Claude Founder House San Francisco

San Francisco, California

Join the Anthropic team at the Claude Founder House during SF Tech Week, built for the next generation of great AI companies. Come cowork with our team, join us for a number of talks and workshops, and close the week out with our Founder Salon.

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Claude Founder House San Francisco

San Francisco, California

Join the Anthropic team at the Claude Founder House during SF Tech Week, built for the next generation of great AI companies. Come cowork with our team, join us for a number of talks and workshops, and close the week out with our Founder Salon.

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Claude Founder House is our home base for SF Tech Week. For three days, we're taking over a two-floor warehouse at Terra Gallery and turning it into a place to work, learn, and meet other founders and operators in the ecosystem. The café is open all day, with talks, workshops, meetings and Applied AI office hours running throughout. Stop by for a single session or join us all three days.

Tuesday – Thursday
Founder House
11:00 am – 5:00 pm PDT
Who
Founders, CEOs and technical co-founders building AI-native companies.
What
A working café and a full daily program. Drop in to cowork, book time with Anthropic's Applied AI team, and hear how the people building at the frontier are doing it.
On the agenda
Talks and firesides: Founders from PostHog, Netlify, Simile, Gamma, Town, Retool, and OpenEvidence, investors from Sequoia and Lightspeed, and Anthropic leaders on what they're building and where AI is headed.
Workshops: Hands-on sessions from startups and the Anthropic team.
Office hours: Book time with Anthropic's Applied AI team for help with what you're building.
Cowork and community: Coffee, desks, and time to meet other founders, plus brunches and a founders run club.
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Thursday, Oct 8
Founder Salon
1:45 pm – 4:45 pm PDT
Who's it for
Founders and builders shipping on Claude.
What
An afternoon and evening built to show what founders are shipping.
On the agenda
Talks and firesides: David Rosenthal of the Acquired podcast in conversation with Mike Krieger, plus other Anthropic leaders on what's next for startups building on Claude.
Live demos: Watch founders demo live on stage, then vote for your favorites. Want to show yours? Add a short video demo when you apply.
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Speakers

