AI Salon — Silicon Valley Edition, #7
AI Salon — Silicon Valley Edition, #7
Theme: Keywords in AI Startups
📅 Date: Thursday, June 12, 2025
🕕 Time: 6:00–9:30 PM PT
📍 Location: San Francisco, CA (exact venue TBA)
🧑💼 Hosts: HRZ, Sazze Partners, YouTube Demo Day, Asia2G Capital, Mashup Ventures
Why We’re Gathering
We recently kicked off the AI Salon in Silicon Valley—a community for founders, future founders, and investors building the future of AI.
And for our very first official gathering under this new banner, we’re doing something a little unexpected, actually expected: AI Salon #7.
This isn’t your typical panel-heavy event. Our goal is to create space for the kinds of conversations you can’t have on Twitter or during a 15-minute pitch call. We’re designing the evening around open discussions—fireside chats and panels that make room for diverse voices across the AI ecosystem.
This is a meetup for those who are in the trenches of building, backing, and imagining AI startups—not just the hype, but the hard stuff too.
And true to our mission of fostering deeper connections, we’re also bringing back a few crowd favorites: 1-minute investor reverse pitches, and rapid-fire demos from some of the boldest AI startups in our orbit.
📋 Program Highlights
6:00–6:30 PM: Check-in & Casual Networking
6:30–7:45 PM: Conversations That Matter
Perspectives as AI startup founder in consumer, enterprise, gaming, or social ... (TBD)
Fireside Chat: “Escaping Big Tech — Building Something New in AI”
Guest: Hyunjoon Jung (Adobe)
Moderator: Bumsoo Kim (YouTube Demo Day, Translink Investment)
Panel: “Investor Perspectives on What Matters in AI Right Now”
Featuring:
Ian Park (Sazze Partners, ex-KIC)
Choongsoon Bae (Top Harvest Capital, ex-GV)
Jin Ho Hur (Han River Partners, ex-Translink)
James Kim (Reach Capital)
7:45–8:00 PM: Reverse Pitch: Investors to Founders
5–10 early-stage AI-focused VCs will each get 1 minute to pitch themselves to founders.
8:00–8:30 PM: Rapid-fire Demos: “The AI That Makes You Wow”
We’re hand-picking 5~10 startups to demo the wildest, most creative, most promising applications of AI they’ve been building.
Examples we’re hoping to see:
Agent networks for enterprise or consumer services
AI-powered shopping assistants, browsers, or productivity tools
Next-gen immersive agents — the “Roblox of the AI era”
Creative generation: 3D, music, worlds, games
“Vibe coding” tools, MCP servers and clients
Anything ambitious, a little weird, and beautifully built
Startups: whatever stage you’re at—if it’s working, we want to see it.
8:30–9:30 PM: Networking
The last hour is for conversations. Meet fellow builders, potential collaborators, and investors over light snacks and drinks.
🙋♀️ How to Join
Founders:
Register here at lu.ma.
And, if you’d like to be considered for the demo slot or reverse pitch segment, please also fill out this Google Form. Demo selection is based on this form.
Investors:
Register here at lu.ma. No need to fill out the Google Form.
Please note: This is an invite-prioritized event focused on founders and investors. To focus on the quality of discussion and connections, we may not be able to accommodate everyone—thank you for understanding.
👥 About AI Salon in Silicon Valley
AI Salon is a community of Korean and Korea-linked AI founders, investors, and ecosystem players based in the heart of Silicon Valley. We’re building a deeper, more intentional space for sharing, collaborating, and growing together.
Join our online community here:
Let’s build something real.
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Hosted by the AI Salon team — see you in Burlingame.