Pitch in person to CVC's/VC's/angels at SF Campus of UCB

Join us for the first hybrid Pitch Global event of 2025 co-hosted by UC Berkeley Extension at their San Francisco Campus and online via Zoom. The event will present speakers talking about how AI Entrepreneurs can attract investors, especially Corporate Venture Capital (CVC’s), and apply for Govt grants for funding. Following these talks, Entrepreneurs will present their pitches to the audience, including a group of featured investors from our network.

Above is a picture from the 4th Pitch Global CVC Leadership Summit with leaders from SK Group and Niterra Venture Labs (rebranded from NGK CVC). Note that SK Group is the largest investor in life sciences in Korea, and our Sponsor, Niterra Venture Labs, is investing $1 billion in Startups, 50% of which is in life sciences/Health Tech. Many Tech CVCs and investors in the Pitch Global ecosystem have started investing in startups of all stages.

This is a hybrid event. Use this to register for pitching IN PERSON at the SF campus of UC Berkeley Extension. If you want to pitch ONLINE via Zoom, please register using .

UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and alumni can register to attend this event for free.

Agenda* :

4.30 to 5.00 pm: Registration check-in

5.00 to 5.05 pm: Welcome from UC Berkeley Extension and Pitch Global

5.05 to 5.25 pm: Keynote Address by Chuck Eason, CEO of Large Scale Fab, Inc. and Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) Advisor

5.25 to 5.45 pm: Interview with Special Guest Chris Horton, District Director at U.S. Small Business Administration

5.45 to 6.05 pm: Special Guest Talk by R. Paul Singh, Entrepreneur, Educator, Startup Executive, Forbes Business Council Member.

6.05 to 7.20 pm: Selected startups present in person and online

7.20 pm onwards: Closing Remarks and Networking Reception.

*There may be slight modifications in the agenda closer to the event date.

Event details for startups

Startups will be connected to the UC Berkeley Extension team 5 days before the event. The Extension team will provide logistical details for the event.

During the event, startups will have 6 minutes to pitch and 2 mins for questions from featured investors and attendees (including non-featured investors).

Following the main event, each startup presenter will be connected with a featured investor, who will be assigned based on fit, to enable a short private meeting.

The registered startup company's name and information will be sent out to our network of investors via our newsletter for increased visibility with investors for the startup.

Some Pitch Global Updates:

As a long-term affiliate of the California Governor's Office of Economic Development Agencies such as Norcal SBDC, TFG, SJSU Innovation, etc., Pitch Global has been building the Silicon Valley CVC Network on their behalf.

One of our funding success stories is now posted on the NorCal SBDC website. Please email us if you are based in Northern California and want to sign up for State-funded assistance/grants advisory.

Check out this YouTube video to get an idea of the caliber of investors at Pitch Global events. This video is from an event in August 2024, which featured investors like Norm Fogelsong, Co-founder of IVP; Vish Mishra, Clearstone VC & former long-term President of TIECON; Don Su Kim, CEO of LG Tech Ventures; Jon Soberg, Managing Director of MS&AD Ventures (5th largest Insurance company in the world); David “Dede” Goldschmidt, Managing Director of Samsung Catalyst Fund; Kevin Chen, CEO of Lam Research Capital; Abhishek Sud of Applied Materials Ventures; Dr. Shuman Mitra of L’Oreal Innovation, etc.

Watch Nobel Laureate Dr Thomas Sudhof of Stanford Medicine+ Sanofi Board member being interviewed in person at Pitch Global's JP Morgan Investor Event in 2020.

Pitch Global is an affiliate partner of the TFG SBDC

D isclaimer: NorCal SBDC Is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the US Small Business Administration (SBA). Funded in part through a grant with the Funded in part through a Grant with the California Office of the Small Business Advocate (GO-Biz). All opinions, conclusions, or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA, Go-Biz, SJSU, PitchGlobal, or Cal Poly Humboldt-sponsored programs.

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UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and alumni can register to attend this event for free.

Refund Policy: Credit may be provided for a future event at the discretion of the organizer

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

UC Berkeley Extension, 160 Spear Street, San Francisco, United States