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Founders gathered in the lounge at a Friday edition of Founders Gatherings
Edition #132 · Jul 3, 2026 · Financial District, SF

The Friday wall

This Friday · Oct 23

One tile for every Friday we've gathered. The streak, filled in

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Francisco, CAEdition #145Fri, Oct 2, 2026San Francisco, CAEdition #146Fri, Oct 9, 2026San FranciscoEdition #147Fri, Oct 16, 2026San FranciscoUpcoming edition #148 · This Friday · Oct 23San Francisco · 4-6 PM Pacific
147+
Editions held
3+ yrs
Every single week
5-20
Founders per room
SF
Financial District

Past partners

  • J.P. Morgan
  • Sheppard Mullin
  • NEC X
  • Treasure Data
  • Minerva University
  • Y Combinator

Attendees have come from Y Combinator, 500 Startups and founder communities around the world

Section 04 · Guests who've joined us

Founders and operators who came by, shared real numbers and took questions

Paul Shaburov - guest speaker

Paul Shaburov

Founder, GlamAI. Bootstrapped to $72M ARR — 16M downloads, 2M monthly users, zero VC

Chenxi Wang, Ph.D. - guest speaker

Chenxi Wang, Ph.D.

Founder & GP, Rain Capital. Two unicorns from Fund I — Claroty ($3B) and JupiterOne ($1B+) · 5 portfolio exits · Fortune Top Cyber Investor

Andrew Israel - guest speaker

Andrew Israel

Founder & CEO, PropelAuth (YC W22) — auth for B2B SaaS, backed by Y Combinator and Tiger Global. Ex-Palantir

Victoria Krauchunas - guest speaker

Victoria Krauchunas

Co-founder & COO, PropelAuth (YC W22). Ex-YC Builder-in-Residence running growth and customer success. Writes Startup Curious on Substack

Nicole Retter - guest speaker

Nicole Retter

Founder, PAM. AI family assistant used by 25,000 families

Abhinav Gupta - guest speaker

Abhinav Gupta

Partner, Riceberg Ventures — $20M deep-tech fund: spacetech, AI, quantum, semiconductors

Bibhrajit Halder - guest speaker

Bibhrajit Halder

Founder & CEO, SafeAI — raised $68M for autonomous mining & construction equipment. Acquired by Pronto, 2025

Aleh Manchuliantsau - guest speaker

Aleh Manchuliantsau

7× founder — CEO, Planetarians. $6.7M raised (AB InBev, SOSV, Techstars) for two-ingredient vegan meat · 2 exits, 7 patents

Joyce Mo - guest speaker

Joyce Mo

Partner, Riceberg Ventures — writing $500K first checks into 25–30 frontier startups, SF to Mumbai

Vik Chaudhry - guest speaker

Vik Chaudhry

Co-founder, CTO & COO, Buzz Solutions — AI grid inspection for utilities · $20M Series A led by S3 Ventures, $30.8M raised · Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy

Muddu Sudhakar - guest speaker

Muddu Sudhakar

SVP & GM, Agentforce IT Service & HR Service at Salesforce. Serial entrepreneur with $800M+ exits (Aisera, Caspida→Splunk, Cetas→VMware, Kazeon→EMC). Ph.D. UCLA · EY Entrepreneur of the Year

Section 05 · Meet the hosts

Ten people have hosted at least one Friday

Host 01
Kyosuke Togami - host

Kyosuke Togami

Founder of MELT · advisor at Transpose Platform, a major Y Combinator investor · writes the weekly SF Bay Area events newsletter

MELT logoluma.com/melt
Host 02
Chris Parjaszewski - host

Chris Parjaszewski

Founder & CEO, MindPal - AI workflow automation for manufacturing & construction · on the ground at FGSF every Friday

MindPal logomindpal.co
Host 03
Anna Augustowska - host

Anna Augustowska

Startup marketing, Strivolve - runs FGSF's founder interviews · founder brand & founder coach

Strivolve logostrivolve.com
Host 04
Dathan Guiley - host

Dathan Guiley

Founder, Wilde Agency - 30 years shipping production software (Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo) · 3× CTO

Wilde Agency logowilde.agencyAgentSite logoagentsite.app
Host 05
Danish Mir - host

Danish Mir

Building BriskFlow AI - AI for XBRL & financial reporting compliance · ex-Nasdaq

BriskFlow AI logobriskflow.ai
Host 06
James Jacobs - host

James Jacobs

Serial entrepreneur · Founder & CEO, AGITherapy

AGI Therapy logoagitherapy.tech
Host 07
Lucas Sojka - host

Lucas Sojka

Co-founder & COO, MindPal - takes complex software from concept to scale

MindPal logomindpal.co
Host 09
Viki Tyc - host

Viki Tyc

Technical Product Owner, SmartBear - shipping AI agents across the Swagger ecosystem · Lovable Ambassador

SmartBear logosmartbear.com
Host 10
Tristen Harr - host

Tristen Harr

Founder, Datacenter.Dev · building Logos Language, the fastest programming language on earth · ex-Hasura (connectors + community) · former CTO & Co-founder, TheGoodz (~$1.4M ARR)

Datacenter.Devdatacenter.dev
Portrait of Kyosuke Togami

Portrait · Kyosuke Togami

Section 06 · Presented by

Presented by Kyosuke Togami

Kyosuke is a community builder and the founder of MELT, an event series that has brought founders and investors together across SF, NYC and Tokyo. He is also an advisor and consultant at Transpose Platform - an early-stage fund and one of the largest investors in Y Combinator

Every week he publishes a Substack newsletter covering tech events across the SF Bay Area - 2,000+ subscribers get curated event picks, and paid members receive complimentary conference tickets and invitations to SF's premier gatherings

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Section 08 · Upcoming

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Section 09 · This Friday · Oct 23

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