Twelve founders on one stage.
Every pitch, from every seat.
You are the program manager who has spent twelve weeks with this batch, and demo day is the one afternoon that has to go right for all of them at once. The founders have rehearsed their decks until they can recite them, the investors are in the front rows, the mentors stand at the back, and the founders' families sit in between with phones held high. Your photographer covers the stage. The batch photo in the lobby, the co-founder filming from the wings and the investor conversations at the demo tables afterwards end up on everyone else's phone. One QR code puts all of it in a private gallery you approve first, which matters when a slide on stage showed a product nobody has announced yet.
One-time. No account needed to buy — about a minute.
The moments guests actually photograph at demo days
Why demo days work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
Unannounced products stay unannounced
Founders pitch things that are not public yet: a pricing slide, a customer logo still under NDA, a feature that ships next quarter. Turn on host review and every upload waits in your queue, so a photo of that slide never reaches the gallery or the screen unless you approve it. The gallery is private, reached only through your link, and kept out of search engines.
Each pitch from the room, not only the stage camera
Your stage recording is one fixed angle. The co-founder in the wings and the parent in row six film what it misses, and the clip of the room reacting to the traction slide is the one founders reuse in their investor update. Guests upload short videos from the same page as photos, and a founder can record a video message of up to 30 seconds thanking their batch.
Introductions after the last pitch
Once the pitches end, investors and founders want to find each other before the room empties. Open the networking directory and attendees opt in with a name, a one-line headline and their interests, browse who else is there, and say yes to the people they want to meet. Contact details are exchanged only when both people say yes, and the program team sees totals, not pairs.
No app. No account. One scan.
Guests point their camera at a QR code and are uploading in seconds. Nobody installs anything, nobody creates a login, and the grandparents can do it as easily as the teenagers.
Private by default, never indexed
The gallery is only reachable by the link or code you share. Guest pages are blocked from search engines and named AI crawlers, and you can close the gallery whenever you choose.
Video messages, recorded on the spot
A 30-second video toast recorded in the browser, no editing, no re-uploading. The guest who would never write in a book will happily talk to a phone.
Attendee networking
Attendees opt in to a directory, exchange contact details and book meetings from the event page while the event runs. Profiles are removed after it ends.
Door check-in from your phone
See who has arrived, who is still expected, and how many are in each party — without a clipboard at the entrance.
Full-resolution downloads
Download any photo, or the whole event as one archive, at original quality. What guests uploaded is what you keep — no compression, no watermark on paid events.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create demo day as one event, turn on host review, import the investor and guest list, and open the networking directory.
Put the QR code in the printed program, at the check-in desk and on the holding slide between pitches, and ask founders in rehearsal which slides must not be photographed.
Check investors in at the door from a phone. Guests upload the pitches, the batch photo and the demo tables while you approve the queue between sessions.
Send each team its pitch photos the next morning, share the approved gallery with mentors and investors, and download the originals for the next batch's application page.
Try uploading as a guest.
Scan this with your phone the way a guest at your event would. Choose a sample photo and upload it from your browser, then open the demo gallery to see it land. In this public demo, photos appear at once and videos wait for a person to approve them; at your own event, you decide.
- Scan the code with your phone camera — it opens straight in the browser.
- Upload a sample photo. Look for the upload confirmation so you know it reached the host.
Use a sample you are comfortable sharing with Picsui. Please keep personal or sensitive photos out of the demo.
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This is the same kind of code your guests scan at your event.
Getting the most from demo days
Show the code on the holding slide between pitches, never during one. Founders have a few minutes each and the audience's attention is the whole point, so a QR code on screen while someone is pitching competes with them. The gap while the next founder walks on and the clicker changes hands is just long enough for a scan. Ask the emcee to mention it once at the start, together with the one rule that matters: photograph the founders, not the numbers on their slides. Most guests will respect that, and host review catches the ones who forget, so a confidential revenue figure never reaches the gallery.
Take the batch photo before the pitches, not after. Once demo day ends, founders scatter into investor conversations, the afterparty and the airport, and you will not get every team in one frame again. Do it in the lobby in the hour before doors open, with the program staff and mentors in the shot, and ask a couple of founders' families to take it on their phones as well so you have several versions. Upload them straight away. The slideshow on the lobby screen then has something to show when investors arrive, and the founders see their batch on screen while they wait to go on.
Treat the gallery as the follow-up, not a souvenir. The morning after, send each team the photos of their own pitch, because founders use them in the investor update, on their website and in the post announcing their round, and a good stage photo is hard to get any other way. Send investors the approved gallery together with the one-page list of companies, so the names match the people they met. Set the guestbook question to something you can act on, such as which company you would like an introduction to, and the written answers become a short list for the program team's follow-up that week.
Common questions about demo days
Can we keep confidential slides out of the gallery?
Yes, with host review. Turn it on before you share the code and every guest upload waits in your queue until you approve it, so a photo of a revenue slide, an unreleased product or a customer logo that is still under wraps simply never appears. The live slideshow shows only approved photos too. Ask each founder in rehearsal which slides are off limits and give that list to whoever is clearing the queue. Rejected photos are not shown to other guests, and the gallery itself stays private, reachable only by your link.
Do investors need to sign up or install anything?
No. An investor points their phone camera at the QR code and a page opens in the browser where they can upload photos and videos, write in the guestbook or join the networking directory. There is no app and no account. If you imported the guest list, they arrive with a personal invite link, and a staff member checks them in at the door from a phone, so you know which funds actually came, which is the number your program director will ask for after the event.
How do investors and founders swap contact details through the event page?
Through the attendee networking directory, which is opt in. Each person who wants to take part creates a short profile with a name, a headline and a few interests, and browses the others who joined. When an investor and a founder both say yes to each other, both see the contact detail the other chose to share. Nobody's details are visible otherwise, the program team sees only how many people joined and how many pairs matched, and profiles are deleted shortly after the event ends.
Can we put the photos on the lobby screens during the afterparty?
Yes. Open the live slideshow on any TV, projector or laptop in the lobby and approved uploads appear as they arrive, with grid and collage layouts and a phone remote to change it from across the room. Founders like seeing their pitch on the wall a few minutes after they walked off stage, and it nudges the guests who have not uploaded yet. With host review on, nothing reaches that screen until you have approved it, so the confidential slide stays off the wall as well as out of the gallery.
We run demo day twice a year. What does each one cost?
Each demo day is one Event Pass at $29, paid once, with no subscription and no per-attendee fee. It includes unlimited uploads under a 25 GB fair-use bound, host review, the guest list with door check-in, the networking directory, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting, which keeps this batch's gallery online well into the next cohort. A pitch night held in the same week can be its own event or a sub-event of demo day, depending on whether the guest list is the same.
Every photo from demo days, in one place
One-time Event Pass, $29. No subscription, no per-guest fee.
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