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Grace Gong x CIBC x HubSpot x Virio dinner [Venture with Grace CEO Club]

Name: Grace Gong x CIBC x HubSpot x Virio dinner [Venture with Grace CEO Club]
Start: 2026-03-18T18:00:00.000-07:00
End: 2026-03-18T21:00:00.000-07:00
Location: San Francisco, California

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

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. Michelin-trained chef. Private venue. 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.

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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

CIBC Innovation Banking is a leading venture debt partner for high growth, venture backed enterprise software companies. Our practice is one of the largest and most established with over a two decades in the industry and a debt portfolio of over $7BN across the US, Canada, and Europe. Learn more at: www.innovationbanking.cibc.com

HubSpot is a premier CRM and growth platform that transitioned the business world from interruptive advertising to value-driven inbound engagement. Since its 2014 IPO, the company has scaled significantly, reaching $2.6 billion in revenue in 2024 with a trajectory toward $3 billion in 2025. Today, it offers an enterprise-grade suite of "Hubs" designed to unify data and teams. Managed by CEO Yamini Rangan, the firm is currently leading the industry’s shift toward "hybrid human-AI teams," utilizing autonomous Breeze Agents to streamline sales and support. HubSpot’s culture remains anchored in its HEART framework—prioritizing humility and transparency as it helps millions of organizations "Grow Better."

Virio.ai helps b2b companies scale revenue through targeted LinkedIn content for founders and executives. We've grown client accounts to 100k+ followers on LinkedIn, generated 100M+ LinkedIn views and have driven over $100M in pipeline for our clients.

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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