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Official Judges

Alexander Soroka
Managing Partner at Network VC
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China
Ella Li
Founding Partner of H7 BioCapital
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Netherlands
Keshia Theobald-van Gent
VP @ BDev Ventures
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Germany
Leighton J. Smith
Founder & CEO at My Start-Up Accelerator / 360 Start-Up Partners
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Azerbaijan
Askerzade Chinara
Founder of PocketVC
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South Korea
Justin Nam
Co-Founder & General Partner at Story Capital, ex-Investment Director at SoftBank Investment Advisers
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United Kingdom
Murray Newlands
Partner at Tesserium AI, Venture Partner at SNZ Capital
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Japan
Naoto Mizuguchi
CFO at NEC X
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Kazakhstan
Asset Abdualiyev
Co-Founder & CEO at Silkroad Innovation Hub
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Lithuania
Eugene Malobrodsky
Managing Partner at One Way Ventures
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Uzbekistan
Asror Arabjanov
Co-Founder at Silkroad Innovation Hub
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Greece
Stratos Davlos
Partner at Project Voice Capital Partners, Founder & CEO at AIByte
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Jordan
Jordan Wahbeh
Managing Partner at SV Venture Group
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India
Nikhil Choudhary
Managing Partner at Nirman Ventures
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Argentina
Sebastian Cao
Sr. Staff at Tesla, MS in Management at Stanford GSB
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Israel
Yoav Samet
General Partner at Almaz Capital
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Pakistan
Arsalan Lodhi
Business Development Executive, AI Research at IBM
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Azerbaijan
Ulvi Rashid
Venture Capitalist

Finance and Investment Director at Traction Fund.

Traction Club Partners at GP
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Expert Board

Vince Lane
Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Mav3rick Ventures
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Sue Xu
Managing Partner at Amino Capital
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Paulina Szyzdek
Investment Principal at Robert Bosch Venture Capital
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Victoria Mehran
General Partner at Victorious VC; Venture Partner at Expert Dojo, TEDx Speaker
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Ratan Manehani
Partner at R136 Ventures
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Suruchi Kothari
Venture Partner @ GoingVC | Operator, Investor, Stanford Alum
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Valerie Bertele
VC | CEO, GP at Yellow Rocks Capital
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Babak Rasolzadeh
AIML manager at Apple, Investment Advisor at spatial capital, Advisor at In The Loop, Technical Advisor at LookDeep Health
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Gary Fowler
CEO, President, Co-Founder at GSD Venture Studios
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Mitchell Weinstock
Venture Partner at IgniteXL Ventures, Venture Partner at HP Tech Ventures
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Jon Soberg
Managing Partner at MS&AD Ventures
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Asher Bond
VC Investor at VU Venture Partners
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Alexandre Hadade
Cofounder/CEO at Birdie.ai, Entrepreneur at Endeavor
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Daniel Teo
Managing Partner at Hunniwell Lake Ventures
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Aman (Kai) Sidhant
Investor at WestBridge Capital
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David Wang
Amazon AGI | Venture Capital | Angel Investor
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David Lee
Emerging Growth & Capital Markets Attorney
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James Gee
Global Partnerships Manager @ Startup Grind
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Sudhir Kadam
Managing Partner at FYDA Venture Partners, LLC
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Noah Leshan
Chief of Staff at Play (YC23), Investor
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Amit Rathore
Family Office AwakeVC
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Filip Orth
Head of North America at Cleevio
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Arjun Sharma
Product, Google Cloud Supply Chain at Google, Startup Mentor
at NSRCEL
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Vasyl Rakivnenko
Forbes-featured entrepreneur, Angel Investor
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Alex Stolyarik
Product Leadership and Ecosystem Partnerships in AI/XR
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Swen Mehta
Principal Director @ Accenture | Venture Capital |Early-Stage Startup Growth
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Shashi Tripathi
Managing Partner at Nurture Growth Fund, Member Board Of Directors
at Monedo Financial Services, Member Board of Directors
at Damon Motorcycles
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Orr Zeitler
Staff Technical Program Manager - Service Operations at Tesla
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Kevin Colas
Managing Partner at Empire Angel Collective, Advisor at EQUIAM, Advisor & LP at Bay Bridge Ventures
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Dhal Kashish
Robotics Engineer at Apple, Robotics Software Engineer at Vecna Robotics
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Paul Kang
President at ALTA CAPITAL GROUP; GS, P&G, GSB
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Eddie Saoud
Associate at Multiplier Capital
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Iris Chan
Venture Partner at Mighty Capital
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Maxim Strelchenko
Founder of Network Silicon Valley Club
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Startups pitching live

Unicorn Cup International Grand Finale,
October 25, 2024

In the Unicorn Cup: Grand Finale startup pitch event, 10 extraordinary startups chosen from more than 200 applications will compete for the attention of:


1. 50 VC funds with a combined AUM of $10b+;


2. Top AI, Robotics, AR, Product experts from MAANG, Tesla, Berkeley;


3. Managing Partners of funds of KPMG, Samsung, etc.


The finalists of our 300 previous events in 52 countries have raised $1b+ - they are alumni of the YC, Alchemist, NVIDIA Inception, Techstars and more.


Our semi-finalists of this series include the winner of the Startup World Cup 2024, the best startup of 2023 according to Startup Grind, startups of the Central Asian and Ukrainian delegations to the TechCrunch, etc.


Unicorn Cup: Grand Finale is a part of the hottest international VC-investor-CEO event of the season - CESV 2024 - Central Asia @ Silicon Valley, which brings together:


a) 1000+ attendees;


b) Expo of the 100+ hand-selected startups of the same calibre as the Unicorn Cup: Grand Finale, from the US and Central Asia;


c) 100+ investors;


d) 10+ keynote speakers - the CEOs of world-famous unicorns, the world’s best VC experts - all pioneers in their markers and disciplines - as well as heads of the governments of the states of Central Asia.


The event is happening in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco - the location where Steve Jobs had delivered speeches about Apple - the talks that had altered the course of the history and turned Silicon Valley into a goldmine and center of the technological progress that it is today.


Check out the CESV 2024 at cesv2024.com


Secure your ticket today!


It is the whole full-day event, from 10 AM to 7 PM, that can change the way you see the Silicon Valley and San Francisco - the heart of the American race for the stars, the engine of the US economy, the companies that define what entrepreneurship and science mean for every region of the world.


The space is limited!


Rush to ensure that you get the Early Bird pass.

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