Future Founders Dinner
The best co-founder for your company isn’t already in your network.
Co-founder selection is the highest-leverage decision you’ll make as a founder. Not the idea. Not the timing. The person you build with.
This off-the-record dinner series brings together founders who take that decision seriously. People who are not looking for a convenient partner, but the right one.
We intentionally curate the room to expand who you meet. Our previous dinners included repeat founders behind $1B+ exits, along with staff and founding engineers from Applied Intuition, Robinhood, Airbnb, Stripe, Splunk, Affirm, Character AI, OpenAI, and more.
If you RSVP, you are committing to attend as we have very limited seats.
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About Andy Chen
Andy is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Outcast Ventures. He began his career as one of Silicon Valley’s most sought-after engineering and executive recruiters at Kleiner Perkins before becoming a General Partner at Coatue. There, he made early investments in companies such as Figma, Scale, Persona, Distyl, and Chime - investments now worth over $100B. He’s known for identifying exceptional people early and building world-class teams around them. Connect with Andy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/atchen/.
About Amy Lin
Amy is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Outcast Ventures. She started coding at ten, built and sold a YC-backed startup, then helped scale seed fund NFX from its first fund to $1.5B+ AUM. She blends founder empathy with product and data rigor, obsessed with how great people find each other and turn ideas into real things. Connect with Amy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heyamylin.
About Outcast Ventures
These dinners are hosted as part of Catalyst, Outcast Ventures’ founder formation program. Twice each year, Catalyst brings together a small group of exceptional founders in San Francisco for eight weeks to explore ideas, build relationships, and decide who they want to start companies with.
Outcast Ventures is an early-stage venture firm built on the belief that founding teams matter more than founding ideas.
Outcast invest $500K–$1M at pre-seed and seed. Some teams are already formed. Others form through Catalyst.