Vertical Intelligence: Founder & Funder Summit
The Future of Sector Innovation Starts Here:
Vertical AI, data, and documentation in the age of Generative AI.
Join us for an exclusive evening for the Vertical Intelligence Founder & Funder Summit, hosted by Foothill Ventures, Plug and Play and Nebius. We’re bringing together leading founders, top investors, and enterprise experts to explore how GenAI is powering the rise of Vertical AI — and transforming how industries operate, document, and scale.
Event Agenda:
5:00 PM: Check-in and Networking
5:30 PM: Opening with Fireside Chat — Scaling Vertical AI
Moderator: Jeff Chien, Senior Vice President at Plug and Play Tech Center
Marc Boroditsky, Chief Revenue Officer at Nebius
Jinlin Wang, Managing Partner at Foothill Ventures
6:00 PM: VC Panel — Investing in Vertical AI
Moderator: Ram Bala, Author of The AI-Centered Enterprise, Professor at SCU
Greg Sands, Founder & Managing Partner at Costanoa Ventures
Xuhui Shao, Managing Partner at Foothill Ventures
To be announced
6:45 PM: Startup Panel — Building the Vertical AI Across Industries
Moderator: Theresa Dai, Investor at Foothill Ventures
Jerry Zhou, Cofounder & CEO at Supio
Omar Issa, Cofounder & CEO at ResiQuant
To be anounced
7:30 PM: Mingling and Networking
9:00 PM: Event Ends (venue closes)
Who Should Attend?
Founders building Vertical AI, enterprise SaaS, or documentation-first platforms
Engineers and product builders exploring data-rich sector opportunities
Investors and operators focused on the next wave of applied AI innovation
Event Host:
Foothill Ventures: Foothill Ventures is a $300M fund that bets on highly technical, very early-stage companies in frontier tech. We are based in Los Altos, California. We are investing in seed and series A startups in North America. Learn more at https://www.foothill.ventures/.
Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is the ultimate innovation platform. Our mission is to build the world’s leading innovation platform and make innovation open to anyone, anywhere. We do this by connecting entrepreneurs, corporations, and investors worldwide. Over the past 15 years, we have brought together 35,000+ startups, 500+ world-leading corporations, and hundreds of venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies across 20+ industries. Learn more at https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/.
Nebius: The Nebius AI Cloud brings powerful full-stack infrastructure for AI developers and practitioners across startups, enterprises and science institutes to build and deploy generative AI applications and rapidly deliver scientific breakthroughs by training and running ML models within a secure, high-performance, and cost-optimized cloud environment. Learn more at https://nebius.com/.
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