CES 2026 Private 50 VC/FO/LP Dinner (Investor-Hosted)
Invitation-Only | No Pitches | Capital-Level Conversations
This Private VC / FO / LP Dinner is an off-CES, invitation-only gathering hosted by a small group of active Silicon Valley investors. The dinner is designed for fund-level dialogue, long-term relationships, and trust-based conversations — without pitches, decks, or noise.
This is not a networking event. This is a closed room for people who allocate capital, lead funds, or represent family offices.
Format
50 spots maximum
Curated buffet / Exclusive private luxury suite near the Strip
No startup pitches
Short opening framing by the hosts
Open, private conversation for the rest of the evening
Hosted by investors from Silicon Valley
Who attends
Venture Capital partners
Family Offices
LPs (10+) and Fund GPs
Senior Angels with allocation power
Attendance is by approval only.
This is not a public event.
Access is limited and curated.
Hosted by the team and investors from Silicon Valley behind Sand Hill Road BBQ, Frontier Tech Forum, and the Synexis Private Circle.
CES event series:
Exclusive Pitch | VC/Founder Mixer | VC/LP/FO Dinner | CES Investor Pass
Support Model (Important)
There is no fixed ticket price for this dinner.
Support is optional and does not affect attendance, seating, or access; the minimum optional fee is $10.
Instead, invited guests may choose to support the initiative at a level they are comfortable with.
This keeps the dinner relationship-first, not transactional.
Investor Pricing
🤝 Investor Supporter — $250 ($100 min)
⭐ Strategic Supporter — $500+
Opportunity to share up to 3 minutes of strategic remarks (subject to host approval).💎 Anchor Supporter — $1,000+
Opportunity to deliver up to 5 minutes of keynote-style remarks, focused on capital perspective or industry insights (subject to host approval).
Sponsorship for startups and service providers
Sponsorship options for startups and service providers - $10k for the 3 events series, $6k for the dinner. (Special options for early-stage startups)
Support helps cover venue, catering, and enables additional private investor-led sessions during CES week.
Support is appreciated but not required.
What supporters receive
Depending on the level of support:
Priority seating
Priority access to post-CES follow-ups and introductions
Recognition as a supporter of investor-led initiatives
Venue
Private investor residence near the Las Vegas Strip (off-CES)
Exact location is shared privately with confirmed guests only.
The dinner is hosted at a private investor residence selected specifically for confidential, high-trust conversations.
Hosts:
Synexis - AI-native OS for private market deals.
Synexis is an AI-native decision infrastructure that turns months-long private-market deal funnels into minutes.
Private-market deals still rely on fragmented tools, static databases, and manual analyst workflows that take months. Synexis replaces this with an AI-native infrastructure for real-time investment decisions. With behavioural agentic AI analysts, Synexis processes inbound, shared, and syndicated deal flow within minutes. Unlike scraped databases, Synexis runs on first-party, live data from founders and stakeholders, creating a defensible, continuously updated intelligence layer. Investors and enterprises reduce screening and diligence time by up to 90%, accelerate sourcing by 11×, and achieve 96% data accuracy.
Join as a startup or investor today: https://synexis.io/
Enterprise? Book a call: https://calendly.com/paul-synexis/30min
Tonya J. Long, Venture Innovator & Strategic Advisor
Tonya J. Long works at the intersection of capital, frontier technology, and human decision-making. She has repeatedly deployed both personal and fund capital into early-stage companies on the path to market, helping founders sharpen strategic positioning, operational delivery, and investor alignment when it matters most. Tonya actively advises a portfolio of startups across AI, infrastructure, enterprise, and frontier technologies.
Building on her 2025 work on the Wisdom Economy and Human Firmware, Tonya’s next project — Beyond Work — partners with innovators and leaders to prepare for how value is created as roles and organizational structures evolve.
IFAVH (Abu Dhabi Innovation Hub)
IFAVH is the premier Incubator, Furnace, Accelerator and Venture Hub that serves as the catalyst for existing companies, transformative startups and visionary entrepreneurs. At the heart of Abu Dhabi, IFAVH is more than just a business hub, it's a vibrant community where innovation, finance, growth, and collaboration are not just encouraged - they're embedded in everything we do.
Roundtable Ventures
Roundtable Ventures is a Founder First VC investing in people, ideas and companies with the potential to change the world. We invest at pre/seed & see potential where others don’t. We back founders with vision and technical rigour — helping them turn transformative ideas in DeepTech, AI, and Healthcare into enduring companies.
We invest across borders, connecting the innovation hubs of San Francisco with the Global dynamic startup ecosystem. Unlike traditional firms, our founder-led, operational mindset combines capital with strategic guidance & deep networks, helping founders scale & navigate complexity across markets.
GooseRox Ventures
GooseRox Ventures is a Silicon Valley Angel Group that focuses on Startup advisory, early-stage investing (solo & with partner VCs) & bespoke client collaborations (SMBs & Enterprises).
We bring over a century of combined business experience from Wall Street to Silicon Valley & Internationally. Every partner at GooseRox Ventures has served as a CEO, growing businesses, making hard choices & delivering results. Now we’re collectively focused on driving a meaningful & positive impact across the World & Silicon Valley. From vision to flight, we give wings to innovations that soar.
No Talking Capital VC
No Talking Capital invests in entrepreneurs that don't talk, and walk where others only talk. We strongly believe that talking distracts entrepreneurs from executing. After investing, we do not talk.
KFC Ventures
KFC Ventures is a $2B Corporate VC from Silicon Valley. Revolutionizing startups with breakthrough ideas with adequate funds to create a better world to live. KFC Ventures is one of the individual branches of the Nityo Group, which primarily focuses on providing seed and growth-stage funding to the B2B startups that claim to bring a revolutionary change in how we think, believe, and act globally. We help innovative entrepreneurial minds to create exceptional companies and a dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Dr Pavel Vinitsky
Dr Pavel Vinitsky - founder & CEO at Synexis, an AI-native decision-making infrastructure for private market deals. Speaker, advisor, VC investor, 25-year serial entrepreneur. VC analyst at KFC Ventures and advisor at Hesperian Ventures.
Guest investors:
30+ registered Venture Funds, Family Offices and Angel Investors including:
VU Venture Partners
Bay Area Innovest
Li Family Office
Dragons and Angels Fund
Nirman Ventures
Second Century Ventures
Golden Bay Ventures
FITT IIT Delhi
Tess Ventures
Applied Ventures
ECVC
BridgeX Ventures
Berkeley Frontier Fund
Young and Partners Inc
Starlite VC
A Big Capital
OV Ventures
SF Growth Capital
Dispatch VC
Jinqiu Capital
Collimation LLC
Calderon Safran & Wright
Gobi Partners
and 10+ VCs, FOs, LPs.
Community Partners
Founders Bay is a global community of 150,000 founders, VCs, and tech executives — rooted in Silicon Valley and expanding worldwide. We connect innovators through world-class events, curated dealflow, investor roundtables, VIP membership, and a global directory of top venture firms.
House Rules
No pitching
No media
No +1s
Dress code: smart casual or dinner
This is a private, independent off-CES event (not affiliated with CES)
Location
Private luxury suite near the Las Vegas Strip (off-CES)
(exact location shared after approval & registration)