AI for Real Life Pitch Night｜An Agentic AI Founders’ Night-Out

Building AI for everyday life? This one's for you. ✨

This June, Agentic AI Founders' Night Out is switching it up - we're handing the mic to founders.

AI for real life is a big space. Services, agents, agentic verticals, physical AI applications, commerce, health, housing, safety, community, and the hundred other things people deal with every day that still haven't been touched by a good product. If you're building something that makes real life work better, we want to hear from you.

Three minutes on stage, five minutes of Q&A. A room full of investors and operators who get it. Every founder who pitches gets real ad distribution, powered by NewsBreak, America's #1 local news app with tens of millions of daily active users - to an audience that's genuinely hard to reach anywhere else.

🎤👉 Ready to pitch? Click here to apply 👈🎤

🏆 Prizes

This edition is presented by NewsBreak - America's #1 local news app with tens of millions of daily active users, built on a proprietary recommendation engine and full-stack ad platform. Winning teams walk away with real ad distribution to a high-intent local audience at scale.

🎖 Finalists (4th–8th place) - 100,000 ad impressions each on the NewsBreak platform

🥇 Top 3 Winners - 500,000 ad impressions each on the NewsBreak platform

🏆 NewsBreak's Choice - One standout team, selected for hands-on partnership and special support.

📍 Event Details

Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2026 | 5:30 – 8:30 PM PT

Location: 465 California St, 7th floor, San Francisco, CA 94104

🎯 Agenda

5:30 – 6:00 | Welcome Reception & Networking

6:00 – 7:20 | Pitch Competition

7:20 – 8:30 | Snacks & Networking

🚀 Event Hosts & Sponsors

UpScaleX is a San Francisco & Palo Alto-based seed fund and founders’ community investing in AI-native applications, agentic economies, and vertical AI, built to empower the next generation of AI innovators. Visit us at upscalex.ai.

Startup Intros is a media and intelligence platform that helps early-stage founders find and win the right investors. Register as a founder here.

Werqwise offers flexible workspaces and event venues across San Francisco and San Mateo, designed for teams, founders, and communities to work and connect.

NewsBreak is the #1 local news app in the US, serving tens of millions of daily active users with AI-powered, hyper-personalized local news, weather, safety alerts, and short video. Built on a proprietary recommendation engine and full-stack ad platform, NewsBreak connects thousands of publishers with a unique, hard-to-reach local audience — and delivers measurable results for over a thousand advertisers nationwide. We are profitable and growing.

​🏛 The Venue

You'll be joining us at 465 California St, a San Francisco landmark established in 1904, where generations of the city's dealmakers have gathered to shape the West Coast's next boom. Today, in the era of the AI gold rush, that same room belongs to the founders and investors building the next generation of AI-native companies.

What is Agentic AI Founders' Night Out? A recurring gathering co-hosted by UpScaleX and Startup Intros for founders, operators, and investors at the frontier of AI. It's where early builders share what's actually working, investors exchange real perspectives, and the right people find each other.