What we’re about
Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs (SVE) is the largest grassroots movements of startup founders in the Silicon valley Bay Area since 2008. This community organization provides opportunities for startups to pitch, demo their startup and share their passions with other members broader startup ecosystem.
SVE Pitch and Demo is the largest and oldest community startup pitching meetup in Silicon Valley.
Now with 30,000+ members, we have events every week! So join us be a part of our pitch events, co-founder matching nights, panel discussions and even our fun mixers!
Watch us on youtube:
youtube.com/c/founderworld
Recap video of Startup Founder Bootcamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdXre1yRCGs
Blog: SVE.io
Apply for Showcase:
https://founderworld.org/demo/apply/
Our regular activities
• SVE Startup Founder Showcase and Demo
• SVE Startup Mixer
• Founder Hiking
Join us online
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/IEtC6BTPEyax8kzbo1IS8g
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1812781/
Follow us on: https://www.linkedin.com/company/3532521/
Twitter: @SVEntrepreneur
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sventrepreneurs
Sponsor our event:
https://goo.gl/forms/PjfNAUeiU1NGS0Nu2
Nominate a judge/speaker: https://goo.gl/forms/GtKz2YlinTRLJU5W2
Volunteer for the event:https://goo.gl/forms/fTuHREP37hHSsyNv1
SVE.io Community Media:
sve.io
Apply to be interviewed at SVE.io: sve.io/interview-request
Follow the founder David Cao: http://linkedin.com/in/davidcao01
Please submit your startup's application.
Pitching in the SVE Startup Founder Showcase (SVE Demo) event will give you a platform to share your startup with our community of investors, entrepreneurs, and operators.
The #SVE Demo is the oldest and largest community startup pitching and demo meetup in Silicon Valley. Learn more by watching a quick recap of our last Demo Night!
Judge nomination: https://founderworld.org/sve/speaker-nomination/
Sponsorship: https://founderworld.org/sve/sponsorship/
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Event Details:
- Date: Wednesday, February 21st
- Time: 5 - 8 PM PST
- Location: Procopio Law Firm (5 Palo Alto Square Suite 400 · Palo Alto, CA)
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Agenda:
- Event Welcome Remarks by ST Tangirala
- SVE's Welcome Remarks by David Cao, Managing Partner @ F50 Ventures
- Judge Introductions
- Startup Pitches: 5 min Pitch with 3 min Q&A by Judges
- Open Mic
- Judge's Announcements
- Closing Remarks by SVE Volunteering Team
Judges:
Startup Finalists:
Upcoming events (4)
See all- AI and Hardware Startup Founder ShowcaseProcopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, Palo Alto, CA
Please submit your startup's application.
Pitching in the SVE Startup Founder Showcase (SVE Demo) event will give you a platform to share your startup with our community of investors, entrepreneurs, and operators.The #SVE Demo is the oldest and largest community startup pitching and demo meetup in Silicon Valley. Learn more by watching a quick recap of our last Demo Night!
Judge nomination: https://founderworld.org/sve/speaker-nomination/
Sponsorship: https://founderworld.org/sve/sponsorship/
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Event Details:- Date: Wednesday, February 21st
- Time: 5 - 8 PM PST
- Location: Procopio Law Firm (5 Palo Alto Square Suite 400 · Palo Alto, CA)
---------------------------------
Agenda:
- Event Welcome Remarks by ST Tangirala
- SVE's Welcome Remarks by David Cao, Managing Partner @ F50 Ventures
- Judge Introductions
- Startup Pitches: 5 min Pitch with 3 min Q&A by Judges
- Open Mic
- Judge's Announcements
- Closing Remarks by SVE Volunteering Team
Judges:
Startup Finalists: - Telling Your Story with Numbers: Building a Fundable Financial ModelProcopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, Palo Alto, CA
AN RSVP ON MEETUP WILL NOT GET YOU A SEAT. YOU MUST RESERVE YOUR SEAT ON EVENTBIRITE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/telling-your-story-with-numbers-building-a-fundable-financial-model-tickets-840821498737?aff=odcleoeventsincollection
Access Silicon Valley invites to join us for an indepth view into what it takes to build a bottoms-up, inside out financial model in preparation for funding. Creating a set of realistic financial projections is critical to effectively communicating valuation expectations to investors and potential business partners, while at the same time serving as an important tool to prioritize spending and guarantee the economic survival of your startup. Based on her experiences as a valuation expert, start-up advisor, and Stanford Lecturer, Efrat Kasznik will provide practical insights and hands-on tools on:
· Growing startup value through the funding cycle
· Selecting the right business and revenue models for your venture
· Understanding your cost structure and funding needs
· How to build a balanced financial that aligns with your business model
· Key mistakes to avoid in your financial modeling
· How to successfully communicate your financial plan to investors
ABOUT EFRAT
Efrat Kasznik, President of Foresight Valuation Group, Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Board Member of the Licensing Executives Society (USA-Canada), will share insights from over 25 years of experience as an IP and business valuation expert, as well as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, CFO, investor and advisor. Throughout her career, Efrat has advised hundreds of companies of all sizes and across a wide range of industries and countries, on how to extract value from innovation.
