Grace Gong x Alcor [Venture with Grace CEO CLUB)
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Join an intimate dinner in SF for venture-backed Series A -Series E companies' founders/ CEOs/ CTOs and selected VCs in San Francisco, hosted by Grace Gong in partnership with Alcor. This exclusive dinner event brings together selected Founders from the Venture with Grace community for meaningful connections and strategic conversations over dinner.
CTO of Pindrop (TIME’s 10 Most influential software company 2026) along with other top AI companies technical C levels.
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. 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.
Partner:
Your Host
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 Partner
Alcor builds global engineering teams as true internal hires, not outsourcing. By combining a 40+ in-house recruiting engine, augmented by proprietary AI tools for market mapping, candidate identification, and signal filtering, with local employment infrastructure across LATAM and Eastern Europe, teams can be assembled quickly without setting up entities or managing multiple vendors. These teams consist of Silicon Valley-caliber engineers and typically scale from 0 to 20 people in 90 days, with first candidates arriving in 3-5 business days and most senior roles closed in 2-6 weeks. The result is 30-50% better engineering economics vs US hiring, with full control and long-term retention.
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. 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. Summits speakers include the President of Cisco, CRO of Nebius, COO of Box, CVP of Microsoft, SVP of Vercel, VP of Meta, VC Partners from Sequoia, a16z, Bessemer, Index, Coatue, Pear among others. Founders of Crusoe, Turing, Higgsfield, etc. 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.
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