Founders Brunch — #SFTechWeek
Tuesday, October 6
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM PT
Venture Dock | Palo Alto
Come with something you're actually stuck on. Leave with a few people who've dealt with it before, and maybe a few you didn't expect to meet.
Over brunch, you'll talk through real problems with other founders, not pitches. Hiring, a stalled deal, a pricing call you keep going back and forth on. Everyone brings something, and everyone helps solve someone else's.
By the end, it's not just the people near you. The whole room ends up in the conversation.
The Format
Keynote - We're opening the morning with a speaker we're excited to announce soon.
Brunch & Real Problems - Founders talk through what they're actually stuck on, not small talk.
The Whole Room - We bring the morning together before it wraps, so the conversation doesn't stay confined to just the people near you.
Agenda
11:00 – 11:30 AM — Arrival & brunch
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM — Keynote (speaker TBA)
12:30 – 1:00 PM — Founders talk through real problems
1:00 – 1:30 PM — Bringing the room together
What You'll Take Away
A few honest conversations about problems that actually matter, some people worth calling the next time you're stuck, and maybe a connection you didn't see coming.
Interested in joining?
To RSVP, please sign up through our official Partiful page, SF Tech Week policy requires registration to go through the host's primary link:
https://partiful.com/e/0xMab9yikzl9oeyW0j5v
What is Venture Dock
Venture Dock is a founder-first community and fund based in Palo Alto and Milpitas. We give founders access to resources and relationships that would normally take years to build on their own, expert 1:1s every week, investor sessions monthly, and a Master Session where operators who've actually built and sold companies share what that was really like.
When it's time to raise, our Funding Labs walk you through it directly with investors in the room, and our Demo Days put you in front of our network once you've got traction to show. None of it works without the 200+ founders in the community itself — people who tell you what's working, and what isn't, before you find out the hard way.
Become Part of the Venture Dock Community
If you're building something and want a community that actually shows up for you, we'd love to have you.