Notre Dame Pitch Night & Amy Hirsh Guarino Award

Notre Dame Pitch Night & Amy Hirsh Guarino Award

Join the Notre Dame Bay Area community on November 10 for an evening celebrating entrepreneurship, innovation, and the Notre Dame network.

Notre Dame Pitch Night returns with Notre Dame-affiliated founders leveraging technology to address a meaningful global challenge as part of the Amy Hirsh Guarino Award delivering fast-paced pitches to a live audience and panel of judges. The evening also includes for-profit ventures presenting to the extended in-person and virtual audience of the Notre Dame Silicon Valley Angel group members. The event will conclude with the announcement of this year’s Amy Hirsh Guarino Award which recognizes a Notre Dame-affiliated entrepreneur whose work is a force for good and who reflects the engagement and generosity Amy brought to the Notre Dame community.

Come connect with founders, investors, operators, alumni, and friends from across the Notre Dame ecosystem.

Amy Hirsh Guarino Award Judges

Ryan Welsh, Founder at Kyndi Field CTO, GenAI, Qlik

Megan Hanley, Former CMO, Edelman Financial Engines

Celeste Ford, Co-Founder, Stellar Solutions and Stellar Ventures

Richard Pivnicka, Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic and member of Band of Angels

Haresh Patel, Founder and CEO, Sanare Health

JB Kuppe, Vice President, Enterprise AI Strategist and Consultant, Enterprise Sight; Co-founder, Notre Dame Silicon Valley Angels Group

Mike Haarlander, Co-Founder and CISO, Runwayz

Interested in pitching or know a great Notre Dame founder?  Nominate a founder for the force for good or for-profit pitch.

Hosted in partnership with Intercom, the Notre Dame Club of San Francisco, Notre Dame Silicon Valley Angel Group, San Jose Notre Dame Club, and Notre Dame Tech Forum.