Early Drinks for Early Builders ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶
Antler, Corgi, Zero, Tangled, Dottir and Aiven for Startups are hosting a fairly early drink at a video game bar.
A founder to founder, operator to operator typa night. We’ll hear from the founders and builders of Corgi, Aiven, Zero and Tangled as they talk openly about the pains and wins of building, and... we’ll play arcade games 🎮 👾
That’s your chance to challenge the hosts! Think you can beat them?
Open bar and delicious bites on us.
Agenda
4:00 PM - Doors open
4:30 PM - Speakers from Corgi, Aiven, Zero and Tangled
5:00 PM - Mingling and video games
7:30 PM - Goodbyes and hugs, doors close
Speakers
→ Tuomo Riekki - serial founder, co-founder of martech centaur Smartly.io, now building Zero - the agentic GTM platform. The 0→1 founder POV, and he's done it twice.
→ Anirudh Oppiliappan - co-founder & CEO at Tangled - the world's first-ever fully hackable and federated code forge.
→ Aaro Isosaari - AI Product Lead at Aiven, co-founder and CEO of Flow AI (acquired by Aiven) - infrastructure for data agents.
→ Derrick Kirkwood - CFO at Corgi - the recent YC unicorn taking over Silicon Valley, and running the viral 24/7 Corgi Café.
Hosts
Antler is the global early-stage VC that backs founders from day zero → antler.co
Corgi is AI-native insurance for startups. San Francisco’s hottest YC startup and a recent unicorn → corgi.insure
Aiven is the data cloud for builders, combining open-source data services, governance, and agent access to build AI apps without lock-in → aiven.io
Zero is the GTM OS. Find, win and grow customers in one place → zero.inc
Tangled is the world's first-ever fully hackable and federated code forge → tangled.org
Dottir is a law firm for future shapers. Legal solutions that help move the world forward. → dottirlaw.com