SF Startup Tours

​A one-day bus for 20 Stanford graduate students to meet founders across the Bay Area, from Stanford to San Francisco and Emeryville.

​We will visit four startups at different stages, from Series A to Series C. At each stop, founders and teams walk us through what they build, how they raised, and what changed after each round.

​Applications close November 15.

​Confirmed stops

• ​Foundry Robotics (Emeryville): an autonomous factory for complex assembly, where AI models run the robots on real production lines for defense and industry. Raised a $100M Series A led by Marlinspike Partners in October 2026.

• ​Bobyard (San Francisco): AI that automates takeoffs and cost estimates for construction and landscaping contractors. Raised a $40M Series A.

• ​Vals AI (San Francisco): independent benchmarks for how well AI models do real professional work. Its founders studied CS together at Stanford. Raised a $40M Series A led by a16z in August 2026.

• ​Cardless (San Francisco): builds and runs co-branded credit cards for brands like Coinbase, Bilt and Qatar Airways. Raised a $60M Series C led by Spark Capital in September 2025.