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Official Judges

USA
Alexander Soroka
Managing Partner at Network VC
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USA
Ashley Trick
Venture Capitalist at Capital6
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Pakistan
Sarah Peracha
CEO at Peracha Ventures
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USA
Jim Thomas
Co-Founder @ Karman Line | Executive Advisor @ U.S. Space Force Historical Foundation | Founder & President @ JPT Ventures
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Lithuania
Tomas Martunas
AI & Web3 Investor / Unicorn Builder / Partner at Zen Capital
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United Arab Emirates
Walied Albasheer
Founding Partner at Intuitio Ventures
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Colombia
Gabriel Zanko
General Partner at URANO KAPITAL
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USA
Sudhir Kadam
Venture Partner at FYDA Growth Partners
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India
Ajay Jain
Founder & Managing Partner of Silverneedle Ventures Fund
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USA
Jordan Wahbeh SVVG
Managing Partner at SV Venture Group
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Bangladesh
Nurul Hai
Vice President, SEAF
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Expert Board

Leon Eisen
Venture Partner at Network VC | Senator at World Business Angel Investment Forum
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Keith Herman
Founder of IPA Equities.
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Yael Yeger
Venture Partner at Awz |
Strategic Partnerships Advisor at
Starburst Aerospace |
Member at Global Women in VC

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Mr John D. Evans CFA
Founder & General Manager of SEIML Ventures
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Nektar Baziotis
Artificial Intelligence | EdTech | Entrepreneur

Chief Executive Officer - Founder
@ ICARUS AI E-Learning,

President - Co-Founder
@ENKI Technologies inc.,

Chief Technology Officer
@Expert Dojo
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Vitaliy Gnatenko
Chief Analytics Officer at Startup.Network
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Sarfraz Nawaz
Product EIR at Mighty Capital
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Mike Freier
Principal and Lead Consultant at Product Management Consulting Group Inc.
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Sandeep Voona
Senior Principal Product Manager at ServiceNow
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ORGANISERS

Startups pitching live

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Unicorn Battle - Silicon Valley - Online | July 9th, 2025,
July 9, 2025

Welcome to the Unicorn Battle - Silicon Valley - Online – Global Startup Pitch Contest where famous international VCs and Business Angels meet extraordinary startups from all over the world!

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LIMITED TICKETS.

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ATTENTION: 

The 1st-place winner will receive free access to pitch live on stage at the in-person Unicorn Battle in Silicon Valley, as part of the 1-Day Sand Hill Acceleration Program.

Both the Winner and Runner-ups will also get a 50% discount to join the full Sand Hill Acceleration Program.

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In this startup pitch event, 10 extraordinary startups will compete for the attention of:


1. 10 VC funds with a combined AUM of $5b+;

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

3. Managing Partners of corporate funds like KPMG.


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.

The finalists of our 400+ previous events in 55 countries have raised $1b+ - they are alumni of the YC, Alchemist, NVIDIA Inception, Techstars and more.

KEY INFORMATION:

Date: July 9th, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT (San Francisco time)
Language: English


CHECK OUT OUR PREVIOUS EVENT: https://vimeo.com/892745912

AMONG OUR 2021-2023 WINNERS:

1. Largest:

Solides ($112M, Warburg Pincus)
BioSapien ($37.1M, SOSV)
Accern ($34.8M, Mighty Capital, Fusion Fund)
HelloBetter ($27M)
1MRobotics ($25M)
Ottopia ($26.5M)


2. Outstanding stories:
Micronoma ($17.5M)
8base ($15.3, Techstars, Alumni Ventures)
Sense Neuro Diagnostics ($14.2M, US Department of Defense, National Science Foundation)
Xandar Kardian ($13.7M)
PlanetWatch ($11.9M)
RxLive ($10.5M)
Remedly ($10.6M, Newchip, StartX)
Xandar Kardian ($13.7M)
RxLive ($10.5M)
UpLyft ($10M)

3. Techstars alumni:
8base ($15.3, Techstars, Alumni Ventures)
EnviCore Inc. ($3.1M, Techstars)
NovaXS Biotech ($1.9M, Techstars)
Autority ($1.3M, Techstars)


4. 500 Global alumni:
Umoja Labs ($1.6M, 500 Global)
Clockster ($1.5M, 500 Global)
Wisear ($1.4M, Techstars, Kima Ventures)

5. Y Combinator alumni:
Matidor.com ($1.9M, Y Combinator)


6. Alchemist alumni:
Seasony ($3.9M, Alchemist)


Contact us: jo@startup.network


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AGENDA

1 Session
1 Session
1 Session
PDT (GMT - 7):
8:50 - 9:00 AM: Registration
9:00 - 9:10 AM Introduction by Organizers
9:10 - 9:30 AM: Judges introduction
9:30 - 10:30 AM: Pitch competition (3 min pitch + 3 min Q&A)
10:30 - 10:40 AM: Winner announcement
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