Founder Happy Hour at SXSW

​Meet the founders everyone will be talking about next year. This SXSW gathering brings together ambitious builders, early-stage operators, and investors for fast-moving conversations, unexpected intros, and the kind of connections that don’t happen in crowded conference halls.

​Hosted by Pilot.com, Deel, Drive Capital, and Rho

​​​About Pilot:

​​​​Pilot provides expert bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services tailored to startups and small businesses. Headquartered in San Francisco and Nashville, Pilot combines U.S.-based finance experts with powerful software to deliver trustworthy financials and actionable insights—helping founders focus on what they do best: building their businesses.

​About Deel:

​Deel makes hiring contractors and employees seamless across 150+ countries. They handle payroll, taxes, compliance, immigration, and more, so that you can focus more time on building. Today, Deel serves over 36,000 customers from early-stage startups to enterprises like Nike, Dropbox, Shopify, and Notion.

​About Drive:

​Drive Capital is a Columbus, Ohio based venture capital firm with offices in Austin, Atlanta, Boulder, Chicago & Toronto that is focused on investing in the world’s next generation of market-defining companies. The firm started in 2013 and has raised over $2B of funds to invest in startups solving problems in large markets.

​About Rho:

​​Rho is the all-in-one banking platform for startups and the accountants supporting them. With banking setup in minutes, 2% cashback cards, and powerful tools for managing spend, paying bills, and closing the books, Rho helps high-growth startups move fast and stay focused, backed by support that goes to the end of the earth to help you win.

​​​​​Rho is a fintech company, not a bank. Checking and card services are provided by Webster Bank, N.A., member FDIC; savings account services are provided by American Deposit Management Co. and its partner banks.