Founder Friday @ The Foundry
Friends & Founders, please join us this Friday at Five o'clock at the Foundry SF featuring fifteen founders for five minutes of fame.
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For our 3rd meetup in San Francisco, please join our co-hosts and co-founders Hadron Founders Club, Dabl.Club, Cookbook.dev, and Aiify.io for lightning talks and free food & drinks, at The Foundry on the 10th of May. Start the weekend insightful conversations and connections with founders and investors.
Sponsored by Polygon and Chainlink.
Are you a founder or developer?
We want founders working on web3, frames, AI, XR/VR, art, music, health and wellness, and more. We're excited to meet Web3 and AI founders - as well as all other founders! If you are an operator or investor, also feel free to sign up.
Apply to speak
This event will be hosted by the Co-founders of Aiify.io, Dabl.Club, Hadron Founders Club, and Cookbook.dev, and. Learn more about us below.
Agenda
5:00 - 6:00
DJ Kaeli
OPEN BAR
Free Food
6:00 – 7:30
Lightning Talks by Founders
(Bar closed during the talks)
7:15 - 8:15
Networking
Live Painting by Local Artists
Temporary NFT Tattoos
DJ ROMiii
8:15 - 9:15
Dance Party
DJ CHILLBILL
Speaker Line Up
6:00 Intro by Collin
6:10 Ajit Tripathi, Hadron Founders Club
Ajit led growth and strategy for Aave, built banking and payments rails for Binance and Paxful, advises several crypto startups, drove the buildout of the fintech practice for ConsenSys, and led the UK Blockchain Business for PwC. He’s also a well known podcaster and columnist.
Hadron Founders Club is a global community of founders and creators who are building foundational technology, infrastructure, apps and culture to realize the vision of an aggregated internet of value for everyone.
6:15 Tyler Sehr, Cookbook.dev
Tyler is the founder of Cookbook, builder in web3 since 2015.
Cookbook lets you discover and use smart contracts, easily onboard onto new chains, and export contracts into your preferred development environment.
6:20 Micha Anthenor Benoliel. Click Camera App
Micha is a visionary and serial entrepreneur who enabled Skype to launch “Skype In And Skype Out”. Micha is CEO and Co-founder of Nodle, a decentralized smartphone infrastructure for connecting Web3 to Reality, a smartphone-based DePIN for real-world use cases.
Click’s mission is to combat misinformation and bring truthful photos and videos to everyone via an immutable digital proof of authenticity. Download Click at clickapp.com.
6:30 Dan Lynch, Interweb, Inc. (Cosmology)
Dan Lynch, a serial entrepreneur with over three decades of experience, pioneered no-code platforms like famo.us and Brandcast, and now dedicates his efforts at Interweb and Cosmology to bringing more developers into the Web3 ecosystem.
Interweb, Inc. is building the “printing press” for software development, streamlining the creation process and enabling developers to work on a higher conceptual plane.
6:35 Cyber Shakti, Poster.fun
Cyber Shakti is an NFT artist and founder of Poster.fun making a dent on cross-chain ad networks and media distribution with simple dApps and immersive social-fi experiences.
Poster is an onchain canva that elevates your social game on farcaster and lens! Think social growth, think poster.
6:45 Konrad Gnat, LuminaLog
Journaling has forever been changed by AI, now it talks back to you, gives insights, personalized advice and connections.
6:50 Dave Fontenot, HF0
Fontenot is trying to accelerate the coming of the next Renaissance. He started MHacks, the largest hackathon in the world. Since then, > 10,000 hackers from across the globe have attended.
Fontent led over 50 investments as General Partner at Backend Capital with Lucy Guo, including early checks in now unicorn companies Ramp, Fabric, and Pave, Crossmint, Latch.ai, Krea.ai.
Fontenot leads HF0, a 12-week residency for engineers starting companies that builds off his time running hackathons.
6:55 Yuriy Dybskiy, Puma Browser
Founder @ Puma.tech; prev. software engineer and developer advocate at Meta, Lyft, Meteor (YC S11).
Puma is a mobile LLM browser. Private by design.
7:00 Pareen Lathia, ValuesDAO
Pareen is a community builder and the founder of ValuesDAO. He aims to create a more aligned world. He has been building physical and online communities for over a decade.
ValuesDAO is a platform to mint your values and discover more aligned people, communities, and events.
7:05 DV, Zo World
DV is a serial entrepreneur and the Co-Founder and CEO of Zo World. He has also built Zostel - The world’s largest chain of Backpacker Hostels.
Zo World is building the world’s best crypto club with exclusive degen houses around the world.
7:10 Eric Forst, Blocksee
Eric is an entrepreneur who has been working with AI for 15 years, and whose personal project goal is to help support the purpose of web3, which is to empower people to own, control, and monetize their content and their data.
Blocksee is a data analytics platform based on the idea that the wallet is the new cookie. It integrates web3 and web2 data, and uses AI to offer indexed and validated data, powerful visualisations, and search to deliver unique and powerful insights. Blocksee’s mission is to be the data standard for decentralized AI.
