Swedish Startups Pitching for Investors!!!!!!!

On Thursday, August 22nd, 2013 at 6pm at Runway in San Francisco, Silicon Vikings organized an event for the Swedish Innovation office InterAct. A group of young Swedish companies pitched to a distinguished panel of Silicon Valley investors Allan Young - Runway, Ullas Naik - Streamlined Ventures, John McIntyre - Citrix Startup Accelerator, Marlon C. Nichols - Intel Capital and Sarah Cone - Illuminate Ventures, moderated by Max Shapiro - People Connect and Keiretsu Forum.

Pitchforce had another amazing demo event on August 8th!!!!

On August 8th, 2013 PitchForce held it's monthly event at Runway in San Francisco. There were 10 great startups, including four 500 Startup companies(Dakwak, Credii, Binpress, Green Gar), set up demo tables and pitched their companies to the attendees, who each got 3 one million dollar bills to vote on their favorite companies.

Max Shapiro moderated the panel and acted with panelist Allan Young of Runway, Nilesh Trivedi of Double Rock, Pete Mayer of LeClairRyan, and Paul Twombly of the Band of Angels.

Enterprise Ireland & US Mac had a Demo Night!!!!

On Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 at 6:00pm at RocketSpace in San Francisco, CA US MAC in partnership with Enterprise Ireland welcomed 7 incredible companies from Ireland for a Demo Night! Eryc Branham, Chief Revenue Officer of RocketSpace kicked off the evening with an opening address.

The panel of judges was excellent! The moderator of the panel was Max Shapiro is the founder and CEO of PeopleConnect. The panel consisted of Monali Jain is an angel investor focused on software, mobile and cloud technologies; Allan Young is currently founder of Runway, co-working in San Francisco; Nicolai Wadstrom, a Serial Entrepreneur with a track-record within Enterprise Software, Internet, Computer Games; Paul Twombly is a serial entrepreneur and high tech veteran with over 40 years of experience in telecommunications, software and computer networking.

Here are photos from the event:

Here is a video from the event: