About Global AI Pitch Summit Silicon Valley 2025
The Bay Area Founders Club is excited to host the "2nd Global AI Pitch Summit Silicon Valley 2025" on Nov 15–16, 2025, at Santa Clara Convention Center.
We’re collaborating with Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Oxford, and Cambridge to spotlight the next generation of potential unicorns.
This global gathering is expected to bring together over 10,000 attendees, 1,000+ startups, and 1,000+ leading VCs from around the world.
Whether you're an emerging founder, a seasoned investor, or a curious technologist, the summit offers two days of high-impact networking, world-class pitches, and thought-provoking conversations that will shape the global AI landscape.
10,000+
Attendees
1,000+
VCs
1,000+
Startups
Meet Our Speakers
Bret Waters
Stanford Startups Coach & Author of the Launch Path
Jenny Xiao
Partner @ Leonis Capital
Jeff Wang
CEO @ Windsurf
Niamh O’Donnell
Director of Programs @ Unusual Ventures
Joseph Pigato
President @ Stanford Entrepreneur
Chris Bradbury
Principal @ Alumni Venture
Alex Dang
Former McKinsey Partner; Bestselling Author
David Hefter
AI Strategy for Investing @ BlackRock
Bolun Li
Founder @ Zogo
Stash Pomochter
Founder @ REMUS Capital
Ryan JB Taylor
Early Stage Investor @ Fusion Fund | AI & Deep Tech
Paul Fang
President @ BFC
Xiaoyin Qu
Founder @ HEYBOSS
Lamia Yourself
Board Director @ Stanford GSBAA
Steve Hoffman
Founder @ Founders Space
Sang Wen
Co-founder & COO @ Genspark.ai
Sana Wajid
Senior Vice President @ Fetch.ai Innovation Lab | Chief Development Officer @Fetch.ai
Sophie Ren
Founder & CEO @ Chatslide.ai
Stephen D. Torres
Co-founder @ Ellerra
Echo Cheng
Founding Partner @ Brightway Future Capital
Iris Sun
Principal @ 500 Global
They've spoken
Steve Adler
Former Mayor of Austin in Texas
James da Costa
Partner at a16z
Khalil Fuller
Partner at Pear VC
Ameya Jadhav
Investor at General Catalyst
Miko Matsumura
Managing Partner gCC Venture Capital
Gloria Zhang
Investor at DCM Ventures
Lindsey Mignano
Co-Founder & Shareholder at SSM
Chris Bradbury
LifeX Ventures
Stanford GSB
Jenny Xiao
Partner at Leonis Capital
OpenAI Researcher
Shuai Shao
CEO at Beauty Diary
Serial Entrepreneur
Ella Zhang
Ex-googler & ex-Apple working on AirPods Gen1
Nabila Elassar
Founder of Impact Genius
Stanford Entrepreneurs
Rene Caissie
CEO of Medeloop.ai
Xiao Zhang
CEO at Collov AI
Stanford Ph.D.
Rutvik Deepak
LinkedIn Top Venture Capital Voice
Jun Liu
Founder of 7EDU Impact Academy & Leadways School
Reilly Sweetland
Founder at FollowUpThen (YC S17)
Komal Vij
Director of Partnerships @ BFC
CS/AI @ Stanford
Andy Zhu
2015 Warren Buffett Charity Lunch Winner
David Hefter
AI Champion for Investments at BlackRock
Anna Piñol
Partner at NFX
Collin Wallace
General Partner at Lobby Capital
David Gerster
Investment Partner at Fusion Fund
Aurora Feng
Venture Fellow at Pear VC
Christopher Wan
Vice President at Bessemer Venture Partners
Sue Xu
Managing Partner at Amino Capital
Craig Lindquist
Adjunct Professor at Stanford Medicine
Tess Hau
Founder at Tess Ventures
Joseph Pigato
President of Stanford Entrepreneurs
Ahmad Rushdi
Research Manager at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
Henry Klingenstein
Partner at Artis Ventures
Cynthia Zhang
Founder at Future X Capital
Stanford GSB
Sheng Fu
CEO at Cheetah Mobile
Brando Murphy
DBC, Council Director
Sam Bhagwat
CEO of Mastra (YC W25)
Michael Terpin
Chief Executive Officer
Transform Ventures
Ilya Strebulaev
Stanford GSB Professor
Bestselling Author
Alex Dang
Senior Advisor at McKinsey
Bestselling Author
Brandon Farwell
General Partner at Xfund
Harvard Business School
Peter Walker
Head of Insights at Carta
Niamh O'Donnell
Director of Programs at Unusual Ventures
John Whaley
Founder at Inception Studio
Stanford Lecturer
Ronald Ratcliffe
Managing Director at BlackRock
Iris Sun
Investor at 500 Global
Tim Shi
Co-Founder at Cresta
Raising $125M
Steven Feng
Co-instructor for the Stanford CS25 Transformers
Asror Arabjanov
Co-founder at Silkroad Innovation Hub
Stanford GSB
Omri Amirav-Drory
General Partner at NFX
Sana Wajid
Chief Development Officer Fetch.ai Innovation Lab
Patricia Liu
Startup Advisor
MIT Angel
Eli Al-Shamari
Founder at Global Entrepreneurs Hub
Mariane Bekker
Investor & Managing Partner at Founders Bay
Kyle Corbitt
CEO of OpenPipe
Aishwarya Srinivasan
Senior AI Advisor-MSFT
LinkedIn Top Voice
Meet Our Organizers
Paul Fang
President at Bay Area Founders Club
Joseph Pigato
President at Stanford Entrepreneurs
Ryan JB Taylor
Early Stage Investor @ Fusion Fund | AI & Deep Tech
Sophie Ren
Board Member of Stanford Entrepreneurs, Chatslide.AI Co-founder
Stephen D. Torres
Entrepreneur | Educator | Venture Catalyst
Meet Our Hosts
They came as Investors
Gold Sponsors
LiberNovo
World's First Dynamic Ergonomic Chair
They've Sponsored
AWS
AWS offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services.
Fetch AI
Build, deploy and monetize AI apps and services.
Pale Blue Dot
The Marketplace of AI Cloud.
Andy Zhu
2015 Warren Buffett Charity Lunch Winner
AEHL
Next Generation Infrastructure to Power AI
