Pitch a Fundable AI Company

Hosted by Amit Paka and Natalia Burina

Thu, Mar 19, 2026

5:00 PM UTC (1 hour)

Virtual (Zoom)

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What you'll learn

Identify AI Market Opportunities VCs Are Actively Chasing

Learn which categories, business models and timing signals get VCs excited.

Structure a Pitch That Moves VCs from Curious to Convinced

Walk away with a repeatable pitch framework used by funded AI founders (narrative arc, traction framing, etc.)

Spot What Makes an AI Company Actually Fundable

Learn the specific signals VCs look for in AI startups from defensibility and data moats to founder-market fit.

Why this topic matters

Understanding how VCs think makes you a sharper founder and a more credible room presence. You'll leave with a clearer point of view on your idea, what's strong, what needs sharpening and what to answer before pitching. Expect to feel more confident in investor conversations and more decisive about where to focus.

You'll learn from

Amit Paka

Founder @ Fiddler AI | Series C $100M raised

Amit Paka is the Founder, COO, and CPO of Fiddler AI, one of the leading AI observability platforms trusted by enterprises to monitor, evaluate, and build trustworthy AI. Since founding Fiddler in 2018, Amit has scaled the company to Series C, raising $100M from top-tier investors including Lightspeed, Insight Partners, Lux Capital, and RPS Ventures and built technology that's now considered industry standard for agentic observability. Fiddler is featured on leading market research reports like Gartner's first GenAI Engineering Magic Quadrant.


Before Fiddler, Amit held product leadership roles at PayPal, Samsung, and Microsoft. He holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas and a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota.


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Natalia Burina

formerly Investor @ Storm Ventures | Ex-Meta AI, Salesforce, eBay, Microsoft

Natalia is a former Partner at Storm Ventures, where she invested in and evaluated over 200 AI startups at Seed and Series A.


Before Storm Natalia held senior product leadership roles at some of the world's most influential technology companies Meta, Salesforce, eBay, and Microsoft. At Meta, Natalia managed a portfolio of AI products touching billions of users, leading innovation across video understanding, personalized recommendations, and AI privacy and transparency. She holds a bachelors degree in Applied and Computational Math from the University of Washington.


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Previously at

Microsoft
PayPal
Meta
Salesforce

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