fnSummit 2022
Silverado Resort | October 12th - 14th
Join Our 7th Annual Fall Conference!
Location: Silverado Resort, Napa Valley, California
Explore the theme of growth with fellow founders, investors and partners
Enjoy farm-to-table food, wine tastings and activities
This is the culmination of the Founders Network experience
fnSummit 2022
Founders Network's 7th Annual Fall Conference
fnSummit 2022 encapsulates the Founders Network experience, giving startup founders the opportunity to learn from other tech founders in the startup ecosystem, build deep relationships with investors, and uncover solutions to the challenges they're facing. The annual event provides the perfect setting for off the record discussion, reflection, and networking.
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World Famous Napa Valley
This year's event is located on 1,200 rolling acres of oak groves and vineyards at Silverado Resort and Spa, an enchanting retreat in the heart of the world-famous Napa Valley, California.
Venue Features:
- Elegant accommodations
- 10 outdoor pools
- 10 tennis courts
- 2 18-hole golf courses
- Farm-to-table dining
- Full-service health spa
- Breathtaking location
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Our 1st Summit Highlights
What Other Founders Have To Say
"I've been involved with a couple other entrepreneur groups before and nothing has truly felt like this one. The connections and learning more than paid for itself. Everyone felt genuine which was a nice feeling. The mix of men and women was also nice to see and everyone was eager to offer support, feedback, and advice. It was far from a 'boys' club which I've seen all too often. It really feels like a collaborative group and I'm glad to be a part of it."- Joe Deobald, Founder, Full Frame Marketing
"This Summit was EXTREMELY valuable to me and my startup. By far the most worthwhile business event I've ever been to. It was great to meet everyone."- Carla Riggi, Founder, Band Djiinni
"fnSummit is the start of deeper relationships, friendships, partnerships"- Rama Veeraragoo, Founder, DocuVision
Tickets
Includes 3 Days of Programming
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Real fireside chats with inspirational speakers
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Keynote presentations from successful serial entrepreneurs
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In-depth panel discussions on startup management topics
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Teambuilding activities
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Room, board & transportation is not included. See event registration for more details.
About Founders Network
Founded in 2011, Founders Network offers lifelong peer mentorship to over 600 tech startup founders globally. Our platform, programs and high-touch service facilitate authentic experiences sharing, warm introductions and long-term professional relationships.
Additional benefits include over $500k in startup discounts and promotion to 2,000 newsletter readers. The membership experience is virtual with members hailing from global tech hubs such as San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, London & more.
Each month our Membership committee admits a new cohort of full-time tech founders who are nominated by an existing member. See if you qualify for membership
Annual Traditions
Champagne Sabrage
Opening Ceremony
Real Fireside Chats
Palate Club Blind Wine Tasting
Farm-to-Table Dining
Panels & Office Hours
Swimming, sunrise yoga,
tennis, & golf
Elegant, On-site
Accommodations
Keynotes
Leadership development workshops & Break-out sessions
By far the most worthwhile business event I've ever been to.
By far the most worthwhile business event I've ever been to.
An Exploration of Growth
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Meet Our 2022 Speakers
Explore the topic of growth, both as a founder and for your startup.
Kevin Kinkor
CEO & Co-FounderKinkor Consulting
Kevin has more than 20 years of experience as a Talent/HR professional in the Silicon Valley. He started his career on the agency side of recruiting through the Dot Com boom and subsequent bust, managed workforces through the Great Recession and has played a key role with startups during this most recent surge of hiring.
Monty Montgomery
Chairman & CEOMontPac
Henry “Monty” Montgomery is an innovative Financial Executive Leader and Entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in financial strategy in start-up companies. Adept in all facets of financial management, Monty has led MontPac, a full scope accounting, financial management, and business process outsourcing service provider. In addition, Monty has assisted entrepreneurs with raising over $700 million in venture capital and completing over 6 successful acquisitions.
Max Shapiro
FounderPeopleConnect
I founded PeopleConnect in 2000 to help early-stage high-tech companies find the talent they need to succeed. Our clients are in technology, biotech, cleantech, apps, services, medical devices, and consumer products. Our team of outstanding recruiters finds C-level executives, talented managers and experienced leaders who will bring our client companies to the next level.
