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ORCA Opportunities: $50K LA Pitch Competition

Alongside Honors Fund, we are hosting a pitch competition for University students in the Southwest Region building B2B Companies. 6 finalist teams will pitch live Oct 25 for a chance to get $50K investment from Honors Fund, with the possibility of an additional $200K being awarded live. There will be about 150 founders, investors, and operators attending live to see who wins!

If you’re a founder or investor in or around LA and want to get involved, shoot me an email at [email protected]!

ORCA Premium: Email Deal Flow

We’re now offering curated weekly deal flow emails: receive an email every week with startups that match your thesis exactly, with functionality to get an introduction to the founders in real-time.

Book a 10-minute demo with our CEO to learn more:

Other Resources

• $100K NYC MBA Founder Pitch Competition: Deadline has been extended to Oct 15. Apply here.

• Use the promo code ‘ORCA’ to get $75 off tickets to Table Stakes, an event that provides an opportunity to unify a pool of investors and introduce them to the market – thinking differently, impacting industry behavior, and changing the way capital is allocated today.

• If you work in VC, are based in NYC, and are looking for a platform to connect with like-minded professionals, share valuable insights, and stay updated on the latest events and deal flow opportunities in NYC, join this WhatsApp chat. 

• Check out this list of new VC funds at / below $200M in size by Shai Goldman

Trending Startups

Hundreds of startups have met investors through ORCA, earning acceptance to prestigious accelerators like Antler and PearX, term sheet offers, and more.

Here are the top startups this week:

Riskmind AI

Riskmind AI: B2B SaaS Insure-Tech platform that helps businesses manage and buy insurance without paying brokerage fees.

Prometheus Data, Inc

Prometheus Data, Inc: AI-powered risk management solution for businesses dealing with foreign nationals and global trade.

Moonshine

Moonshine: The future of video understanding and analysis - starting with reimagining video editing.

Investor Activity This Week

Here are some of the firms most actively reviewing startups on ORCA this week.

Blue Collective

Blue Collective: A generalist VC firm investing at early stage (the earlier, the better): from day one to Series A, they want to be your first big check.

Plainsight Capital

Plain Sight Capital invests in pre-seed and seed product-led B2B SaaS companies that can scale horizontally and have at least one underrepresented founder.

Antler VC

Antler is a generalist, pre-seed VC that backs founders from day zero to find co-founders and build exceptional teams, test their ideas, and rapidly launch startups.

New Startups This Week

All three of these new startups caught our eye – and they’ve all already booked calls with investors after 7 days or less on ORCA!

Tandem

Tandem helps hybrid companies find and share office space.

SOTRO

SOTRO: A hair care technology company building a proprietary line of travel-friendly hair care tools, luxury hair-health focused salon experiences and a AR-based hair styling skill-sharing platform

JUICE

JUICE: Apple Pay for vehicles - EV charging made seamless using computer vision and embedded payments