Strategic investors
  • Family offices
  • Venture capitalist
  • Private equity
  • Investment bankers
  • Incubators or Accelerators
  • Micro-funds
  • Crypto investors

APPLY FOR COMP INVESTOR TICKET IF YOU AGREE TO REQUIREMENTS ABOVE i.e. Speak on a panel and judge a pitch session

Our partners

UNLV Sports Innovation is focused around years of academic research, product testing and development, and collaboration between faculty, industry executives, organizations, and entrepreneurs. Our expertise focuses on its “Pillars of Excellence,” including: Brain Health, Diversity & Inclusion in Sport, Esports, Military and First Responder Health & Performance, PGA Golf Management, Sport & Health, Sports Betting, Sport Business, Sports Media, Sports Performance, Sport Psychology, Sport Technology and Youth Sports.

The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) helps businesses innovate and grow on an international scale. It is the world’s largest support network for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with international ambitions.

The Network is active worldwide. It brings together experts from member organisations that are renowned for their excellence in business support.

Member organisations include: chambers of commerce and industry, regional development organisations, universities and research institutes ,and innovation agencies.

The NGI Enrichers program supports European NGI researchers and innovators to spend 3-6 months in the US or to Canadato work and collaborate with US and Canadian hosts, to promote knowledge-sharing and establishing long-term collaborations on NGI technologies, services, and standards.


The program provides travel funding, living allowance, and visafor visiting fellows from Europe, and supports both fellows and their hosts, with bootcamps, mentors, visibility, community building and more!

The European Innovation Council (EIC) has been established under the EU Horizon Europe programme. It has a budget of €10.1 billion to support game changing innovations throughout the lifecycle from early stage research, to proof of concept, technology transfer, and the financing and scale up of start-ups and SMEs. A unique feature of the EIC is that it provides funding for individual companies (mainly startups and SMEs) through both grants and investments. The investments currently take the form of direct equity or quasi-equity investments and are managed by the EIC Fund.


The International Trade Fair program 3.0 aims at supporting selected EIC-funded companies in European and foreign markets, create and implement soft-landing activities for EIC beneficiaries in the United States of America.

The European American Enterprise Council (EAEC) is a private member-driven social enterprise and NETWORK (eight US and EU chapters).

EAEC is part of the European Commission's Enterprise Europe Network (EEN: 600+ organizations in Europe, and a worldwide presence), and aims at promoting Transatlantic cooperation, collaboration, trade and investment between European and North-American companies, institutions and economic regions while fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

EAEC has also been an essential element of the European Commission's ENRICH in the USA initiative , started in April 2017, which established a Network of European Research and Innovation Centers throughout the United States that will act as a central contact point for European research and innovation actors..