Palo Alto Pitch Nights/Seed-Stage Founder Showcase

​The Bay Area's New Room for Early-Stage Breakouts

​Join us for the debut of Palo Alto Pitch Nights, a new founder-first event series bringing together the most promising seed-stage startups, active investors, and top startup advisors.

​This edition features a curated panel of venture capitalists, followed by lightning pitches from 10 vetted SF Bay Area founders all in a high-trust room built for follow-up conversations.

​Dinner & Networking
🕔 5:00 – 5:45 PM

​Arrive early, grab dinner, and connect with fellow founders, VCs, and ecosystem builders.

Panel: Inside the VC Mind
Moderated by Roger Rappoport, Partner at Snell & Wilmer
🕔 5:45 PM – 6:15 PM

Panelists: Tammie Siew (General Partner, Pebblebed Capital) and Aniket Kamthe (Investor, Nexus Venture Partners)

​Join a candid discussion with leading VCs on:

• ​The most common fundraising mistakes founders make

• ​How check sizes and investment stages are shifting

• ​What they look for in lead vs. follow-on opportunities

• ​Where they see real AI opportunity vs. hype

• ​How to build long-term relationships with VCs

​This is your chance to get behind the scenes of the VC mindset, and prep for your next raise.

​Startup Pitches: 10 Seed-Stage Founders

​🕠 6:15 PM – 7:30 PM

​10 high-potential founders pitch for 3 minutes each, followed by 2 minutes of Q&A. All companies are post-idea and building across sectors - early product traction and ambition required.

​Curated Networking

​🕖 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM

​No cold intros. Just high-signal connections. We'll help facilitate investor-founder follow-ups post-event.

​🔗 Apply to Pitch: https://tally.so/r/nG4Zqo

Hosted by:
Snell & Wilmer LLP
Founded in 1938, Snell & Wilmer is a full-service business law firm with more than 500 attorneys practicing in 17 locations throughout the United States and in Mexico, including Los Angeles, Orange County, Palo Alto and San Diego, California; Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona; Denver, Colorado; Washington, D.C.; Boise, Idaho; Las Vegas and Reno-Tahoe, Nevada; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Portland, Oregon; Dallas, Texas; Salt Lake City, Utah; Seattle, Washington; and Los Cabos, Mexico. The firm represents clients ranging from large, publicly traded corporations to small businesses, individuals and entrepreneurs. For more information, visit swlaw.com.

Heizen
Heizen is an AI-powered software development firm helping companies build production-grade tools and products in a fraction of the time. Operating at the intersection of elite engineering talent and proprietary AI agent-based development workflows, Heizen enables innovation teams, founders, and enterprises to turn high-complexity ideas into scalable software - fast. Heizen serves clients across the U.S., delivering high-quality solutions through a unique blend of 10x engineers and a full stack multi-agent SDLC platform. For more information, visit heizen.work.

​About the Moderator

​Roger Rappoport, partner at Snell & Wilmer, has demonstrated that he is the go-to lawyer for startups. As a seasoned advisor to startups and emerging growth companies, Roger guides clients from inception through exit, assisting entrepreneurs develop proactive strategies to help maximize shareholder value and steering clients through critical legal and business events. With over two decades of experience in the startup ecosystem, he focuses on venture capital and angel investor financings, including convertible notes, SAFEs, and other debt financings. His knowledge extends to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, distribution, development, manufacturing, and licensing transactions, as well as executive compensation and the establishment of equity incentive plans.