Post by The AI Collective

🔥 SF PITCH NIGHT - WHAT A NIGHT 🔥 6 founders. 80+ submissions. One unforgettable night to find your cofounder your first customer or your next check - that's the whole point. Huge congrats to Giovanni Antonio Zappatore and BionIT Labs - he swept BOTH the judges award (Best Pitch) AND the audience award (Top Funded). AI-powered bionic hands for humans and robots. The room felt the future in that one 🦾 This was close... the runners-up were right there, and the quality of pitches and Q&A was some of the sharpest we've seen. Every founder earned their spot. Your June 25 lineup: → Giovanni Antonio Zappatore - BionIT Labs - bionic hands that give humans and robots a real grip on the future → Dr. Gaurav Jha - Niobia AI - Cursor for advanced manufacturing engineers, turning hardware dev into software speed → Mayer Javed - GestureBridge - Google Translate for the deaf community, breaking a barrier billions take for granted → Catalina Girald - Liddy.ai - the voice AI specialist behind the beauty counter, always on → Evan Marshall - ItoAI - code reviews that actually run your code, not just read it → Dmytro Spodarets - AI Tabir - an AI agent that hunts down your busywork and just does it 6 founders, 6 problems most people said couldn't be solved this fast. That's the bar now. Thank you to our judges who brought real questions and real rigor: Vik Ghai & Sunil Grover (G2C Ventures), Aaron Edell Amazon Web Services (AWS), Wanda Wang (Diversis Capital). You made the founders better. Huge thanks to Ash Kumra for emceeing and kicking the night off on exactly the right note 🎤 And to Aaron for showing the room how AWS helps founders get started right and enterprise-ready and esp that GTM support - incl why 80% of Y Combinator founders build on AWS. Real value for builders. Finally, AI Collective SF team My Luu, Bill Raymond, Ravi Sharma, Atisha Rajpurohit and in the background Adelina M., Chappy Asel, Stephen Campbell and several others making it happen. Also, thanks Oliane Piana and the AWS Builder Loft Security team - you kept a packed house running smooth all night. None of this works without you 🙏 To everyone who showed up, pitched, voted, asked questions, networked: this is what the community is about. Shoutout to Christopher in the house - once family always family 👊 Next one's coming. Stay close...