AGENDA: (California PST time)
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM - Dinner and networking
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM - Workshop
8:45 PM - 9:00 PM - Q & A
SEE THE UPCOMING ACCESS SILICON VALLEY EVENTS HERE!!
ABOUT FORESIGHT VALUATION GROUP
In today’s competitive marketplace, smart companies – from Fortune 500 firms to early stage startups – rely on innovation to keep them one step ahead of the game. They need to effectively leverage the knowledge, technologies, trade secrets, patents, trademarks, and copyrights that are critical to their success.
Foresight takes a highly focused approach to extracting value from innovation. Our principals and affiliates have been involved in analyzing and commercializing cutting edge innovation for some of the world’s most prominent technology companies. As IP experts based in Silicon Valley, we help organizations across a range of industries manage and grow their IP as a strategic business asset.
ABOUT ROGER RAPPOPORT AND ACCESS SILICON VALLEY
Roger Rappoport is a former entrepreneur and the founder and leader of Procopio's Emerging Growth and Venture Capital Practice Group. He has extensive experience in advising startup and well-established emerging growth companies across all sectors and industries, from formation through multiple rounds of funding and exit.
Roger is an active angel investor and a frequent speaker on topics and issues related to the development and implementation of a company's formation and funding strategy. He has been involved in hundreds of transactions such as merger and acquisition transactions, private equity and venture capital financing transactions, and complex restructuring transactions.
Roger is also the founder of Access Silicon Valley, a platform for entrepreneurs, on a global basis, to gain access to Silicon Valley's best and brightest Venture Capitalists, "been there done that" entrepreneurs, and experts. Take a closer look at the Access Silicon Valley Video Fireside Chat Series hosted by Roger, with representatives of some of the Valley's most high profile VCs, such as Andreessen Horowitz, Foundation Capital, Floodgate, Mayfield, Venrock, Canaan Partners and more.
SEE THE UPCOMING ACCESS SILICON VALLEY EVENTS HERE!!
· Decoding the AI Funding Ecosystem: Insights for Startup Entrepreneurs· Startup Fundamentals #3: “Understanding and Negotiating the Terms in Term Sheets”
· Data Monetization and Valuation in the Age of AI - STARTUP FUNDAMENTALS #3/3: NEGOTIATING THE TERMS SHEETSProcopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, Palo Alto, CA
This information-packed event focuses on terms and term sheets for a seed, angel, convertible debt, Safe (pre-money and post-money), and Series A round, in an interactive, informative session with great takeaway materials and actionable items.
Seating is extremely limited so **CLICK HERE **to reserve your seat on Eventbrite. This event always sells out.
*REGISTERING ON MEETUP IS NOT ENOUGH TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT. YOU MUST REGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITEThis is the third workshop in the Access Silicon Valley Startup Fundamental Series for startup founders, startup executives, entrepreneurs, innovators, and developers. While advantageous to attend all 3 workshops, this is stand-alone content presented by one of Silicon Valley's most notable startup attorneys and Procopio Partner, Roger Rappoport.
MATERIALS
A comprehensive 50-page digital workbook with an actionable step-by-step guide will be distributed to all registered event attendees on the event day.CURRICULUM
In this third workshop of the Startup Fundamentals series, Roger Rappoport, a former entrepreneur and currently a partner and the leader of the Emerging Growth & Venture Capital Practice Group at Procopio, an AMLAW 200 law firm in Silicon Valley, will conduct an interactive, informative session with great takeaway materials and actionable items, with in depth content on the terms and term sheets for a seed, angel, convertible debt, Safe (pre-money and post-money) and Series A round.This session will cover:
· when and from whom to take money;
· when is an amount raised too much or too little, and the perils of both;
· the anatomy of a term sheet;
· understanding the structure of, and the provisions that will most likely be included in, a convertible debt, Safe, angel and venture financing term sheet;
· how to arrive at a realistic pre-money valuation;
· the impact of term sheets on existing shareholders;
· the provisions that will impact control of major and day-to-day decisions at your startup;
· the most recent trends relating to:
· liquidation preferences
· participation rights
· anti-dilution provisions
· pay-to-play provisions
· redemption rights
· registration rights
· rights of first refusal
· drag along right
· co-sale rightsAGENDA:
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM - Dinner and networking
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM - Speaker and sponsor introductions
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM - Startup workshop Part A
7:30 PM - 7:45 PM - Intermission
7:45 PM -8:45: PM - Startup workshop Part B
8:45 PM - 9:00 PM - Q & ASeating is extremely limited so **CLICK HERE **to reserve your seat on Eventbrite. This event always sells out.
*REGISTERING ON MEETUP IS NOT ENOUGH TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT. YOU MUST REGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITEABOUT THE SPEAKER: Roger has extensive experience in advising startup and well-established startup and emerging growth technology companies.