7:15 Arul Prakash, Bukprotocol.io
Arul is the founder of Bukprotocol.io with experience working with multiple Fortune 50 companies driving innovation and business growth.
BUK is an app chain and solution stack lego to build marketplaces to onboard assets which have an expiration date. These dynamic assets include event tickets, Airline tickets, hotel room booking and more.
7:20 Lamont Adair, Open Road
Lamont's company Open Road is revolutionizing the way people think about car ownership and shared mobility. By blending blockchain with a gamified car-sharing platform, Open Road empowers car owners to unlock new revenue streams.
7:25 Levi Rybalov, CoopHive
Levi has a background in mechanism design for distributed computing, and is the founder of CoopHive, which operates at the intersection of DeAI, DePIN, and DeSci.
CoopHive is building data structures to coordinate multi-agent systems, starting with running arbitrary off-chain compute jobs.
7:30 Gerta Malaj, YourNegotiations.com
Gerta is a negotiations expert and the cofounder of YourNegotiations.com.
YourNegotiations.com is a negotiations consulting, courses, and training company for founders, individuals, and teams.
7:35 Rich King, RPS AI
King is a Stanford drop out, twice founder, building enterprise AI for crypto companies.
Web2 AI doesn’t work for web3. The data and architecture is incompatible. To build AI agents and disrupt current dapp UX, we need a new model that’s reliable, accurate and easy to work with. RPS AI is a multimodal model for crypto, trained on web3 data.
7:40 Kyle Heise Co-Founder, Crypto Content Company
Kyle is multilingual web3 and AI PR specialist and content creator. He has experience leading a major web3 newsroom as well running media relations for well-known DeFi and infrastructure projects.
Crypto Content Company is on a mission to simplify blockchain communications and help projects tell their story. CCC has over three decades in media and communications for tech, web3, and other emerging sectors.
7:50 Eva Kuttichova, Macromo
Repeat founder, Sigma Squared Fellow, ex-DoorDash Lead Product Designer
We're building an app that provides longevity guidance to help people live longer by using blood tests, wearables, and DNA to give people evidence-based health tips, all in one place.
8:00 Collin Lowenberg, Dabl Club
Collin is an engineer, entrepreneur, explorer, event organizer, former director of DevRel for MetaMask, and a Core Contributor to the Dabl Club.
Dabl Club is where the artists, builders, creators, developers, engineers, founders, guild mages, hackers, and investors come together and create the future, on Polygon.
Recent Speakers
Collin Lowenburg, Dabl.Club
Tyler Sehr Cookbook.dev
Anton D. Cookbook.dev
Gideon Nweze, BitMask.app
Sara Drakeley, Sentz.com
Mikhail Kirillov, Hito.xyz
Micah “Toad” Baylor, Opolis.co
Jesse Katz, Maitri.Network
Mihai Dinulescu, Chateaushi.com
Anonymous, BITCHCOIN.meme
Matija Pavicevic, ArtNova
Samee Siddiqui AtlasZK.com
Jack, Aspecta.id
Eliott, Solidity Labs
Cameron Davis, Banyan.gg
Russel Castagnaro, Bufficorn.Ventures
Steve Echtman, DAO Denver, Aiify.io
Kirsten Pomades, TalentLayer.org
Tove Anderson, KryptoGaris
Konrad Gnat, AI Mentor
Piram Singh, Spatial GPT
Ethan Sherbondy, Mahjohng Space
Scott Hoge, SpaceTube
Dabl Club
Dabl Club is a collective of Builder Guilds in 111 cities around powered by Polygon. We just started a new Builder Guild for San Francisco, and this is our 2nd community meetup, mixer.
Join us on Telegram: http://www.dabl.chat
Hadron Founders Club
Hadron Founders Club is a Polygon powered, open, collaborative community of passionate founders, builders and creators who want to build the future of the internet of value ~ Together.
Apply to join the next cohort: http://hadronfc.com
OnePiece Labs
OnePiece Labs is a leading Web3 incubator, offers startups networking, mentorship, and resources for success. Founded by seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, it aims to cultivate the future's Web3 unicorns through results-driven outcomes.
Cookbook.dev
Cookbook is an open-source smart contract registry where developers can find solidity primitives, libraries, and smart contracts for protocols across EVM-compatible blockchains that rely on the solidity programming language.
Aiify.io
Aiify.io events explore AI capabilities today, and the promise AI holds for tomorrow. Meet and learn from leaders building and using the cutting edge tools that are changing the world.
The upcoming: "AI in Media & Entertainment Summit" is 6/1-2: https://lu.ma/ai-media-ent
DAOPlanet.org
DAOPlanet.org (producer of DAODenver.org) is enabling a new age of work that better serves humanity — achieved through the integration and proliferation of DAO principles and Web3 tools.
DAOPlanet’s mission is to deliver access to strategies, tools, and practices that support greater individual productivity, flexibility, and representation within all organizations.
The Foundry
The Foundry is a web3-friendly space for events equipped with state-of-the-art lighting, sound, and audiovisual.