Grace Gong NYC VCs & Founders Breakfast
Join an intimate breakfast for VCs, founders, and LPs in New York City, hosted by Grace Gong. This exclusive morning event brings together selected venture capitalists and founders for meaningful connections and strategic conversations over breakfast.
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Grace hosts Smart Venture Podcast and Venture with Grace. Her podcasts have featured high-profile guests such as C-level executives and VPs from companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Instagram, DoorDash, Pinterest, Cisco, NVIDIA, Snowflake and more. Additionally, she has interviewed Managing Partners from top funds, many of whom have appeared on the Forbes Midas List, as well as unicorn founders from companies like Craigslist, Square, Loom, and Glean. Grace regularly posts about technology, venture capital, and entrepreneurship and has been recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice in Finance. She is also a #1 Bestselling author in the venture capital category on Amazon New Release. Before her media ventures, she worked in venture capital and private equity. Connect with her on LinkedIn @GraceGong.
About Our Partners
Verivend is trusted by over 800 funds and manages more than $2 billion in transactions. Their secure, streamlined payments platform is designed specifically for private capital markets, helping GPs and LPs raise and deploy capital faster with greater transparency while eliminating manual reconciliation and repeated follow-ups.
Stifel Financial (NYSE: SF) is a global investment bank, wealth management, and commercial banking institution with $400B+ in AUM. Stifel Bank offers venture and fund banking solutions, including 100% free banking for fund clients, fully insured liquid ICS accounts (up to $275MM FDIC coverage), capital call and management company lines of credit, and venture lending.
Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups backed by Y Combinator. They handle bookkeeping, tax filing, and tax credits so founders can focus on building their businesses. The average startup gets $21k back from the IRS through Fondo's tax credit optimization services.
Smart Venture Media Leading media company in the VC and startup space. Home to Smart Venture Podcast, Venture with Grace, and Smart AI Leadership Summit, a premier AI summit in San Francisco that featured partners from A16z, Insight Partners, IVP, among other top VC funds, and unicorn founders in the AI space.
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