GoPresent

Founded by @timhaydenclark

Capital Intelligence Platform Trusted by VCs

+ 20 Seconds to Raise videos
+ we host cool events in Boxing Rings & Driving Ranges

[GoPresent @GoPresent_AI]

Did an investor tell you no?

Did they give you a pretend reason why they passed on you?

Was their feedback absolutely useless?

I'm going to tell you the real reasons why investors say no and the data points that lead to those decisions

Brought to you by our partners who support founders the most; @CitizensBank & @deel at LA @Techweek_

RSVP 👉 https://t.co/PVLaBlzw6q

Pitch in the Ring - https://t.co/7o65HAUbh4 🥊

[GoPresent @GoPresent_AI]

After weeks of VC meetings and hosting VCs in Boxing rings for @Techweek_ I wrote an article on the state of venture capital

If you're in VC or a founder currently raising this article of for you

https://t.co/NtxO3Ovmsq

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@boardyai @hf0 30

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free capital readiness report for founder --> https://t.co/2gjM670XUZ

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We rented a real boxing ring in Hollywood and let VCs tell founders, live, why they’d pass 🥊

Six founders. One minute each. No hiding.

Here’s what two @a16z Tech Weeks taught us 👇

#SFTW 🌉

We opened with Why Investors Say No. Sarah Romanko (@geek_ventures ) and Bryan Liu (@alumniventures ) told founders exactly where a pitch loses them

#LATW 🎬
Then we took it to Hollywood: a real ring at @unifiedbxngclub and a VC panel giving verdicts in real time. Thank you to @Citizens_PB and @deel for sponsoring, and to Office of Tomorrow for co-hosting.

What we learned
→ Founders are raising now. 86% of the founders we surveyed in LA are raising now or within six months

→ The inbox is the investor’s biggest time sink. Investors read deals that are clearly a no, for fear of missing the one that isn’t

→ Speed wins deals. Slow internal decisions are how good investments get lost

→ Claims need checking, not just reading. That includes the “we’re closing fast” urgency

Those last three are why we’re building GoPresent: we do the homework, so investors can make the call

Next round: @SlushHQ 🇫🇮
Helsinki, 18–19 November. We’re hosting a house party. Announcement soon.

Going to Slush? Reply or DM. We want to meet you.

[GoPresent @GoPresent_AI]

Deep research and due diligence for investors → https://t.co/lHnVSuMoKj

[Alan Pun @alanpun_]

Snippets of our launch video for @okihomeai, your Personal AI Computer.

Results:

1.1M views on X.

Sold out First batch.

Became a much larger convo on what's coming next in the world of personal AI.

Thanks @Luofei_Chen for trusting us again!

[Alan Pun @alanpun_]

One day after @screenpipe launch:

600,000+ views. 1.9K likes. 2.5K saves. 213 reposts. 214 comments across LinkedIn and X.

For the strategy, we asked ourselves:

"What's now possible with Screenpipe that used to be impossible or really hard to do?"

That drove every frame, from the hook to all the use cases shown.

Special thanks to @louis030195 for trusting us with this process!

[GoPresent @GoPresent_AI]

@a16z that was wiiiild

4x VCs
8x Founders Pitching
100x Investors & Founders Ringside

Thank you to @CitizensBank & @deel for making it such a spectacle

join @alanpun_ in the future VC Boxing Rings - DM

#LATW #LATechWeek #Startup #Founder #VC

[GoPresent @GoPresent_AI]

Few Deals, Bigger Cheques 💰

How does a founder truly differentiate themselves from the noise?

How does a founder become truly VC-backable?

Our VC Boxing Ring Panel will share all their insight at TECH WEEK by a16z

Our Headline "Boxers" for our MAIN EVENT

Sarah Romanko and @geek_ventures 🥊
Martin Cox of Voice Capital 🥊
La Keisha Landrum Pierre of @VCEmmeline 🥊
One mystery VC 🥊

Huge thank you to all the incredible people who have made this possible, including our sponsors Miles Deamer of @CitizensBank and Madalyn Woronoff (Messner) & Madeleine Futterman of @deel

Bring on the most glamorous boxing ring the bright lights of LA have to offer 🎥

RSVP: https://t.co/u62SaumrId

#LATechWeek #LATW #VC #Founder #Startup

[GoPresent @GoPresent_AI]

Space is limited by launch economics. Every kilogram of water, fuel, shielding, and metal must climb out of Earth’s gravity well—making large-scale orbital industry prohibitively expensive.

Asteroids change that

#founder #startup #space #asteroid #20str #techweekbyaz16

[GoPresent @GoPresent_AI]

This is @cruz.hq of @stagera.ai

Cruz is solving the AVL production problem with Stagera, a platform to streamline insight and operational processes, all in one agentic platform

#sf #founder #sales #ai #fundraising #techweekbyaz16

[GoPresent @GoPresent_AI]

Great to have Sharif Bennett of CineBlock® on 20 seconds to raise.

He's rebuilding how entertainment gets financed. CineBlock is an equity crowdfunding marketplace for film, TV, games and more, so anyone can legally invest in or finance a production.

#FounderSeries #techweek

[GoPresent @GoPresent_AI]

Met Aurora and Milo of Evermind Labs for 20 seconds to raise

They are building private, uncensored AI — the first AI where you are the customer not the product.

2 months in. 100,000 users.

If that’s not traction I don’t know what is.

#FounderSeries #nytechweek #AIFounders

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Jenna Scherma of Learn Mobo is building tech that matters - sex ed from awkward lectures into gamified, ready to teach, customisable to state guidelines, and designed for educators, parents and teens alike.

#founders #fundraising

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I met Michael Melichar of Triptimize at NY Tech Week

This one is going to resonate with every travel operator out there. ✈️

Triptimize is white-label AI trip planning deployed inside the brands travellers already trust

#TravelTech #AIStartup #StartupFunding #venturecapital

[GoPresent @GoPresent_AI]

Why Investors Say No In the Ring with an Investor comes to @techweeka16z LA, presented with @citizensprivatebank and @getdeel

Free for founders raising &investors actively deploying

https://t.co/tCKFHFeGZb

#LATechWeek #Founders #Fundraising #startup

[GoPresent @GoPresent_AI]

20 seconds to raise is a tech for good founder ⏱️
Ophir Kagan is building Kala AI-powered patient care technology that helps patients navigate their health journey, supports clinical teams, and generates real world evidence that pharma actually needs.

#FounderSeries #HealthTech

[GoPresent @GoPresent_AI]

Met Jiapeng (JP) Zhang and Wang Xiang at TECH WEEK by a16z and this one is playing the long game. 🧬

They’re building at the intersection of AI and longevity — a health app designed to help you live better for longer. Already on the App Store

#FounderSeries #PreSeed #Raise #AI

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20s to raise with Christian Santos of Organizely at TECH WEEK by a16z and this is the kind of founder who gets it - he solved his own problem first. 📦

Check his pitch out below

#FounderSeries #PreSeed

[GoPresent @GoPresent_AI]

Had the pleasure of interviewing Chandan Seth Nanda of ToxiProofAI, an ex-Antler founder in residence.

Drug companies spend billions testing medicines. Most fail — because they find out the drug is dangerous after giving it to patients. ToxiProofAI figures that out before.