Fireside Chat with Dalton Caldwell - Founder of Standard Capital, Partner Emeritus at YC
Join us for a Fireside Chat with Dalton Caldwell, Co-Founder and General Partner of Standard Capital. Dalton will be interviewed by Justin Rhee, Founder & CEO of Porter, about starting and scaling a company in the AI era. Light bites will be provided — come for the conversation, stay for the community.
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A note to guests:
No +1s allowed as space is limited in size. Please bring an ID for security check in.
Event Details:
📅 Date: March 26th, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 pm
🔒 Venue: Revealed upon RSVP (SF)
The Brex and Porter Team
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Dalton Caldwell is Co-Founder and General Partner of Standard Capital. Previously, Dalton was a Managing Partner at Y Combinator. During his tenure as a YC Partner, Dalton worked 25 batches and advised over 1,000 companies.
He co-founded and served as CEO of imeem (acquired by MySpace in 2009) and co-founded and served as CEO of App.net. He holds a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.
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Brex is the intelligent finance platform built for speed and control. Combining corporate cards, banking, treasury, expense management, bill pay, travel, and accounting, Brex helps companies spend smarter and move faster in 120 countries. By integrating AI across every workflow, Brex enables founders and finance teams to eliminate manual work, do more with less, and accelerate impact. More than 35,000 companies from startups to enterprises run on Brex, including ServiceTitan, Robinhood, DoorDash, Cursor, and Sonos. Learn more at brex.com.
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Porter is the easiest way to deploy on AWS/Azure/Google Cloud. Effortlessly deploy web apps, workers, cron jobs, GPU workloads, and databases on scalable infrastructure in your own cloud, with one-click SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance out-of-the-box. Hundreds of startups have started on Porter and scaled to Series A (ModelML, Giga, Lago, DataLane, Alex, Toma, etc.) and beyond, including growth-stage companies like Outtake and Nooks (Series B), Tennr and Landing (Series C), Homelight (Series D), and Getaround (post-IPO), all with zero DevOps overhead.
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A note to prospective guests:
Admitted guests will be notified by way of event approval (with calendar invite). Invites are non-transferable. No +1s allowed as space is limited in size. Additional correspondence will be sent leading up to the eve
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