PITCH GLOBAL
About us: Pitch Global(www.pitchglobal.com) and ---Silicon Valley’s first --- PG CVC Accelerator (www.pitchglobalcvc.mn.co), backed by funding& mentoring Agencies of Cal Gov’s Office of Economic Development of which we are a long term affiliate
Our Founder KC was involved in co-hosting some of the largest investor events in SF & Silicon Valley but realized that organizing smaller, more curated events with a core culture (built in our case over philanthropy where he served on the local Board of Leukemia& Lymphoma Society with some prominent investors) where people have deeper connections is of the most value to entrepreneurs. So KC exited his previous platforms and launched Pitch Global in early 2016. The following is a video is from our launch event; of special mention are 2 investors featured here:
Vish Mishra, VC with Clearstone and Former long term President of TIE SV/TIECON; and
Robert Winter, VC with Da Vinci Capital, and early investor in Nvidia where he has generated 100000 X ROI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0hr_ikCVwg
How we started working with CVC’s: Axel—who was US CEO of R VC Fund of Funds, investors in IVP & other leading funds, came on board soon after as the Founding EIR (Entrepreneur-in-Residence). We were approached by Japanese conglomerate Ricoh, to help spin out their (non-core) Medtech division into a separate company. We not only led a successful spin out, we also found them a Lead Investor, a doctor from Stanford, who later became the CEO of the spinout. When COVID hit, we predicted that CVC’s investing early stage would become a huge trend, and with the support of our backers at the State of Ca, we have not only built the Silicon Valley CVC network but also created a global footprint.
The following article on one of the Agency sites explains how Pitch Global is connected with State of California Funding & Mentoring Agencies; the majority of Telemetrak’s funding is from Caltech Angels which they met at our event, and with our State of Ca funded Mentoring, they started getting repeated Govt Grants and Federal Contracts and turned profitable and deferred their next round. www.norcalsbdc.org/client-stories/telemetrak
Entrepreneurs at Pitch Global has gone on to raise $ 1b + since inception. Entrepreneurs who are part of our State of Ca funded Mentoring has raised $ 250 m+ in the last few years.
Following is a recent update about some recent funding examples from funds like Caltech Angels, Wharton Angels etc at our events along with coverage of our Climate Tech and Deep Tech/AI vericals. thelosangelestribune.com/2023/12/27/unique_startup_investment_updates_from_our_cvcs_vcs_and_angels .
We have merged our Corporate VC, Govt& Impact Funding (CGIF) Summit with Alliance Indus Foundation ---which joins the Govts of USA, India, Dubai/Saudi etc at the highest level and provides unparalleled access to Govt Grants Givers and Head of States--where our Founder has joined as Secretary of the Board. View footage from our first joint Summit ---with introduction of 25 VC’s & CVC’s at the beginning +Masterclass from Grants Advisor & entrepreneurs who has raised Govt Grants from our Mentoring---- with Speakers like Chair Emeritus of India Caucus Congressman Brad Sherman, Ca Treasurer, Chief Minister of Gujarat, Health Minister of India etc. https://youtu.be/BwRApwcDulE
Our vision is to be a leading global platform for CVC’s to connect with entrepreneurs, VC’s, Family Offices, Govt Funding. View the launch of our “How CVC’s/VC’s/Family Offices/govt Funding/entrepreneurs can work together” event co-hosted with our long term Board Member, Alexandra Johnson of elite GTS Conference, who co-founded Draper VTB Fund with Tim Draper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTh0Ra-clnQ.
Verticals where we have world class investor network:
Lifesciences/Health Tech
Headed by EIR Gerry Baranano –who started & ran programs for State of Ca and & is also EIR at Vanderbilt Lifesciences& Member Stanford Angels. We have launched event series keynoted by the Vice Chair of Mayo Clinic Innovation, Jennie Kung, and have firm plans to expand overseas at venues like Dubai(Arab Health), London etc.. Watch Nobel Laureate Dr Thomas Sudhof of Stanford Medicine & Sanofi Board Member, speaking at our annual event at JP Morgan before COVID. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYe5MlFvYDs
To provide recent examples of the multiplier effect founders can achieve in our Lifesciences eco system, Dean Hu, Founder of Savage Bio, presented in our UC Berkeley co-hosted online event where he met with Dr Sammy Datwani, Dealflow Chair of Lifesciences Angels, which let to an investment. At our next event, he met with Dr Chris Apfel, Lifesciences Chair of Keiretsu Forum, which did their due diligence based on which, an old colleague of Dean, with a recent large exit, invested almost $ 40 m and took the next round. Mayo Clinic has invested in cos from our eco system, like Lifeline Medical. They have also provided free access to their large data to several of our regulars, one of which, Swiss/German based Neopredix, which went back to become part of Mayo’s cohort a 2nd time, has now gone through due diligence with another of our CVC investors who they met at our events.
Climate Tech & Mobility: Headed by EIR Jim Hurd, early investor with Keiretsu Forum and investor in flying car company he met at our event and backed by some of the most well connected CVC’S and law firms in the area, we have incredible investor network in this area. We have also become part of 9zero.com Accelerator in SF.
Deeptech/AI: This vertical was launched by our former EIR, Deborah Magid, after she retired from IBM Ventures. We have launched CVC Cohort in association with SJSU, where we are long term super-Mentors as well.
Semicon and other emerging “tech enabled” verticals like Agtech, consumer tech etc. Watch footage from Semicon CVC & AI launch event with leaders from leading CVC’s and Mckinsey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyglPWAkwmA&t=10s
We also have a very powerful CVC Awards Nominating Committee with some of the most well connected CVC’s in the world who are also past Awardees with special focus on “vericalizing” the Awards and creating Industry specific CVC Boards.
Nominations Committee --Members
1. Hee Suk Jung, Head of Investments SK Discovery.
2. David “Dede” Goldschmidt, Vice President & Managing Director Samsung Catalyst Fund.
3. Tarik Galijasevik, Head of Allstate Strategic Ventures.
Jim Hurd, Secretary. EIR –Climate Tech at Pitch Global
CVC Accelerator Thought Leadership library https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ3VOe-STQWRrCOIz_X1NnA .
Any questions? Please email startups@pitchglobal.com