Pitch Practice w/ fnInvestor Alok Nandan (Emergent VC) Feb 12, 2020

Watch, Pitch, Learn: Join fnInvestor Alok Nandan, General Partner at Emergent Ventures, for a virtual pitch practice.

Participants will pitch for 3 minutes and receive 2 minutes of feedback from our guest investor. You also have the option to simply listen in and learn from other founder's pitches.

Five founders will be selected to pitch based on the investor's criteria a week before the Pitch Practice.

Emergent Ventures invest in category-defining startups at seed and early stages. They partner with ambitious entrepreneurs on a rapid growth trajectory and the desire to make an immense impact. Their targeted inputs, growth playbook and community of successful mentors enable our portfolio entrepreneurs to get to the next major milestone faster.

Emergent Ventures Sectors

Intelligent Software

Intelligent Software is the next generation of enterprise and B2B software that gets smarter with use. Intelligent Software is often fueled by AI, Machine Learning and modern data processing techniques. It efficiently leverages data coming from customer use, third parties, or from IoT devices such as sensors, cameras, smart devices and robots. Emergent believes that Intelligent Software has the potential to re-invent and transform a wide range of industry verticals and business functions to bring customers higher efficiency, new revenue streams, automation and ease of use. Their Intelligent Software focus includes the underlying Cloud and Infrastructure Software that makes the application layers more functional and feasible.

Smart Mobility

Smart Mobility is the tech-enabled reinvention of the multi-trillion dollar Transportation and Logistics industry, and includes segments such as personal mobility, modern B2B logistics, delivery networks and vehicle electrification.

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Pitchers consent to their pitch being recorded and shared internally within FN.

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Agenda:

• 09:30 - 09:40 || General FN Announcements
• 09:40 - 09:45 || Introduction of Investor
• 09:45 - 10:15 || Pitch Feedback Session
• 10:15 - 10:30 || Q&A

Investment Criteria

• Invests In: Bootstrap, Angel
• Sector(s): Enterprise, SaaS, Infrastructure
• Investment Location(s): Agnostic
• Investment Range: $500k - $750k

About the fnInvestor

Alok Nandan is a Partner at Emergent Ventures. Previously, Alok ran a product strategy consulting firm advising a number of high growth startups. Prior to that, Alok was a Director of Product at TempoAI and later at Salesforce which acquired TempoAI in 2016. Earlier, Alok led product teams at YuMe (IPO: NYSE) where he joined at an early stage and experienced its evolution into a public company. Prior to that, Alok held multiple product management roles at Microsoft, with the last one in Windows Azure. Alok was also co-founder of ToneThis a mobile technology startup.

Alok holds a Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, a Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA. Alok is also a co-inventor for three technology patents.