🚀 AI Startup Showcase - B.E.L.L.E Monthly Series SF Edition

🚀 SF AI Startup Showcase

Join us for an energizing evening spotlighting SF’s rising AI founders — and helping bold ideas find the talent, teammates, and momentum they need.

🔗 Building with graph databases or knowledge graphs? We especially want you — Neo4j is a proud sponsor of this showcase!

We will have 1 winning team. Each member of the winning team will receive $400 in Aura Credit from Neo4j.

Building something?
Apply to pitch:
https://showcase.belle.community/event/san-francisco-jun-17th-2026
Deadline: June 15th

📅 Main Event: AI Startup Showcase
All builders are welcome to apply using the application
form above.

Based on your submission, our judges will curate and assign selected teams to the most suitable pitch format.

⏱️ Pitch Formats

🎯 5-Minute Pitch
3-minute pitch + 2-minute live Q&A with judges and audience

Reserved for teams with strong execution, clear insight, or high potential, as evaluated by our judging panel.

🌱 1-Minute Pitch
1-minute elevator pitch

A fast-paced format to showcase your idea, vision, or progress — open to builders at all stages.

📌 What to include in your deck
To help us evaluate your application, please clearly cover:

• The problem you are solving

• Your unique advantage (moat)

• Market size and opportunity

• Competitive landscape

• Your team background

• Whether your product uses knowledge graph/graphic databases ( NOT a requirement)

🤝 What to expect
Real problems. Real solutions. Real builders shaping what’s next.

🚀 Ready to pitch? Apply here:
https://showcase.belle.community/event/san-francisco-jun-17th-2026

🎤 Special Feature: Neo4j — Featured Tech Talk

🎙️ Talk: "The AI Said So?" How to Build Auditable AI Agents Using Context Graphs
👤 Speaker: Nyah Macklin — Speaker bio

About the talk: In production, AI agents are making real decisions that impact real people's lives — and when those decisions get challenged by customers, compliance teams, auditors, or courts, you need answers. This session will teach the best techniques to build AI agents that will pass an audit, using context graphs. Instead of black-box reasoning, you get complete decision traceability: what information the agent considered, which factors influenced its choice, what alternatives it evaluated, and exactly how it reached its conclusion.

A must-attend for any founder or engineer shipping agentic AI into the real world.

🌟 Featured Judges

Nyah Macklin - Senior Developer Advocate @ Neo4j
John Bohlmann - General Partner @ Spacefund, 5X founder
Cameron Bell - CEO and Co-founder @ Greenwich Mercantile
Yolande Poirier - Senior Manager of Developer Community @ Neo4j
İhsan Ufuk Dede- Co-founder @ Greenwich Mercantile
Andry Lebedev - Co-founder and CEO @SwipeLux

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About Neo4j - Sponsor Neo4j is the graph intelligence platform that transforms data into knowledge to power the next generation of intelligent applications and AI systems. From fraud detection and supply chain optimization to knowledge graphs powering today's most advanced AI agents, Neo4j helps developers and enterprises uncover the relationships hidden in their data — and turn them into a competitive advantage. Learn more at neo4j.com.

About Entrepreneurs First - Community Partner
Entrepreneurs First (EF) turns exceptional individuals into funded founders. Some might have an early idea, others may need a cofounder. What matters is their potential. We back these founders first, then give them a bridge to Silicon Valley. To date, their companies are worth > $16B.

About SwipeLux - Community Partner
SwipeLux is a licensed stablecoin orchestration platform helping fintechs and platforms launch compliant fiat-to-stablecoin payment flows through a single API.

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