/ About this event
AI is moving from demos to real products, real customers, and real companies. Step away from the timeline and spend an evening with the founders actually building it.
We’re opening with a conversation between three founders building AI into very different parts of the stack: Anand Krishna, Founder & CEO of Inkle, Niraj Ranjan Rout, Co-Founder & CEO of Hiver, and Utkarsh Ohm, Co-Founder & CTO of Autoheal.
On the table: what it actually takes to build AI products that work in the real world, where agents are creating real leverage, what changes when AI becomes part of the core product rather than a feature, and where the next generation of AI companies will find durable businesses.
Then the room takes over. Great food, good drinks, and founders building, shipping, and figuring out what comes next.
AI founders at every stage are welcome.
Expect drinks, food, and great conversations!
About the speakers:
Anand Krishna is Founder and CEO of Inkle, the AI-native accounting and tax platform for startups. Inkle handles bookkeeping, tax filings, and compliance end to end, so founders can stay focused on building instead of chasing deadlines and paperwork. Inkle supports 2,000+ companies globally. Anand is a YC S17 alum and a 3x founder. Before startups, he worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Vedanta, and studied at Cambridge.
Niraj Ranjan Rout is Co-Founder and CEO of Hiver, the agentic customer service platform built for complex support. Hiver is used by 10,000+ teams worldwide and helps companies resolve customer requests across channels with AI agents, workflows, and collaboration. Niraj has spent more than a decade building Hiver and has a front-row seat to what it takes to turn AI from a feature into a core part of a business.
Utkarsh Ohm is Co-Founder and CTO of Autoheal, a self-improving software factory for enterprise engineering teams. Autoheal focuses on the work that happens after code is written, helping teams automate incident response, vulnerability remediation, and AI coding cost efficiency while continuously improving from production outcomes. Utkarsh previously led AI/ML engineering at ThoughtSpot and was a founding engineer at HyperTrack. Autoheal recently raised a $7.9M seed round led by Innovation Endeavors.
Mohan Kumar is Head of Engineering at AtoB, where he leads product and platform engineering and works on building robust technology systems for the transportation and logistics industry. He has a background in trading systems, fintech, and engineering leadership, and previously spent over three years at D. E. Shaw and 5.5 years at LinkedIn. Mohan is also a startup advisor and a member of the Forbes Technology Council and Fast Company Executive Board.
Agenda:
4:00 PM: Arrivals, food, and drinks 4:30 PM: Panel with Anand, Niraj, and Utkarsh 5:30 PM: Mixer 6:00 PM: Wrap up
About the hosts:
Inkle (https://www.inkle.ai) is an AI-native accounting and tax platform for startups. It handles bookkeeping, tax filings, and compliance end to end, so founders can stay focused on building instead of chasing deadlines and paperwork.
AtoB (https://atob.com) is building modern payments infrastructure for transportation and logistics, starting with its zero-fee AtoB Fuel Card built for fleets of all shapes and sizes.
Hiver (https://hiverhq.com) is an agentic customer service platform built for complex support. Its AI agents help teams resolve multi-step customer requests across systems and channels, while keeping humans in control when judgment is required.
Autoheal (https://autoheal.ai) is building a self-improving software factory for enterprise engineering teams. Its platform helps teams build, run, govern, and continuously improve AI agents across the post-coding software development lifecycle.
This event is part of #SFTechWeek, a week of events hosted by VCs and startu
