A Road to Silicon Valley Money

Feb 27, 2025

Palo Alto, CA

SAND HILL ACCELERATION PROGRAM

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One Day Acceleration Program - Part 1 - Lectures

Come to Silicon Valley and participate in small group meetings with VCs, Mentors and Advisers who will tell you:

• How to make a perfect Pitch Deck
• How does Venture Market work in Silicon Valley
• How do Venture Funds choose Startups
• How to prepare for Top Accelerators

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Speakers

Jordan Wahbeh

Managing Partner at SV Venture Group

Topic: Pitch Deck Preparation

Alexander Soroka

Managing Partner at Network VC

Vasyl Dub

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Stanford Lecturer & Longevity Ambassador | Mentor for Entrepreneurs at Alchemist Accelerator and Stanford University | Growth Mindset Coaching | 3x founder Silicon Valley Access �Topic: The Culture and Strategies of Silicon Valley: A public speaking lecture that draws on my business and networking experiences both before and after moving to Silicon Valley.

One Day Acceleration Program - Part 2 - Training Pitches

VC Investor at VU Venture Partners

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Advisors will listen to each pitch deck presented during the test pitch session, providing personalized feedback and actionable recommendations. This session aims to help refine your pitch for clarity, impact, and effectiveness, ensuring that you’re well-prepared for future investor presentations

Make a Training Pitch of your startup and get advice from our Mentors:

Asher Bond

Ari Qayumi

Founder, General and Managing Partner at Mindful Venture Capital

What the program looks like

What training pitches look like

One Day Acceleration Program - Part 3 - Demo Day

Pitch your startup at Demo Day organized by Unicorn.Events to local:

• VCs
• CVCs
• Family Offices
• Business Angels

DEMO DAY JUDGES

DEMO DAY JUDGES

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Ryan Flannery

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Venture investor, materials science and deep tech commercialization

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Dimitar Kotov

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Financial Advisor at Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC

DEMO DAY JUDGES

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Shankar Narayanan

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Technology Partnerships & Sales Leader | Amazon Web Services | Energy & Utilities

How does Demo Day look like

About Unicorn.Events :

Each event: �10+ VC funds with a combined AUM of $1B+

500 + VCs in our network worldwide

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Jury Board

Our Network

Top AI, Robotics, AR, Product experts from Meta, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google, Tesla, Berkeley at our events

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TOP Corporations

Funding

The finalists of our events have raised $1b+

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Finalists

Among finalists - alumni of the YC, Alchemist, NVIDIA Inception, Techstars

and more.

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Worldwide

500+ Unicorn Events were held in 50 countries

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Unicorn Cup Finals

One Day Acceleration Program - Part 4 - Networking

Create your own network in Silicon Valley:

Agenda

9.00 am - 10.00 am Meeting 1

10.00 am - 11.00 am Meeting 2

11.00 am - 12.00 pm Meeting 3

12.00 pm - 1.00 pm Meeting 4

1.00 pm - 2.30 pm Break

2.30 pm - 4.00 pm - Training Pitches

4.00 pm - 5.00 pm - Self Preparation

5.00 pm - 7.00 pm Demo Day

7.00 pm - 9.00 pm Networking

Co-Organizers

VCHOUSE

Terms

Only 10 startups can participate in

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Use Eventbrite to secure your spot!

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*Additional team members: $250 per person

Price: $1490

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Team

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Reach out to us for more information

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jo@startup.network

WhatsApp: +1(914)-339-2339

Feedback from past participants

Check also our One Week program:

BIG SILICON VALLEY TOUR

organized by

Menlopark University

https://menlopark.university/

About us

�Venture Capital

as an Operating System

https://network.vc/

About us

Network VC is the Venture Fund and Platform with for Independent VC Professionals that allows them to

start and do a VC business together with other Partners.

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For Partners, we have created:

• Deal Flow Tool
• Fundraising and Onboarding Tool
• Legal Solution
• Communication Tools

14

years

55

100

$1b+

3

countries

pitch events per year

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raised by participants

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3 events types

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Every Professional can use our unique event platform to organize a pitch event in their city or country. It helps Professionals to find the best startups and create their network of investors in a region

https://unicorn.events/

Every Partner can use public web-based service for the venture market participants that allows entrepreneurs to place their ideas, startups, or businesses to search for investments and allows investors to contact entrepreneurs directly��

1000

Applications per month

125

Countries

2015

Launch

https://startup.network/

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VC House is a closed community created exclusively for VCs. We use this tool to exchange deals with other VCs. Here you can see some of our members.

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VC HOUSE

https://vc.house/

Onboarding Solution

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• Special tool that allows Partners easily onboard new Investors and LPs into their Chapter
• LPs can get early liquidity trough digitized securities
• The platform use distributed ledger core to record, share and synchronize transactions
• It has an electronic agreements management solution to verify and hash all user data and store in the distributed file systems (IPFS)

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https://startup.inc/

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Crowd Expertise

A big advantage for Network VC Partners �is the community expertise. When analysing �startups we use our access to the large �number of VCs with whom we can advice �and get evaluations. It can happen in the �process of Unicorn Events and when �communicating in VC House.

Traction

Started investing in US in 2019 we already:

• We have 60+ startups in our portfolio
• Our events are happening in 55 States and Countries
• We have LPs from 22 countries, who participate in our Clubs

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Alexander Soroka - Partner and CEO at Network VC. Studied entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School and Venture Capital at Said Business School, University of Oxford. 20 years of experience in venture

industry.

CEO & Founder

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Partners

Alexander Soroka�Partner

Valeriy Omelchenko�Partner

Jordan Wahbeh�Partner

Partners

Ella Li�Venture Partner

Maksim Strelchenko�Venture Partner

Sudhir Kadam�Venture Partner

A Road to Silicon Valley Money

2025 Schedule

Menlo Park, CA

SAND HILL ACCELERATION PROGRAM

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