YC Founders Summer Mixer
YC Founders Summer Mixer
Monday, August 17, 2026
5:30 PM–8:00 PM
San Francisco
Join us for the next gathering of the YC founder community, bringing together current YC founders and alumni for an evening of drinks, light bites, and founder-to-founder conversation.
Following the strong response to our recent YC Founders Wine & Cocktails Mixer, this event will provide another relaxed setting for founders to reconnect, meet people from other batches, and have useful conversations away from the usual conference environment.
There will be no formal presentations and no pitching. The focus is simply on bringing together a high-quality group of YC founders in the same room.
Who Is in the Room
Current YC batch founders
YC alumni founders
YC-backed founders from pre-seed through growth stage
A small number of selected community partners
Event Format
5:30 PM: Arrival, drinks and introductions
6:00 PM: Welcome from the hosts
6:10 PM: Founder networking, drinks and light bites
8:00 PM: Event concludes
Attendance
This is an approval-required event primarily for YC founders.
Please include your YC batch and company when registering. Registration does not guarantee admission. Confirmed guests will receive the complete venue details before the event.
No plus-ones unless they have registered separately and been approved.
Hosts
Hosted by Open Future Forum and Foley & Lardner LLP, together with selected partners from the YC founder ecosystem.
Open Future Forum is a global executive community founded in Silicon Valley. Its network reaches tens of thousands of executives and investors worldwide. It runs a year-round calendar of events for senior executives and investors, including CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, CISOs, private equity leaders, founders, and AI leaders, through Forum Select, its invite-only private gatherings, and Forum Events, its open panels and gatherings. Beyond events, Open Future Forum convenes peer groups and executive boards and publishes original research built on first-party survey and qualitative data from its executive network.
This is an independent community event and is not organised or endorsed by Y Combinator.