In just a couple weeks, StrictlyVC San Francisco brings leaders from TDK Ventures, Replit, and more together

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8:30 AM PDT · April 14, 2026


The first StrictlyVC of the year will beryllium coming to San Francisco earlier you cognize it! There are inactive a fewer tickets disposable to articulation america and our stacked talker lineup April 30, astatine the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center. On apical of the mixing and mingling with the assemblage StrictlyVC is known for, this upcoming lawsuit successful the bosom of SF volition beryllium of peculiar enactment for AI innovators and founders looking for the latest insights into obtaining funding.

Who’s taking the stage

You tin get a summons close now, but for those who haven’t been to a StrictlyVC lawsuit successful the past and already clicked that link, let’s dive into what’s peculiarly breathtaking astir this one …

TDK Ventures president Nicolas Sauvage volition footwear things disconnected aft you get your requisite beverages and networking in, arsenic helium makes the lawsuit for firm VCs successful a speech with TechCrunch editor-in-chief Connie Loizos. Sauvage, who leads TDK Ventures’ $500 cardinal effort to put successful early-stage startups, volition explicate what makes firm VCs run otherwise and what founders should cognize astir what catches his oculus successful an investment.

Image Credits:Nicolas Sauvage / TDK Ventures

And founders connected the obstruction should instrumentality note: Sauvage has steered TDK into backing 52 startups and 3 unicorns — Groq, Ascend Elements, and Silicon Box — during his tenure. TDK volition besides beryllium hosting and sponsoring this StrictlyVC event, truthful attendees volition get ample opportunity to larn from and get immoderate imaginable look clip with their team.

Then we’ll determination to a speech with Campbell Brown, erstwhile CNN big and caput of quality astatine Meta who has since made the pivot toward the startup country arsenic she looks to marque AI platforms much trustworthy portion much and much radical crook to them for proposal and information. She’s present the co-founder and CEO of Forum AI, and successful the heavy of the speech implicit however to vet, verify, and prolong the veracity of accusation provided by LLMs.

Campbell BrownImage Credits:Forum AI

And those who are likewise a portion of the AI gyration volition beryllium excited to perceive that Amjad Masad, co-founder and CEO of Replit, is besides taking to the signifier to stock his firsthand acquisition helping pb a gyration successful however bundle is constructed. The emergence of vibe coding has changed the ways galore person worked, particularly successful the Bay Area, and that’s besides brought successful immoderate potent competitors similar Anthropic and OpenAI. Anyone looking for a peek into the aboriginal of programming is going to request to articulation america and instrumentality astir for Masad’s talk.

As if that each wasn’t breathtaking enough, we inactive person 1 much talker to announce, truthful you’ll beryllium getting adjacent much insights and expertise starring into the concluding circular of networking and connection-making that defines the existent proving constituent of StrictlyVC. Some of the top minds and astir well-connected members of the startup assemblage articulation america for these events, and you tin beryllium a portion of it by registering, truthful get your summons today!

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