Investor vs. Founder : Hot Sauce Challenge (Season 2)
🔥 Are You Ready to Feel the Heat? 🔥
Join us for an unforgettable night of fiery fun, bold flavors, and intense competition! We’re turning up the heat with a spicy showdown where founders and investors face off in a Hot Sauce Challenge like no other.
Inspired by the legendary Hot Ones series, this event will test not just taste buds but also mental fortitude. As the hot sauces get progressively spicier, so do the questions! Will founders crack under pressure? Will investors hold their cool? Who will rise to the challenge, and who will tap out?
Here’s the twist: 10 early-stage investors go head-to-head with 10 early-stage founders as they climb the Scoville scale one nugget at a time. It’s brains versus resilience. Startups versus venture capital. Passion versus heat!
What to Expect:
🔥10 rounds of increasingly intense hot sauces
🔥High-stakes Q&A grilling each side about their startups and funds
🔥A night of laughs, connections, and spicy memories
Food will be provided to audience.
Your Hosts:
🚀Serephina Ha from Founder Institute LA – the world’s most proven network for turning ideas into fundable startups and scaling them into global businesses. Since 2009, the Founder Institute has supported the creation of over 7,500 technology startups, achieving an 80% graduate survival rate after five years. Operating in 200+ cities across 60+ countries, our portfolio has a combined valuation of over $35 billion (USD).
Apply to cohort : http://fi.co/los-angeles
🚀Angeline Tan from BLOCK71 – a vital entrepreneurial initiative of the National University of Singapore. As a tech ecosystem and global connector, BLOCK71 is located in 10 cities in Asia Pacific and the United States. BLOCK71 Silicon Valley serves as a dynamic hub for innovation and entrepreneurship, providing a collaborative space where startups, investors, and industry leaders from Singapore, Asia Pacific and Silicon Valley converge to foster innovation and drive the growth of technology ventures.
🚀 Ed Choudhry (CEO of Barricade AI) from RAD Ninjas – RAD Ninjas, or Random Access Developer Ninjas, is a collective of Machine Learning Experts, Community and Event Organizers, Music Producers, DevOps/CyberSecurity, and Founders that have been conducting in-depth workshops in the Bay Area pushing the latest and greatest from the AI OpenSource Community. We want to empower developers with resources and insights to stay on the cutting edge of AI. Also, Recent winners of the USS Hornet Defense Tech Hackathon.
Who will survive the spice? Come find out! 🌶️
Jointly organized with:
Singapore Global Network (SGN)