Agentic AI Founders’ Night-Out | Beyond Copilots, the Rise of Agent Orchestration
What's up San Francisco! Join us for the 3rd edition of Agentic AI Founders’ Night-Out, a curated evening bringing together builders, operators, and investors shaping the next generation of AI-native companies ✨
What is Agentic AI Founders’ Night-Out?
Agentic AI Founders’ Night-Out is a curated gathering for founders, operators, and investors at the frontier of AI. It’s where early builders share what’s actually working (and what’s not), investors exchange real perspectives, and operators connect around building the next wave of AI-native products.
Come meet people who could become your next investor, teammate, or co-founder.
👀 What this session is about?
AI agents are everywhere. Working ones aren't. This is the dinner where founders building actual agent infrastructure get honest about what's breaking, what's shipping, and what comes after the copilot hype dies. Intimate room, sharp people, real talk - with the Crow (YC W26) team and more frontier builders & operators who've been in the trenches. You probably shouldn't miss this one.
🎤 Featured Speakers
🌟 Aryan Vij — Co-Founder & CEO, Crow (YC W26)
Ex-engineer @ Qualcomm, Shasta Health (S23), and Frontdesk (Pear VC).
🌟 Jai Bhatia — Co-Founder & CTO, Crow (YC W26)
Leading the technical architecture behind Crow’s agent orchestration layer, enabling scalable and reliable intent-to-action systems.
🌟 Gary Qi - Developer Operation Manager @ TRAE
Now Bytedance, ex-Siemens; focus on Developer Ecosystem.
🌟 Mark Liu – Moderator
Investor @ UpScaleX, focused on early applied AI and agentic systems; Ex-software PE investor
📍 Event Details
Time: May 12, 2026 · 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM PST
Location: San Francisco, CA
🎯 Agenda
5:00 – 5:45 | Welcome Reception & Networking
5:50 – 6:45 | Fireside Chat with Crow
6:45 – 8:00 | Dinner & Networking
🚀 Event Hosts
UpScaleX is a San Francisco & Palo Alto-based seed fund and founders' community, built to empower the next generation of AI innovators. Visit us at UpScaleX.AI
Startup Intros is a media and intelligence platform that helps early-stage founders find and win the right investors. Register as a founder here.
📩 This exclusive founder mixer has limited capacity – Secure your spot for an evening of great conversations!