Jonathan Weston
Regional VP - ISVSalesforce
Jonathan Weston is an accomplished entrepreneur, sales leader, and camping extraordinaire who splits his time between building tech partnerships at Salesforce and building primitive campgrounds for Wanderland, a destination campground he founded for campers of all skill levels. As RVP of Salesforce’s Business Builders program, Jonathan leads a founder-focused team that helps high-potential entrepreneurs rapidly accelerate their growth.
Dave Renz
Co-Founder and PartnerTanooki Labs
Dave is an entrepreneur with a diverse background and process driven approach to solving technology and business challenges. He has a degree in Computer Science, worked in enterprise IT, venture capital, corporate innovation and many startups. Today, he is the co-founder of Tanooki Labs, a software design and development firm that focuses on helping founders bring their products and services to market and supporting growth.
Tyler Welch
Founder & CEOTyler’s Mystery Tours
Tyler is the founder & CEO at Meet I2I and Tyler’s Mystery Tours, which offers high quality, fully customizable social events, mixing games, sports, community service, adventure and collaborative learning.
Narisa Chauvidul-Aw
CEO and FounderKogoPAY Group
PhD in compliance and Information system from LSE. I've worked in both academia and businesses. Interest in cross border payments, AI, Big Data, DLT, CBDC, Digital Currencies.
Pam Marrone
Founder & CEOMarrone Bio Innovations
Pam Marrone spent her 30+ year career focused on biological products for pest management and plant health, having started and led three bioag companies (one of only 32 women founders to have taken her company public). She serves on the boards of 180 Life Sciences (NASDAQ:ATNF), Stem Express and Pheronym and advises several agtech/agbio startups, most founded or led by women.
Benny Buller
Founder & CEOVelo3D
Benny Buller is Velo3D’s founder and has served as Velo3D’s Chief Executive Officer and a member of Velo3D’s board of directors since June 2014. From April 2012 to June 2014, Mr. Buller was an investor at Khosla Ventures, a venture capital firm. Earlier in his career, Mr. Buller worked at Applied Materials, a semiconductor company, Solyndra, Inc., an energy company, and First Solar, a solar company, where he founded the device physics team.
Chris Young
FounderLike YOU!
Chris Young is a tech entrepreneur and a passionate advocate for people excessively punished under America's draconian drug laws, an injustice he has experienced first hand. Surrounded by poverty, incarceration, and depression all of his life, Chris found a way to use his experience as the foundation to build an empowerment app called "Like YOU!". His tech start up company helps remove the isolating effects of trauma and encourages people to journey towards a lifestyle of positive mental health.
Dave Berry
Founder & CEOValo Health
David Berry, MD, PhD is Founder and CEO of Valo Health and General Partner at Flagship Pioneering, where he founded more than 20 companies across life sciences, technology and sustainability. David helped create Flagship Labs, where 100+ companies - worth over $30B in aggregate value - have launched. He serves on the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and co-authored the Sustainable Development Goals adopted globally in 2015.
Aaron White
Technical Co-founderVendr
Serial technology entrepreneur, CTO, indie board-game aficionado. Last few companies include: - Firetower (Creator), Boundless (Founder, ProfitWell (formerly Price Intelligently) (Board-member), Blissfully (Co-Founder) (Acquired by Vendr) - We help growing companies that leverage hundreds of vendors & app take control of their "SaaS sprawl".
Daren Trousdell
Founder & CEONowVertical Group
Daren is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at NowVertical Group, a big data, analytics, vertical intelligence (VI) software and solutions company helping organizations make bold, immediate data-driven decisions. Daren is a serial entrepreneur and founder with a proven track record of launching and exiting multiple early stage start-ups and scale-ups.
Past Speakers
Partial list of past speakers who share wisdom gained acquiring real world experience over the past years.
Neha Sampat
Founder & CEO
Contentstack
Neha Sampat is the CEO of Contentstack, which helps developers create better digital experiences; and raised a $57.5 million Series B round, led by Insight Partners. She is the previous Founder and CEO of Digital Experience Platform Built.io, which was acquired by German software powerhouse Software AG in September 2018. Neha is an industry leader, a proponent of diversity and an advocate for women in leadership.
Peter Imburg
Founder & CEO
Elfster
Peter Imburg is the Founder of everyone's favorite Secret Santa service. With over 7M registered members, Peter has scaled his company significantly over the past 14 years into a profitable revenue model with no outside funding. He is also a member of Vistage, a peer advisory group for CEOs for several years.
Jags Krishnamurthy
COO
Object Edge Inc.
