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Hey, this is Napkin Notes: we give top-tier investors front-row seats to hear the smartest founders pitch their startups. The even cooler part is that we give everyone who watches the opportunity to meet or invest in them before anyone else 💸

Sound like your thing? Good.

Cuz the next big event coming up is June 26th with the big names behind Superhuman, Hootsuite, Hustle Fund, Mantis VC and Worklife VC. You won’t wanna miss it.

Wanna meet the speakers and judges presenting? Click below 👇

And our deepest apologies for the late send today. We were busy partying with Vinod Khosla, Maria Sharapova and Geoffrey Hinton this last week at Collision so we’re just carving out enough coffee and laptop time to send this out.

But let’s get to it ☕️

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📰 On Deck Today

• 🥁 How to Win a pair of AirPods, $1000 Book and Video Package

• 💸 Meet the VCs & Founders Speaking June 26th

• 🗳 Apply to Pitch at our Next B2B Event July 18th

🎉 How to Win a Pair of Airpods

We’re stoked to have you at our pitch event next week. But there’s just one thing…

To make this event even more special, we're running a referral contest where the attendee who invites the most people (that RSVP and attend) will win a pair of AirPods ($250 value)! 🎧

Here’s how to enter:

1. ✅ Copy/paste the event link via text, slack, Linkedin etc: https://kern.al/event/pitch-day

2. ✅ Add a unique identifier to the link so we can track your invites. For example, if your name is Elon Musk, your link would be: https://kern.al/event/pitch-day?utm_source=ElonMusk

3. ✅ Ask your early-stage investor friends to RSVP using your personalized link

Easy peasey, lemon squeezy 🍋

The attendee with the most invites and attendees will win a pair of AirPods on June 25th! So start sharing and increase your chances of winning.

🎉 A Video from ChopShop is Up for Grabs

Wanna win a free 30-sec hype video but don’t have the budget or talent to make one? Don’t sweat it. We’ve got a giveaway for you…

The sad part is, this one is only winnable if you’re pitching on stage as it will be awarded to hte best pitch of the day. But, you can definitely help us vote and maybe score a little promo on a video from ChopShop by attending our event.

What’s ChopShop you ask? They take whatever you give them and create highly-engaging content that hooks, compels, and sells. They’ve done it for:

• Lebron James

• Redbull

• Snapchat

• and more

With 30 years of tinkering and testing, ChopShop combines AI efficiency with a talented human touch to deliver scroll-stopping results in a matter of hours, not weeks. Visit ChopShop.co to learn more and turn your assets into ad-sets, today! 😎

This giveaway will be happening live at the pitch event so be sure to save your seat if you wanna win this one.

🎉 How to Win a $1,000 Book

On another note, be sure to bring your best questions and feedback June 26th, because there’s gonna be a sponsored prize from No Story Lost worth over $1000 - for the person with the best question/comment in the chat during the pitch. 

You heard us right.

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