/ About this event
The models are shipping faster than the takes about them. Step away from the timeline and spend an afternoon with the founders actually building AI.
We're opening with one conversation worth showing up for. Anand Krishna, Founder and CEO of Inkle and a YC S17 alum, sits down with Sudarshan Kamath, Co-Founder and CEO of Smallest.ai, fresh off a $13M Series A for real-time voice AI. On the table: what changes when your product runs at sub-second latency, how to sell frontier tech to enterprises that move slowly, and where the next wave of AI companies will actually make money.
Then the room takes over. Great food, good drinks, and founders turning weekend demos into companies. AI founders at every stage are welcome.
AI founders at every stage welcome!
Expect drinks, food and great conversations!
About the speakers:
Anand Krishna is Founder and CEO of Inkle, the tax, accounting, and compliance platform for startups in the India-US corridor. Inkle is his third venture, after co-founding LotusPay (YC S17, acquired by Juspay) and Index (acquired by Niyo). Before startups, he spent a decade at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Vedanta, and studied at Cambridge.
Sudarshan Kamath is Co-Founder and CEO of Small, a San Francisco-based research lab building real-time voice AI for enterprises. Smallest.ai recently raised a $13M Series A led by Seligman Ventures, with models spanning speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and speech-to-speech across 38 languages. An IIT Guwahati and UC San Diego alum, he previously built AI products at Vakilsearch, Bosch, and Toppr.
Agenda:
4:00 PM: Arrivals, food, and drinks 4:30 PM: Panel with Anand and Sudarshan 5:30 PM: Mixer 6:00 PM: Wrap up
About the hosts:
Inkle (www.inkle.ai): is an AI based accounting and tax platform. Focus on building your startup—we'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and compliance. Founded by Anand Krishna (YC alum from S17), Inkle currently supports ~ 5% of all YC companies globally.
Emergent (www.emergent.sh) is an AI-native workspace that helps teams build production-ready software from natural language. By combining AI agents with a collaborative development environment, Emergent enables founders, engineers, and product teams to rapidly prototype, iterate, and ship applications, accelerating the journey from idea to product.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
