Finding extraordinary founders from our community
The 2nd annual SVE Demo 2021 on Dec 1- 8 globally online, now open for startup application and nomination! The event is hosted by the SVE (Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs)， the largest grassroots community from Silicon Valley.
SVE Demo went online in March, 2020. The SVE Youtube Channel which hosted the first SVE Demo 2020 globally as part of F50 Global Capital Summit 2020, and also SVE Demo Monthly, SVE Mixer and many other activities online since 2020, had attracted 110K views since early 2020. The 2020 Grand winner AgriBody was acquired by Global Clean Energy Holdings in 2021, PhableCare raised $15M in 2021.
For the past decade, as the oldest and largest grassroot pitching meetup in Silicon Valley, SVE Demo monthly has been the place for founders to watch pitches, listen to investors, network and be part of a unique community。 The SVE Demo honored nearly 100 winners over the past 10 years, including several F50 Ventures Portfolio companies Oculii (Recently raised $50M), Invi (Acquired by Google), GummiCube (ASO SAAS), and many more..
Starting Dec 1st, 2021, in five tracks, with live pitches, mentor insights, featured startup presentations, etc.. Each sector will be live for over 4 hours and many members of this community and global audience joined to watch founders, judges, investors and thought leaders share their views.
Apply now: https://forms.gle/WWfwj1LdDa9zfMJy5
To join as judge or speaker: https://forms.gle/LqHwTzyzVpa36v6m8
For sponsorship & partnership
SVE Demo 2021Summary
Date: Dec 1 – 8
Five Tracks
HealthTech
Ag & FoodTech
Property Tech
Sustainability
General (All others, FinTech, DeepTech etc)
Content format for each tech track
Keynote & Welcome Remark
Speakers & Presentation
Startup Pitch and Demo (4minutes each, plus Q&A)
Judge Feedback & Roundtable
Winner Announcement
Organizational structure for each track:
Judging committee
Chair of track: lead the judging process
Secretary (Organizer): lead the preselection and logistic process
Award for each category (TBC)
SVE Startup of Year 2021: selected by Judge for each category
Best Pitch
General Award
Most Potential Founders
Best Women Founder
Best Texas Founder
SVE Entrepreneur’s Choice: by popular vote (TBC)
Prize for the winner (TBC, T&C applies):
One more two winners in each category
Special Marketing & Mentoring Package by SVE & F50 (50K value, no cost to founder, T&C applies)
$100K investment rights (Optional, conditions apply)
2 mentoring sessions by judge
Founder Camp
About SVE
Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs (SVE) is the largest grassroots movement of founders and developers in the Bay Area since 2008. Now with 80,000+ members on meetup and linkedin, we have multiple meetups every month:
SVE Demo: the largest and oldest community monthly & Annual pitching event.
SVE Mixer: finding co-founders, CTO, partners, and core team members
Hiking
SVE Talk: insightful talk with rising stars, successful founders, and investors
Founder Bootcamp
SVE Past Speakers
Jason Calacanis, Founder of Launch
Paul Holland, Partner, Foundation Capital
Josh Elman, Partner, Greylock
Duncan Davidson, Managing Partner, Bullpen Capital
Peter Herbet, Lux Capital
Doug Renert, Co-founder and Partner, Tandem Capital
Adam Goldburg, LightSpeed Ventures
Keith Teare, Accelerated Digital Ventures
Bill Reichert, Pegasus Ventures
Scott Armanini
Paul Singh, Tie Angels
Duncan Logan, Founder & CEO Rocket Space
Sam Santhosh, Founder and CEO Medgenome Labs
Water Brouwer, Doc.AI / ShareCare (IPO 2021)
Sam Liang, Otter AI
Louay Eldada, CEO and Co-founder, Quanergy
Adam Draper, Funding Partner Boost VC
William Santana Li, Chairman and CEO, Knightscope, Inc. ($500M startup)
Raj Singh, Lentil Al / Tempo
Past SVE Sponsors
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Walmart, Yahoo, Samsong
Perkins and Coie, Haynes and Boones,
GSB Labs, Hacker Dojo, RocketSpace, WeWork
100+ more