Fintech x AI Founders Pitch plus Mixer | Stripe Sessions side event by DigitalOcean & Catalyst Bay
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Thursday, April 30, 2026
to Thursday, April 30, 2026
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$300,000
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Alex Johnson
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Jamie Rivera
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Sam Chen
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An evening Fintech x AI event during Stripe Sessions week, hosted by Catalyst Bay and DigitalOcean.
We're bringing together fintech x AI founders, investors, and builders for an evening of real content and curated pitches, a short walk from Moscone.
What's happening
🟢 Speaker lineup coming soon, past speakers included leaders from Stripe, OpenAI, Coinbase, Deel, and Gusto.
🟢 Pitch Competition, 8-10 early-stage fintech x AI startups pitch to a panel of investors and operators. Three minutes to pitch, two minutes of Q&A.
🟢 Winners announced live, with DigitalOcean credits and Startup program fast-track for top teams.
🟢 Open networking before and after.
Prizes from Digital Ocean:
1st Place: $300,000 in credits2nd Place: $150,000 in credits3rd Place: $100,000 in credits
Apply to Pitch
We're looking for pre-seed to seed-stage startups building in fintech, payments, or financial infrastructure with AI.
Criteria: up to $500K raised (pre-seed) or $500K+ raised / $10K+ MRR (seed).
→ Apply here
Investors, join the judging panel or stay in the loop
→ Drop your info here Hosted by:
DigitalOcean
​DigitalOcean is the Agentic Inference Cloud built for production AI. We deliver predictable cost efficiency, radically simple operations and high performance at scale so teams can focus on building AI products instead of managing infrastructure or absorbing surprise costs.
DigitalOcean Startups
​DigitalOcean Startups is designed to help founders build and scale faster than ever on the inference cloud. With fully customized core and GPU credit packages, support, community, and more, the Startups program empowers you to scale your AI ambitions, not your expenses.
Catalyst BayCatalyst Bay started with Techstars Startup Weekend SF hackathons. Now it's a 10,000-person SF community running pitch nights, fireside chats, and meetups for the people building and betting on AI products: founders, investors, engineers, designers, PMs, marketers, and devrels.
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Fintech x AI Founders Pitch plus Mixer | Stripe Sessions side event by DigitalOcean & Catalyst Bay | Hackathon Radar
