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Venture Insights with Snocap Ventures (Members only)

March

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Zoom

Jonathan Azoff, Snocap VC

Building a deeptech company? This is your chance to sit down with a VC who gets it.

Jonathan Azoff is Co-Founder and General Partner at SNØCAP, a deeptech venture capital firm run by engineers. SNØCAP backs companies developing the materials, molecules, and machines that enable modern industry — investing in scientific breakthroughs that make products cheaper or more effective than what they replace.

What SNØCAP looks for:

Stage: Pre-Seed and Seed (first round of institutional capital)
Check size: Up to $250K (Fund 1), up to $1.5M (Fund 2)
Investment Areas: Scientific breakthroughs in known supply chains where cost reductions come from lower energy use, better materials, or more sustainable production

Before SNØCAP, Jonathan spent 20 years in Silicon Valley building venture-backed businesses with three exits. He's also board president of Sweet Farm (a climate tech incubator), inaugural sponsor of the Climate Film Festival, and a key advisor to the 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub.

This is a members-only session. Come with your questions about fundraising, deeptech go-to-market, or whether your company fits SNØCAP's thesis.

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Venture Insights with OneSixOne Ventures, Pablo Casilimas (Members-only)

April

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Zoom

Pablo Casillimas, OneSixOne Ventures

This is your chance to sit down with a VC who's been in your shoes.

Pablo Casilimas is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at OneSixOne Ventures, one of the most active pre-seed firms in the country with offices in Miami and Seattle. OneSixOne backs companies at the earliest stage — connecting founders with mentors and potential investors through carefully curated events. With over 30 portfolio companies, they've built a reputation for showing up early and going deep for their founders.

What OneSixOne looks for:

Stage: Pre-Seed and Seed
Check size: $50K – $100K
Investment areas: Cloud and AI infrastructure, enterprise software, GovTech, and developer tools — with a strong eye for technical founders in overlooked markets

Pablo is a Miami native and the son of immigrants from Colombia and the Dominican Republic. He started his career not as a VC but as a community builder — hosting startup events at the University of Florida before turning that network into a fund. Today, OneSixOne has hosted more than 70 events across 13 cities, with over 10,000 founders and investors attending.

This is a members-only session. Come with your questions about pre-seed fundraising, getting your first institutional check, or whether your company fits OneSixOne's thesis.

Navigating the SaaSapocalypse: AI, GTM and Pricing

April

11:00 PM - 2:00 AM

Bellevue

Gururaj Pandurangi

As AI agents replace human seats, the $1T "SaaSpocalypse" of February 2026 demands a total pivot - from selling software licenses to monetizing autonomous outcomes.

This session reveals the strategic GTM and pricing roadmap required to achieve 5x revenue efficiency and join the elite rank of "AI Supernovas."

What we'll cover:

AI is driving a fundamental shift in how software gets built, sold, and monetized. From vibe-coding to autonomous agents to new systems of record. These core trends are rewriting the rules of SaaS in real time.
The GTM expectations have changed with it. Seat-based pricing is giving way to outcome-based models. Product-led growth is being replaced by AI agents. And growth expectations look nothing like they did a year ago.
VCs are recalibrating too. New ARR and NRR metrics now define what separates an "AI Supernova" from the rest of the pack.

What you'll walk away with:

A concrete GTM playbook for this new era. What's working right now and how to get started.

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Founder's Dinner with Gururaj Pandurangi

April

2:15 AM - 4:00 AM

Bellevue

After the Talk: Informal Dinner with Guru & Founders

If you want to continue the conversation over dinner, we're gathering informally at a restaurant nearby, afterward. No host, no formal agenda, just founders who want to keep talking about what comes next.

For any pre-qualified founders (www.foundernexus.com)

AI for Founders & CEOs: The Five Levels of Thought Partnership (Remote only)

April

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Zoom

Sam Keller

"Incredible event that taught me a LOT about how to use AI to help me be a better leader."

"This was my favorite event! I loved the feeling of learning. It felt like being in a college class again."

After a successful first event in San Francisco, FounderNexus is partnering with Gen AI Academy again to bring back an exclusive AI workshop. This time virtually, so everybody can join from wherever they are.

