Founders Live

It's a double post sort of day... With the busyness of this week, one post about the various events wasn't going to cut it. And Founders Live deserved it's own! For those of you who aren't aware of the concept, the founders of five local businesses get 99 seconds to pitch to a room of potential investors, advisers and other business owners. Then the audience get to vote on which was the best! 😬 And this time, with added pressure that the FOUNDER of Founders Live was in the audience. It was great to hear from Nick Hughes about the ten years since he started the business, and how it's gone from monthly sessions in Seattle, to hundreds of events a year in over 120 cities, across 47 countries. But back to our pitchers - we heard from: 🚀 Mohamed E. about Tactful an AI-based customer engagement platform 🚀 Sacha Krstulovic about Understand-AI.today an AI training provider 🚀 Ushnish Sengupta and Federica Freddi about Sqwish AI which is developing compression technology for AI prompts 🚀 Carl-Magnus von Behr about innex.ai which is using AI to help the NHS with infrastructure related governance But most importantly, the evening's winner... 🏆 Monica Saavedra about Lambda agri who are developing a sprayable paint to use tech which helps boost crop yields and a drive to reduce food poverty. Well done to all of the pitchers, as always, it was a wonderful and insightful evening. So proud of Mills & Reeve's involvement of this (thanks to the incredible Zickie Lim), and it's always great to work with the team at UHY Hacker Young (East). Looking forward to the next one already! Deborah Dawson Dave Hailey Roisin Norris Sam Robson Maximilian Ge Mark Golab Nicky Dibben #FoundersLive

🤓 Ready for an interesting fact about the 5 Seattle founders who presented at Founders Live for #PNWClimateWeek?   1) ♻️ Ryan Metzger, CEO and Co-Founder of Ridwell, got a huge early start thanks to a viral Nextdoor post by Ty Wolfe-Jones. Back then they would send a crew to your house via NextDoor and recycle things for you! 2) 🏎️ Tom Gurski of Blue Dot Motorworks is racing to turn your gas car into a plugin hybrid. Even if we shut down the production of new gas cars, we would still be 400% off our Paris Agreement target. 3) 🤨 Daphne de Jong of Ven is taking on the absurdity of paying up to 80% more for insurance if you drive an electric vehicle. 4) ⌚️ Kim Martini is crowdsourcing critical ocean data through smart watches to replace multi-million dollar equipment that ocean scientists are using. 5) 🪑 Xenia Dolovova of Furniture Repair Bank will repair your furniture and give it to resettled refugees and people who recently experienced homelessness. We already have 92 million TONS of discarded furniture in our landfills 😢 So much passion and creativity in #Seattle to solve massive problems. Props to: Georgetown Steam Plant CDA, Sarah O'Sell, Ty Wolfe-Jones, Amelia Marckworth, Kelly Lawton-Abbott, JD/MBA, Louis Newkirk, Luis Antezana, Gary Malcolm, Raxit J., Nick Hughes, Melissa Reaves, Story Fruition, LLC, Bill Sablan, Nick Ellingson, Koki Sato, WTIA, NOW CFO, Countsy

PNW Climate Week Monday at Georgetown Steam Plant CDA was a blast! Mountain was out, the building's thick concrete kept us cool, we got to enjoy Ghanaian street food from Blackstar Kebabs. Thank you to our amazing presenters! Mike Robinson who shared PAC Clean's initiative to eliminate greenhouse gasses and clean up our region. Abhishek Varma taught us about the harms of refrigerants and shared solutions. Ty Wolfe-Jones and Jakub Kubicka interviewed Laura Sullivan Cassidy Recompose about human composting and I shared thoughts on the circular economy + how nature-based solutions fit. Amelia Marckworth, Kelly Lawton-Abbott, JD/MBA, and Luis Antezana hosted Founders Live with opening words from Ridwell founder Ryan Metzger, and outstanding sustainability startup presenters Kim Martini Tini Scientific, Xenia Dolovova Furniture Repair Bank, Daphne de Jong Ven, and Tom Gurski Blue Dot Motorworks . HUGE THANKS to our volunteers: theertha shetty, Severn Anderson, Jose Ruben Garcia Villalobos, Joseph Ko, Darian Parrish and others who came early or stuck around to lend a hand. Excited for more today! #PNWClimateWeek #Sustainability #ClimateTech #Seattle #SeattleBusiness #SeattleStartup

Bandadas comenzó siendo un emprendimiento en 2021 y hoy ya es una startup conformada por 9 profesionales. A fines del año pasado ganamos la edición LATAM de Founders Live y a principios de este año resultamos seleccionados para formar parte de Emprelatam. Founders Live ofrece un desafío de presentación en horario de máxima audiencia con diferentes fases. Los Fundadores seleccionados tienen que pitchear en 99 segundos más 4 minutos de preguntas y respuestas de la audiencia, quienes deciden el ganador de cada fase. En Emprelatam, las startups seleccionadas se convierten en miembros de la red y acceden a iniciativas remotas de aceleración, formación y apoyo equity-free según su etapa: idea, pre-seed o seed. En abril lanzamos nuestro sistema de gestión para convocatorias del mundo del arte y 5 clientes ya confiaron en nuestra compañía. Tenemos muchos objetivos por delante y un grupo espectacular que va a darlo todo, ellxs son: CTO_ Lucas Olini Dirección Comercial_ Laura Caviglia Business Intelligence_ Cynthia Milosz Comunicación_ Gabriela Lucariello UX & UI_ Paula Di Vincenzo & Lara Wegrzyn Operaciones_ Camila Stehling Founders_ Florencia Fabeni & Ignacio Unrrein

Last week, I attended the Founders Live 99-second pitch competition in Copenhagen to better understand what’s crucial to convey to investors and others when you have just 99 seconds to tell your story. A diverse group of people and companies competed against each other. This time, I was on the sidelines, absorbing the experience and honing my skills in short-time pitching. It was an invaluable experience, and I gained valuable insights. Thanks to Tegan Spinner and Nick Hughes for organizing the event, and congratulations to the winner, Antonio Divković! #StartupLife #PitchCompetition #FoundersLive #Entrepreneurship #Networking #InvestorPitch #UpboostAI

#SeattleAIWeek was everything and more than it was billed out to be! A huge thank you to Nick Ellingson with WTIA for organizing a hell of a week. I'm still buzzing over how great of an event Founders Live was and the level of expertise all of the pitching founders had! I was fortunate to be able to sit down with the winner of June's Founders Live Melissa Hutchins and talk about the amazing work her company Certifi AI is doing to combat the damage that deepfakes are having in this world. Specifically, their mission is to provide a trusted detection tool that advocates for women and girls who are disproportionately impacted by AI manipulated images and videos. This was a robust interview full of knowledge, experience, and vulnerability that I highly recommend watching. Check it out below; thank you Melissa for your time and attention! ------- We're back in just 2 WEEKS at Georgetown Stem Plant for PNW Climate Week! Grab your early bird tickets while they last from the comments section Thank you to the team and sponsors who make Founders Live Seattle happen! Nick Hughes Luis Antezana Kelly Lawton-Abbott, JD/MBA Amelia Marckworth Melissa Reaves Gary Malcolm Raxit J. Louis Newkirk Koki Sato Bill Sablan Timu Marketing Agency