🚀 Calling all Vertical AI Founders!
Join us on October 7 during a16z SF Tech Week for an exclusive Vertical AI Investor AMA (Ask Me Anything) – where top-tier investors meet the sharpest AI builders redefining industry frontiers.
It’s a no-fluff, candid conversation between vertical AI founders and investors who are actively backing the next wave of deep, domain-specific AI companies - from healthcare to logistics, law to manufacturing, finance to agtech.
✨ Dave Lu : Managing Partner at Hyphen Capital | Co-founder Asian Leadership Center | Co-founder Stand With Asian Americans | Emmy-winning Producer 38 at the Garden | Advisory Board Smithsonian APAC
✨Chris McCann, General Partner at Race Capital | Backed: Databricks, Solana, Groq, GoodNotes, Vectara, ClerkChat, AirMDR, & PlayAI (acq by Meta)
✨Serephina Ha : Managing Director at Founder Institute | Advisor at Loyal VC | Mentor at MIT Sandbox | Former VC-backed AI startup founder with D2C sales across Korea, US, China, Indonesia, and Australia, now supporting startups in growth and fundraising. Also Angel Investor & LP
🔥 Why You Should Attend:
- Unfiltered insights from investors backing early-stage vertical AI startups
- Ask the questions you actually care about - from fundraising and GTM to defensibility and traction
- Meet other top global founders building in your space
- Build direct investor relationships in a curated, high-signal environment
Whether you're idea or pre-seed, if you're building AI that goes deep into solving real-world vertical problems, this is your room.
💡 Limited spots. Curated audience. Global reach.
Apply to attend and be part of the vertical AI founder movement during one of the most important tech weeks of the year.
About Hosts
⭐️Founder Institute is the world’s most proven network to turn ideas into fundable startups, and startups into global businesses. Since 2009, our structured online programs have helped over 8,000 startups raise over $1.85B in funding.
Apply to our fall cohort : https://fi.co/los-angeles
⭐️Frontier Tower is transforming a 16-floor tower in San Francisco into a self-governed vertical village - a hub for frontier technologies and creative arts. Tier-one labs presenting AI, Ethereum, biotech, neuroscience, longevity, robotics, human flourishing, and arts & music. These floors will house innovators and creators pushing the boundaries of human potential in a post-AI-singularity world.
Apply here for citizenship: https://frontiertower.io/membership
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
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