Founders Mesh: Curated Salon for Startup Founders & Investors
NEXT SALON, SEPTEMBER 9: https://luma.com/iwjq8zd9
Spring, finally. Amsterdam, again.
We’re kicking off the season with our first invitation-only salon for startup and scaleup founders, alongside a carefully selected circle of active investors. Intimate by design. Curated with care. Built for conversations that move beyond small talk.
We’ll open with a short, value-added exchange around a question most founders don’t ask early enough:
who owns your stack?
A grounded conversation with founders, operators, and OVHcloud on:
– building on AWS, GCP, Azure vs European alternatives
– where convenience turns into dependency
– what vendor lock-in actually looks like in practice
– and what breaks (or doesn’t) when you scale
Joined by:
– Luis Galdamez Echeverria (moderating), co-founder of Founders Mesh
– Sohrab Hosseini, co-founder of Orq.ai
– Richard Van Anholt, co-founder of GLBNXT
– Sarah Zadeh, tech attorney (advocaat), AI governance advisor
No slides. No rehearsed answers. Think real trade-offs from people who’ve made these decisions.
Then we do what we do best.
A curated room of seed to series A founders, investors, and operators.
No randomness. No awkward networking. Just good people, good energy, and conversations that go somewhere.
🍷Drinks & snacks included
👥 Invite-only / approval-based
Powered by OVHcloud
The OVHcloud Startup Program empowers startups and scaleups with up to €100,000 in free cloud credits, technical support, and advanced hardware like GPUs - ensuring seamless growth without hidden fees. Plus, our dedicated Startup Program Lead provides personalized guidance to help you succeed.
Join 5,000+ startups already benefiting from OVHcloud. Apply today and accelerate your journey at: https://startup.ovhcloud.com/nl/
OVHcloud is the largest EU cloud provider with 44 Data Centers Worldwide. AMD and NVIDIA partner, and fully GDPR, HIPAA, and HDS compliant.
Supported by Lovable
Lovable joins us as a community supporter, offering product credits to attendees to help bring ideas to life, test faster, and explore new directions.
Why This Format Works
We cap the room to protect quality.
We review attendance to shape balance.
We keep it paid to keep it intentional.
Because when the room is right, everything else becomes easier.
Why This Is Paid
Because intentional rooms don’t build themselves.
We cap capacity. We vet attendance. We protect founder–investor balance. We design the format.
The ticket isn’t about entry. It’s about commitment and quality.
Free events optimize for volume. We optimize for alignment.