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At Founders You Should Know, we host IRL startup showcases, happy hours, and more in SF to help job-seekers connect with breakout startups. We meet hundreds of new founders, and we feature our favorites on stage. Here we share what we're seeing.
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Founders You Should Know — September 16th Showcase Recap (opens the original)
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A huge shoutout to Digital Ocean for their longterm continued support of our community and showcases. If you attended the last show, we have a special offer for you on behalf of Digital Ocean — look for it in your inbox!If you’re wondering where talent, capital, and technical ambition are converging right now, our last Founders You Should Know showcase offered a pretty good snapshot. Thanks for reading Founders You Should Know! Subscribe f
Announcing our September 16th Showcase Lineup (opens the original)
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We’re back! On September 16th, we’re bringing another 10 exceptional founders to the FYSK stage to share what they’re building and why you might want to join them.We’re still 2 weeks out but almost at capacity so APPLY NOW!! You don’t have to be job hunting to do a little career window-shopping.This lineup spans everything from data center robots and space lasers to human simulations, critical minerals, cyber operations, and models that keep learning after deployment. <a class="image-link i
Your Showcase Primer: Ploy, Gradient Robotics (opens the original)
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🌟 Engineers — want to meet these two founders and more? Apply to attend our September 16th SF Startup Showcase.AI is getting better at doing the actual work rather than just telling us how. Ploy is building agents that can operate a company’s growth engine, while Gradient Robotics is taking that same shift into the physical world with robots built to manufacture and maintain AI infrastructure. One works through browsers and software, the other with servers, racks, and cables—both are betting tha
Your Showcase Primer: Core Automation, Design Arena, Simile (opens the original)
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🌟 Engineers — want to meet these four founders and more? Apply to attend our September 16th SF Startup Showcase.These three companies are tackling a slightly different version of the same question: how do we make AI systems better at learning from the world around them? Core Automation is working on models that can keep learning after deployment, Design Arena uses human taste as an eval layer for subjective AI outputs, and Simile is modeling human behavior itself. The common thread is a move awa
Your Showcase Primer: Mariana Minerals, EON, Generalist, Unlimited Industries (opens the original)
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🌟 Engineers — want to meet these four founders and more? Apply to attend our September 16th SF Startup Showcase.This group of founders is building for a world where software moves beyond the screen. Mariana is rebuilding mining and refining around software, EON is moving data transfer infrastructure to space, Generalist is building intelligence for robots, and Unlimited is rethinking how we design and construct the infrastructure itself. Its a theme we’ve seen before; some of the biggest opportu
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