Founders Live

Special guest Nick Hughes from Founders Live joined us in Raleigh-Durham tonight!! Great night of networking, amazing pitches, and congrats to well-deserved winner Chip Kennedy of CivicReach.AI !! It was a tight competition tonight! #founderslive #techstartups #trianglenc #founders

As I write this, I’m feeling incredibly grateful and humbled. Standing on the same stage where legends like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Oasis, Victoria Wood, and John Cleese have once performed is surreal. Huge thanks to Cambridge Tech Week for giving Simone and I, the platform to share our passion for technology and male fertility! And to top it off—I’m beyond thrilled to have won not just one, but two awards at #CamTechWeek; the People’s Choice Award at the #InnovationAlley and the Founders Live Award. These awards represent the beginning of what’s going to be an exciting journey, where I get to turn my PhD research into real-world solutions for early detection and treatment of male infertility. A massive thank you to the judges for believing in our mission. We’re on the cusp of a new era in male fertility care, and I couldn’t be more excited! If you’re interested to be part of it too, please DM me. Dr Soraya Jones Faye Holland Dr Nicola Hancock Laura Hood Roz Bird Nick Goodwin Dave Hailey Julie Schofield Sheng Qi Zak Ireson University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Virilitas Labs #CamTechWeek #Innovation #MaleFertility #Investment

?Qué increíble ha sido celebrar Founders Live en #Zaragoza! ?? El evento fue súper divertido, con un ambiente increíble. Además, tuve la suerte de trabajar de la mano de las cracks de Irene Andreu Carrera y de María Lozano López, que con su presentación hicieron que fuese un auténtico éxito. Los 5 emprendedores que se lanzaron a esta aventura, Eduardo Ramos Ibá?ez, Lucía Llópiz Domínguez, Néstor Salceda, Antonio Gonzalez-Adalid de los Casares y Javier Juárez Zarruk, lo dieron todo y nos dejaron alucinados con sus proyectos. ?Y todo acompa?ado de la deliciosa cerveza de Club Runner Cerdos Voladores! ?? En resumen, no pudimos pasarlo mejor. Gracias a todos los que nos acompa?asteis y contribuisteis a que este día fuera inolvidable. ???

We won! 23 hrs before this, I got an email from Thomas. Someone dropped out from the pitching contest, and we were now in! I was hesitant - we have less than a day to prep, and 99 seconds to pitch. But we took a plunge. Now, I'm so glad we accepted the challenge. We got to show what we're building with The MetaPause team -- for the 1st time in this part of the world! ?? ...I think we got all the women in the audience to vote for us. Since the winner of the contest was determined by the public, I can only attribute this to our cause. We matter - healthcare doesn't have to be sexist. Women's longevity deserves attention. Women's health is a hot topic. Again, thanks for all the votes, folks of Lisbon - we'll be back on stage soon, with even more advancements. It was great to meet and hang out with all the other epic founders! Huge thanks to the Founders Live. We love you even though you had our logo stretched and deformed on the screen lol. Xenia Kadar - you're the best support I could imagine. ?? Lauren Weiniger - we missed you dearly.

Ooh we had a time last week!! Founders Live -Startup World Cup occurred on Thursday in front of a booming audience at the beautiful Seattle University. It’s been about 3 years since the Startup World Cup made it to Seattle and we definitely showed out! Massive thanks and job well done to all of the participating founders- Melissa Hutchins, Patrick Stevan Phelps, Andrea Parrish, and Jason Puracal. In the end, Shen Ren with BioLegacy took home the trophy and the honor of representing Seattle at the Startup World Cup Grand Finals in October in San Francisco!!! This was such a great event, and as always couldn’t have been done without the support and effort from an amazing team! Amelia Marckworth, Kelly Lawton-Abbott, JD/MBA, Nick Hughes, Luis Antezana, Raxit J., Gary Malcolm, Louis Newkirk, Melissa Reaves , Bill Sablan, Nick Ellingson, Koki Sato, WTIA, NOW CFO, Pegasus Tech Ventures

???????? ??????????????????: Trip to a remote island to test their survival skills for 3 days ?? Speak with Desert Island Survival Attended my first Founders Live event last night. 99s to pitch your start up, talk about pressure ?? Everyone was amazing, and it's super exciting to hear about all the one-of-a-kind ideas making headway in their space! FOUNDERS: David Afonso Nortech AI ?? Tom Williams - Desert Island Survival ?? Tom Tobia - A New Field ?? Mark Little - Subcast ?? And congrats to the winner, Maria JD Sirotkina with The MetaPause ???? I'll look for to the next one!

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of hosting an outstanding Founders Live Cambridge event during Cambridge Tech Week, held in the historic courtroom of the Guildhall! ?? As proud sponsors of Cambridge Tech Week, UHY Hacker Young (East) was thrilled to bring Founders Live to the Innovation and Investor Day of CTW24! We witnessed some incredible pitches from our founders, each presenting their company in just 99 seconds: Andy Lessey from Antler Bio Dr. Daniel Marcu from Virilitas Labs Rajeshwari Iyer from sAInaptic Hasan Avcu, MD from Tesu Health Ruth Cousens from Thiscovery ?? Congratulations to our winner Dr. Daniel Marcu from Virilitas Labs! ?? Built upon a world leading expertise in sperm biology, Virilitas is dedicated to improving and optimising?services and interventions around male reproductive health and fertility by translating cutting edge research?into applications for clinical and at home use. A huge thank you to all the pitchers for their inspiring presentations and to everyone who attended the event and asked insightful questions. Your engagement made the event even more impactful. Follow us to stay tuned with any future pitching events! #CambridgeTechWeek #CTW24 #CamTechWeek #FoundersLiveCambridge #Tech #Innovation

I asked David to describe his experience pitching at our first Founders Live event in #Oslo. Thanks to Trond Riiber Knudsen and Raja Skogland for joining us as jury and to all our partners who recommended their portfolio startups Startup Norway , Antler , Katapult , Nordic Edge , HER - Hun Etablerer Ressursprogrammet , Xplorico , DigitalWell Ventures ?? Apply to pitch: https://lnkd.in/dTChEaEv ?? Register to participate: https://lnkd.in/dHUr2tBX … At our second Founders Live event ???? ????????, hosted by the Oslo Innovation Week, Mesh Community, ENFA - Euro Nordic Funding Alliance, and Desinova Studios. The global startup pitching competition in 160+ cities across 47+ countries is in Oslo! ? ????????: Tuesday, 24/09, 17:00-20:00 ?? ??????????: Mesh Nationaltheatret - Mesh Community, Headquarter of the Oslo Innovation Week. See you there. #startups #pitching #investment