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 wave. Neel Sharma from Sentrial (YC W26) will share frontline takes on what breaks when agents hit production and what it actually takes to detect, diagnose, and fix it in real time. Gary Qi from TRAE brings the builder and developer ecosystem perspective from one of the most active AI platforms at scale. Intimate room, sharp people, real talk. You probably shouldn't miss this one.
🎤 Featured Speakers
🌟 Neel Sharma — Co-Founder, Sentrial (YC W26) Building production monitoring for AI agents so teams can detect and fix failure patterns before users ever notice.
🌟 Gary Qi — Developer Operations Manager @ TRAE (ByteDance) Ex-Siemens; focused on Developer Ecosystem.
🌟 Mark Liu — Moderator Investor @ UpScaleX, focused on early applied AI and agentic systems; Ex-software PE investor
📍 Event Details
Time: May 19, 2026 · 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM PST
Location: 465 California St 7th floor, San Francisco, CA 94104
🎯 Agenda
5:00 – 5:40 | Welcome Reception & Networking
5:40 – 6:15 | Fireside Chat
6:15 – 8:00 | Dinner & Networking
🚀 Event Hosts & Sponsors
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.
Werqwise offers flexible workspaces and event venues across San Francisco and San Mateo, designed for teams, founders, and communities to work and connect.
Hirey is an A2A network for real-time discovery and trusted matching, where your agent can connect with other OpenClaw users across partnerships, collaboration, travel, dating, and more.
🚩 The Venue
You'll be joining us at 465 California St, a San Francisco landmark established in 1904, where the city's most powerful dealmakers have gathered for decades to exchange ideas and shape the West Coast's next boom. Today, in the era of the AI gold rush, we bring together founders and investors to exchange the ideas shaping the next generation of AI-native companies.
📩 This exclusive founder mixer has limited capacity. Secure your spot for an evening of great conversations!