Venture Pitch Competition | AGI Summit 2025

VENTURE PITCH COMPETITION

The Launchpad for Human-AI Interaction. Pitch the Future. Shape AGI.

In-Person Lunch with Top VCs at the Summit. Win $10,000 cash prize/investment. Meet AI investors and founders.

Deadline: 10am, Nov 14, 2025
💫 Open to all early-stage founders with bold visions for AGI!
⚠️ Submit your pitch to VC avatars below by 10am on November 14, 2025. Late submissions will not qualify for prizes.

ABOUT THE COMPETITION

Happyverse is hosting a Venture Pitch Competition at its AGI Interface Summit on November 15th. Early-stage founders will create their own AI avatar (a "Confidant") that can pitch their startup vision to leading venture capitalists.

VCs will interact with your avatar to evaluate your pitch. The top 8 finalists will join VCs for lunch at the Summit. The winner will receive a $10,000 cash prize/investment and further financing opportunities and introductions.

MEET OUR JUDGES

MAX SAPO

CEO @ HAPPYVERSE
CEO and founder of Happyverse. Building the future of AGI interfaces where humans can scale themselves 24/7 through personalized AI avatars and confidants.

AMRIT RAO

GP @ VILLAGE GLOBAL
General Partner at Village Global — one of the coolest and also warmest people in the VC ecosystem. Backing the next generation of AGI startups.

ALENA PETROVA

INVESTMENT PARTNER @ YELLOW ROCKS!
Serial entrepreneur and VC. Investment Partner at Yellow Rocks!, founder of Unicorn Factory. Building lasting relationships with founders and investing in early-stage tech companies in Future of Work, EdTech, FinTech, Web3, and Gaming.

ALEJANDRA VERGARA

PARTNER @ BEE PARTNERS
Partner at Bee Partners, investing in early-stage startups building the future of AI and human-computer interaction.

PRACTICE YOUR PITCH

Want to practice before creating your own avatar? Test your pitch with one of the VC Confidants below (Amrit, Alena, or Alejandra) to get feedback and refine your approach. Remember: To officially enter the competition, you must register and create your own avatar following the steps above.

Amrit Rao Confidant

General Partner at Village Global

Alena Petrova Confidant

Investment Partner @ Yellow Rocks!

Alejandra Vergara Confidant

Partner at Bee Partners

PRIZES & AWARDS

Grand Prize Winner

$10,000 cash prize / investment and opportunity to showcase your work at the AGI Summit 2025

Lunch with Top VCs for 8 Finalists

Lunch with Top VCs (including Amrit Rao, GP at Village Global) for Top 8 Finalists during the AGI Interface Summit: opportunity to discuss pitched startups, potential for investment, customer and investor introductions

All Venture Pitch Competition participants

Free entry to the Summit and 6 months of free Happyverse Business Happy subscription

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

  1. Register using the form at the top of this page
  2. Create your own avatar (a "Confidant"). It only takes a few minutes to get live.
  3. Prompt your avatar with your startup/idea pitch. Include problem, solution, team, traction, market, business model & projected monetization, and specific asks for investors so your Confidant can field questions like a founder.
    • E.g., your avatar could start with a brief 2-3 min scripted pitch and offer VCs to ask follow-up questions in a Q&A format.
    • You could include an AI-generated summary of the pitch deck in the prompt/Confidant Behavior.
  4. Upload your pitch slides as "Sharables" in the avatar prompt (under Other Settings) so VCs see your key visuals during the conversation (export a few core slides as PNG/JPEG, attach as Sharables, and prompt the avatar to display them in the context of a live conversation with a VC).
  5. By 10am on November 14, 2025, make your avatar available for General Access and send a link to your avatar to summit@happyverse.ai
  6. At the AGI Interface Summit on November 15th, 2025, the top 8 finalists will join the lunch with VCs for potential investment and introductions
  7. The winner will be announced live on stage at the Summit on November 15, 2025, and awarded $10,000 cash prize/investment
  8. All founders (and their teams) will receive free entry to the Summit and free subscriptions to Happyverse

JUDGING CRITERIA

Vision & Innovation

Demonstrate a bold and ambitious vision for the future of human-AI interaction, creativity and originality of the idea, and a truly new and unique approach to AGI, rather than a simple feature update to an existing product.

Founder-Market Fit

For early-stage companies, the founder is often the most important variable. VCs are looking for founders who possess deep expertise in AI and have a passion for solving a specific, meaningful problem.

Market Viability & Scale

Identify a significant market opportunity and whether the product solves a real problem or provides genuine value to a large enough audience. Outline a path to scale.