Founder-led-GTM 2: Expert sessions on scaling AI startups
Join us for an evening in San Francisco, where we discuss go-to-market strategies and efficient growth for SaaS & AI builders with Mailmodo.
What to expect
🔹 Founders talking about how they grew their company using founder-led-Growth
🔹 How to use Linkedin & Reddit to get from 0 to 1 in your journey
🔹 How to use AI to create video influencers and grow your company through Tiktok
🔹 Good food and networking with other founders
Speakers:
Maddie Wang, Founder of OGTool. They help companies scale top of funnel on Reddit. Their biggest customer makes 270k a year from Reddit. Maddie is a Stanford CS dropout. She is a serial entrepreneur and she Bootstrapped her current company to 500k+ in less than 6 months.
Manik Mehta is the founder of Omnify, a SaaS platform helping service businesses manage scheduling, memberships and operations across 50+ countries. His journey spans the full arc—from bootstrapping to $0–$4M ARR, navigating SMB to enterprise sales and building a go-to-market engine that works across geographies. At this session, he’ll share lessons in capital-efficient growth, cross-border expansion, and how founders can lead GTM before hiring their first marketer or seller.
Blendi Bylygbashi, Founder of Remade, a YC company. Remade is building the interface to creative intelligence. MEng in Computer Engineering from Cambridge. Founded the BlenDigi YouTube channel, currently at 1M subscribers and 175M views.
Chalam PVS is the Co-founder & CEO of Siftly, a YC-backed company helping B2B companies get discovered inside LLMs like ChatGPT and Gemini. Before Siftly, he built Tingo, an Android dialer app for Gen Z users, and led high-impact machine learning teams at Snapdeal and Fareportal—driving tens of millions in revenue through real-time prediction systems. With a deep background in applied AI and product-led growth, he’s now building at the frontier of LLM-native search and discoverability.
Hosts:
Aquibur Rahman, CEO & Co-founder of Mailmodo — YC-backed, profitable, and transforming email marketing. Aquibur has over a decade of marketing experience, leading growth at multiple startups.
Vera Shokina, Managing Director at Silicon Valley Bank, supports international VC funds and startups with their US and global market expansion. With over 20 years of experience she has driven significant growth at Silicon Valley Bank and Runa Capital, where she served as Operating Partner before joining SVB.
Aditi Aggarwal , Founder of GTM Unbound , strategic partner for tech companies navigating cross-border growth. Before founding GTM Unbound, she led brand and growth mandates for global companies and advised startups through platforms like Startup India and NASSCOM 10K.
Sponsors:
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is the go-to banking partner for innovation-driven companies worldwide. From early-stage startups to global tech leaders, SVB offers tailored financial solutions to support every stage of your growth journey—whether you're scaling your team, expanding into new markets, or accelerating your next GTM motion.
🔗 www.svb.com
Mailmodo is an email marketing platform that helps marketers boost conversions with interactive emails. From forms and calendars to surveys and carts, Mailmodo enables users to create app-like experiences inside the inbox—no coding required. It's trusted by high-growth teams for its performance-driven approach and robust automation capabilities.
🔗 mailmodo.com