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Meet 4 Hot AI Startups Pitching 500+ VCs August 29th

Meet 4 Hot AI Startups Pitching 500+ VCs August 29th

Joel Hansen
August 23, 2024

Happy 2nd last Friday of August to all who celebrate.

Welcome back to Napkin Notes: the only startup newsletter hosting monthly shark tank events where we can watch founders and VCs battle it out on TV instead of long and boring email threads.

Our next one is in 6 days if you wanna sit in 🍿

Latest things making news: Summer’s flying by. The DOJ may break up the Google mafia. Starbucks’ new CEO is getting roasted for his 1,000 mile jet commute. Foundation, a robotics startup, raised a $11 million pre-seed round. Waymo hits 100K paid rides per week. Stripe generated $600m+ in free cash flow last quarter. And you stillllll haven’t gone for a hike this summer. That’s unacceptable. Get it done this weekend.

Enough chit-chat. Let’s get to the goods.

Today’s issue is presented with Bubble

🍿 RSVP to our AI pitch event August 29th
🎉 Meet the founders pitching on stage
💸 Say hi to the investors on the panel
🎥 Watch our latest video drop on Kernal Dealroom
💡 How YC trains founders to launch ideas
👀 Memes of the week

👋 Meet Kirin Kalia, the Pitch Wizard

Kirin is a tech journalist turned B2B marketer who’s coached 1k+ founders globally to pitch investors and Fortune 500 companies.

She recently met a founder who was building an amazing product, but their pitch was as long and boring as they come.

Lucky for the founder, Kirin’s superpower is turning boring pitches into beautiful stories.

In that scenario, the founder wanted to win a pitch competition THAT NIGHT.

In one hour, Kirin:

cut out the bleh,
crafted a memorable message.
re-arranged the stories

Batta bing, batta boom.

The re-working of the pitch boosted the founder’s confidence and they ended up beating out several other founders to WIN the pitch off 🤩

The lesson here: if you want to connect investors so they fund you, book a time to talk with Kirin ASAP.

🍿 Startups Pitching Aug 29th

symbl.ai: real-time voice AI: Generate actionable insights from unstructured live calls with our end-to-end real-time AI platform.
Buildnow.ai: Democratizing Knowledge With Interactive AI Avatars
Trysqueeze.io: Supercharge your employer brand with the data and insights needed to attract, hire, and retain the best talent.
Wrkdn.com: project management for AI workforce

Feeling the FOMO? RSVP below ya band waggoner.

P.S. Speaking of raising from VCs, do you want access to a database of 400 angel investors? We thought so. Just tap below. We can’t take credit. Send a DM to Ben Lang who compiled the list.