On November 3rd, Engage3 took to the stage to pitch their business plan and traction to a panel of venture capitalists and an audience of Bay Area entrepreneurs at TiE Silicon Valley’s San Francisco Pitchfest event to ultimately secure first place after the presentation and Q&A.
Judges at this year’s event included: John Dougery, Managing Partner of Inventus Capital; Arjun Chopra, Partner at Floodgate; Ankur Jain, co-founder of Emergent Ventures; and Lokesh Sikaria, Managing Director of Moneta Ventures.
The event was sponsored by DLA Piper and moderated by Rajiv Dharnidharka, a partner of DLA Piper’s Silicon Valley litigation group. Other TiE sponsors include Adobe, Cisco, SanDisk Corporation, IBM, VMware, Zoho Corp, Discover, HP, Mayfield Fund, Bank of America, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Morgan Stanley, Silicon Valley Bank, and more.
TiE was founded in 1992 and currently has 13,000 members, including over 2,500 charter members in 61 chapters across 18 countries. The non-profit’s mission is to foster global entrepreneurship and claims an economic wealth creation estimate of $200 billion. TiE’s annual professional conferences, TiECon are regarded as the largest entrperneurial forum in the world and held in over 15 cities globally each year. Click here to learn more about TiE.
