Startup Grind 2026 in Silicon Valley

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Every year, thousands of founders and operators fly in to share what is working, what is not and what comes next. On stage and in the hallways, the focus is always on honest conversations and useful connections, not on hype.

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​Meet the Speakers – Startup Grind Conference 2026

​This isn’t a recycled conference circuit. The Agenda is LIVE

It’s the operators building the AI stack.
The founders scaling from 0 → 1 → 100.
And the investors writing the biggest checks in Silicon Valley.

​Here’s who’s taking the stage:

​🚀 AI Infrastructure & Deep Tech

• ​Tuhin Srivastava – CEO & Co-founder, Baseten

• ​Harrison Chase – CEO & Co-founder, LangChain

• ​Lin Qiao – CEO & Co-founder, Fireworks AI

• ​Mitesh Agrawal – CEO, Positron AI

• ​Stefano Ermon – CEO & Co-founder, Inception

• ​Ivan Poupyrev – CEO & Founder, Archetype AI

• ​Maithra Raghu – CEO & Founder, Samaya AI

• ​Soyoung Lee – Head of GTM & Co-founder, TwelveLabs

• ​Robert Brooks – VP of Revenue & Founding Team, Lambda

• ​Travis Addair – Sr Engineering Director, AI at Rubrik | Co-founder & CTO, Predibase

​💡 Founders Building Category-Defining Companies

• ​Dave Ferguson – Co-CEO & Co-founder, Nuro

• ​Amjad Masad – CEO, Replit

• ​Adarsh Hiremath – Co-CEO, Mercor

• ​Gabe Pereyra – President & Co-founder, Harvey AI

• ​Rahul Vohra – Founder & Head of Superhuman Mail

• ​Michel Tricot – CEO & Co-founder, Airbyte

• ​Grant Lee – CEO & Co-founder, Gamma

• ​Karri Saarinen – CEO & Co-founder, Linear

• ​Abhinav Asthana – CEO, Postman

• ​Avlok Kohli – CEO, AngelList

• ​Immad Akhund – CEO & Co-founder, Mercury

• ​Tanay Kothari – CEO & Co-founder, Wispr Flow

• ​Matt Hammel – COO & Co-founder, AirOps

• ​Nurasyl Serik – CEO & Co-founder, RemoFirst

​💰 The Investors Backing the Next Generation

• ​Mamoon Hamid – Partner, Kleiner Perkins

• ​Chetan Puttagunta – General Partner, Benchmark

• ​Sangeen Zeb – General Partner, GV

• ​Hans Tung – Managing Partner, Notable Capital

• ​Christine Tsai – CEO & Founding Partner, 500 Global

• ​Jon Callaghan – Managing Partner & Co-founder, True Ventures

• ​Anish Acharya – General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

• ​Corinne Riley – Partner, Greylock

• ​Rajeev Dham – Partner, Sapphire Ventures

• ​Steve Jang – Managing Partner & Founder, Kindred Ventures

• ​Stephanie Zhan – Partner, Sequoia Capital

• ​Tomasz Tunguz – Founder, Theory Ventures

• ​Navin Chaddha – Managing Partner, Mayfield

• ​Kobie Fuller – General Partner, Upfront Ventures

• ​Sundeep Peechu – Managing Partner, Felicis

• ​Kanyi Maqubela – Managing Partner, Kindred Ventures

• ​Frédérique Dame – General Partner, GV

• ​Fabiola Quinzaños – Partner, Monashees

• ​Mike Duboe – General Partner, Greylock

• ​Tiffany Luck – Partner, NEA

• ​Matt Kraning – Partner, Menlo Ventures

• ​Brian Rothenberg – Partner, defy.vc

• ​Joe Dormani – Partner, Thomson Reuters Ventures

• ​Ann Bordetsky – Early Stage Investor (NEA, Rival, Uber, Twitter)

• ​Matt Stephenson – Head of Tech Talent, Bain Capital Ventures

​🧠 Product, Platform & Ecosystem Leaders

• ​Tamar Yehoshua – Chief Product & AI Officer, Atlassian

• ​Rachel Wolan – Chief Product Officer, Webflow

• ​Philip W. Braddock – Head of Atlassian for Startups

• ​Wen Sang – COO & Co-founder, Genspark.ai

• ​Sarah Ramos – Head of Marketing, Base10 Partners

• ​Ceci Stallsmith – Head of Marketing, Lovable