​In Waterloo for the Socratica Symposium weekend? Consider this the unofficial kickoff.

​Before the demos and the deep-dives, we’re locking a handful of YC’s most ambitious founders in a room with the people actually building the future.

​From cracked upper-year engineering students to new grads looking for a reason to finally move to SF, this room is sure to be full of the smartest builders in the city.

​The lineup

​YC founders will break down what they’re building, why it matters, and where they’re heading next — followed by incredible conversation with the people in the room.

​Terminal (YC S23)

​Universal API for telematics data
Meet: Connor Giles, CTO & Co-Founder

​Cartage (YC S24)

​Agentic logistics freight coordination for shippers
Meet: Josh Lampen, CTO & Co-Founder

​Subtrace (YC W25)

​Network observability for backend teams
Meet: Adhityaa Chandrasekar, CEO & Founder

​Relling (YC S25)

​Video model training as a service
Meet: Jai Relan, CEO & Founder

​The fuel

​Food and drinks flowing. You’ll be shoulder-to-shoulder with founders who are actively hiring, actively building, actively in the mess of it.

​If you’ve ever said you want to work at a YC company, let this weekend change your trajectory.

​About Northside Ventures

​​Northside Ventures is a pre-seed/seed stage fund backing exceptional Canadian founders at their earliest stages, including some of Waterloo's most ambitious founders (with ventures like Datacurve, Boardy and more). Northside exists to support ambitious Canadian founders in turning sparks of insight into enduring companies across AI infrastructure, software, frontier technologies and more.

​​About Waterloo Venture Group

​​​​WVG is a student venture community and talent network based out of Waterloo, providing pro-bono consultancy for founders around the world from ideation through Series A. Collectively, we’ve supported ventures in raising $2.8M+, hosted flagship programming on founder education, and curated the rooms where teams form and hires happen.

​​​​​Ready to build or partner? Contact the WVG team.