What Happens After the Startup Starts Working?
What Happens After the Startup Starts Working? A conversation for founders and investors navigating success, responsibility, and what’s next.
Most founder conversations are about how to get the startup to work.
This one is about what happens after it does.
The company grows. Customers come in. The team expands. Investors pay attention. More people depend on you. And then a different set of questions begins.
What should you be building for yourself alongside the company? How do you think about investing, ownership, and opportunity? How do you manage the responsibility and cognitive load that come with growth? What does success look like after the thing you were chasing starts to happen?
That’s what this conversation is about.
Joining us on the panel is:
→ Anand Krishna, Founder/CEO of Inkle
→ Adeep Chooramun, Co-Founder/CEO of Venture Bridge Hub
→ Moderated by Omowumi Omidiji, Principal of The Concierge Lawyering
Who’s on the Panel?
Anand Krishna is the Founder/CEO of Inkle, a San Francisco-based company helping startups and modern businesses manage U.S. tax, accounting, bookkeeping, compliance, and finance operations.
He is a 3x founder with deep fintech and cross-border operating experience. Anand previously co-founded LotusPay, a Y Combinator Summer 2017 fintech company focused on recurring payments for Indian businesses, which was later acquired by Juspay. He also co-founded Index, a personal finance app acquired by Tencent-backed Niyo.
Before becoming a founder, Anand spent nearly a decade across Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Cairn Oil & Gas.
Through Inkle, Anand now works closely with hundreds of startups and founders, giving him a front-row view into the financial, operational, and cross-border complexity that emerges as companies scale. His perspective is especially relevant to founders moving beyond early traction and beginning to think about the infrastructure, systems, and decisions required for the next stage of growth.
Adeep Chooramun is the Co-Founder and CEO of Venture Bridge Hub, a San Francisco-based platform connecting people, capital, and innovation across global startup ecosystems.
He brings over 15 years of experience across finance, banking, economic development, international trade, investment promotion, business development, and cross-border ecosystem building. Before Venture Bridge Hub, Adeep held roles across institutions including BCP Bank (Mauritius), the Economic Development Board Mauritius, and Scottish Development International, where he worked at the intersection of capital, markets, international partnerships, and business growth.
His career has given him a practical understanding of how founders, investors, institutions, and markets connect, especially when companies are expanding beyond their home ecosystem.
Through Venture Bridge Hub, Adeep now works with global founders navigating the Silicon Valley ecosystem, supporting them through strategic advisory, fundraising and pitch strategy, founder storytelling, curated investor-facing events, and cross-border market access.
Adeep brings the global access and ecosystem-building lens to the panel, helping founders think more intentionally about how relationships, trust, capital, and cross-border networks shape what comes next after traction.
Omowumi Omidiji is the Principal of The Concierge Lawyering, a boutique advisory practice helping founders, entrepreneurs, and investors build global structures for growth, mobility, asset protection, banking access, and long-term optionality.
She brings over a decade of legal and advisory experience working with founders, startups, and businesses across corporate structuring, regulatory strategy, compliance, cross-border expansion, and founder-focused advisory. Through The Concierge Lawyering, she has supported founders and companies with international structuring, Qatar/QFC setups, residency pathways, banking support, and post-incorporation compliance.
Omowumi is also the founder of SOUQ OS, a cross-border trade technology venture, and previously worked as a Product Manager at Cuacel, a Y Combinator-backed company. Her work sits at the intersection of law, entrepreneurship, technology, and global business strategy.
She brings a founder-advisor perspective to the conversation, helping founders think beyond company formation and fundraising toward the structures, options, and long-term decisions that support life and business after the startup starts working.
A candid conversation on what founders discover after traction: how success creates new opportunities, new responsibilities, and new decisions around growth, investing, global expansion, infrastructure, and life beyond the company.
Who should attend
→ Venture-backed founders navigating growth → Repeat founders thinking about what comes next → Exited founders and founder-investors → Angel investors and syndicate leads → Founders beginning to think about investing, mobility, global opportunities, and long-term optionality → Ecosystem leaders supporting founders beyond fundraising
Details
🗓️ July 1, 2026
⏰ 5 pm - 7 pm PT
📍 North Beach, San Francisco (Exact venue shared upon RSVP)
🍸 Networking and conversation
🔒 By approval only