Hey, this is Napkin Notes: we share about the latest early-stage startups that investors are dishing out checks to. In other words: we’re the newsletter love child if SharkTank + TechCrunch had a baby 💸

Sound like your cup of tea?

Good. Cause we got a whole pot ready to pour. 🫖

📰 Our Menu for Today

• 🏆 Congrats to Beem for Winning the Chopshop Video Giveaway

• 👏 Hats off to Braden B for winning the No Story Lost Giveaway

• 🎉 Huge ups to Haley and the VC Judges for being amazing

• 🎧 Meet your AirPods winner: Akshay 

• 🗳 Help us pick B2B VCs and Founders for our July 18th event

🏆 Congrats to Beem for Winning Best Pitch

Last Wednesday’s pitch event was a whirlwind and a half. But in the best of ways:

• Almost $10m of investor interest was drummed up in 1 hour

• Haley Bryant brought that A-game MC energy

• Ryan, Brianne Steve and Vivek had the perfect follow-up questions

• and each of the founders recruited loads of interest (in VC $$ and email intro requests) while pitching their concepts

It was a clear win across every side.

But as you know, the startup world is a capitalistic one so we need to decide on a pitch winner.

To do that, we let the audience vote. And the winner for the best pitch of the day was Beem Founder, Akshay.

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Curious about the other pitches?

Check out our post-event page to see:

• the video recordings of their pitch

• what the VCs asked them

• their pitch decks

• their deal terms of the seed/series A round

🥁 But Wait, there’s More

We’re already dreaming up our next event.

And the entire focus is gonna be on B2B startups.

Know some good founders or investors we need to have there?

Have them reach out here 👇

🎉 Meet the Giveaway Winners

Congrats to each of our winners from the June 26th event. If you see your name below, screenshot this and reply to this email and we’ll help activate your gift 🎁

• Airpods winner: Akshay K

• No Story Lost winner: Braden B

• ChopShop Video winner: Beem Startup

Okay okay, enough business talk. Time for a laugh.

Swipe of the Week

P.S. If you are a founder / VC who wants to speak at our next demo day July 18th, slide a nice email to [email protected] and mention the newsletter sent ya