SF Startup Pitch Night: 7 AI Founders Pitch Live | Startup Valley × AI Start Academy

A live startup pitch night in San Francisco during Tech Week — seven AI founders take the stage at AI Start Academy with Startup Valley, pitch in five minutes each, and field direct questions from investors and the room. From AI that schedules commercial cleaning and reads warehouse cameras, to construction risk engines, self-install sports broadcasting, "instant checkout" for homes, autonomous data platforms and economic-planning simulators — this is what an SF AI pitch night actually looks like. THE STARTUPS • Zan Compute — Junaith Shahabdeen: ZanI, an agentic AI platform that schedules and dispatches commercial cleaning crews by how buildings are actually used, sold through building service contractors. https://zancompute.ai • Fortune AI — Andrew Chen: turns the cameras a warehouse already has into operating numbers — "ChatGPT for physical operations." Berkeley SkyDeck-backed. https://www.fortuneai.app • EvoSports — Colin Su: a self-install kit that lets pool halls and clubs livestream, score and remotely commentate their own matches. https://www.evosports.live • Captus — Anatoly Khen: a construction risk engine for owners and developers that cross-checks drawings, specs, contracts and email to flag cost and schedule risk before it's poured in concrete. https://www.captus.ai • Kai — real-estate tech (company not named on stage): "instant checkout" for homes, moving inspection and due diligence ahead of the offer so buyers can click buy with confidence. • Nettle — Divye Kapoor: an autonomous data platform that builds a corporate digital twin from raw enterprise data — Palantir-style outcomes for the mass market. https://nettle.llc • Advanced Economic Intelligence Labs — Sebastian: AI agents that run global trade and economic models to produce consultant-grade impact reports on billion-dollar infrastructure and policy decisions in minutes, not months. CHAPTERS 00:00 Doors open & networking 09:08 Welcome from Startup Valley 11:50 Zan Compute — AI that runs commercial cleaning 15:31 Q&A — sensors, fine-tuned LLM, airports 19:00 Fortune AI — ChatGPT for physical operations 25:52 Q&A — per-workflow pricing, robotics, product stage 28:44 EvoSports — livestreaming for amateur sports 33:10 Q&A — hardware vs software, apps, streaming platforms 37:23 Captus — construction risk before it costs money 42:30 Q&A — the $5M elevator mistake, data sources, risk scoring 46:29 Kai — instant checkout for real estate 50:52 Q&A — brokerage license, agents, cash buyers 54:57 Nettle — autonomous data platform & digital twins 1:00:30 Q&A — team, first round, data localization 1:02:49 Advanced Economic Intelligence Labs — simulating billion-dollar decisions 1:07:56 Q&A — comparables, data sources, defensibility 1:12:16 Thanks from Startup Valley 1:14:03 A word from AI Start Academy 1:18:29 Open networking Note: All pitches are the founders' own statements, shared here as an event recording. Nothing in this video is investment, financial, or professional advice, or an endorsement of any company, product, or fundraise. #startup #pitchnight #sanfrancisco #sftechweek #founders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 AI Start Academy — hands-on AI Automation Agency Bootcamps in San Francisco (+ live on Zoom). 📅 Dates & enrollment: https://hub.aistartacademy.com/cohorts 🌐 https://aistartacademy.com | 📩 hello@aistartacademy.com 👉 Subscribe:    / @aistartacademy