/ 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, and Achintya Gupta, Co-Founder and CEO of Reo.Dev, whose AI-native GTM platform just raised an $11.3M Series A led by Elevation Capital. On the table: what changes when your product runs at sub-second latency, how to sell frontier tech to buyers who 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 smallest.ai, 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.
Achintya Gupta is Co-Founder and CEO of Reo.Dev, an AI-native go-to-market platform for companies that sell to developers. Reo.Dev tracks how engineering teams research and evaluate technical products, turning that activity into buying signals so sales teams know which accounts to prioritize. Backed by Elevation Capital, Heavybit, and India Quotient, it serves 200+ developer-first companies including LangChain, n8n, and Temporal. Achintya previously co-founded Phyllo and is an alum of IIT Delhi and ISB.
Agenda:
4:00 PM: Arrivals, food, and drinks 4:30 PM: Panel with Anand, Sudarshan, and Achintya 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. Founded by Anand Krishna, a YC S17 alum, Inkle supports roughly 5% of all YC companies globally. Emergent (https://www.emergent.sh/) is an AI-native workspace for building production-ready software from natural language. It pairs AI agents with a collaborative development environment, so teams can prototype, iterate, and ship applications without the usual handoffs. Founders, engineers, and product teams use Emergent to move from idea to working product in a fraction of the time.
Reo.Dev is an AI-native go-to-market platform for companies that sell to developers. It tracks how engineering teams research, test, and evaluate technical products, then turns that activity into buying signals so sales and marketing teams know which accounts to prioritize. Backed by Elevation Capital, Heavybit, and India Quotient, Reo.Dev serves 200+ developer-first companies including LangChain, n8n, and Temporal.
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.