Jags is a passionate tech vigilante. As COO of Object Edge, he follows how technology changes the landscape for businesses across the world. He’s motivated by happy, engaged people. His motto: financial yesterday, commerce today, eagerly waiting for tomorrow every day.
Nishant Patel
Founder & CTO
Contentstack
Nishant Patel is Founder & CTO at Contentstack, which helps developers create better digital experiences; and raised a $57.5 million Series B round, led by Insight Partners. With 20+ years of experience, Nishant has become a trusted technology advisor to many Fortune 500 companies. Nishant holds a B.S. in Computer Science from The Ohio State University.
Meetul Shah
Founder
DemandMatrix
The Founder of DemandMatrix, a marketing intelligence company that was recently bought by Demandbase, Meetul is an advisor to several startups and an investor in an array of projects. An idea machine, health freak and wine lover, Meetul has been featured in several major publications. Products he worked on have been covered in CIO, Silicon India, NYT, WSJ, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Venture Beat, Ted, and more.
David Ordal
CEO
ExaVault
David’s passion – and his area of expertise – is building technology companies. He is currently CEO of ExaVault, a business file sharing company. He has worked as VP of Engineering at Huddler.com and as CEO/CTO at CyberSense. He is well versed in both the technical and managerial aspects of fast-paced, agile software development and the lean startup methodology.
Ataer Arguder
Co-Founder
Aura
Ataer Arguder is a serial entrepreneur and consultant. He started a digital ticketing company in Istanbul, and after selling it, moved to London in 2017 and started Aura, a global platform for museums and their visitors that recently raised $966K. He is currently a Co-Founder of two London-based tech startups (Aura and Breath Hub).
Amy Wister
Co-Founder
RevShopp
Amy is the Chair of Founders Network Women’s Leadership Committee. As co-founder of RevShopp, Inc., Amy has turned shopping and style into a science. She and her team are dedicated to infusing human sensibility and experience into shape intelligence technology, which revolutionizes shopping while increasing a retailer’s conversation rate and lowering returns.
Ford Seeman
Founder
Forest Founders Rewards
Ford Seeman is the Founder at Forest Founders Rewards and fnNYC Chapter Growth Chair.
Trey Matteson
Co-Founder
Roadster
Trey is the co-founder at Roadster, which offers car dealers the tools to sell new and used vehicles online and was recently acquired by CDK Global for $360M. He likes making real products that solve the user's problem, perform well, look good, don't break and fit the business model. He enjoys a tech lead role that spans coding, architecture, mentoring and working with people outside of engineering.
Dan Lionello
CEO & Founder
Omnae
Dan is the CEO & Founder at Omnae.com and the fnVancouver Chapter Director. Throughout his executive experience, he has developed and executed strategic plans to build and lead forward-thinking teams. Dan has demonstrated success in growing revenue, profits, customer loyalty, and operational efficiency.
Whitaker Irvin
President & CEO
Q Hydrogen Solutions Corporation
Whitaker is the President & CEO at Q Hydrogen, which develops and deploys disruptive technology in the energy and renewable space. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with a wide range of experience in industries including finance, aerospace/defense, energy, and green technology companies. He is based in Park City, Utah.
Kris Bondi
CEO & Co-founder
Mimoto
Kris Bondi is the CEO & Co-founder of Mimoto. Kris made a name for herself in GTM strategies that significantly increased adoption and positioned companies for acquisitions and IPO filings. Notable accomplishments include VMware’s acquisition of Bitnami, acquiring Neura’s first 1M active end-users within nine months, and establishing “serverless” as a category.
Blake Tucker
Founder
Boozephreaks
Blake (aka Dr Inkwell) is the founder of Boozephreaks and brings a deep understanding of beverage taste, flavor, and pairing. A former writer/director at Pixar, his instinct has become one of his strongest assets. He created the first exhibit about how Pixar stories are developed and produced Intapp's first-ever product commercial.
Nicolas Mendiharat
Founder & CEO
Palate Club
Nicolas is now working full-time on his new startup with a focus on wine. Palate Club is a wine subscription service that uses blind tasting and AI to create your personalized wine profile with recommendations for your taste. Previously, Nicolas was the Founder & CEO of Travelhorizon Group, the European leader for ski vacation bookings with over 300K customers annually.
David Meltzer
Co-Founder
Sports 1 Marketing
David is the Co-Founder of Sports 1 Marketing. He formerly served as CEO of the renowned Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment agency, which was the inspiration for the movie Jerry Maguire. He is a three-time international best-selling author, a Top 100 Business Coach, the executive producer of Entrepreneur ‘s #1 digital business show, Elevator Pitch, and host of the top entrepreneur podcast, The Playbook.
