Thursday, October 29, 2026
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
Founders Live Seattle: AI Week Edition
About this event
A fast-format pitch night inside Seattle AI Week where five founders each get 99 seconds and four minutes of audience questions, with the room voting for the winner. Free, with the venue still to be announced.
Founders Live brings its pitch night format into Seattle AI Week 2026.
The format is deliberately brutal on time. Five founders each get 99 seconds to pitch, followed by four minutes of audience questions, and then the room votes for a winner. The constraint forces a clarity that longer pitch formats rarely produce, and the audience Q&A tends to be more direct than a judging panel would be.
The published agenda runs networking from 6:00 to 7:00 PM, then announcements, pitches and voting from 7:00 to 8:00 PM, followed by more networking and an after-party. Louis Newkirk is the Seattle city leader for Founders Live.
The winner receives a Front Row membership with Backstage Intelligence access and a Founders Live Booster Pack of startup savings, plus a route into regional qualifiers and the global livestream tournament. Partner Lunarbyte is offering one-hour software engineering consultations to builder teams and presenters.
Worth setting expectations: this is a general startup pitch night placed inside the AI Week calendar rather than an AI-only event, so the pitch lineup may be mixed. Attendance is free with registration open, and the venue was still marked as to be announced at the time of listing.
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