Cover Image for Grace Gong x Fidelity Private Shares x Sequoia Founders & VCs dinner [Venture with Grace CEO Club]

Hosted By

Grace Gong x Fidelity Private Shares x Sequoia Founders & VCs dinner [Venture with Grace CEO Club]

Name: Grace Gong x Fidelity Private Shares x Sequoia Founders & VCs dinner [Venture with Grace CEO Club]
Start: 2026-02-10T18:00:00.000-08:00
End: 2026-02-10T21:00:00.000-08:00
Location: San Francisco, California

Hosted by Grace Gong

Register to See Address

San Francisco, California

Past Event

Welcome! To join the event, please register below.

You will be asked to verify token ownership with your wallet.

About Event

https://www.smartventuremedia.com

Join an intimate dinner in SF for venture-backed Seed-Series B companies' founders and selected VCs in San Francisco, hosted by Grace Gong in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares and Sequoia. This exclusive dinner event brings together selected Founders from the Venture with Grace community for meaningful connections and strategic conversations over dinner.

CEO CLUB by Venture with Grace

A private community of Silicon Valley's sharpest founders, C-suite execs from Big Tech, and top-tier VCs—in one room. Michelin-trained chef. Private venue. Curated conversations that cut through the noise. This isn't networking. It's where you find your next investor, close your next hire, or discover the deal everyone else will hear about in three months.

Partners:

Fidelity Private Shares
Sequoia

Your Host

Grace Gong

Grace hosts Smart Venture Podcast and Venture with Grace. Her podcasts have featured high-profile guests such as C-level executives and VPs from companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Instagram, DoorDash, Pinterest, Cisco, Salesforce, NVIDIA, Snowflake and more. Additionally, she has interviewed Managing Partners from top funds, many of whom have appeared on the Forbes Midas List, as well as unicorn founders from companies like Craigslist, Square, Loom, and Glean. Grace regularly posts about technology, venture capital, and entrepreneurship and has been recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice in Finance. She is also a #1 Bestselling author in the venture capital category on Amazon New Release. Before her media ventures, she worked in venture capital and private equity. Connect with her on LinkedIn @GraceGong.

About Our Partners

Fidelity Private Shares is an all-in-one equity management platform used by founders, executives, and investors to automate, generate, execute, and securely store the legal documents that power a company’s entire lifecycle—from incorporation and equity grants to financings and exit. Built for Delaware corporations at every stage, the platform eliminates friction around cap tables, signatures, and compliance by using industry-standard, attorney-reviewed documents and fully integrated workflows. Companies can manage equity, run efficient and independent 409A valuations, maintain a diligence-ready data room, model dilution and exit scenarios, streamline HR and employee equity tracking, and even close automated equity financings faster while reducing legal costs. Fidelity Private Shares was created to modernize corporate operations, empower founders, and free attorneys to focus on high-value work—so everyone involved can spend less time on paperwork and more time building enduring businesses.

Sequoia is the strategic partner helping investor‑backed companies achieve their goals through smarter people spend. For over two decades, we’ve guided innovative employers to navigate growth and maximize the value of their global people investment. Through our expert advisory team and integrated platform, we help leaders drive business impact across total comp and benefits—improving decision‑making, controlling costs, protecting the business, and elevating the employee experience. We offer three flexible models for every stage of growth:

PEO Model: Fully outsource HR, payroll, compliance, and premium benefits through our accredited Sequoia One PEO.

Hybrid Model: Outsource just compensation and benefits administration to dedicated specialists & advisors.

Advisor Model: Partner with leading compensation, benefits, and global brokerage experts. Learn why companies like Perplexity, Oura, and Vercel trust Sequoia to come through for them at Sequoia.com and on LinkedIn.

Smart Venture Media Leading media company in the VC and startup space. Home to Smart Venture Podcast, Venture with Grace, and Smart AI Leadership Summit, a premier AI summit in San Francisco that featured partners from A16z, Insight Partners, IVP, among other top VC funds, and unicorn founders in the AI space. Also home to the Smart AI 100 List and Summit, a curated ranking of the top 100 early-stage AI startups (top 0.43% of 23,250+ seed and Series A companies) backed by insights from over 100 top VCs managing $230B+ in capital and enhanced with proprietary CB Insights data. Speakers at the Summit including President of Cisco, CRO of Nebius, VP of Microsoft, SVP of Vercel, top VCs from Bessemer, Index, Coatue, Pear among others. Our mission is to bridge the gap between emerging AI startups and the capital, customers, and community they need to scale through data-driven analysis, exclusive invite-only events, and authentic storytelling that reflects the real conversations happening in Silicon Valley.

🎙️ Smart Venture Podcast