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With founder/CEOs Kushal Byatnal (Extend), Jake Moshenko (Authzed).
Venue, To Be Announced
Feb 11 (Wed) , 2026 @ 06:00 PM
FREE
 
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Cofounders.nyc & Work-Bench are excited to host a fireside chat with Kushal Byatnal, Co-Founder & CEO of Extend, & Jake Moshenko, Co-Founder & CEO of Authzed for an intimate night of lessons learned & the future of agentic software.

We'll go deep on Extend & Authzed's founding stories, Kushal & Jake's transitions from engineer to founder, & the lessons learned along the way from finding product-market fit & cracking go-to-market, to fundraising & building with AI inside a complex enterprise landscape. Expect candid insights, honest tradeoffs, & plenty of room for discussion.

This is a small, curated gathering designed to foster real conversation & high-signal connections with other NYC founders & operators building ambitious companies.

Wednesday February 11th
6:00PM - 8:00PM ET
In-person, NYC (location shared upon confirmation)

Space is limited - please register & we'll follow up to confirm your spot.

This event is brought to you by:

Extend: Extend is an AI-native document processing infrastructure company helping ambitious technical teams transform unstructured documents into high-quality structured data with accuracy & speed. Their platform provides a complete suite of APIs & tooling for parsing, extraction, classification, & workflow orchestration, enabling engineers to build & deploy production-ready document workflows in days. Extend works with cutting-edge companies across industries to accelerate product roadmaps & unlock the full value of mission-critical data. They've raised $17M from investors like Innovation Endeavors, Homebrew, & Guillermo Rauch.

AuthZed is on a mission to fix access control by providing authorization infrastructure. AuthZed provides one authorization system for your entire application ecosystem, eliminating authorization silos & simplifying your architecture with a centralized permissions platform. Trusted by developer & platform teams at OpenAI, Workday, National Bank of Canada, Turo, Neo Financial & more.

Work-Bench: We are an early stage enterprise software VC fund based in New York City. We lead $3M - $6M Seed rounds in SaaS & infrastructure startups, focus on supporting companies' 0 to 1 go-to-market journeys, & have built a dynamic enterprise tech community here in NYC. We're investing out of our $160M Fund IV, & notable portfolio companies include Cockroach Labs, Socure, Spring Health, & Dialpad.

cofounders.nyc is a curated community for NYC's top builders. The goal is to connect top operators, so you can build the next big thing. Whether you're looking for a co-founder or early teammate, cofounders.nyc is here to help. cofounders.nyc is run by Danny Chesley.
 
 
 
 
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