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VC Feedback Sessions

  • Organizer: KIT FORGE & HTFG
  • Audience: Founders, Startups
  • Language: German
  • Cost: Free of charge

Anyone pitching to investors needs more than just a great idea - they need feedback from someone who evaluates pitches every single day. VC Feedback Sessions are closed-door, highly targeted investor readiness workshops organized by KIT FORGE in strategic partnership with High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF)—one of Europe's leading seed-stage venture capital firms. Designed specifically for high-potential deep-tech and technology startups from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ecosystem, this compact format delivers direct, candid feedback from active VC investment managers.

Each cohort is strictly limited to around six selected startup teams to ensure high-value individual feedback and peer interaction. 

    Program Structure

    • VC introduction: HTGF investment managers share insider perspectives on venture capital decision criteria, key pitching metrics, and typical founder pitfalls.

    • Individual pitch & critique: Each startup presents its pitch deck in an intimate setting, followed by an immediate, deep-dive feedback session with venture capitalists.  

    • Peer networking lunch: An informal catered lunch allowing founder teams to connect with one another and hold follow-up conversations with the VC partners.
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    I agree that my personal data submitted via the contact form may be processed by KIT FORGE for the following purposes: contacting me and providing startup consulting services. The processing of the data entered in the contact form is based solely on my consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). The information I provide in the contact form, including my contact details, will be stored by KIT FORGE for the purpose of processing my inquiry. KIT FORGE will not share this data with third parties without my consent. The data I enter in the contact form will remain with KIT FORGE until I request its deletion, withdraw my consent to its storage (which I may do informally by email to info@kit-forge.de), or the purpose for which the data was collected no longer applies (e.g. once my inquiry has been fully processed). Mandatory statutory provisions, in particular statutory retention periods, remain unaffected. For information on data protection relating to startup consulting, including applications for public funding programmes for spin-offs, please refer to https://www.kit-forge.de/en/privacy/.