AI Agent Founder Dinner w Partners at Defy VC, HOF Capital, Sierra Ventures and The Westly Group

​An intimate dinner focused on fundraising, bringing together AI Agent founders and top Bay Area VCs. Special guests include:
1. Brian Rothenberg, Partner at Defy VC
2. Hansae Catlett, Partner at HOF Capital
3. Vignesh Ravikumar, Partner at Sierra Ventures
4. Shaun Chaudhuri, Partner at The Westly Group

​These investors have backed iconic Gen AI companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, and xAI.

We will focus the discussion on fundraising for AI Agent founders:
1. How do VCs assess an Agent startup's differentiation and enduring moat?
2. How can founders with a technical moat showcase this with their pitch? And do VCs care about the technical moat?
3. Key VC concerns when addressing an Agent startup?
4. Optimizing for pitch and process...

​​​Agents and the Future hosts this event: we are an in-person community of Agent Application leaders. We are vulnerable about our biggest challenges, share learnings, and help each other. We host invite-only founder dinners

​​​This event is ticketed as there is limited capacity. Proceeds will cover food and drink at the restaurant. The restaurant's name will be released post-approval and closer to the date