Hexa dinner - Building in regulated industries

​Every founder is looking for a moat.

​Some of us think the real one is sitting in plain sight: the licenses, the audits, the certifications, the years of trust with a regulator. Everything that makes a market slow, painful, and almost impossible to walk into. The barrier that keeps you up at night in year one is the same barrier that keeps competitors out in year five.

​This dinner is for the founders and operators who believe that, and who picked the hard market on purpose. Fintech, health, insurance, defense, energy, legal, climate. Anywhere the rulebook is part of the product.

​One long table, and the kind of conversation you can only have with people who know what a SOC 2 costs you in headcount, or how long a bank partnership really takes to close.

​Who's hosting

​Hexa is the world leading venture studio. For fifteen years they've been building companies from zero, alongside founders, from the first line of code to the first hundred customers. Many unicorns started here. So did a dozen others still in the making.

​Studio means they don't write a check and wait. Fifteen years of learning what it takes to go from an idea to a company that sells, including in markets where the hard part isn't the product but everything wrapped around it.