Building & Investing in AI: Insights from OpenAI + AI Investors

​Join us for an evening focused on building and investing in AI, featuring a panel of VC investors focused on AI followed by a fireside chat with Mike Wilner, NYC based Startup GTM at OpenAI.

​In these sessions, we'll explore how today’s leading investors are evaluating AI startups, what they’re funding, and where they see opportunity. Then we’ll dive into a conversation with Mike about how founders are working with OpenAI, what he’s seeing across the ecosystem, and how to build strategically in the age of frontier models.

​The evening ends with a networking reception for founders, operators, and investors building at the forefront of AI.

​Agenda

• ​4:00 – 4:45pm: VC Panel – A conversation with leading AI-focused investors moderated by Eric Newcomer (Founder/Writer, Newcomer)

  • ​Allen Duan - General Partner, B Capital Group

  • ​Lisa Xu - Partner, Threshold Ventures

  • ​Emily Fontaine - IBM Global Head of Venture Capital

• ​4:45 – 5:45pm: Fireside Chat with Mike Wilner (OpenAI) moderated by Dorothy Chang (Venture Partner, Flybridge Capital)

• ​5:45 – 7:00pm: Networking Reception

​​​​​​​Brought to you by

​Lynx Collective
Lynx Collective empowers and connects the NYC startup ecosystem. We foster connections through our programming & events, share insights via our weekly newsletter, invest in ambitious startups both as angel investors and through the NextWave NYC fund and provide guidance through our advisory work.

​​​​​​Lynx Collective was founded by Andrew and Dorothy Chang, both 20-year veterans of the NYC startup ecosystem.​

​Goodwin

​​​​Goodwin is in the business of building authentic, long-term relationships with our clients, who are some of the world’s most successful and innovative investors, entrepreneurs and disruptors in the life sciences, private equity, real estate, technology and financial industries, and where they converge. Goodwin’s immersive understanding of these industries – combined with expertise across high-stakes litigation and dispute resolution, world-class regulatory compliance and advisory services, and complex transactions – sets them apart.

​Pilot

​Pilot provides outsourced finance and operations support for startups, including bookkeeping, tax, CFO, and COO services. We help early-stage companies scale from Pre-Seed to Series C with accurate financials, operational discipline, and investor-ready insights.