Live: The Room Podcast x Hex Recording + Happy Hour - #SFTechWeek
In partnership with Season 13 sponsors Mercury and Perkins Coie, Madison and Claudia will host a special live recording featuring an interview with the co-founders of Hex — Barry McCardel (CEO) and Caitlin Colgrove (CTO).
Following the episode, guests are invited to connect with fellow founders and investors over cocktails at a post-show reception.
➡️ GUEST SPEAKERS
Barry is the CEO and co-founder of Hex, the world’s most popular platform for collaborative data analysis. Prior to Hex, Barry led deployment and product teams at Palantir, working on solutions to data problems all over the world. He was then at TrialSpark/Formation, where he helped stand up their clinical trial platform. He has a B.S. from Northwestern University, where he focused on network science.
Caitlin Colgrove is the CTO and co-founder of Hex, the AI-powered analytics workspace built for teams driving faster answers and better decisions. Caitlin has spent her career building data analytics tools, first at Palantir and then later at the transit data platform Remix, finally co-founding Hex with the vision of making everyone into a data person. As CTO, she focuses on building incredible products, technology, and teams in the era of AI.
➡️ THE ROOM PODCAST
The Room Podcast is a top technology podcast founded in 2020 with the mission of opening the door to the room where it happens. Co-hosts Madison McIlwain and Claudia Laurie have have had over 110 conversations across 12 seasons which have included Sridhar Ramaswamy, the visionary behind Neeva and the latest CEO of Snowflake; Cristobal Valenzuela, the driving force of Runway ML; Guillermo Rauch, the mastermind of Next.js and Vercel; and Michelle Zatlyn, co-founder and COO of Cloudflare and more. They were named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list in media and are ranked in the top 10% of technology podcasts.
Since its launch in 2020, The Room has hosted flagship events at tech weeks across the country.
➡️ MERCURY
Mercury is the fintech that brings all the ways people and businesses use money into a single product that feels extraordinary to use. With banking, credit cards*, and software, Mercury helps more than 200K ambitious companies and entrepreneurs make better decisions and build their businesses. To learn more, visit Mercury.com.
*Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust; Members FDIC. The IO Card is issued by Patriot Bank, Member FDIC, pursuant to a license from Mastercard ®.
➡️ PERKINS COIE
Perkins Coie’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital lawyers are trusted advisors to the world’s most innovative companies and most visionary investors. We support startup clients from formation to exit with comprehensive legal and business counseling. Our clients have raised more than $15 billion in the private markets over the past three years between the pre-seed and growth stage. Our extensive corporate law experience, combined with sector-specific business and product counseling, ensure our services are tailored to each client's unique needs, investor expectations, and growth trajectories in cutting-edge industries like AI, aerospace and defense tech, fintech, digital health, gaming, energy innovation, digital media, and consumer packaged goods.
ℹ️ INFO
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.
The event hosts and sponsors may use the personal information collected from or about you for business purposes, including sending newsletters, updates, and other communications about services, programs, and events, unless you choose to opt out. Please note that a photographer will be on-site, and event photos may be used in marketing materials by the hosts and sponsors.
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