

AI Engineers Presents: Founders to Follow
Join us as we bring together a group of NYC’s most exciting startup founders. This is a unique opportunity for intimate conversations and to hear about their journeys and what excites them about the businesses they are building.
Presenting Founders:
Trey Holterman, Cofounder & CEO @ Tennr
Tennr is building an AI-powered platform to automate patient intake and document workflows for healthcare providers. By extracting, structuring, and routing unstructured medical data, Tennr helps clinics reduce manual admin work, improve accuracy, and accelerate patient onboarding across complex healthcare systems.
Sebastian Jimenez, Cofounder & CEO @ Rilla
Rilla is an AI-powered sales coaching platform that records, transcribes, and analyzes in-person and virtual conversations. Used by field sales teams, Rilla turns real interactions into actionable insights, helping reps improve performance, close more deals, and scale best practices across teams
Jack O’Hara, Cofounder & CEO @ Translucent
Translucent is building modern financial infrastructure and analytics tools for global businesses. The platform helps companies unify fragmented financial data, automate reporting, and gain real-time visibility into performance across entities, currencies, and systems.
Justin Silver, Cofounder & CEO @ Kinetic Apps
Kinetic Apps is developing software to help businesses build and scale custom applications faster. Focused on speed and flexibility, the platform enables teams to create internal tools and workflows without heavy engineering overhead.
Matthew Harpe, Founder & CEO @ Basis
Basis is building AI-powered tools to automate accounting and financial operations. By handling bookkeeping, reconciliations, and reporting workflows, Basis helps companies streamline finance functions and operate with greater accuracy and efficiency.
Rafael Loureiro, Cofounder & CEO @ Wealth.com
Wealth.com is building a modern estate planning platform designed for financial advisors and their clients. The company combines software and legal infrastructure to simplify the creation and management of estate plans, making the process more accessible, scalable, and integrated into wealth management.
Event Format: A mix of high signal networking and short presentations from six founders, ranging from seed stage to post exit. Each founder will briefly share what they are building, the technical challenges they are tackling, and key business model decisions.
Complimentary pizza, soft drinks, beer, & wine will be provided to all attendees!
Attendance: This is an invite only event for New York’s top software engineers, venture backed founders, VC investors, and tech operators.
Agenda:
6:00pm: Networking with pizza and drinks courtesy of Fonzi AI
6:30pm: Pitches x3
7:00pm: Networking break
7:30pm: Pitches x3
8:00pm: Networking break
8:30pm Wrap up
About the host:
Fonzi is a recruiting platform focused exclusively on product and AI engineering hires in NYC and SF. We work with 75+ open roles across the best startups in the city.
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