Roger is a frequent speaker and panelist on topics and issues related to the development and implementation of a company's formation and funding strategy. Before attending law school, he was the founder of a technology company.
Roger is very connected with investors in Silicon Valley and beyond and is an active angel investor. As an attorney, he has been involved in hundreds of M&A transactions, private equity and venture capital financing transactions, and complex restructuring transactions.
He is also the founder of Access Silicon Valley, a platform for entrepreneurs, on a global basis, to gain access to Silicon Valley's best and brightest Venture Capitalists, "been there done that" entrepreneurs, and experts. Take a closer look at the Access Silicon Valley Video Fireside Chat Series hosted by Roger, with representatives of some of the Valley's most high-profile VCs, such as Andreessen Horowitz, Foundation Capital, Floodgate, Venrock, Canaan Partners, and more.
#StartupSuccess #Entrepreneurship #StartupWorkshop #BusinessFundamentals #Funding
Not open - Decoding the AI Funding Ecosystem: Insights for Startup EntrepreneursProcopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, Palo Alto, CA
AN RSVP ON MEETUP WILL NOT GET YOU A SEAT.
Seating is extremely limited. You must reserve your seat on Eventbrite.Are you ready to delve into the world of entrepreneurship and venture capital? Access Silicon Valley and U First Capital invite you to join us on April 25, 2024, for an EXCLUSIVE one-night only discussion with Vijay Reddy, a partner at the Mayfield Fund, one of the hottest, most innovative, and respected venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, who have recently closed on the $250.0 million AI Start Fund, focusing on early stage AI companies (investing $500K-$5.0 million). Mayfield has raised more than 20 U.S. funds, has more than 120 IPOs, 225 M&A exits, $3.0B under management and made more than 550 investments in startups.
In this Unleashed event (we call it "unleashed" because this event will be interactive, audience driven), Vijay will delve into the dynamic landscape of entrepreneurship and venture capital and the rapidly changing world related to AI and AI investments. Vijay has a unique experience to share—he co-founded his first startup after dropping out of his PhD program, and held several senior Business Development and Product Development roles at Broadcom and Intel. He has over a decade of inception and early-stage investing experience in AI and deeptech, from Clear Ventures, Intel Capital and Mayfield. Vijay has invested across the AI stack from silicon, systems, infrastructure software, data, middleware & tools and applications.
AGENDA
6:00pm - 7:00pm: Dinner, refreshments and networking
7:00pm - 8:00pm: Conversation with Vijay
8:00 -8:30: Audience Q&A
8:30pm - 9:00pm: Networking
AN RSVP ON MEETUP WILL NOT GET YOU A SEAT.
Seating is extremely limited. You must reserve your seat on Eventbrite.SEE THE UPCOMING ACCESS SILICON VALLEY EVENTS:
ABOUT VIJAY
Vijay brings over a decade of inception and early-stage investing experience in AI and deeptech, from Clear Ventures and Intel Capital. He had a front-row seat to the rise of AI when neural networks first beat human benchmarks in vision, speech and language. Vijay has invested across the AI stack from silicon, systems, infrastructure software, data, middleware & tools and applications. Some of his past investments include SambaNova, DataRobot, Lilt, Landing.ai, Hypersonix, Joby (NYSE: Joby), BabbleLabs (Acquired by Cisco) and AEye (Nasdaq: LIDR).
As a former R&D engineer, Vijay enjoys collaborating with leading technical innovators and researchers who are leveraging bold, disruptive ideas with extreme clarity of purpose to build best in class companies. He takes a founder-first and team-oriented approach and works tirelessly with inception stage entrepreneurs to achieve product market fit and help them scale rapidly.ABOUT MAYFIELD
Mayfield is a venture capital firm with a 50+ year track record of investing at the inception stage in iconic enterprise, consumer, semiconductor, and human & planetary health companies. Proud to have served as early investors to over 550 companies leading to 120 IPOs and over 225 M&As. They have raised 20 U.S. funds over, including the two most recent funds, the $580M Mayfield XVII, the $375M Mayfield Select III and the most recent $250M Mayfield AI Start Seed Fund.
ABOUT ROGER RAPPOPORT AND ACCESS SILICON VALLEY
Roger Rappoport is a former entrepreneur and the founder and leader of Procopio's Emerging Growth and Venture Capital Practice Group. He has extensive experience in advising startup and well-established emerging growth companies across all sectors and industries, from formation through multiple rounds of funding and exit.As an emerging growth and venture capital attorney, he has been involved in hundreds of transactions such as merger and acquisition transactions, private equity and venture capital financing transactions, and complex restructuring transactions.
Roger is also the founder of Access Silicon Valley. Take a closer look at the Access Silicon Valley Video Fireside Chat Series hosted by Roger, with representatives of some of the Valley's most high profile VCs, such as Andreessen Horowitz, Foundation Capital, Floodgate, Mayfield, Venrock, Canaan Partners and more.