
The best of Founders Network,
In Real Life.
May 16th | San Francisco
Convening 100 startup tech founders and VC's in the heart of San Francisco, the fnIRL Global Conference highlights the best of FN's Online Mentorship Platform, in real life.
"You’ll learn more from the threads seen here everyday than you did in most courses you’ve ever waded through. So dive in, everyone is here because this is exactly what we want to be doing."
Dr. Galen Buckwalter, Former CSO eHarmony
What to Expect
Speakers

Adam Cheyer
Co-Founder & VP Engineering
Viv & Siri
Adam Cheyer is an inventor, entrepreneur, and engineering executive who explores how computers can augment individual and collective intelligence. He is currently co-founder and VP Engineering of Viv Labs.

Neha Sampat
Founder & CEO
Built.io
Scaled 200+ employees. 15+ years enterprise product marketing at Sun and VMware. San Francisco’s 40 under 40 and 50 Women in Tech Dominating Silicon Valley.

Scott Walchek
Founder & CEO
Trōv
Raised $98.8M. $3M revenue. Scott has spent more than 25 years building companies that deliver world-class innovation in software, emerging media, and commercial online marketplaces.

Jason Collier
Co-Founder and CTO
Scale Computing
Raised $95.8M. $27.1M revenue. 11+ years as a founder.

Sonal Puri
CEO, President & Board Member
Webscale Networks
More than 18 years of experience with Internet Infrastructure in sales, marketing, corporate and business development and channels with past experience at Aryaka Networks, Akamai Technologies, and more.

AJ Brustein
Co-Founder and COO
Wonolo
$52.9M raised, 200+ employees. Previously spent 5 years with the Coca-Cola company accelerating innovation.

Charity Majors
Founder & CEO
Honeycomb.io
Charity is a co-founder and engineer at Honeycomb.io. Previously she has worked at companies like Facebook, Parse, and Linden Lab, as a systems engineer and engineering manager. She loves free speech, free software and a nice peaty single malt.

David Ordal
Founder & CEO
ExaVault
David Ordal is the Founder & CEO of ExaVault. In the past, David has served as CEO at Everbooked and CEO/CTO CyberSense.

Vishal Kapoor is the CEO at Paradata - a machine learning-based platform that enables transparency in the Supply Chain. Paradata addresses supply chain inefficiencies by providing current and verifiable component data to optimize product design and manufacturing.

Nathan Parcells
Founder turned Data-Driven Marketer
My marketing approach combines a love for creative campaigns and storytelling with data and reporting to drive results. I specialize in content strategy, SEO, lead generation and marketing ops.

Moaz Hamid
Founder & CEO
mvmtAi
12 years startup experience with past positions at Ingram, HTC, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft, Samsung Mobile, Google, and more.

David Lawver
Investor & Entreprenuer
NestOffer
14 years experience in real estate development & investment. On a mission to transform the real estate industry.

Kevin Ramani
Founder & Sales Coach
Ramani Ventures
My mission is to empower founders and sales leaders in building a data-driven go-to-market playbook and scale a sales organization full of result-driven sales reps.

Dave Gross
Co-Founder & CEO
MATCHCo Makeup
Founded a revolutionary technology in the beauty space in 2013 and scaled for acquisition to Shisheido in 2017.

Janine Yancey
Founder & CEO
Emtrain
Janine founded Emtrain and recruited a team of Silicon Valley experts in product, design and learning to create a unique culture tech platform that provides information and advice to employees and analytics to employers to stop harassment, bias and ethics problems.

Renee Wang
Founder & CEO
Castbox
Xiaoyu Wang is a xGoogler, pioneer Android developer and global mobile app monetization expert. As the founder and CEO of Castbox, Xiaoyu strives to create a better world through connecting people with the power of sound using technology.

Hillary Sinclair
Founder & CEO
Wheesearch Beauty
Passionate about women in technology helping solve challenges and the development of young people to help make a positive impact. 20+ years broad experience in developing sophisticated, personalized B2C solutions and data-driven, multi-channel marketing strategies.

Dallas Fontaine
Founder
The Perk
Dallas has a proven track record in B2B sales and led a sales team with Cintas that produces $40 million dollars in new contracted sales every year.

Andrew Schulz
Co-Founder & CEO
Noise Aware
Andrew Schulz, a brilliant electrical engineer, is the co-founder of NoiseAware, a noise protection service for short term and vacation rentals.

Jelle van Geuns
Founder & CEO
Decisions on Demand
Entrepreneurial software development leader with broad experience building and growing global development teams, architecting products and solutions, managing projects, enabling strategic marketing initiatives and working with customers and partners.

Leah Rappaport
Founder
SpendWell
Experienced Marketer with a demonstrated history of scaling and running customer acquisition for startups.
Investors

Alok Nandan
General Partner
Emergent Ventures

Scott Coleman
Partner
Ignition Partners

Arjun Chopra
Partner
Floodgate

Maria Salamanca
Investor
Unshackled Ventures

Colton Dempsey
Associate
Next47

Marc van den Berg
Partner
DBL Partners

Nancy Hayes
Principal
NKH Group

Victor Echevarria
Principal
Jackson Square Ventures

Kumar Sripadam
Investor
TiE

Matthew Pang
Investor
iFly.vc

Stein Tan
Principal
Mortgage Lending

Ashish Aggarwal
Principal
Grishin Robotics

Diego Berrio
Founding Partner
13 Ventures

Caroline Lewis
General Partner
Rogue VP

Nuno Goncalves Pedro
Managing Director
Strive Capital

Akul Penugonda
Associate & Head of Sourcing
Acceleprise
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JAMES BOHAN PITT (FOUNDER, HIPPOCKET)
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