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Join YC founders from across batches for drinks, light bites, & founder-to-founder conversation during SF a16z Tech Week 2026.
Following the strong response to our recent YC founder gatherings, we're bringing the community together again for a relaxed evening designed around useful conversations & genuine connections.
No panels. No pitches. Just a curated room of YC founders meeting people from other batches, reconnecting with the community, & spending time together away from the larger Tech Week crowds.
Who Is in the Room
Current YC batch founders
YC alumni founders
YC-backed founders from pre-seed through growth stage
A small number of selected community partners
Event Format
5:00 PM - Arrival, drinks & introductions
5:30 PM - Brief welcome from the hosts
5:40 PM - Founder networking, drinks & light bites
7:30 PM - Event concludes
Attendance
This is an approval-required event primarily for YC founders & alumni.
Please include your company & YC batch when registering. Registration does not guarantee admission.
No plus-ones unless they have registered separately & been approved.
To protect the quality of the room, attendance is limited to confirmed guests. Please do not forward an approval or bring additional attendees who have not registered & been approved.
Hosted By
Open Future Forum
Agentic Fabriq - YC W26
Foley & Lardner LLP
Together with selected members of the YC founder community.
Agentic Fabriq
Agentic Fabriq helps companies securely manage what AI agents can access & do across business tools, data, & teams.
Foley & Lardner LLP
Foley & Lardner is a nationally recognized top law firm with a Chambers-ranked venture & emerging companies practice advising founders & venture investors from formation through financings, commercialization, M&A, & scale. We bring the speed, experience, & practicality startups need, with the rigor & deep specialist bench investors expect, so deals get done efficiently & companies stay ready to go from garage to global. Find us at the event, meet us at our San Francisco or Palo Alto offices, or contact Louis Lehot at llehot@foley.com.
Open Future Forum
Open Future Forum is a global executive community founded in Silicon Valley. It brings together founders, executives, investors, & other senior leaders through curated events, private forums, peer groups, & original research.
Its YC founder gatherings are designed to create smaller, high-quality environments where founders can build relationships across batches & have conversations that are difficult to have at larger startup events.
YC Founder Community
Alex Perelman - 2x YC Alum
Alex is a founder, software engineer, & leadership coach who works with ambitious startup founders navigating the transition from building a company to leading & scaling one.
Ben Reilly - YC S22
Ben is a YC alum & startup founder based in San Francisco & a member of the YC Founder Executive Forum committee.
This is an independent community event. It is not organized, affiliated with, or endorsed by Y Combinator.
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