AI Valley GTC Cofounder Mixer

​Find the person you’ll build the next decade with.

​🚀 In San Francisco for GTC?

​Skip the generic mixers.

​AI Valley is hosting a cofounder matching night — a structured networking session designed to help serious builders find the collaborators they've actually been looking for.

​No rounds. No bells. No awkward wandering.

​When you check in, you get a colored dot sticker that tells the room who you are and what you bring:

​🔵 Technical — I can build it

​🟢 Product / Design — I know what to build

​🔴 Business — I can sell it

​🟡 Investors — I know the space

​Your mission: find the other three colors. The sticker is the icebreaker — walk up, point at theirs, and say your idea in 30 seconds. The room does the rest.

​Whether you:

• ​Have a strong thesis but no team

• ​Have a prototype and need a technical cofounder

• ​Are a researcher ready to commercialize

• ​Are an engineer exploring starting something

​This is where conversations turn into companies.

​🕒 Schedule

​6:00 – 6:20 PM

​Arrival + Intent Tags

​(What you’re building / looking for)

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​6:20 – 6:30 PM

​Opening + How It Works

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​6:30 – 7:15 PM

​⚡ Cofounder Speed Rounds

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​7:15 – 8:30 PM

​Dinner + Deep Dives

​Reconnect with the people you clicked with

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​8:30 – 9:00 PM

​Closing + Final Connections

​Who This Is For

• ​Technical founders

• ​AI researchers

• ​Engineers exploring startup formation

• ​Product leaders seeking technical cofounders

​Builders prioritized.

​Limited investor presence.

About HAC

​Hanwha AI Center (HAC) is a private membership for all those dedicated to AI. As a hub for innovation, HAC brings together passionate entrepreneurs, researchers, and visionaries to explore the societal and technological impacts of AI on human life.

🌍 About MiniMax

​MiniMax is a global AI company building frontier multimodal models across LLM, video, audio, and music — powering products used by over 150M users worldwide. The M2 series is designed to enable powerful, production-ready agents without the cost constraints typically associated with frontier models.

AI Valley is a community rooted in supporting exceptional first generation builders, founders, and creators. We curate environments where ambitious people meet collaborators, mentors, and opportunities through hackathons, workshops, and intimate gatherings across AI, tech, and the arts. If you care about who you build with as much as what you build, this is your place.

​🌐 Website: https://aivalley.io

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​👥 Community (Discord): https://discord.gg/QESCnSUPC9

​📰 Newsletter: https://aivalleyio.substack.com

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