
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
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

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

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
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'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










































































