ACTAI Ventures SF Tech Week Founder & Investor Gathering
It's SF Tech Week, and we're inviting you to celebrate impactful innovation and everything ACTAI Ventures' portfolio companies have been building! 🎉
Co-founded in 2021 by Managing Partner Amanda Terry (amandaterry) and Special Limited Partner Bill Tai (kitevc), ACTAI Ventures (actaiventures.com) is an early-stage fund investing in frontier technologies that make a positive impact on people and the planet.
The Program:
Arrive at 9am for coffee, fresh fruit, and bagels, then settle in for a morning at the frontier of AI, blockchain, longevity, and sustainable energy.
Once the talks wrap, we'll serve lunch 1-2pm then have plenty of time to mingle, swap ideas, and keep the conversations flowing (where the real magic happens ✨).
Legendary investor Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom and seeded Canva, Bitfury and more than 20 companies that have gone public, will share insights on how he picks billion dollar companies & latest thinking on the fund’s themes of AI, Blockchain, Longevity and Sustainable Energy, followed by updates straight from our portfolio companies on their momentum. 🔥
Our founders who will speak include:
Tobin Fisher CEO, Vantage Robotics (vantagerobotics.com) - Designs and manufactures secure, American-made, ultra-portable unmanned aircraft systems (UAVs) tailored for defense, intelligence, and public safety missions
Karna Nisewaner CLO, Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC.com) - Leading quantum computing company manufacturing its own silicon chips with atomic precision, founded by Australian of the Year and top quantum scientist Dr. Michelle Simmons
Jenny Shao CEO, Robyn AI (meetrobyn.com/) - Personalized agentic OS for life and work. You dream it, Robyn gets it done
Ahmed Rashad CEO, Perle AI (perle.ai) - Post-training data for frontier AI labs: RL environments, evaluations, and domain datasets built by 48,000+ vetted physicians, lawyers, linguists, and other specialists; founded by an early Scale AI leader who built Scale's supply-side operations
Paula Taylor CEO, Sovereign Green Compute (sgcompute.ai) - Building Western Australia’s next generation of AI factory infrastructure through a power-first platform of large-scale campuses, designed around renewable energy and with multi-gigawatt portfolio potential
Amanda Terry COO, Metagood (metagood.com) - Shaping the future of digital assets and tokenization with AI-native post token issuance lifecycle management and yield vault infrastructure bringing TradFi to DeFi
Matthew Wise CEO, Archipelo (archipelo.com/) - Building Salmon, Execution Verification Infrastructure (EVI), a cryptographic layer that records agent actions and state changes, creating independently verifiable evidence of execution
Helena Zhang CEO, Internet Capital Markets Exchange (ICME.xyz/) Building the regulated market infrastructure for private-company equity, enabling 24/7 retail trading and issuers to earn transaction fees from secondary-market activity
The Venue:
We’re gathering at the landmark former Gasser Photography Building in SoMa, now reimagined as the FOCUS Innovation Studio, a space purpose-built for the founders, researchers, and investors shaping what comes next.
Our Partners:
Ashurst Perkins Coie (ashurstperkinscoie.com), a trusted advisor to the world's most innovative companies and visionary investors. The firm supports startups from formation to exit with tailored legal and business counsel across cutting-edge industries including AI, quantum computing, fintech, and energy innovation.
Overland Blockchain Group (overlandblockchain.com/) provides best-in-class CFO, accounting, treasury, regulatory, and strategic advisory to venture-backed crypto companies. Our partner-led team combines hands-on execution with institutional rigor to help founders scale from first check through IPO.
Thank you as well to our co-host and venue sponsor, Warner Bonner III, and the Innovation Properties Group team. Innovation Properties Group (ipgsf.com) is a San Francisco full-service commercial real estate firm serving innovators in the life sciences, AI, robotics, high tech, longevity, clean energy, and quantum sectors.
Registration:
General admission: $495
Founders outside our portfolio: $195 with code FOUNDERFRIENDLY
Complimentary for ACTAI portfolio companies and fund investors. Please reach out to Amanda for your code.
This is a highly curated experience for up to 70 participants, with exceptional content, thoughtful programming, full catering, and a distinctive venue designed to inspire conversation and connection.