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The Founder Showcase is Silicon Valley's leading international startup pitch event, helping pre-seed startups learn, launch, and connect to investors. 

Since 2009, the event has hosted Keynote Speakers like Elon Musk, Jason Calacanis, Naval Ravikant, Rebecca Enonchong, David Sacks, Phil Libin, Keith Rabois, Chris Dixon, Kevin Rose...and many more.

For our first Founder Showcase of 2024, taking place on January 10, we’re excited to announce Jilliene Helman, Founder of  RealtyMogul, as our featured Keynote Speaker!

Sign up to attend Founder Showcase here

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About Our Keynote Speaker

Jilliene Helman is the Founder and CEO of RealtyMogul, a leading online platform for real estate investing with over 280,000 members.  

Through the platform, individual investors have collectively invested >$1B of equity into $5.9B of real estate assets (as of December 2022). Jilliene holds Series 7, 24, and 63 investment licenses and is a Certified Wealth Strategist. She’s been featured as an expert on startups and real estate investing on Bloomberg, CNBC, The New York Times, Yahoo! Finance, and Entrepreneur.

About RealtyMogul

RealtyMogul is an online marketplace for real estate investing, connecting borrowers and sponsors to capital from individual and institutional investors. It simplifies commercial real estate investing, giving members access to high-potential opportunities. 

RealtyMogul focuses on offering smart diversification strategies, creating cash flow and value in office, retail, and apartment buildings. To date, the company has 250K+ registered members generating $5.9B+ investments in property value and a total of $45.1M in funding over 7 rounds.

Applications Are Now Open

As the premier pre-seed startup event, we strive to showcase startups before anyone else from all across the globe. A shortlist of companies that did one of their first public pitches on the Founder Showcase stage includes Udemy, Relay Rides, Thumbtack, Realty Mogul, Kaggle, and many more. Previous Founder Showcase companies have raised over $1.5 billion in funding.

Anyone building a pre-seed technology company with less than $280,000 in funding is welcome to apply at http://bit.ly/showcase-pitch

Investors, media, executives, entrepreneurs, and anyone interested in seeing pitches from the companies you will read about tomorrow are welcome to RSVP to the event for free.

You can learn more about the application process at FounderShowcase.com/apply, and the event itself at FounderShowcase.com.

We hope to see you there!

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The Founder Showcase is Silicon Valley’s leading international startup pitch event, helping seed-stage startups learn, launch, and connect to investors. On this free online event you can watch presentations from promising pre-seed startups from across the globe, and learn from world-leading venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. In addition, there are several networking sessions to connect with others.

Since 2008, speakers like Elon Musk and startups like Udemy and Thumbtack have presented on our stage.

Learn more at FounderShowcase.com.

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