Grace Gong x Roble Ventures - VC & Seed Stage Founders Dinner
Hosted by Grace Gong and David Perez-Hernandez
Join an intimate dinner for VCs, founders, and LPs in Austin, Texas, hosted by Grace Gong and David Perez-Hernandez.
This event is for founders who have raised a pre-seed round in the past 12 months and are seeking seed financing in 2025. We also included some exceptional GPs, LPs and Operators.
All guests must register through Luma to attend.
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Your Hosts
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.
David is a pre-seed and seed venture capitalist at Roble Ventures, a future-of-work and learning-focused fund that invests in technologies enabling people, teams, and organizations to achieve their most ambitious work. They invest in early-stage software companies at the seed stage that positively impact workers and organizations and have the potential to scale to be $1B+ valuation companies in 5-10 years. He served on a Fulbright Scholarship at the leading global entrepreneurial accelerator, Endeavor, in Mexico City, and later as an operator in two venture-backed startups that were scaling rapidly.
About Our Partners
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, an AI VC startup summit in San Francisco that featured partners from A16z, Insight Partners, IVP, among other top VC funds, and unicorn founders in the AI space.
Roble Ventures A future-of-work focused fund investing $200k-$2M in early-stage technologies that empower people, teams, and organizations to achieve their most ambitious work.
Silicon Valley Bank SVB is the bank of the world's most innovative companies and investors, serving the unique needs of clients in technology, life science, healthcare, and venture capital industries. A division of First Citizens Bank (NASDAQ: FCNCA), a top 20 U.S. financial institution with over $200 billion in assets.