🥐 VC & Founder Breakfast: Enterprise AI & B2B Deals
Start your morning in style: an intimate breakfast in the city with a beautiful patio overlooking the skyline.
We’re bringing together top VCs, operators, and founders who’ve actually taken AI into the enterprise — from building secure systems across six countries, to raising capital, to closing seven-figure B2B deals.
This isn’t a theory panel. It’s where playbooks are shared, real connections are made, and the next wave of enterprise AI deals are decoded.
🌟 Why Join?
Founders → Learn how to convert pilots into contracts and raise from enterprise-focused VCs.
VCs → Meet the operators landing 6–7 figure contracts and scout breakout enterprise AI startups.
Operators & Engineers → Hear how to build secure, compliant AI infra that CIOs and Fortune 500s actually adopt.
👥 Featured Panels
Panel 1 — AI Trends in Investment: How Founders Get Ahead
Mariane Bekker (Founders Bay) — Founder of an 80K+ founder & VC community, operator scaling frontier tech ventures.
David Munir Nabti (Director, Founder Institute · Cofounder, Bloom) — Global accelerator leader supporting thousands of founders to adopt and scale AI responsibly.
Elvie Kamalova (Founder, Blockstreet Capital) — Investor backing transformative infra at the intersection of AI, fintech & Web3.
Andrew Boos, Founding Partner, Darwinian Ventures & Sales Advisor, 500 Global - Investor — Advises 100+ tech companies (incl. SiFive, SambaNova, Evisort) on capital, GTM, and revenue. Sales advisor/EIR with 500 Global & Techstars; trains CEOs on getting to the first $1M ARR.
Panel 2 — From Demo to Deployment: Selling Into the Enterprise
Sako Mammadov (Gladly · Platform & Security) — Built infra across 6 countries; now securing and scaling enterprise AI systems.
Gerta Malaj (MIT · Cofounder, YourNegotiations.com) — Negotiation strategist helping founders turn pilots into multi-year enterprise deals.
Alex Choi (Ex-Instagram · Air Force Vet · Cofounder, YourNegotiations.com) — Former PM for Instagram Stories & Feed Ads; now advising founders on GTM & B2B strategy.
🗓️ Agenda
10:00am – 11:00am | Curated Networking & Breakfast
Coffee, light bites, and curated intros to set the table for real conversations.
11:00am – 11:45am | Panel 1: AI Trends in Investment — How Founders Get Ahead
Funding strategies, investor signals, and what it takes to raise in enterprise AI.
11:45am – 12:30pm | Panel 2: From Demo to Deployment — Selling Into the Enterprise
Turning demos into adoption: building trust, negotiating big contracts, and scaling revenue.
12:30pm – 1:00pm | Open Networking
Continue conversations with VCs, founders, and operators scouting the next breakout AI startups.
12:45-1pm | Private Meet & Greet with the Speakers
🏙️ Venue
Indoor venue in the city, with a beautiful patio overlooking the skyline — the perfect setting for inspired conversations and meaningful connections.
👥 Who Should Join?
Founders raising or selling into enterprise
Engineers building agentic & enterprise-ready AI
VCs & angels scouting breakout B2B AI dealflow
📍 Private breakfast · space limited.
Breakfast included. Networking designed for real conversations, not business cards.
About Us
Cole-Frieman & Mallon LLP (CFM) is a leading investment management law firm known for providing top-tier, innovative, and collaborative legal solutions for complex financial services matters. CFM services start-up investment managers, multibillion-dollar funds, and everything in between.
The firm’s corporate and intellectual property (IP) practice groups also advise early-stage startups to later staged companies valued in the billions and the business innovators and investors who run and fund them, including: global comprehensive and strategic IP counsel and legal services, delivering tailored solutions and robust protections for developments and inventions, brands, digital assets, AI technologies, designs, know-how, and more; and advising companies and investors during all stages of the corporate lifecycle across emerging industries, from formation to exit, such as fundraising rounds, mergers and acquisitions, securities compliance, joint ventures, corporate clean-up and due diligence, employment matters, corporate tax matters, etc.
Founders Bay is a membership community of 80,000 founders and VCs coming together to grow their startups through curated weekly events, expert-led virtual workshops, and educational resources. Proudly woman-owned and operated by Mariane Bekker, we are dedicated to empowering a diverse and inclusive startup ecosystem. Subscribe to our newsletter and become a member today.
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