With the realities of our post COVID-19 life, we are pleased to inform you that your favorite event TiE New York’s monthly Open Mic Night (OMN) has gone virtual. We cordially invite you to take part in our first online TiE New York's monthly Startup OMN event on April 14, 2020 starting 6:00 PM, for an exciting night of virtual networking and pitching! This event in particular is exciting, as we are jointly presenting this event in partnership with RISE, New York.

To pitch at this event, you don’t have to be a TiE member, you just need to be an entrepreneur or an aspiring entrepreneur with a passion to share your idea that may change our world. You will be given a safe entrepreneurial friendly virtual space to deliver an elevator pitch for 2 minutes in presence of a group of mentors, angel investors, venture capitalists, startup-focused service providers, and a very supportive community of successful entrepreneurs.

We are pleased to announce Akshata Philar (Startup Engagement Manager of SAP.iO), will be the featured guest speaker for the event. SAP.iO Foundry New York is the corporate venture arm of SAP, a publicly traded enterprise software company. In her role, she leads portfolio development, go to market and ecosystem partnerships for the SAP.iO Foundry in New York which is focused on diverse founders. She started her career at SAP 6 years ago at their headquarters in Germany on their customer management team. Prior to SAP, Akshata has worked in Private Banking and Investment with HDFC Bank and ICICI in India focused on customer acquisition and relationship management. She is passionate about impact investing and social entrepreneurship and volunteers with rural NGOs and SHGs. She has degrees in Accounting, Marketing and Strategy from the University of Pune, K.J Somaiya, Mumbai and University of Mannheim, Germany. 

Each attendee must register in order to be invited on the online conference bridge exclusively created for this event.

If you plan to speak and pitch your start-up, please do register as a "Presenter”. Note that as speaker in a virtual forum, you will need to upload your pitch deck during the registration process. Your pitch deck shouldn’t exceed 6 slides. You may please review/download the pitch deck template here. If your start-up is speaking but you are not the key speaker, register as a non-member or member (whichever applies).

All attendees and speakers should log in sharp by 6:00 pm on April 14, 2020. Again you don’t need to be member to attend the event, and the event is free. And you are always welcome to join our ever-growing coveted community of entrepreneurs by visiting our website.

RSVP for this free event below!