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Getting started w/ ellipsis & Fly
When
Today · Thursday, 08 October 2026
18:00–21:30
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Your pitch taken apart in public Most feedback founders get is polite. This isn't that. Fly and ellipsis are coming together to give early-stage founders brutally honest feedback on their business idea and pitch. The things a VC thinks in a meeting but doesn't tell you. Between us we've backed 70+ startups. Both funds are run by ex-engineers and deep tech founders, so questions get technical fast. Who you'll be in a room with Fredrik Bergenlid is a Computer Scientist has spent years as an engineer and tech lead at Google before investing. Today he is a partner at Fly and has backed startups such as Wayve and Lakera. Yariv Adan is an ex-founder turned engineer & product manager. As a previous senior director at Google, he has co-founded Google Assistant and led initiatives such as Google AI in the cloud. Today he's a General Partner and co-founder at ellipsis – an AI-native venture capital fund investing into deep tech AI companies such as Flink Robotics and Mirelo. What you'll walk way with An honest read on whether your idea is fundable, where the story breaks, and what a VC is actually screening for. We won't hold back. Event Details Format: 5 min Pitch + 10 min Feedback & QA. 8 Pitches. Apéro after. Who we're looking for: Pre-Seed/Seed stage deep tech founders Deadline: 2 October
Who's going
Sponsors & partners
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- Where
- Zurich
- Organizer
- Thomas Bollenbach
- Who's going
- ~200 expected
- Registration
- 🌍 Open to all
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