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.

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.
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.
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Doors open at 11:00 am PDT each day. All times are PDT.
A seated brunch for women founders and startup leaders, hosted by Anthropic.
Beth Robertson, Head of Startups, Anthropic (host)
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
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
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
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
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
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
A 60-minute, all-levels flow for founders and builders. Space is limited and registration is subject to approval. Register here
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Opening remarks from Beth Robertson, Head of Startups at Anthropic.
Beth Robertson, Head of Startups, Anthropic
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
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
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
Watch founders demo live on stage, then vote for your favorites. Want to show yours? Add a short video demo when you apply.
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.
Access cutting-edge research, connect with our community, and stay informed about the latest developments in responsible AI.