🔥The Brave New World of Startup Fundraising w/Conviction, Recursive, Hustle Fund, Gradient & More #SFTechWeek

Tuesday, Oct 6

5:00pm

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Raising capital is hard. Join us on October 6th and learn how to make it easier. This event features panels and networking with founders and VCs who have recently raised capital. Produced by Foundersuite.com (used by 100k startups globally to raise capital) and moderated by Nathan Beckord, host of the "How I Raised It" podcast (330+ episodes with funded founders). Co-hosted by the law firm of Nixon Peabody (www.nixonpeabody.com) and their Emerging Companies and VC practice. Join us to learn the latest tips and best practices for fundraising... we will cover seed, angel and VC in this fast moving environment. Speakers include: Itamar Novick, founder of Recursive Ventures, a pre-seed fund backing AI startups from day one. Itamar has invested in over 100+ startups, including Deel, HoneyBook, Placer.ai, Life360, Tile, May Mobility, Credible, and SafeGraph. Business Insider named him a Top 100 global seed investor each year since inception in 2022. He is especially interested in founders building with AI at the core, including those rethinking industries from first principles, not just adding AI on top. Bella Garcia-Camargo of Conviction Partners (www.conviction.com) , a new venture firm founded by Sarah Guo. Convicion is purpose-built to serve AI-Native, "Software 3.0" companies. The firm believes we are extremely early in the translation of powerful AI models to powerful products that transform industries. Conviction partners with the most important companies of tomorrow with $1 to $25M checks, and likes to invest early, and are often the first investor. Clayton Petty of Gradient VC (www.gradient.com). Gradient is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco that backs founders building in artificial intelligence. Founded in 2017, Gradient was among the first venture firms dedicated to investing in AI companies at pre-seed and seed stages. The firm manages more than $1 billion in assets across five funds and has backed more than 500 AI founders. Gradient has led seed investments in category-defining companies including Lambda, Streamlit (acquired by Snowflake), Writer, Range, CentML (acquired by NVIDIA), and Krea. Clayton Bryan, General Partner, Currents VC Currents backs AI-native companies: take the model out and the product stops working. If yours does, come find me. More top VC speakers to be announced shortly! SPACE IS LIMITED -- apply now and we will announce the guest list prior to the event. Come for the A+ networking and lite bites, and stay for the views! :) 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.