Speakers

Mike Krieger

Head of Anthropic Labs, Anthropic

David Rosenthal

Co-host, Acquired

Travis Zack

Chief Medical Officer, OpenEvidence

Beth Robertson

Head of Startups, Anthropic

Matt Biilmann

CEO, Netlify

Jean-Denis Greze

Co-founder and CEO, Town

Francesca LaBianca

COO, Factory

Lenjoy Lin

Co-founder, Genspark

Tim Glaser

Co-founder and Co-CEO, PostHog

Joon Sung Park

CEO, Simile

Elena Verna

Growth, Lovable

Deeni Fatiha

Head of Product for AI, Gamma

Adrien Gaidon, PhD

Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Walden Robotics

Adarsh Kulkarni

CEO, Foundry Robotics

Ron Li

Medical Director, Digital Health, Stanford Medicine

Murali Joshi

General Partner, ICONIQ

Lauren Reeder

Partner, Sequoia

Sebastian Duesterhoeft

Partner, Lightspeed

Jarred Sumner

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Daniel Burkhardt

Developer Relations Manager, NVIDIA

Allen Kleiner

Senior Engineering Manager, Retool

Edgar Sze

GTM Engineer, Profound

Dustin Healy

Software Engineer, ClickHouse

Jonah Cool

Partnerships, Anthropic

Bryan McCann

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Gaby Wilkerson-Melnick

Global Head of Startup Partnerships, Anthropic

Gagan Bhat

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Anu Bharadwaj

Partner, ICONIQ

Gleb Kuznetsov

Co-founder and CEO, Manifold Bio

Erdem Menges

VP of Marketing, XBOW

Ina Chun

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Jamie Neuwirth

Head of Startup Sales, Anthropic

Sameer Dholakia

Partner, Bessemer

Kevin Peterson

Co-founder and CTO, Bedrock Robotics

Tobin South

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Nate Parrott

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Olivia Moore

Investing Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

William Hu

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Aaron Jacobson

Partner, NEA

Vas Natarajan

Partner, Accel

Michelle Lee

CEO & Founder, Medra

Andrew Beam

CTO, Lila Sciences

Mike Krieger

Head of Anthropic Labs, Anthropic

David Rosenthal

Co-host, Acquired

Travis Zack

Chief Medical Officer, OpenEvidence

Beth Robertson

Head of Startups, Anthropic

Matt Biilmann

CEO, Netlify

Jean-Denis Greze

Co-founder and CEO, Town

Francesca LaBianca

COO, Factory

Lenjoy Lin

Co-founder, Genspark

Tim Glaser

Co-founder and Co-CEO, PostHog

Joon Sung Park

CEO, Simile

Elena Verna

Growth, Lovable

Deeni Fatiha

Head of Product for AI, Gamma

Adrien Gaidon, PhD

Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Walden Robotics

Adarsh Kulkarni

CEO, Foundry Robotics

Ron Li

Medical Director, Digital Health, Stanford Medicine

Murali Joshi

General Partner, ICONIQ

Lauren Reeder

Partner, Sequoia

Sebastian Duesterhoeft

Partner, Lightspeed

Jarred Sumner

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Daniel Burkhardt

Developer Relations Manager, NVIDIA

Allen Kleiner

Senior Engineering Manager, Retool

Edgar Sze

GTM Engineer, Profound

Dustin Healy

Software Engineer, ClickHouse

Jonah Cool

Partnerships, Anthropic

Bryan McCann

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Gaby Wilkerson-Melnick

Global Head of Startup Partnerships, Anthropic

Gagan Bhat

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Anu Bharadwaj

Partner, ICONIQ

Gleb Kuznetsov

Co-founder and CEO, Manifold Bio

Erdem Menges

VP of Marketing, XBOW

Ina Chun

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Jamie Neuwirth

Head of Startup Sales, Anthropic

Sameer Dholakia

Partner, Bessemer

Kevin Peterson

Co-founder and CTO, Bedrock Robotics

Tobin South

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Nate Parrott

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Olivia Moore

Investing Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

William Hu

Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Aaron Jacobson

Partner, NEA

Vas Natarajan

Partner, Accel

Michelle Lee

CEO & Founder, Medra

Andrew Beam

CTO, Lila Sciences

Agenda

Doors open at 11:00 am PDT each day. All times are PDT.

October

 

6

6

 

October

Women in startups brunch

Brunch

A seated brunch for women founders and startup leaders, hosted by Anthropic.

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Beth Robertson, Head of Startups, Anthropic (host)

Tuesday
, 
Oct 6
, 
11:00 am
 - 
12:30 pm
 
PDT

Building agents that own outcomes

Workshop

A workshop from Anthropic on building agents that own outcomes for production workloads, run by Ina Chun (Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic).

Ina Chun, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Tuesday
, 
Oct 6
, 
12:30 pm
 - 
12:55 pm
 
PDT

AI in the physical world

Talk

Walden Robotics, Foundry Robotics, and Bedrock Robotics discuss how they're bringing AI into the physical world.

Adrien Gaidon, PhD, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Walden Robotics · Adarsh Kulkarni, CEO, Foundry Robotics · Kevin Peterson, Co-founder and CTO, Bedrock Robotics

Tuesday
, 
Oct 6
, 
1:00 pm
 - 
1:25 pm
 
PDT

Raising your next round in the AGI era

Panel

Investors from Lightspeed, Sequoia and ICONIQ talk about where AI funding is going and how to prepare for your next round.

Gaby Wilkerson-Melnick, Global Head of Startup Partnerships, Anthropic · Sebastian Duesterhoeft, Partner, Lightspeed · Lauren Reeder, Partner, Sequoia · Murali Joshi, General Partner, ICONIQ

Tuesday
, 
Oct 6
, 
1:30 pm
 - 
1:55 pm
 
PDT

Building plugins for Claude

Talk

Tobin South (Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic) walks through how to build a plugin for Claude, from packaging MCP connectors and skills to getting listed in the Claude directory.

Tobin South, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Tuesday
, 
Oct 6
, 
2:00 pm
 - 
2:25 pm
 
PDT

Physical AI and the Model Hardware Standard (MHS)

Talk

Gagan Bhat (Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic) walks through the Model Hardware Standard, our open standard for letting AI agents run lab and factory equipment, and how startups can build on it today.

