Women Who Write The Checks: Wealth Meets Venture
Join Aurelian Ventures and House of 434 for an intimate fireside chat with the women who decide what private companies are worth, who gets to own them, and when they finally pay out.
Wealth Meets Venture
The best companies of this generation aren't going public. They're staying private for 10, 12, even 15 years, and the wealth they create is being captured long before an IPO ever happens. That shift has quietly rewritten the rules of finance:
The private market is the new public market. Value creation that used to happen on the NASDAQ now happens in private rounds, behind closed doors, at prices most people never see.
Liquidity has moved. With fewer IPOs, early investors, founders, and employees are turning to secondaries to cash out. Who's buying those shares, at what discount, and why?
Wealth is flooding in. Family offices, private wealth managers, and high net worth individuals are allocating to venture like never before, and new platforms are opening private deals to everyday investors for the first time.
The question no one agrees on: should private markets open up to everyone, or is broad access a trap?
This conversation follows the money across the entire life of a private company: from the first check into an AI founder, through the hard years of turning frontier technology into revenue, to the moment late stage shares change hands. You'll leave understanding how investors actually price risk at every stage, where private capital is moving next, and how founders, operators, and investors can position themselves on the right side of it.
No pitch decks and no recycled talking points. Every registrant submits one question in advance, and the best ones go straight to the stage.
Speakers
Clara Vydyanath, CFA: Late stage venture and secondaries investor at Underline Capital. She works where private company shares actually change hands.
Shilpi Nayak: Founder of House of 434 and 434 VC, one of New York's most active AI founder and investor communities.
Special guest investor: To be announced.
Moderated by Megan Groves: Operator and investor bridging frontier tech from research to revenue. Founder of Population, Venture Partner at Republic, angel investor, and longtime Techstars mentor.
Evening Program
6:30 PM Arrival, drinks & networking
7:00 PM Opening remarks
7:05 PM Fireside chat
7:35 PM Audience Q&A
7:50 PM Food, drinks & networking
8:30 PM Close
Who should come
Founders raising pre seed through Series A, angels, fund professionals, wealth managers and family office allocators, and operators holding private company equity.
Attendance requires approval. Capacity is intentionally kept to around 40 so every conversation is a real one.
Presented by Aurelian Ventures and House of 434, with community support from Beyond Strangers.
Photos and video may be taken during the event.