Five founders, five minutes each, then questions from the room. Tables on topics San Jose voted for, and an open hour after the stage.
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You have been running the idea past AI. AI has never once told you it would not work. Tonight you get a room that will.
Five founders, five minutes each, in San Jose. You take a table on a topic the room voted for, the stage is short enough to be honest, and the floor stays open for an hour after it.
Five founders, five minutes each, then the room asks. A table on a topic the room voted for, and the hour after the stage, which is the one people remember.
Anyone building something, from the first line of code to Series A, and the people who run a function at a company that is scaling, write the code, do the hiring, or are still deciding whether to start.
Why it is worth itWatching somebody explain their company in five minutes teaches you more about explaining yours than another evening alone with the deck.
Times in America/Los_Angeles
Name sticker on, then the table closest to what you are building. You stay for the hour.
Five minutes each, no slides read out loud, then questions from the room.
The stage is done and the floor stays open.
What happened
Every evening we have run in San Jose
Frequently asked
No. The room is built around founders, but investors and operators (product, engineering, marketing, people who have done the job) are who founders come to meet. Each format says who it is for, and the event page repeats it for that evening.
At Pitch Nights and Investor Connect evenings, by application. A ticket lets you attend; a separate application, reviewed by a person, puts you on the list to present. Read how pitching works before you apply.
Sometimes, and we never promise it for a given night. Investors come to Investor Connect and to some pitch nights; they are approved on application and are not used as bait. Introductions to investors are made by us afterwards, through the Monday digest, and we take no percentage of any deal.
Open the event page and use its ticket button. It takes you to the platform that sells that evening, Eventbrite or Luma; your ticket and confirmation come from there, to the email you used. Right after the purchase you also get two emails from us: an invitation to our Luma calendar and an invitation to your city's community. Each evening is sold in one place only, and refunds follow that ticket page's terms.
You are in your city's community from the moment you buy the ticket: the invitation arrives with your purchase, and it opens in Slack, in the browser or in Telegram, three doors to one room. That is where the conversation continues and where the next date is announced. If you pitched, your startup enters our base with the evening and the date on record.
Guildhouse · 🇺🇸 San Jose
Five founders, five minutes each, then questions from the room. Tables on topics San Jose voted for, and an open hour after the stage.
Guildhouse · 🇺🇸 San Jose
Five founders, five minutes each, then questions from the room. Tables on topics San Jose voted for, and an open hour after the stage.
Guildhouse · 🇺🇸 San Jose
Meet startups, investors, and access ongoing deal flow with weekly intros and early opportunities. Free for approved investors.