Why Pitch?

To increase your startup’s chances of success

To get practical, actionable feedback from people who have the most impact on your success – investors and successful startup founders.
To meet investors, partners, developers, designers, industry leaders, users and startup press
To launch a new product (website or mobile app) and jumpstart your user base

Everyone selected to pitch gets:

Investor presentation training from CEO coach and investor pitch/fundraising expert Mac Lipscomb
An application on Gust.com, the industry standard deal-flow management system used by hundreds of angel investment groups. Following your pitch at Ultra Light, you can re-submit your application to thousands of investors nationally and internationally.
Exposure to 100-200 startup community members – investors, founders, executives, developers, media, etc
Exposure to 4 top early-stage tech investors on our panel. Each panelist reads your Gust application and is required to give constructive, actionable advice following your pitch. Investors tell you where your next pivot should be. This is the most important benefit.
Coverage on popular startup blogs (see examples on NYConvergence and Under30CEO).
Several startups have received angel investments directly from investors sitting in the audience at our events.

The top 3 startups win prizes including:

An automatic bid to pitch at New York Angels, New York’s oldest and largest angel investor network. New York Angels has invested over $45 million in more than 70 venture companies.
$500 in Amazon Web Services credit to cover storage, compute, networking, and database costs
One session to review their business concept and help refine the technology components from Digital X Bridge
A media training package from Media Training Worldwide

The top startup gets:

An automatic first-round interview for the next class of Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, one of New York’s top seed accelerator programs
A Design & Development Matching Scholarship from Fueled, a well-respected NYC Design & Development agency. The scholarship winner gets $5,000 in Fueled services at 80% off, which means you’ll get a top agency working for less than a freelancer’s rates.
One hour of mentorship with super bootstrapper, Dennis Mortensen. Dennis sold his last company to Yahoo for undisclosed millions. Perfect for anyone of the bootstrapping mindset (like me!)
A free Bamboo iPad Case from Broodr.com

Pitches at The Investor Feedback Forum

Case Study – FriendlyNote

Ultra Light Startups member Corey Maass pitched his new startup, FriendlyNote at our event on December 2, 2010. Prior to his pitch, FriendlyNote was a brand new product and had negligible web traffic. Following his pitch, traffic on FriendlyNote spiked and continued growing for several days. Pitching at Ultra Light Startups provided a great platform for Corey to launch his new site and gain critical initial users.