25 Finalists: Sierra Ventures Customer Challenge

More than 50 startups competed to earn a shot to pitch enterprise technology buyers from Sierra Ventures CXO Advisory Board.

We announced the finalists in a live webinar that was plagued with technical issues. However, Jeff has narrated the slide deck, using AirDeck, the platform partner for this challenge. You can view the presentation and get an overview of what the finalists must do next to earn a shot at pitching Sierra Ventures’ CXOs here:

Finalists announced and Round 2 Overview

And here are the 25 finalists that are moving on to round 2 of this challenge, the presentation challenge:

  1. Ascend.io
  2. Chronosphere
  3. Clear Skye
  4. Ermetic
  5. Findings
  6. ForMotiv
  7. HealthCorum
  8. HyperQube
  9. Kloudspot
  10. MediFind
  11. Medigate
  12. MetaCX
  13. Nebulon
  14. Next Gen. Quantum
  15. PlanetScale
  16. Render
  17. Salesfolks
  18. Signd Inc.
  19. Spectro Cloud
  20. Styra, Inc.
  21. Syncari
  22. Tecton
  23. threshold.world
  24. YouAttest
  25. Zero Networks

Next step for finalists:

  1. Submit a 3-minute presentation via AirDeck that pitches your startup to your ideal customer
  2. Be sure to tell us the problem you solve, why your startup is the right one to solve it, what your go-to-market strategy is, and how you’ll scale up to become a major player in this space.
  3. Watch the narrated presentation Jeff created, using AirDeck, which goes over everything you need to include in your video.
  4. Use code Startup50 to get a free, no-CC-needed 30-day trial of AirDeck, so you can easily edit, narrate, add video to, share, and host your presentation.
  5. Submit your 3-minute presentation by the deadline below.

Update: Deadline extended!

New deadline for submitting your round 2 presentation: EOD, Friday, September 25, 2020