AI GTM Night
What’s actually working for AI products right now?
Hosted by Catalyst Bay, AScaleX, Ontop, and Brex
Most AI events are vendors talking about their own product. This one is the people responsible for growth at AI companies talking about what actually moved numbers.
A panel, a round table, and a long happy hour. 80 people · 40 founders + 40 GTM leaders, so you will actually talk to everyone.
The panel: Going to market when the category is contested, and nobody has won it yet. How to find demand before you have anything to sell. What positioning survives contact with real buyers. How to pick first customers for distribution rather than revenue.
Speakers :
Chris Messina - General Partner at Ride Home Fund
Jay Sahnan - Growth Engineer, Browserbase
Juliana Chyzhova - Head of Marketing, AGI, Inc.
Lauren Volpi - Head of Marketing, Mintlify
Beatriz Gomez - CMO at Ontop
The round tables: An open conversation around the GTM challenges people in the room are working through right now. Bring a question, compare approaches, and hear how other founders and operators are thinking about demand, positioning, customers, and distribution.
Happy hour: Food and drinks, and the part of the evening where the useful conversations happen.
Who this is for
GTM leads and heads of growth at AI companies
Founders still running go-to-market themselves
First marketing and sales hires at AI startups
Investors who spend their time on portfolio distribution
What you leave with: A positioning read on your own product from people who have done it. Two or three tactics you can run next week. And a short list of people worth following up with.
Run of show - AI GTM Night | Catalyst Bay × AScaleX × Brex x onTop:
4:00 PM - Doors open
4:50 PM - Welcome from Catalyst Bay, AScaleX, Brex, and onTop
5:00 PM - Panel discussion
5:35 PM - Audience Q&A
5:45 PM - Roundtable discussion per topic.
6:15 - 8:00 PM - Food, drinks, and open networking
Thursday, October 1, 2026
Sponsored by Ontop
Ontop is a global payroll and financial services platform that makes it easier for companies to hire, onboard, and pay talent worldwide. By simplifying global workforce management and enabling remote workers to receive payments in US dollars, Ontop empowers businesses to scale across borders while giving global talent greater financial flexibility.
Learn more: www.getontop.com
About Catalyst Bay
Catalyst Bay started with Techstars Startup Weekend SF hackathons. Now it's a 10,000-person SF community running pitch nights, fireside chats, and meetups for the people building and betting on AI products: founders, investors, engineers, designers, PMs, marketers, and devrels.
AScaleX is a global creative and growth agency that partners with startups and enterprise teams to build scalable marketing engines. Blending strategic storytelling and data-driven insights, AScaleX helps brands cut through the noise, connect with the right audiences, and drive measurable growth.
Brex is the intelligent finance platform that empowers growing companies to spend smarter and move faster – in more than 200 markets. By combining the world's smartest corporate card with intuitive spend management software and banking, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-powered automation and agents eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies, from startups to enterprises, run their finances on Brex – including DoorDash, Anthropic, Zoom, Plaid, and SeatGeek. Learn more at brex.com.