Smart AI 100 2026
Smart AI 100 Summit is back Sep 3 in the heart of SF.
Allen & Co meets SaaStr, for fast growing founders, VCs, enterprise innovators, frontier researchers in AI.
The AUDIENCE is the people announcing Series A through Series D rounds you read about every week, and the GPs who just raised their own funds. That is who you stand next to at the coffee table.
Themes: Security · Inference · Physical AI · Models & Evals · Vertical AI · Generative Media
📅 When: Thursday, September 3, 2026 | 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM
📍 Where: Private Venue in SOMA, heart of SF
🍝 Breakfast, Lunch, Networking, After Party
🎤 Programing: https://www.smartventuremedia.com
🎉 After-party: RSVP here https://luma.com/w93r1str
🧑 Attendees: VCs, execs from well-known tech companies, hand-picked AI founders. Not a massive conference. Not a private dinner. Something in between, and harder to get into than both.
🎫 Ticket: $1400
Speakers include:
Grace Gong, Founder & CEO, Smart Venture Media
Jeetu Patel, President & CPO, Cisco
Marc Boroditsky, CRO, Nebius
Julie Choi, CMO, Cerebras
Amit Zavery, President, CPO & COO, ServiceNow
Abbas Haider Ali, Chief Customer Officer, Atlassian
Emilio Escobar, CISO, Datadog
Brendan Ittelson, Chief Ecosystem Officer, Zoom
Arnab Bose, CPO, Asana
George Hu, President, Fireworks ($17.5B)
Rohan Anil, Co-Founder, Core Automation ($4B)
Debajyoti (Debo) Datta, Co-Founder, Hippocratic AI ($3.5B)
Kai Mak, CRO, Together AI ($8.3B)
Nancy Wang, CTO, 1Password ($6.8B)
Zachary Lipton, Co-Founder, Abridge ($5.3B)
Joel de la Garza, Investment Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Aaron Jacobson, Partner, New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Guy Marion, CMO & Growth, Chargebee ($3.5B)
Wen Sang, COO, Genspark ($2.6B)
Alex Stamos, CPO, Corridor; ex-CSO, Facebook
Yousuf Khan, Founder, Clario; ex-CIO, Moveworks
Sree Kancharla, CIO, SailPoint (acquired for $6.9B)
Sri Viswanath, CEO, Sycamore; ex-CTO, Atlassian
Marshall Choy, CBO, Rebellions ($2.34B)
Snehal Antani, CEO, Horizon3.ai ($2B)
Philip Rathle, CTO, Neo4j ($2B)
Boris Sofman, CEO, Bedrock Robotics ($1.75B)
Spiros Xanthos, CEO, Resolve AI ($1.5B)
Saurabh Sharma, CPO, You.com ($1.5B)
Eric Ho, CEO, Goodfire ($1.25B)
Jake Stauch, CEO, Serval ($1B)
Russ d’Sa, CEO, LiveKit ($1B)
Dan Mishin, Founder, Manifest OS ($750M)
Lindon Gao, CEO, Dyna Robotics ($600M)
Omar Haroun, CEO, Eudia ($508M)
Rong Yan, CTO, HeyGen ($500M)
Jason Goodison, CTO, General Compute ($415M raised)
Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck ($400M)
Steve Jang, Managing Partner, Kindred Ventures (Forbes Midas List)
Ross Fubini, Managing Partner, XYZ (Forbes Midas List)
Jordan Segall, Partner, Redpoint
Cheryl Cheng, MD, M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund
Adam Ely, GM, AI Security, Check Point Software
Jake Saper, General Partner, Emergence Capital
David Kwon, Partner, Abstract
Kyle Holm, VP, Sequoia Consulting
Andrew Dai, CEO, Elorian AI ($300M)
Yogi Goel, CEO, Maxima ($143M)
Anand Kannappan, CEO, Patronus AI ($600M)
Alberto T., CEO, Reactor ($59M raised)
Lance Matthews, Partner, DTCP Growth
Aidan Madigan-Curtis, Partner, Eclipse
Gaurav Bhogale, Partner, Mantis Venture Capital
Brian Zhan, Partner, Striker Venture Partners
Jake Flomenberg, General Partner, Wing Venture Capital
John Lin, Managing Partner, Linea Ventures
Danny Wen, Operating Partner, Wing Venture Capital
Colton Dempsey, Partner, N47
Josh Constine, Venture Partner, SignalFire
Amit Chaturvedy, Managing Partner, SE Ventures
Ashish Kakran, Managing Partner, Seligman Ventures
Sources: Harmonic funding data + public market data as of mid-August 2026.
Many thanks to our amazing sponsors:
Founding Partners
Zoom
Innovation Partners
Ecosystem Partner
Wayo
Strategic Partners
About Your Host: Grace Gong - Leading VC Podcast Host & Angel Investor
Grace hosts a top VC podcast called smart venture podcast (SVPpro.com); past guests, including C-level/ VPs of Google, Meta, Amazon, Sephora, Dunkin' Donuts, Chipotle, Adidas, Pepsi, Instagram, Deloitte, Reddit, Pinterest, Notion, Cisco, Walmart, Microsoft, Snowflake etc; Managing Partners of top funds (many were featured on the Forbes Midas List) and unicorn founders (founder of Craigslist, Square, Loom, Cruise, Glean etc.) She is doing a daily LinkedIn Live podcast featuring a VC/ founder/ exec.
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