Scale Stage Founder Dinner
You've built something real. Now let's talk about what comes next, with founders who get it. Past the dreamer phase, past the point solution stage, and still owning the majority of what you've built. You shouldn't have to figure it out alone. Come find your people.
This dinner is intentionally small and curated for founders running scale-stage businesses at $15M+ ARR. There's no pitch at the end of this evening and no hidden agenda beyond good conversation over a meal. Just a room of operators who have grown past the hard early stages and are now navigating the messier, less-documented ones.
We're Mark and Catherine Graham, and since 2011 we've been growing commonsku from the inside out. We knew the promotional products industry firsthand, saw the need for a workflow platform designed specifically for it, and built it. Fifteen years later, we're proud to serve 900+ distributors and 100+ suppliers powering $2B in GMV. We know what this stage feels like, and how rare it is to find a room of founders who’ve lived it.
Honestly, this dinner is the one we wish had existed for us at this stage, and Toronto Tech Week felt like the right moment to bring this group together. Expect candid conversations on the things keeping you up at night: growing fast without losing ownership, going deep in a vertical versus broadening your market, finding your footing as a non-technical founder, and figuring out where AI fits into everything you're building. Our hope is that you'll leave with a small circle of founders who become your sounding board long after dinner ends, and at least one idea that changes how you think about what's next.
The Evening
6:30-7:30pm: Beverages and mingling
7:30-9:30pm: Dinner in a Jeffersonian style, where one conversation keeps the whole table connected throughout the evening
If you're compounding past $15M ARR, monetizing GMV, extending your product, or trying to grow without giving away the cap table, this dinner was designed for you.
Seats are limited. Apply to attend.
About commonsku
commonsku is a workflow collaboration platform designed exclusively for the promotional products industry. At the core, commonsku is a systems of record platform for promotional products distributors that enables them to manage their customer interactions, present ideas to their customers, create orders, manage production, invoice, and bill. With commonsku’s connected workflow, distributors find joy and growth in their businesses through powerful technology and unmatched community. commonsku.com
About Toronto Tech Week
Toronto Tech Week is a citywide celebration of the people building what’s next. From May 25–29, 2026, founders, investors, and builders come together for hundreds of community-led events across Toronto, connecting tens of thousands of people around Canadian tech. Torontotechweek.com