Rejected by YC? Good. Now come prove them wrong.

YC Reject Pitch Night brings together ambitious founders, investors, operators, & startup supporters for an evening featuring companies that are still building-regardless of who said no.

Selected founders will take the stage to pitch their startups, share what they are building, & connect with people who care more about momentum than credentials. Expect raw ideas, determined builders, honest feedback, & a room full of people betting on themselves.

Apply to pitch or RSVP to support the next generation of founders.

Submit your pitch deck here

YC Reject Pitch Night is an independent event & is not affiliated with or endorsed by Y Combinator.

Judges

Irene (Huilian) Zhang, Managing Director @LI Family Office, Advisor @AMG Family Trust

Jordan Wahbeh, Managing Partner @SV Venture Group, Partner @Network VC

Roy Wang, Principal @NextSummit Capital Partners

Lan Wu, VC@ Fusion Fund

Kunal Phalak, Vice President @WestBridge Capital

Sponsor

About TheAgentic:

TheAgentic provides complete infrastructure for production-ready AI agents, currently powering companies in biotech, healthtech, cybersecurity, & fintech where accuracy isn't optional.

TheAgentic's Launchpad program partners with early-stage startups to build AI products on our infrastructure at zero cost & zero equity.

TheAgentic's Prometheus program lets domain experts & consultants turn their knowledge into revenue-generating AI products, without building or running a startup themselves

Community Partners:

Network VC is a venture capital fund with 100+ investments globally, investing in late seed to Series A deep tech, industry-agnostic, primarily focused on US companies. The most recent investments include a couple of dozen YC alumni companies & startups of the a16z Acceleration.

Unicorn. Events is a global startup pitch competition connecting startups with investors, venture capital funds, & industry leaders through curated events around the world. The finalists of the 400+ previous events in 52 countries have raised $1b+.

Host

About Workato:

Workato is an enterprise automation & integration platform that orchestrates workflows across applications, data, & systems enabling secure, governed execution of complex processes as organizations adopt AI agents at scale. You can explore Workato's end-to-end capabilities here.

About Sanscritic:

Sanscritic is building the reasoning layer for the next generation of AI systems. Through its NeoLab, Sanscritic develops meta-reasoning systems, domain foundation models, & infrastructure for more reliable, specialized, & verifiable AI. Join us to learn how Sanscritic is pushing beyond generic LLMs toward AI that can reason, evaluate, & operate in high-stakes domains.

Agenda

5:00 - 5:45pm: Registration & networking

5:45 - 6:15pm: Intro to TheAgentic & Workato

6:15 - 7:30pm: Startup pitches

7:30 - 8:30pm: Open networking