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Pitch Accelerator - 2 sessions

Are you raising money now or planning to raise in the near future?

Pitch Accelerator workshop will teach you how to pitch to investors, how to structure your presentation, and how to tell a story and deliver your product in the most attractive way to investors.

During the sessions you will be able to get additional feedback from your potential customers and investors and improve your product accordingly.

Demo Pitch Coaching

The pitch coaching session focuses on how to design, script, and deliver memorable presentations, and how to best showcase your product when pitching to VCs and Angel Investors. There, startups practice their pitch in front of pitch coaches and mentors who provide feedback and homework on how to improve it. 

As a listener you will learn the best practices and proven tactics for an effective pitch from the consultants who have helped successful startups in the past. The session is interactive and the audience is able to provide feedback to the presenters. 

Interested to present, practice and get feedback?
  • present your startup and practice in front of panel of coaches and mentors
  • demo tables where you can present your live products and get more early adopters and customers
Each team will have 10 min on stage in front of a panel and the audience:
  • 5 min for a pitch presentation
  • 5 min feedback on the presentation's structure, demo, effectiveness, pitch message and intonation

Our pitch coaches: 
  • Nathan Gold - http://democoach.com - LinkedIn
  • Angelika Blendstrup, PhD - http://www.professional-business-communications.com - LinkedIn

Demo Day

Demo days are hosted as a final milestone for startups participating in Idea Accelerator and Team Accelerator. 

Startup Monthly alumni teams and external early stage startups seeking seed investment will be invited to show their progress to invited investors and get feedback in order to validate that that they are on the right path in their ventures.

The day consist of 3 sessions: Expo, Keynote, Pitches

Interested to pitch, present in the expo and get feedback?
  • present your live product during the expo session and get one on one interaction with potential customers and investors
  • pitch your startup to a panel of investors and get feedback on your progress and direction. 

Agenda:
Expo session - showcase your product and beta test it with real users while munching on light appetizers

Keynote session - invited serial entrepreneur will give a keynote speech and will share best practices for startups in pre-seed stage.

Pitches session - teams practice pitch to investors and get valuable feedback on the current startup progress (with the objective of obtaining seed funding).  

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