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An Exclusive Off-the-Record Roundtable for Exited Founders Planning Their Next Big Venture
About This Event: Whether your previous venture ended in a successful acquisition or a hard-fought shutdown, starting a company the second time around is a completely different game. You have more wisdom, a stronger network, but also higher opportunity costs and new market dynamics—especially in the rapidly shifting AI landscape.
Join an exclusive group of fellow serial founders for a confidential, candid exchange on unlearning old founder habits, identifying massive new opportunities, and leveraging your track record for unfair advantages.
What We Will Cover:
Unlearning Past Playbooks: Avoiding "last-war" thinking and navigating modern AI-first market dynamics.
Idea Validation at Speed: Evaluating 0-to-1 concepts quickly using serial founder leverage.
Smarter Capital Allocation: Structuring your next round, choosing the right investors, and setting high-momentum terms.
Founder Psychology & Resilience: Managing burnout, energy allocation, and vision reset for Act II.
Featured Hosts: Angelina Li: Serial AI Founder (Bootstrap to Series A exit), Investor Advisor, & Startup GTM Mentor.
Lomit Patel: Lomit Patel is a Silicon Valley growth executive, CMO at TYB, and author of Lean AI (part of Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup series). With 20+ years of experience, he has scaled tech platforms like Tynker (100M+ users), Roku (IPO), and Texture (acquired by Apple).
Cohost: SoMa ProtoLab is a 7,000 sqft four-floor hardware hub in SF offering workspace, flexible event space, global supply chain access, virtual office solutions, and managed corporate mailroom services.
Featured Guest List
Premier Organizations: Anthropic · NASA JPL · Google · Microsoft · KPMG · Allport Capital
Prestigious Alma Maters: Stanford GSB · MIT · Caltech · Columbia Business School · Purdue · Univ of Waterloo 🌟 Summit High-Signal Banner
Mona: Private Capital Investor for early start up, she has invested portfolio actively in the past two years in Bay Area.
Partner & Private Wealth Advisor at Inception Partners | UBS, Pre-Liquidity & Exit Strategy Expert | UBS Private Wealth Management.
CEO & Co-founder at OpalAI | Former Lead Machine Learning Scientist at NASA JPL
He spent over 5 years as Lead Machine Learning Scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), serving as Scientific PI for prestigious JPL R&TD grants and Technical AI Mentor for NASA SBIR/STTR programs. Currently, as CEO of OpalAI, [Guest Name] is building cutting-edge Physical AI technologies to power the next generation of intelligent machines.
Director of Growth Marketing at CloudTalk | Techstars Growth Mentor
As a Growth Mentor at Techstars, DEPO Ventures, and AceON Accelerator, he has advised over 10+ startups (including Billdu, which successfully exited). [Guest Name] specializes in Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy, Product-Led Growth, Technical SEO, and high-impact content marketing.
Ed IH Tan Ex-Rocket Scientist | Startup Mentor & Venture Partner Bio: Ed IH Tan is an ex-rocket scientist, serial entrepreneur, and seasoned startup mentor & venture partner. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and conducted propulsion research at MIT. With over a decade of hands-on experience advising founders and funds across the San Francisco Bay Area, Ed combines deep engineering expertise with practical strategic planning to help technology ventures scale.
Stacie Chan SVP of GTM & Partnerships, NetMind.AI Bio: Stacie Chan is a global technology leader, Stanford alumna, and 2x Generative AI startup co-founder & operator with a proven track record of raising $5.5M and driving successful startup exits. Previously leading product partnerships at Google, she combines a unique background—as an Emmy-nominated actress and award-winning journalist—with deep technical and business acumen to scale AI products from 0 to 1.
Who Should Attend: Founders who have previously exited or closed a company and are currently ideating or building their next venture.
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.