Max Shapiro
CEO & Founder
PeopleConnect
Max Shapiro founded PeopleConnect in 2000 to help early-stage high-tech companies find the talent they need to succeed. Max likes to connect people and would love to know if there is any way that he and his team can help you add some fantastic, startup experienced people to your team.
Doug Lessing
Founder
Phin
Doug Lessing, Founder of Phin, spent nearly 30 years helping build Firebrand Technologies. During a moment of transition, Doug decided to take the experience he gained to use the power of business to create real social impact, using sponsored donations to connect great companies, their people and the causes that truly make a difference.
Ivy Walker
CEO
Helios Digital Learning
Ivy is the CEO at Helios Digital Learning. Ivy has experience developing and executing successful business plans, creating and streamlining business processes, developing and executing capital raising strategies, and managing operations in both for-profit and not-for-profit environments.
Nathan Parcells
Founder & Executive Coach
Sharpend
Nathan Parcells is a former startup founder at LookSharp ($20 million+ raised) who graduated from 500 Startups. He is an executive coach at Sharpend, where he works with the founders of a wide range of businesses, from startups to consulting firms. Nathan's specialty is in team-communication, conflict resolution and process changes that create stronger culture.
Murli Thirumale
Co-Founder & CEO
Pure Storage
Murli is the VP, GM Cloud Native Business Unit of Pure Storage. He is the co-founder and CEO of cloud-native storage solution Portworx, which was recently acquired by PureStorage for $370M, and was previously co-founder and CEO of Ocarina Networks, which was acquired by Dell in 2010 as well as co-founder and CEO of Net6, which was acquired by Citrix.
Sonal Puri
CEO
Webscale
Sonal is the CEO at Webscale, the Cloud Platform for Modern Commerce, offering security, scalability, performance and automation for global brands. Webscale recently entered a strategic partnership with Crownspeak, and was named SaaS/Cloud Security Winner at the 2021 Global InfoSec Awards.
Chaitanya Vaidya
Co-Founder
Deeprisk.ai
Chai is the co-founder of Deeprisk.ai and the Chapter Director of fnVirtual Chapter. Chai holds an MBA and has been doing heartfulness meditation for 12 years.
Jelle van Geuns
Founder & CEO
Decisions on Demand
Jelle is the founder & CEO at Decisions on Demand. He is an 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.
Kevin Shrock
Founder
WhichDocs
Kevin is the Founder at WhichDocs, a crowd-sourced database that expedites the process of getting a patient to the right medical provider. He is a leading orthopaedic surgeon in S. Florida since '94. Yale undergrad, Stanford Med, Harvard residency, fellowship trained. Clinical investigator at OrthoTrials.
Scott is a serial entrepreneur who built and sold Kerio, then founded Samepage, before selling it to Paylocity last November
Marjan Panic
Founder
Zucchabar
Marjan is the Chapter Director of fnSilicon Valley Chapter and the Founder at Zucchabar, an EdTech platform that helps people plan, organize and personalize their learning.
Micha Breakstone
Co-Founder & CEO
Neuralight
Micha is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Chorus.ai (acquired for $575m by ZoomInfo) and is currently Co-Founder and CEO of Neuralight.ai, a VC-backed venture with a mission to transform the lives of billions of people suffering from neurological disorders. He holds a Masters in Math, and a PhD in Cognitive Science.
Marisa Bryce
Founder
Jack & Blue Capital
Marisa is the fnChicago Chapter Director and the founder at Jack & Blue Capital, based in Chicago and Denver with extensive access to investors and investments globally.
Rishi Bhargava
Founder
Demisto
Rishi Bhargava is the Founder at Demisto, which was acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $560M and is now VP, Product Strategy at Palo Alto Networks, whose mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice. Rishi has 15 years of product management experience with a strong technical background.
Zachary Smith
Co-Founder
Packet
Zachary Smith co-founded Packet in 2014 and became the leader in bare metal compute automation before it was acquired by Equinix for $335 million in March 2020. Zac now serves as Managing Director at Equinix, leading the strategy, product and go to market for Equinix’s bare metal compute and edge services platform.
David Plonsky
Founder
MyStandby
David Plonsky is the Founder of MyStandby, a service that allows businesses to efficiently fill expiring inventory, as well as fnNew York City Chapter Director.
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