How Aigo Raised $12M Betting Against AI Consensus
Join us for an evening with Srini Pagidyala, co-founder of Aigo, who will share how the company raised $12M backing a contrarian vision for the future of AI.
We'll explore his fundraising journey, lessons learnt, and what Aigo thinks about the next wave of AI! His co-founder, Peter Voss, coined the term Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in 2001.
Whether you're raising capital, investing or just curious about the future of AI!
Why Attend
Learn From a Founder Who Raised $12M+
Gain Practical Fundraising Insights (investor outreach, storytelling, building)
Understand the future of AI Models (the next wave of AI)
Meet Founders, Investors & Builders
Agenda
5:00 – 5:30 Networking & drinks
5:30 – 6:15 Founder's journey & lessons
6:15 - 6:45: AMA (Ask Srini about his Elon Musk meeting)
6:45 - 7:00: Optional 1-minute introductions (casual)
7:00 - 7:45: Open Networking
Introductions are optional - simply who you are, what you're building and what's your main challenge.
Food and Wine provided.
Who This Is For
Early-stage founders raising capital
Researchers or technical builders
Angels, VCs & Active investors
Attendance is curated to keep the room relevant.
Srini Pagidyala is the Co-Founder of Aigo.ai, a startup building a new type of AI that challenges many of the assumptions behind today's AI boom. He's building a Self-Learning AI: a cognition-first system designed to move beyond the limits of LLMs and generative AI. While most companies are focused on bigger models, more data, and more computing power, Srini believes there is a better path.
His thesis is blunt: the dominant AI path is not leading to real intelligence. Before Aigo.ai, Srini founded and exited a big data analytics firm. He is also the author of Growth Confidential and a leading voice arguing that the future of AI should not belong to a few centralized powers, but to individuals where you own your agenda, your goals, your values, your data, your privacy, your autonomy, your sovereignty, and your memory, and AI exists to serve you.
Huge thanks to our Community Partner: Silicon Valley Bank
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Hosted by:
Venture Bridge Hub. We connect people, capital, and innovation across global ecosystems. Think Capital, Coaching & Community
This event reflects how we believe ecosystems should work:
human-first, global, and built on conversations.