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SVOD 2016 – Pitching Startups

SVOD 2016 – Pitching Startups

SVOD has always attracted startups from a variety of industries and helped them connect with top angels and investors. In the Conference’s 12 years history more than 300 startups presented on SVOD stage and received over $700M of investments. At 2016 Conference even more startups will have a chance to pitch and showcase their innovations in front of SVOD’s diverse audience. More than 1.5k attendees, including 300+ top angels & VCs, 600 startup founders, and 50+ gurus of the tech industry have registered to attend SVOD this year.

This year we received more than 1000 applications for pitches. Our experienced judges – top industry gurus and investors – chose the most innovative and forward-thinking teams to present their ideas and help the future of technology come sooner. All the selected startups passed a special pitch training with some of the best trainers of Silicon Valley, and are now ready to rock at SVOD. Some of the main presenting startups at SVOD 2016 are:

Testimonials

The wonderful thing about entrepreneurs is that their passion for starting new companies transcends languages and geographic boundaries. I felt very comfortable at SVOD and recognized its participants as having the same type of DNA that made Silicon Valley what it is today.

Ron Conway

SV Angel

Excellent! Great conference! Lots of People! Lot of energy! Enthusiastic! Everything is just going so good.

Vish Mishra

Venture Director, Clearstone Venture Partners ($600M under management)

The organizers here are doing an amazing job with selecting the people who attend, selecting the speakers, coming up with ideas for panels and discussions. The truly amazing side is that the audience gets bigger, more involved, active and more thoughtful. It’s just a fun place to be!

Daniil Stolyarov

Investment Director, Almaz Capital Partners (102M under management)

It’s a great conference and it brings together great content from really terrific speakers like we just had and then a network of really interesting entrepreneurs.

Andy Tsao

Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank

I love coming to the Silicon Valley Open Doors! I discover entrepreneurs here every single year, and I think I’ve been to all of them.

Carol Sands

Founder, The Angels’ Forum

A lot of energy, lot of very dedicated entrepreneurs here, very passionate, very committed to what they’re doing.

Mitchell (Mitch) Kapor

Partner, Kapor Capital

This conference is clearly a labor of love for a group of dedicated professionals who care deeply about the European entrepreneurs. From the value-packed educational panels, to the star-studded keynote speakers’ line up, to an amazing quantity of venture capitalists – this is a not to be missed event for any high tech entrepreneur.

Richard Guha

President of the Marketing Executives Network and Managing Partner at MaxBrandEquity

The quality of entrepreneurs and the international flavor: it’s always fun to see where innovation is happening around the world. It was fun for us to see not only the quality of thought but also pace of execution and the teams here are becoming ready to play.

Byron Deeter

Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners ($4B under management)

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