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At Foundation Capital’s 8th annual RSAC Happy Hour, we brought together over 90 CISOs, CIOs, and senior security leaders, alongside 30 early-stage founders and 30+ M&A leaders and GMs, for an engaging fireside chat with Aanchal Gupta (SVP, CSO at Adobe) and Hilik Kotler (SVP, CISO & IT at Expedia).

All our friends were in town for RSA, so we threw a party! Sid hosted a special guest panel that included Assaf Keren, Head of Security at PayPal, and Oliver Newbury, Global CISO at Barclays

It was a packed house in our SF office, the Tuesday of the first in-person RSA Conference in over two years. A select gathering of customers, startups, new cybersecurity friends and old joined us for a convivial happy hour that lasted well into the night.

Last month, amid the chaos of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, my friend Dmitri Alperovitch and I found ourselves preparing to take the stage at SXSW. Our topic was another mounting, yet rarely discussed, threat: digital warfare. 

Sign up here to request an invitation to our hush-hush fintech dinner series. Each month — at different, cool locations in SF or NYC — we’ll be hosting a small, curated gathering of founders and operators who are redefining financial innovation.

On May 10th, 2023, we hosted our inaugural, invite-only Generative AI “Unconference” in San Francisco. The event convened over eighty of the top (human!) minds in AI, including founders, researchers, and industry experts, for an energizing afternoon of small, group discussions about building successful AI companies.

This year, RSA, the world’s leading cybersecurity conference, was back with a bang. Over 40,000 people attended: a more than 50% increase from last year.

San Francisco felt more like NYC as over 50,000 attendees descended downtown for the RSA Conference.

At Foundation Capital’s 7th annual RSAC Happy Hour, we had a record-breaking turnout for an engaging fireside chat featuring Subra Kumaraswamy (CISO at Visa), Mike Elmore (CISO at G

Exactly two years after ChatGPT’s launch, AI is reshaping every industry.

Our largest CEO gathering of the year where we brought together leaders from across Foundation’s 30-year history, from IPO veterans and serial entrepreneurs to our newest pre-seed founders.

On May 10th, 2023, we hosted our inaugural, invite-only Generative AI “Unconference” in San Francisco.