As a cool, instrumental soundtrack plays, a side view of professionals sitting in a meeting room appears.
A front view of an audience of professionals of different genders and ethnicities sitting at tables with microphones in front of each and name cards.
The title “The Venture Capitalists” appears at the bottom of the screen in white font.
Narrator says: So I am here today at BDO Venture Pitch Day.
A professional woman in a black suit appears sitting as being interviewed. She says: One day, 10 companies, 10 VCs.
A front view of two speakers sitting at a table covered with red tablecloth, holding BDO’s logo. Both speakers have microphones in front of them and their name cards. The one on the left is a BDO Partner, Katie Kaplan, and the second is Kathryn Wortsman from Amplify Capital.
A quick view of the audience, transitioning back to the speaker, Kathryn.
Kathryn says: Coming into the room this morning, I hope to find one or more deals.
A red banner of BDO’s VC Pitch Day appears behind an audience of professionals. The title “The Startups” appears in white font on the top right corner of the screen.
A broad view of the meeting room features a standing speaker and a sitting audience, with a projector of the presentation material and the VC Pitch Day banner.
Speakers of different genders, ages, and ethnicities transition dynamically, each saying a few words about the event as they are seated in pairs or individually in front of the camera.
Speaker 1: A room of 12 VCs.
Speaker 2: Having them all in one room has been.
Speaker 3: Awesome.
Speaker 5: Fantastic.
Speaker 6: Educational.
Speaker 7: Intense.
The view transitions from the previous speakers to a meeting room with a speaker pointing to the presentation on the projector. A female professional. She says: There's a distinct difference to how we're playing the game.
A side view of two professionals among the audience, listening intently.
Back to the guests who say a few words about the event. Speaker 3, a male professional sitting next to another colleague says: When we walked in, the lights, the music, the sound.
The same speakers appear in the meeting room, ready to present to the audience.
Speaker 2: It gamifies it and gets you pumped up.
A close-up view of a smiling professional.
A male professional in a suit stands next to a female professional in a red suit.
A close-up side view of a professional in glasses saying: This will be the gold standard.
A female professional wearing a black suit and glasses stands in the meeting room with the projector screen behind her, speaking to the audience: A business solution aimed at a 10-year-old.
A male professional in a blue suit stands in the meeting room to present and taps a card over a small device, showing it around to the audience. He says: And now, I've just actually paid $5. Maybe I could pass it around. You guys can do it.
The audience laughs.
A quick view of another two professionals among the audience sitting at their meeting table engaged in the discussion. One has a name card that reads: Mohan Markandaier from Good News Ventures.
A side view of three female professionals, one engaged in discussion. No audio of their discussion but a narrator’s voice overlaps.
Narrator: But I think once they got to talk back, it was more of a two-way.
Kathryn sits at a table and says: What I really liked was that it reduces inequality.
Quick transitions over professionals among the audience.
A back view of a professional in a suit. He says: They do have something that sounds really unique.
Speaker 3 and his colleague appear again. He says: It was great to see because they were all pretty interesting. You don't know that until they open their mouths.
Both laugh.
A young kid in a suit appears in the meeting room, demonstrating an idea, covering himself up in a tarp seemingly the business idea, in front of the audience in the room.
The audience claps.
A close-up view of a hand signing a document.
A side view of a female professional. She says: I have a company I want to introduce you to. I just want to think about who the best person is for you to talk to.
A young male professional in the audience says: I think that's a genius.
Quick transitions between the audience and a close-up of documents.
A narrator's voice says enthusiastically: That is a business.
A front view of a BDO Partner in a grey suit, sitting at the speakers’ table with a name card indicating his name “Michael Crolla”.
Quick transition onto Kathryn. She says: Thank you.
She claps and so does the audience.
Kathryn appears again, sitting in front of the camera as being interviewed.
Kathryn says: And then we take a break and then move on to the next companies.
A close-up view of a card holding BDO’s logo on a table.
Speaker 3 and his colleague appear again, sitting in front of a camera as being interviewed.
The colleague says: BDO acts as a conduit between investors and startups, vetting both sides of the process.
As the colleague speaks, the scene switches dynamically viewing different angles of the event and the audience.
Another professional appears in front of the camera as being interviewed.
He says: And it's awesome to see BDO leveraging their position in the market and opening it up to us.
He then appears standing in the meeting room, presenting to the audience.
A female professional appears as being interviewed. She says: Because we believe in the science. We believe in what we are doing, but it's not easy.
She then appears in the meeting room, presenting to the audience, then a side view of the audience, clapping, appears.
A black screen appears, featuring a line in white font. It reads: VC Pitch Day is back for 2021.
Two male professionals in grey suits appear as being interviewed. The professional on the left says: It's ultimately you're growing the ecosystem that you work in.
A black screen appears, featuring a line in white font. It reads: Same great event, just virtual.
A side view of three female professionals, sitting among the audience. The professional in the middle says: Because the landscape is changing, and so there's an opportunity for someone to solve a bigger problem.
A black screen appears, featuring a line in white font. It reads: Apply now to change the world.
Two professionals sitting as being interviewed. One male wearing a blue suit and another female wearing a red suit. Both smiling.
The male professional says: Nailed it.
The BDO logo appears centred over a white screen, below the logo are the firm’s core services: Assurance | Accounting | Tax | Advisory.
Music fades out.