Meet San Francisco.

Guillermo Rauch

CEO, Vercel

CEO of Vercel and creator of Next.js. The person most responsible for how the modern web gets built.

James Hawkins

CEO, PostHog

Co-founder and CEO of PostHog, the open-source product analytics platform built for developers. YC alum, Cambridge grad, and loves a post on LinkedIn & X.

Helena Gagern

GP, The Embassy

GP at The Embassy, a private residence and community for European Outlier founders. Investor and one of the best-connected Europeans in the Bay.

Tom Charman

Founder, Seldon

Founder of Seldon, predicting human behaviour. Product-sharp and one of the most down-to-earth founders you'll meet.

Theo Browne

CEO, T3 Chat

Creator of the T3 stack and one of the most followed voices in developer culture. Runs T3 Chat and has the ear of the entire dev community.

Rocky Yu

Founder · AGI House

Behind AGI House. Bridging the gap between Founders and AGI.

Tarun Odedra

Founder, MVRX · YC P26

YC P26 founder running MVRX, a GTM marketing agency. The person to know in SF for GTM.

Jack Blair

CTO, Terac

Terac's CTO, building specialized experts on-demand to power frontier research.

Daniil Bekirov

Founder, Sparkles

Dropped out of UCL at 20 to build Sparkles (YC W26). Now focused on background agents that autonomously ship code changes to existing projects—no Git required.

Rohan Desai

Founder (Stealth)

One of the younger founders operating in the Bay right now. Building autonomous software factories.

Jarren Reid

Founder, Usul

Founder of Usul, an AI platform that helps companies navigate government procurement. Carving out a new market.

Filip Kozera

CEO, Wordware · YC S24

Building Wordware, the AI app builder for everyone. YC S24, ML background from Cambridge.

Guillaume Roux-Romestaing

GTM Operator & Investor

One of the most plugged-in Europeans in the SF ecosystem. Sharp on GTM and crushing it on social media. Angel investor.

Lenny Rachitsky

Writer, Lenny's Newsletter

Former Airbnb PM who turned his newsletter into the go-to resource for product builders. If you work in product or growth, you already know why.

Michelle Fang

Events Curator

Building startups with Stripe. Proud owner of starter2sf.guide. Feature your events on her page.

Jasper Vyda

Co-Founder, V11

Co-founder of V11, scout @ a16z, fellow @ Berkeley Law.

Hans Paul Pizzinini

Chief Evangelist, vispo.ai

0→1 founder across many products who lives by "think big and dare to fail." Berkeley SkyDeck alum bridging Italy and SF, now evangelizing at vispo.ai.

Lidia Schwarz

Head of Ops & Comms, INNOVIT

Head of Operations at INNOVIT, the Italian innovation hub in SF. The connector for European founders breaking into the Bay Area scene.

Conor Brennan-Burke

Founder, Hyperspell · YC F25

Founder of Hyperspell (YC F25). Started the 'single until Series B' trend earlier this year.

Laura Modiano

Founder Experience, OpenAI

On the Founder Experience team at OpenAI, in the room when top founders meet the frontier. One of the most interesting people to know if you're building in AI.