Gagan Bhat, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Tuesday
, 
Oct 6
, 
2:30 pm
 - 
2:55 pm
 
PDT

AI in medicine and care

Talk

OpenEvidence and Stanford Health Care join Jonah Cool (Partnerships, Anthropic) to discuss the impact and limitations of AI in healthcare today.

Jonah Cool, Partnerships, Anthropic · Travis Zack, Chief Medical Officer, OpenEvidence · Ron Li, Medical Director, Digital Health, Stanford Medicine

Tuesday
, 
Oct 6
, 
3:00 pm
 - 
3:30 pm
 
PDT

Founders Flow yoga

Yoga

A 60-minute, all-levels flow for founders and builders. Space is limited and registration is subject to approval. Register here

Tuesday
, 
Oct 6
, 
3:30 pm
 - 
4:30 pm
 
PDT

October 6th, 2026

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Tuesday

October

 

7

Claude Run Club

Run club

Start the day with a group run through San Francisco with other founders and the Anthropic team. We'll finish back at Founder House in time for coffee and the first sessions.

Register on Luma

Wednesday
, 
Oct 7
, 
9:00 am
 - 
10:00 am
 
PDT

Rebuilding from SaaS to agent-native

Workshop

Retool shares how it's rebuilding an established SaaS product to be agent-native, and how it has continued to adapt and grow through several technology cycles.

Allen Kleiner, Senior Engineering Manager, Retool

Wednesday
, 
Oct 7
, 
11:30 am
 - 
11:55 am
 
PDT

From founder to frontier lab

Panel

Former founders now at Anthropic discuss what they would do differently if they were starting a company today.

Jamie Neuwirth, Head of Startup Sales, Anthropic (moderator) · Bryan McCann, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic · Jarred Sumner, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Wednesday
, 
Oct 7
, 
12:00 pm
 - 
12:25 pm
 
PDT

Building on the frontier

Panel

PostHog, Simile and Socket discuss how they run frontier models in their products, including how they pick the right model for each job and the frameworks for making decisions on cost, speed and quality.

Carly Ryan, Applied AI, Anthropic (moderator) · Tim Glaser, Co-founder and Co-CEO, PostHog · Joon Sung Park, CEO, Simile · Feross Aboukhadijeh, CEO, Socket

Wednesday
, 
Oct 7
, 
12:30 pm
 - 
12:55 pm
 
PDT

Building a GTM engine

Talk

Profound shows how its team uses Claude to build a go-to-market engine that wins more qualified customers, faster.

Edgar Sze, GTM Engineer, Profound

Wednesday
, 
Oct 7
, 
1:30 pm
 - 
1:55 pm
 
PDT

From solo to multiplayer: AI with teams

Talk

Most AI use today is one person, one chat. Nate Parrott and William Hu from Anthropic talk about what changes when Claude works across a whole team: shared context, agents that show up where the team already works, and what it takes to make it stick.

Nate Parrott, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic · William Hu, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

Wednesday
, 
Oct 7
, 
2:00 pm
 - 
2:25 pm
 
PDT

Securing the cyber frontier

Talk

Artemis, XBOW and Outtake discuss how they use frontier models to help defenders protect mission-critical infrastructure in the evolving landscape.

Shachar Hirshberg, Co-founder and CEO, Artemis · Erdem Menges, VP of Marketing, XBOW · Alex Dhillon, CEO, Outtake

Wednesday
, 
Oct 7
, 
2:30 pm
 - 
3:00 pm
 
PDT

Growing a consumer AI product

Panel

Gamma and Town share how they built consumer brands people love; including how they found their first users, what kept those users coming back, and how they went from the early days to hyper growth.

