YC Founders Mixer — SF Tech Week 2026
Join YC founders from across batches for drinks, light bites, and founder-to-founder conversation during SF a16z Tech Week 2026.
Following the strong response to our recent YC founder gatherings, we’re bringing the community together again for a relaxed evening designed around useful conversations and genuine connections.
No panels. No pitches. Just a curated room of YC founders meeting people from other batches, reconnecting with the community, and spending time together away from the larger Tech Week crowds.
Who Is in the Room
Current YC batch founders
YC alumni founders
YC-backed founders from pre-seed through growth stage
A small number of selected community partners
Event Format
5:00 PM — Arrival, drinks and introductions
5:30 PM — Brief welcome from the hosts
5:40 PM — Founder networking, drinks and light bites
7:30 PM — Event concludes
Attendance
This is an approval-required event primarily for YC founders and alumni.
Please include your company and YC batch when registering. Registration does not guarantee admission.
No plus-ones unless they have registered separately and been approved.
To protect the quality of the room, attendance is limited to confirmed guests. Please do not forward an approval or bring additional attendees who have not registered and been approved.
Hosted By
Open Future Forum
Agentic Fabriq — YC W26
Foley & Lardner LLP
Together with selected members of the YC founder community.
Agentic Fabriq
Agentic Fabriq helps companies securely manage what AI agents can access and do across business tools, data, and teams.
Foley & Lardner LLP
Foley & Lardner is a nationally recognized top law firm with a Chambers-ranked venture and emerging companies practice advising founders and venture investors from formation through financings, commercialization, M&A, and scale. We bring the speed, experience, and practicality startups need, with the rigor and deep specialist bench investors expect, so deals get done efficiently and companies stay ready to go from garage to global. Find us at the event, meet us at our San Francisco or Palo Alto offices, or contact Louis Lehot at llehot@foley.com.
Open Future Forum
Open Future Forum is a global executive community founded in Silicon Valley. It brings together founders, executives, investors, and other senior leaders through curated events, private forums, peer groups, and original research.
Its YC founder gatherings are designed to create smaller, high-quality environments where founders can build relationships across batches and have conversations that are difficult to have at larger startup events.
YC Founder Community
Alex Perelman — 2x YC Alum
Alex is a founder, software engineer, and leadership coach who works with ambitious startup founders navigating the transition from building a company to leading and scaling one.
Ben Reilly — YC S22
Ben is a YC alum and startup founder based in San Francisco and a member of the YC Founder Executive Forum committee.
This is an independent community event. It is not organized, affiliated with, or endorsed by Y Combinator.