YC Founder Night
YC Founder Night: From Agent Products to Agent Markets
Hosted by Finchip AI, Co-hosted by GMI Cloud and Goodvision.ai
📅 Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2026
⏰ Time: 5:00 – 8:00 PM
📍 Location: Frontier Tower, San Francisco
🎤 Format: Founder-led discussion + panel, followed by networking
✅ Confirmed Speakers
Gary Yang, Incubation Investor, FinChip.AI
Chelsey Huang, Co-Founder & CIO, FinChip.AI
Yijie Hong, Director of Engineering, GMI Cloud
John Lin, Managing Partner, Linea VC
Brett Liu, Investment Lead, Sixty degree capital
Viki Huang, investor ,Prosperity 7
Yi Zhong, Co-Founder, Besimple AI (YC P25)
Kathryn Wu, Co-Founder, Openmart (YC W24)
Aaron Yu, Co-Founder & CTO, QualGent (YC P25)
Maximilian Arnold, Co-Founder & COO, Ontora (YC S26)
🗓️ Agenda
5:00 – 5:30 PM · Early Check-in + Live Builder Interviews
Early arrivals, casual networking, and short livestream interviews with founders and builders — what they're building, the skills they're creating, and what they're looking for.
5:30 – 6:00 PM · Registration + Networking
Guest check-in, networking, and continued interviews.
6:00 – 6:05 PM · Host Opening
Welcome, event theme, and agenda overview.
6:05 – 6:12 PM · Opening Remarks: GMI Cloud
A welcome from our co-host on compute infrastructure and ecosystem support for AI builders.
6:12 – 6:20 PM · Opening Remarks: FinChip.AI
Why we're hosting YC Founder Night — and why AI founders, agents, skills, and open networks matter now.
6:20 – 6:45 PM · Panel 1 — AI Infrastructure, Capital & Ecosystem for Builders
How AI founders access infrastructure, capital, and ecosystem support to move from early product to real adoption.
6:45 – 7:15 PM · YC Founder Lightning Talks
Four YC founders, five minutes each — concise stories from the front lines, with quick Q&A.
7:20 – 7:45 PM · Panel 2 — Beyond Demo: From Product to Users, Revenue & Scale
Moving past demos: finding real users, converting demand into revenue, and scaling repeatable workflows.
7:45 – 7:50 PM · Closing Remarks + Group Photo
Thank-yous to speakers, partners, and attendees.
7:50 – 8:00 PM · Networking
Final connections before we close.
👥 Who Will Be in the Room
YC founders, AI founders and builders, investors, and startup operators working on AI-native products, agent infrastructure, enterprise automation, and agent marketplaces.
💬 About
An evening gathering bringing together YC founders, AI builders, investors, and startup operators to explore the next phase of AI agents.
As agents move beyond early demos, the key questions are shifting: which agents will actually be adopted, how they should be commercialized, and how startups can build defensibility as models continue to improve.
At Finchip AI, we believe the next phase will move from individual agent products toward broader agent markets — where agents, skills, workflows, and domain expertise become reusable, verifiable, priceable, and deployable across companies.