Deeni Fatiha, Head of Product for AI, Gamma · Jean-Denis Greze, Co-founder and CEO, Town

Wednesday
, 
Oct 7
, 
3:30 pm
 - 
3:55 pm
 
PDT

Oct 7

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Wednesday

9:00 am
 - 
10:00 am
 
PDT

Claude Run Club

Run club
11:30 am
 - 
11:55 am
 
PDT

Rebuilding from SaaS to agent-native

Workshop
12:00 pm
 - 
12:25 pm
 
PDT

From founder to frontier lab

Panel
12:30 pm
 - 
12:55 pm
 
PDT

Building on the frontier

Panel
1:30 pm
 - 
1:55 pm
 
PDT

Building a GTM engine

Talk
2:00 pm
 - 
2:25 pm
 
PDT

From solo to multiplayer: AI with teams

Talk
2:30 pm
 - 
3:00 pm
 
PDT

Securing the cyber frontier

Talk
3:30 pm
 - 
3:55 pm
 
PDT

Growing a consumer AI product

Panel

October

 

8

Full stack brunch with Lovable

Brunch

A pancake brunch for builders and early founders who are turning a project into a real business. Founders from The Collective and Lovable's growth team give an inside look at their growth stack.

Elena Verna, Growth, Lovable

Thursday
, 
Oct 8
, 
11:00 am
 - 
12:00 pm
 
PDT

Build an agent on your own data

Workshop

A hands-on workshop from ClickHouse. You'll build an agent on your own data with ClickHouse, the Claude MCP and Langfuse, and then learn how to enable the agent to check its own answers.

Dustin Healy, Software Engineer, ClickHouse

Thursday
, 
Oct 8
, 
12:00 pm
 - 
12:30 pm
 
PDT

Welcome keynote

Talk

Opening remarks from Beth Robertson, Head of Startups at Anthropic.

Beth Robertson, Head of Startups, Anthropic

Thursday
, 
Oct 8
, 
1:45 pm
 - 
2:00 pm
 
PDT

David Rosenthal x Mike Krieger

Fireside

David Rosenthal of the Acquired podcast in conversation with Mike Krieger on what's next for startups building on Claude.

Mike Krieger, Head of Anthropic Labs, Anthropic · David Rosenthal, Co-host, Acquired

Thursday
, 
Oct 8
, 
2:00 pm
 - 
2:25 pm
 
PDT

Building AI-native companies

Panel

Leaders from Factory, Genspark and Netlify talk about how their teams are set up and how they ship. You'll hear which roles have changed and how they keep up with each model release.

Sameer Dholakia, Partner, Bessemer (moderator) · Francesca LaBianca, COO, Factory · Lenjoy Lin, Co-founder, Genspark · Matt Biilmann, CEO, Netlify

Thursday
, 
Oct 8
, 
2:30 pm
 - 
2:55 pm
 
PDT

Building for the next model

Fireside

A research fireside on Claude's model family and how to build for the next jump in capabilities.

Anu Bharadwaj, Partner, ICONIQ (moderator) · Jared Kaplan, Co-founder, Anthropic · Dianne Penn, Anthropic

Thursday
, 
Oct 8
, 
3:00 pm
 - 
3:25 pm
 
PDT

Founder Salon live demos

Salon

Watch founders demo live on stage, then vote for your favorites. Want to show yours? Add a short video demo when you apply.

Thursday
, 
Oct 8
, 
4:00 pm
 - 
4:45 pm
 
PDT

Oct 8

 — 

Thursday

11:00 am
 - 
12:00 pm
 
PDT

Full stack brunch with Lovable

Brunch
12:00 pm
 - 
12:30 pm
 
PDT

Build an agent on your own data

Workshop
1:45 pm
 - 
2:00 pm
 
PDT

Welcome keynote

Talk
2:00 pm
 - 
2:25 pm
 
PDT

David Rosenthal x Mike Krieger

Fireside
2:30 pm
 - 
2:55 pm
 
PDT

Building AI-native companies

Panel
3:00 pm
 - 
3:25 pm
 
PDT

Building for the next model

Fireside
4:00 pm
 - 
4:45 pm
 
PDT

Founder Salon live demos

Salon

 

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Agenda details coming soon.

Venue

Name

Terra Gallery
Website

Address

511 Harrison St
San Francisco, CA

Open doors

11:00 AM PDT, Tuesday – Thursday

Why attend?

Direct access to Anthropic: Hear from Anthropic leaders and get one-on-one office hours with the team building Claude.

Connect with your AI ecosystem: Founders, investors and builders together for SF Tech Week, with one frontier lab.

Practical, not theoretical: Hands-on workshops, live demos and candid conversations about what is working right now.

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