Claude Founder House is Anthropic's home base for SF Tech Week, a place for founders to build, connect, and take the stage.
Daytime is the Claude Cafe. Bring your laptop, work next to the Anthropic team, grab office hours with the people who build our products, and meet the investors and operators shaping what comes next.
Founder House Cafe Daily Agenda:
11:00 AM: Doors open
All day: Drop-in cowork, coffee, and bookable office hours with Anthropic technical team
11:30 AM-4:00PM: Panel talks and workshops
5:00 PM: Doors close
Topics and Speakers
Tuesday, Oct 6
11:00 AM: Women in startups brunch
12:00 PM: Workshop: Building agents that own outcomes, with Ina Chun (Anthropic)
12:30 PM: AI in the physical world, with Walden Robotics, Foundry Robotics, The Bot Company, and Caitlin Kalinowski (Anthropic)
1:30 PM: Raising your next round in the AGI era, with investors from Lightspeed, Sequoia, and ICONIQ
2:30 PM: Physical AI and the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), with Gagan Bhat (Anthropic)
3:00 PM: AI in medicine and care, with OpenEvidence, Stanford Health Care, and Jonah Cool (Anthropic)
Wednesday, Oct 7
11:00 AM: Claude Run Club
11:30 AM: Workshop: Rebuilding from SaaS to agent-native
12:30 PM: Building on the frontier, with PostHog, Simile, and Socket
1:00 PM: From founder to frontier lab, with former founders now at Anthropic
1:30 PM: Building a GTM engine, with Profound
3:00 PM: Securing the cyber frontier, with Artemis, XBOW, and Outtake
3:30 PM: Growing a consumer AI product, with Gamma and Town
Thursday, Oct 8
11:00 AM: Full stack brunch with Lovable, featuring founders from The Collective and Lovable's growth team
12:00 PM: Workshop: Build an agent on your own data, with ClickHouse
On Thursday, the cafe becomes a stage. Claude Founder House Salon puts founders in front of investors, operators, and each other to show what they've actually built.
Founder Salon Agenda
2:00 PM: Welcome keynote
3:00 PM: Fireside chat: David Rosenthal (Acquired) in conversation with Mike Krieger (Anthropic)
5:00 PM: Panels and conversations
5:30 PM: Founders stage
6:30 to 8:00 PM: Happy Hour
Speakers
Mike Krieger, Head of Anthropic Labs, Anthropic
David Rosenthal, Co-host, Acquired
Travis Zack, Chief Medical Officer, OpenEvidence
Beth Robertson, Head of Startups, Anthropic
Matt Biilmann, CEO, Netlify
Jean-Denis Greze, Co-founder and CEO, Town
Francesca LaBianca, COO, Factory
Lenjoy Lin, Co-founder, Genspark
Tim Glaser, Co-founder and Co-CEO, PostHog
Joon Sung Park, CEO, Simile
Elena Verna, Growth, Lovable
Deeni Fatiha, Head of Product for AI, Gamma
Adrien Gaidon, PhD, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Walden Robotics
Adarsh Kulkarni, CEO, Foundry Robotics
Ron Li, Medical Director, Digital Health, Stanford Medicine
Murali Joshi, General Partner, ICONIQ
Lauren Reeder, Partner, Sequoia
Sebastian Duesterhoeft, Partner, Lightspeed
Jarred Sumner, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Daniel Burkhardt, Developer Relations Manager, NVIDIA
Allen Kleiner, Senior Engineering Manager, Retool
Edgar Sze, GTM Engineer, Profound
Dustin Healy, Software Engineer, ClickHouse
Jonah Cool, Partnerships, Anthropic
Bryan McCann, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Gaby Wilkerson-Melnick, Global Head of Startup Partnerships, Anthropic
Gagan Bhat, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
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