Private Founder × Investor Mixer

​An intimate, invite-only evening bringing together SF Startup Labs founders and carefully selected early-stage investors in San Francisco.

​Our Fall cohort includes 19 exceptional pre-seed and seed startups, selected from more than 500 applications. The founders bring Fortune 10 infrastructure leadership, NASA and Deloitte PhD experience, senior roles at BCG, Workday, HP, Meta, Adobe, and Disney, YC-backed startup experience, decades of clinical and scientific expertise, and multiple repeat-founder track records.

​We’re keeping the evening intentionally small.

​Join us for drinks, light bites, and candid conversations with exceptional founders and active early-stage investors.

​The goal is simple: to create a room small enough for meaningful conversations and introductions that continue long after the evening ends.

​Meet the organizers

​Finix
Finix is a full-stack payments platform built on direct connections to Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. Through one API and dashboard, businesses from SMBs to enterprises, and startups from first build to venture-backed, can accept payments, embed them into their products, and send payouts at scale.

​SF Startup Labs is a highly selective, non-equity accelerator for ambitious pre-seed and seed founders looking to build and scale in Silicon Valley. This fall, we selected 19 startups from 530+ applicants for an intensive program combining top mentors, investor access, practical workshops, and a week of curated events across San Francisco.

​Clarifi VC is an AI-native financial operating system that gives founders and investors a clear, shared view of cash, burn, runway, and the decisions that matter most. We turn fragmented financial data into actionable insight, helping early-stage teams spend less time assembling spreadsheets and more time building, while giving investors a trusted financial picture for better conversations and decisions.