This isn't another AI overview or hype session. It's a practical deep dive built around one core promise: you leave with tools and skills you'll use the very next day.

Led by Sam Keller, Co-Founder of Gen AI Academy, this session has already transformed how 300+ leaders think about and use AI — and now it's coming to you, wherever you are.

Before the workshop, you'll receive a personalized AI Self-Assessment so the session is calibrated to exactly where you are and where you want to go.

What You'll Walk Away With

In just three hours, you'll learn how to:

• Pressure-test your biggest decisions: use AI to challenge assumptions and stress-test strategy in real time

• Get dramatically better outputs: brief AI the way you'd brief your sharpest executive

• Build your AI Dream Team: specialized assistants working for you around the clock

• Automate with AI Agents: move beyond insights into real execution: research, workflows, and action

• Win in high-stakes moments: from strategic planning to major negotiations, have AI in your corner

What Leaders Are Saying

"Best one this year by far!! Immediately valuable."

"I was literally blown away - I will be utilizing the new tools immediately."

"This will take our company to the next level. We are already applying it."

"Now I have a much deeper understanding of how to use AI tools in my work."

About Gen AI Academy

Gen AI Academy has an origin story unlike most: in 2023, founder Sam Keller and his 12-year-old son Kaz sat down to explore the promise and pitfalls of ChatGPT. That father-son experiment quickly grew into something much bigger, as hundreds of leaders joined their workshops hungry to make sense of this powerful new technology.

What Sam kept hearing was the same thing: leaders didn't just want technical how-tos. They needed the mindsets, skills, tools, and habits to weave AI into strategy, culture, and daily work. Gen AI Academy was built to answer exactly that need. Today they've trained 1,000+ professionals, including 300+ Founders & CEOs, delivering hands-on training, custom-built AI tools, and governance frameworks that make adoption powerful and responsible.

Featured in Forbes. genaiacademy.ai

Spots are limited. Reserve yours now and show up ready to lead differently.

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Venture Insights with Two Ravens (Members only)

April

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Zoom

Isaac Kato, Two Ravens VC

This is your chance to sit down with a founder-turned-VC who's built, scaled, and exited - multiple times.

Isaac Kato is the Founding General Partner of Two Ravens, a pre-seed and early seed stage venture capital firm backing extraordinary founders from non-obvious backgrounds. Isaac brings a rare combination of operator experience and institutional investing chops to every founder relationship.

What Two Ravens looks for:

Stage: Pre-Seed and Early Seed

Check size: $250K – $500K first checks

Investment areas: Enterprise-facing AI, software, and technology platforms — with a focus on diverse, immigrant, and off-the-beaten-path founders, including those building right here in Seattle

Before Two Ravens, Isaac was Managing Director of the Techstars Seattle and Filecoin Techstars Accelerators, and before that, President of Mighty AI, a leading training data platform for computer vision and autonomous vehicles, which was acquired by Uber. He co-founded Sven Technologies, a 3D graphics software startup sold to a public CAD company, and was co-founder and CFO of Verne Global, an Icelandic green data center company where he raised $200M in capital before its $320M acquisition in 2021. He also spent a decade as a VC and growth equity investor at General Catalyst Partners and Summit Partners.

Isaac holds an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and an MS and BS from Stanford University.

This is a members-only session.

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founder, Wild Zebra

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founder, PwrOn

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Mark Fiebig

founder, Payscore

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Jasper Kuria

co-founder, ConversionMagic

Great event, I learned a lot! Looking forward to next one

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founder, Mudita Studios

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Bob Lach

founder, Lightbridge Solutions

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Elias DeFaria

co-founder, SDF Labs

This was a fast track to relevant experience/advice in a room where you hold nothing back.

Nicole Resch

Co-founder, Imperative

I have attended events nationwide and joined so-called “MasterMind” groups, but nothing comes close to the network and support I have experienced at FounderNexus.

Arthur Baranovskiy

co-founder, ARY Engineering

Interested in starting a FounderNexus chapter in your area?

If you're an experienced venture-scale founder that's passionate about growing your local entrepreneurial community and likes being at the center of things, we'd love to connect. We've got everything you need to get a local chapter started.