Startup Pitch Salon | Investor Feedback + Audience Vote
🚀 WeShine Entrepreneurship Salon and EntreConnect
are excited to co-host a highly curated startup pitch event, bringing together top early-stage founders, seasoned investors, and engaged audiences for an event of insight, feedback, and community.
🌟 What to Expect
Live Startup Pitches: Hand-selected startups present their ventures on stage
Investor Feedback: Renowned investors share real-time insights and advice
Audience Voting: Cast your vote for the most promising pitch of the event
Award Session: Winning teams will receive exclusive coaching opportunities
💡 Startups – Apply to Pitch!
Want to get on stage and pitch in front of real investors and an engaged audience?
📥 Submit your pitch deck by July 23
📢 Final selections announced on July 25
👉 Apply Here: https://forms.gle/CdshPpKDRrDQUmf67
🧠 Winner Perks
The top startups—selected by investor feedback and audience votes—will win a 1:1 coaching session with WeShine Advisor Group, featuring Investors, Stanford Business Coach, Business model strategists and more.
💼 Participating Investors:
Call for Investers: Join the WeShine Investor Advisory Group for Current or Future Events
We are forming a powerful Investor Advisor Group to support early-stage founders. Benefits include:
✔️ Early access to top-tier pitch decks
✔️ Recognition as a Featured Guest Investor
✔️ Community Impact Award from WeShine
👉 Interested? Please let us know. https://forms.gle/X5WdMbLphs1NgvHNA
💼 Selected Startup Pitchers:
HiDevs: An AI-native upskilling platform on a mission to build the world’s largest GenAI workforce. Presenter: Deepak Chawla.
PeraWatt: is set to transform power intensive industries like data centers by developing a first-of-a-kind magnetic material that delivers 10x higher power efficiency than incumbents. Presenter: Lucy Wu.
NION Neuroscience: Efficient & Immediate Addictions Relief and focus enhancement. Presenter: Patrik Šlachta
Amotions AI: boosts productivity with an emotionally intelligent AI sales teammate that provides real-time selling guidance live in calls. Presenter: Pianpian Guthrie
Lasso Loop Recycling LLC: is building a recycling appliance for the home, office and other locations. Presenter: Aldous Hicks
Pipeline AI: leverages generative AI to fully automate research, lead qualification, and personalized outreach to eliminate manual prospecting in Sales Process. Presenter: Mayank Galgat
Perforated AI: is a MLOps company that has developed a PyTorch add-on combining modern neuroscience with modern software to create neural networks that are smarter, smaller, and more accurate. Presenter: Rorry Brenner
Clarity: is a human-centered wellness platform on a mission to empower individuals to achieve better mental and physical health through daily mindfulness, hydration, and exercise habits. Presenter: Krystal Galdamez
🎟 Audience – Be Part of the Action
Attend the event to:
Hear some of the most promising new startups
Learn from expert feedback
Vote for your favorite pitches
Connect with the local founder-investor community
🌐 Organizers
🌳 About Weshine Entrepreneurship organization
A Bay Area-based nonprofit community, aims to bring together the top entrepreneurs, investors, scientists, and business leaders, to foster knowledge sharing, collaboration, and company development. The organization will facilitate investment opportunities, help businesses expand globally, provide industry expert coaching and learning opportunities as well as establishing a community of elite members from around the world. WeShine has hosted 100+ pitch events and founder meetups. With a supporting community, We Shine together.
🌐 WeShine LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/weshineus.org/
🌳 About EntreConnect
EntreConnect is a dynamic community of entrepreneurs and investors, founded in 2023 to empower those building and scaling businesses. We understand the challenges and isolation of the entrepreneurial journey and exist to bridge that gap through world-class events, unparalleled speakers, and transformative connections. We have brought together 21,000+ entrepreneurs, operators, business leaders, and investors through our events — fostering collaboration, exchanging insights, and fueling innovation across the global startup ecosystem. Follow our LinkedIn for upcoming events.
👉 Sign up here to secure exclusive early access 💌 and join a community that empowers your entrepreneurial spirit!