
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

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

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

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
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












































































































