UAtech Venture Night @ Saastr Annual

Hey Silicon Valley, get ready for open pitch competitions, panels and networking happening alongside Saastr AI!

Join us for a high-energy evening where founders take the stage, investors share insights, and global tech leaders connect at Silicon Valley UAtech Venture Night.

UAtech Venture Night at Saastr Ai is part of our Global Series of events connecting tech founders and investors across Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia. Each event is a stage in this worldwide journey, spotlighting Ukrainian innovation and amplifying it on the global stage.

Venue partner for this Silicon Valley edition: SurveyMonkey

SurveyMonkey offers an intuitive feedback platform to better understand customer needs, market trends, and employee satisfaction.

Community Partner in Silicon Valley:

Catalyst Bay — Born from Techstars Startup Weekend SF, Catalyst Bay is a premier 10,000-person community in San Francisco. They bring together the people building and betting on AI — founders, investors, and engineers — through high-impact pitch nights, fireside chats, and tech meetups.

Special thanks to our sponsors for supporting the UAtech Venture Night and helping us bring together ambitious founders, investors, and ecosystem leaders worldwide.

Reply.io — a leading AI-powered sales engagement platform helping revenue teams automate outreach, book more meetings, and close deals faster.

HighLevel — an AI-powered business operating system embedding intelligence across sales, marketing, and customer management to help businesses scale more efficiently.

What to expect:

🚀 Startup Pitch Competition with Prizes

Founders from around the world are invited to pitch live on stage to a panel of active investors in fast-paced, 3-minute rounds. Expect quick pitches, fast Q&A, and live scoring — a high-energy format that keeps the audience engaged and startups in the spotlight.

At the closing Prize Ceremony, three awards will be presented:

• 🏆 Pitch Competition Winner
• 🇺🇦 Best Ukrainian-Founded Startup
• 👩‍💻 Best Female-Founded Startup

🏆 Main Prizes:

• $25,000 in AWS credits from Spendbase and USF
  Note: The full amount is guaranteed for winners who haven't previously redeemed $25k+ in AWS credits. Others may receive an adjusted amount.

• 1-year Reply.io Multichannel Plan, valued at $1,000

• Special Prize for Best Female-Founded Startup:
  Provided by Joanne Fedeyko, CEO of Connection Silicon Valley and a prominent advocate for women in tech.
  Pathway to Silicon Valley****: An exclusive 50% discount for the Pathway to Silicon Valley program —a 3-day curated experience connecting female founders with top investors, mentors, and partners in the Bay Area. Pathway to Silicon Valley is a curated 3-day immersion designed to empower women founders through hands-on sessions, investor meetings, and high-impact networking in the heart of global innovation.
  Global Exposure: A featured company profile in Disruption Magazine.

• Fast-track interview opportunity with our local partner Alchemist Accelerator for the top pre-seed startup.

  Spots are limited — apply now to be part of it!

  🗣️ Panel Discussion

Next up is the panel discussion with tech experts and thought leaders. Expect actionable advice, key predictions, and fresh perspectives from those shaping the industry’s next chapter.

🤝 Networking

Wrap up our evening with real conversations, real connections, where founders, investors, and tech leaders come together in a setting designed for meaningful exchange, not just small talk.

⚖️Judges:

Volodymyr Demianenko, Founder @UAtech, Co-founder @SOLU & @TENO
Svitlanka Sergiichuk, Co-Founder @Neofin
Mykola Gordiichuk, Founder/CEO @Agrico Ukraine
Salvatore Loffredo, CEO @Soft-in Embedded for SES4MO
Oleh Podobied, Founder @EDCAPIT / @ITCAPITAL
Paul Burzynski, Chief Product Officer @Smartschool
Matt Maslowski, CEO @Smartschool
Michael Kimathi, Founder @Impact Masters
Irina Lanina, Venture Partner @VUVP
Amina Ebraham, COO & angel investor @Growing Pies
Denis Gutenko, Venture Partner @Network VC
Igor Goldenberg, CEO @Podium Teams
Stan Puchyn, CEO @MarTech Do
Sergii Zhuk, Unpopular Ventures

About UAtech

UAtech is a global innovation ecosystem with Ukrainian roots and a truly international community.

We connect founders, investors, and operators around the world through high-impact, cross-border opportunities — positioning Ukrainian founders as equal players in the global innovation economy.

Through high-impact content (UAtech.today) and founder-led events (UAtech Venture Night), we bring together startups, investors, local and global allies — powered by the voice and vision of our founder, Volodymyr Demianenko.

Silicon Valley Venture Night is part of our UAtech Global Series. Here is the list of our events in the upcoming Season (January - June 2026):

• Bangkok — MONEY 20/20 (April 21)

• Vancouver — Web Summit (May 12)

• Silicon Valley — Saastr Annual (May 13)

• Toronto — DiscoveryX (May 26)

• New York — Tech Week (June 1)

• London — SXSW London (June 2)

• Amsterdam — MONEY 20/20 (June 3)

• Paris — VivaTech (June 18)

• Berlin — Gitex AI (June 30)

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