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Grace Gong x Vanta x WilmerHale: Founders & VCs dinner

Name: Grace Gong x Vanta x WilmerHale: Founders & VCs dinner
Start: 2026-01-22T18:00:00.000-08:00
End: 2026-01-22T21:00:00.000-08:00
Location: San Francisco, California

Hosted by Grace Gong

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

Partners:

Vanta
WilmerHale

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

Vanta is the leading AI-powered trust management platform helping businesses earn, demonstrate, and maintain trust. Trusted by over 14,000 customers worldwide—including Atlassian, Duolingo, Icelandair, Ramp, and Synthesia—Vanta automates compliance, streamlines audits, manages risk, and powers secure growth from startup to enterprise. With 375+ integrations delivering continuous visibility through 1,200+ automated tests, Vanta’s unified platform simplifies security with AI-driven evidence gathering, questionnaire automation, vendor risk management, and public-facing Trust Centers that connect security programs directly to revenue. Founded in 2018, Vanta operates globally across Dublin, London, New York, San Francisco, and Sydney, backed by leading investors such as Sequoia, Craft Ventures, and Goldman Sachs Growth Equity. The company has been recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies lists.

WilmerHale is a leading international law firm that advises clients at the intersection of business and government. Our nationally recognized Emerging Company and Venture Capital Practice has helped thousands of entrepreneurs launch businesses, raise billions in angel, venture, and strategic financing, and achieve successful exits through sale or IPO. We have a longstanding tradition of representing innovators, entrepreneurs, and investors across diverse industries. In addition, we regularly counsel venture capital and private equity firms on fund formation, structuring, and regulatory compliance, ensuring they can efficiently raise and deploy capital. Our deep experience in the venture ecosystem enables us to guide clients through every stage of the investment lifecycle, from initial fund setup to portfolio company exits.

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.

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