Breakthrough Summit: Prepare 4 VC Graduation & Showcase

Feb 6, 4:00 – 7:00 PM (UTC)

Boston

Silicon Valley Bank, 53 State Street, Boston, 02109

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About this event

Breakthrough Summit: Prepare 4 VC Winter Cohort Showcase & Graduation

📍 Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) Boston – 53 State Street, 28th Floor
đź—“ Friday, February 6, 2025
🕚 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EST
🎟️ Free RSVP

🚀 About the Event

The Breakthrough Summit is the culmination of the Winter 2025 Prepare 4 VC Breakthrough Cohort, a venture acceleration journey designed to turn traction into transformation. This is not your typical demo day. It’s a celebration of venture velocity, clear storylines, and bold next steps.

Meet the newest wave of founders who are not only building solutions, but redefining how we think about leadership, traction, and scale.

Expect clarity. Expect momentum. Expect breakthroughs.

🎤 Event Highlights

  • Founder Pitches — 5 minute, signal-rich pitches from our rising cohort with investor panel and audience Q&A

  • Personal Breakthrough Stories — Candid moments from the founder journey

  • Mentor Lightning Talks — Actionable insight from venture operators and investors

  • Ecosystem Reveal — What’s next from Prepare 4 VC in 2025

🥂 Networking + Community

Arrive early for our welcome brunch & coffee hour from 11:00–11:30 AM.
Connect with:

  • Boston’s early-stage innovation community

  • Mentors, investors, and operators

  • Special guests from SVB and beyond

🌟 Featuring Ventures Solving Real Problems

Here are a few of the teams you’ll meet:

  • SkinGenius – SkinGenius is a science-backed skincare app that analyzes product ingredients and gives personalized recommendations. Users can scan skincare products and instantly see if they’re a good match for their unique skin needs

  • Floelle – Floelle is developing a non-surgical, patient-friendly device that restores pelvic floor function and provides a breakthrough alternative to the limited, often ineffective treatment options for stress urinary incontinence.

  • The Nautilus Center – A future forward adolescent day treatment model delivering evidence-based, cutting-edge 24/7 mental health and substance-use care through an innovative, highly scaleable , AI-integrated clinical pathway.

  • Ragmetrics – RagMetrics helps enterprises evaluate, govern, and continuously monitor the performance, risk, and compliance of their AI systems — enabling faster adoption with measurable trust.

  • Redrob – Redrob is a full-stack AI platform delivering enterprise-grade LLM tools for HR and B2B sales automation, optimized for cost-efficiency and international scale.

  • Stevia Nutra – Stevia Nutra is advancing proprietary drone-based broadcast infrastructure for secure, local video transmission—powering defense operations, government contracting, and hyperlocal media with a mobile, high-bandwidth alternative to satellite or cellular networks.

  • AIDA by Camp Automation– AidaJet is an AI-driven newsletter automation platform that puts every step of email marketing – from content writing and design to scheduling and analytics – on autopilot, helping users consistently deliver engaging newsletters with a fraction of the usual effort

  • Goalden Hour – Goalden Hour is an intelligent time orchestration system that helps founders align their vision with how they actually spend their time—turning priorities into measurable progress.

Full deal packages: Participant Directory →

🎯 Why Attend?

If you're an investor, partner, startup scout, or founder:

  • Discover startups ready to scale

  • Build relationships with high-integrity, high-velocity founders

  • Learn how this cohort is navigating product-market fit, team growth, and investment

🙌 Hosted at SVB

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a division of First Citizens Bank, is the bank of the world’s most innovative companies and investors. SVB provides commercial and private banking to individuals and companies in the technology, life science and healthcare, private equity, venture capital and premium wine industries. SVB operates in centers of innovation throughout the United States, serving the unique needs of its dynamic clients with deep sector expertise, insights and connections.

Check out what happened

Speakers

  • Jerrold Shapiro

    Floelle

    Founder

  • Olivier Cohen

    Ragmetrics

    Founder & CEO

  • Yuliya Pokhylko

    Skingenius

    Founder & CEO

  • Girish Bendigiri

    Camp Automation

    Co-Founder & Product Director

  • Shiv Kumar

    Camp Automation

    Director & Co-Founder

  • Yaron Suissa

    BDUK Therapeutics

    COO

  • Walter Wasser

    BDUK Therapeutics

    CEO

Startups

When

When

Friday, February 6, 2026
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM (UTC)

Hosts

  • Jason Kraus

    Prepare 4 VC

    Founder

  • Steve Vilkas

    ASTRA Labs|Boston New Technology|Startup Grind Boston

    Growth, Community & Success

  • Benjamin Maitland-Lewis

    Silicon Valley Bank

    Director of Early Stage Startups

Organizers

  • Jason Kraus

    Startup Grind

    Chapter Director

  • Steven Vilkas

    Startup Grind Boston Co-Director

  • Talal Fakhoury

    Startup Grind

    University Co-Facilitator

  • Paul Harb

    University Co-Facilitator

Global sponsor

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Carta

Partners

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Silicon Valley Bank

Prepare 4 VC logo

Prepare 4 VC

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