Manifest: Startup Pitch Competition, Night Market, & Career Fair
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Announcing the Startup Pitch Competition
Manifest 2025 is hosting a Startup Pitch Competition with live markets, organized by our sponsor Sovereign. Last year’s pitch competition led to angel and pre-seed investments for several participants. This year, we’re raising the stakes with more VCs eager to invest serious amounts for the right founders.
Our confirmed judges represent billions of dollars in funds and have an interest in prediction markets, AI, crypto, biotech and more. They’ve invested in hundreds of companies, including Manifold itself. If you have an exciting startup, apply for a slot with your pitch deck.
Pitches will take place on Saturday at 3:30 pm in front of the judges and a live audience of 200-300 people. Approved pitches will receive free entry during the competition, but we ask that you buy day passes (or full Manifest tickets) if you would like to come before or after to network and have meals.
You can place your bets in the subsidized market about how many companies will receive funding.
You’re also encouraged to create new markets for your startup or tell your founder friends to do so.
Speakers & Sponsors
Check out some of our guests and speakers!
We would also like to thank our confirmed sponsors for making Manifest possible! Please show them lots of love at the event.
Headline: Polymarket
Platinum: Substack, Kalshi
Gold: Sovereign, Bayes
Silver: Elicit
See below for job opportunities and stay tuned for exciting events and thrilling talks being put together by these companies.
Manifest Night market & futuristic career fair
‘Twas a vibey night in Berkeley, the glow of the firepits and iridescent lightbulbs illuminating the crowd bartering over custom GPU purses, oral cosmetic probiotics, and using complex market mechanisms to sell first-born children’s naming rights. Laughter fills the air as people cram around the spinning wheel, contrasting the dismayed face of the unlucky participant who decided to risk all their mana for a 20% chance of 200 lottery entries.
Join us Friday evening, June 6th, for a community-powered night market! Everyone from the community is encouraged to register for a booth to sell/trade/auction their personal projects and strange memorabilia.
For the hours the night market and career fair run, Manifest will briefly open its doors for free to those in the community and friends of attendees! To stay in the loop, please join the Discord where we will post the link to the Partiful closer to the event.
Part of the night market will include a career fair with the following companies hiring and events:
Polymarket - Senior product designer, design engineer, senior product engineer
Kalshi - Engineers, product, marketing, market structure
Substack - Engineering manager, engineers, GTM Ops lead, product manager
Elicit - Engineers, ML research resident, talent acquisitions lead, senior pm
Sovereign - Quantitative traders
Areas to meet with: leads from other companies hiring, cofounders, and funders.
Meet a new Mentor <> Mentee.
Panel on how to increase your value and hireability in tech in the age of AI.
We look forward to seeing you all soon! Please remember to buy your tickets for Manifest as soon as possible.
For any questions, please get in touch with david@manifest.is