Take the floor.
Practice the pitch.
Ace the raise.
The Green Room is a safe space for founders to practice their pitch, risk- and judgment-free, in front of current investors and subject matter experts.
During a private, two-hour Zoom session, our panel will provide advice, answer questions and highlight areas of opportunities so you'll be confident your pitch is the best it can be when you're ready to start fundraising.
The Green Room is free, and open to founders of companies at any size and stage. Our panels rotate to accommodate specific topics and industries so you can find the panel that provides the highest level of relevancy to your business.
Founder testimonials
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"This is a high value event! Not only will you receive targeted feedback and be given ample opportunity to ask questions of the advisors, but you will also watch fellow founders pitch and benefit from the feedback they receive."
Christine Lum Ling
Founder & CEO, Origin Healthcare -
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“It was great that there were multiple investors at once. It helped tease out themes and notice patterns in what goes over well and what doesn't."
Paul Gastello
Founder, Patchwork Labs -
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“It was great to be in a room with folks who actually knew our space; hearing feedback based on what they've seen was super helpful and tactical."
Peggy Yu
Co-Founder & CEO, Stack Education -
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“I loved the open forum and the ability to ask questions without being judged."
Kavi Misri
Founder & CEO, Hibiscus Health -
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"I've been through multiple pitch prep sessions... they brought a level of candor and specificity that was unparalleled."
Kathryn Harrison
Founder & CEO, MAGPIE -
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"I just came out of one of the most useful pitch feedback sessions I've experienced. The Green Room format is genius for a startup founder preparing to raise."
Bradlee Duncan
Co-Founder & CPO, TrackFly -
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"I loved the honest (and kind) feedback; I definitely felt that it was a safe place. I also really liked listening to other founders and the advice given to them."
Jane Goodrich
Founder & CEO, Picsello -
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"It takes a lot of trial and error to refine your story. I've gone through 5 versions already and thought I was getting close. This is a great chance to see if that's true or not, get great input, and refocus the story in a low-stakes environment."
Emily Kingdom
Co-Founder, Better BRIA
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FAQs
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The Green Room (TGR) is a space I built for founders to practice their pitches in front of select VCs, industry leaders, and fellow founders in a low-stakes, judgment-free environment. The goal is to provide founders with the honest, blunt, often critical feedback they need ahead of raising for real.
One two-hour session is held privately via Zoom once a month, focused on a specific topic. Each session includes 3 founders/founding teams and 3-4 VCs/industry expert panelists who have been hand-picked to ensure relevance.
During the session, each founder/founding team does their pitch and then the panelists (and fellow founders!) discuss and provide feedback.
While TGR is structured around the pitch itself, the discussions often verge into broader territory (e.g., the business model, growth strategies, how to build competitive differentiation, talent, etc.). Basically, it’s your chance to ask anything and get the honest, judgment-free advice from VCs who have spent a lot of time in this space. Nothing is off limits.
We place a strong emphasis on trust and confidentiality. What happens in The Green Room stays in The Green Room. Founders can feel safe sharing their ideas, plans, and challenges, knowing that they will be treated with the utmost respect and kept strictly confidential.
The panelists in The Green Room are not there to judge or criticize. They genuinely want to help founders succeed.
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This is not about giving founders “pats on the back” or participation accolades. TGR was designed for real talk, in a way that’s actually helpful to founders during what can be a very difficult and confusing process.
This is an intimate, judgment-free environment where nothing is off limits. As a result, meaningful connections can be made in a short amount of time.
Unlike a pitch competition where founders are pressed for time, TGR gives founders a full 35 minutes to go through their pitch and get meaningful feedback.
Each session is focused on a particular topic or industry, and panelists and founders are hand-picked to match to ensure relevance.
Nothing is shared with panelists in advance, ensuring founders get raw, unfiltered reactions and can engage in authentic exchange in the moment.
By having multiple VCs in the room together, founders get a better sense of where there is/is not consensus and get a preview of what to expect when they pitch to different VCs during their fundraise (e.g., different preferences, biases, etc.)
Founders get to learn not just by pitching themselves, but also by hearing their fellow founders (who also happen to be solving problems in the same space) pitch and receive feedback.
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TGR is a full two-hour session. There are 3 founders/founding teams and 3-4 VCs/industry experts in the room, and all are expected to stay for the complete time.
TGR happens in a completely closed off, private Zoom meeting – everything discussed there, stays there. Strict confidentiality is enforced.
Each founder/founding team gets a full 35 minutes to spend however they wish. Usually, founders want help with their pitch so will spend ~20-25 minutes going through their deck, with ~10-15 minutes of feedback and discussion with the VC/industry expert panelists and fellow founders.
Typical agenda (all times in PT):
9:00-9:05am – housekeeping & panelist intros
9:05-9:40am – founding team 1
9:40-10:25am – founding team 2
10:25-11:00am – founding team 3
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The Green Room is free and open to founders of all startup stages and sizes. However, it’s typically most impactful to early-stage and first-time founders.
Founders can apply for upcoming sessions here. Selections are made and communicated roughly 7-10 days before the scheduled session. When founders are not selected for their desired session, we still keep their applications in mind and may reach out regarding future sessions, where relevant.
Disclaimer
The Green Room is a regularly scheduled, private, two-hour Zoom where three founders are selected to practice and refine their pitches in front of active venture capitalists and industry experts. We place a strong emphasis on trust and confidentiality. What happens in The Green Room stays in The Green Room. You can feel safe sharing your ideas, plans, and challenges, knowing that they will be treated with the utmost respect and kept strictly confidential.
The views expressed by each panelist, whether in a panel or elsewhere, are solely the individual views of such panelist and are not the views of any organization that employs or is associated with such panelist or is an affiliated or related party of such organization.
The panels are for discussion and information purposes only and the feedback provided by each panelist should not be construed as financial or investment advice and does not constitute a recommendation or an offer, solicitation or invitation by the panelist or the employer of such panelist (or any of its affiliates) for the subscription or purchase of securities or assets or for services of any kind (including investment advisory services). No information or statement made in any panel shall form the basis or be relied upon in connection with any contract or commitment whatsoever.
Each prospective participant should rely on its own business judgment and knowledge concerning the investment, financial condition and prospects of any investment and consult its own attorney, business adviser and tax adviser as to legal, business, tax and related matters concerning the information discussed in each panel and in relation to a potential investment generally and for advice relating to any legal, tax or accounting issues relating to a potential investment. By participating in a panel, each participant acknowledges that each panelist, and any organization employing or associated with such panelist, does not accept any liability whatsoever for any direct, indirect or consequential loss arising from any use of the information in a panel. There can be no assurances that any participant’s investment objectives will be achieved or will be successful.