Fireside w/ Baseten, who recently raised a Series E round, bringing their valuation to 5B.

A private fireside chat on how leading companies are working with AI agents and infrastructure.

Speakers

- Amir Haghighat, Co-Founder @ Baseten. AI infrastructure platform designed to accelerate the deployment and scaling of machine learning models, particularly for Generative AI and LLMs, into production-ready applications.

- Soham Ganatra, Co-Founder @ Composio. The plumbing for your agents. They enable your agents to dynamically call thousands of tools across products like Gmail, Notion, Linear, and Salesforce. If you’re building AI products where agents need to ship real work (not just chat), get started for free at https://composio.dev

- Celeste Amadon, CEO @ Known Dating. An app that replaces traditional swiping with voice-based AI conversations to facilitate more meaningful, in-person dates. By using AI to deeply understand user personalities, values, and intent, it aims to reduce swipe fatigue and increase the success rate of matches.

- Alex Bowcut, Eng Lead @ Sphere. Building the world's first AI-powered, cross-border compliance engine. Backed by Felicis Ventures, Y Combinator, Uncommon Capital and leading angel investors, including the founders of Go1, Lyft, BetterUp, Xendit and Flexport.

Hosted by Powell St. and Headstarter

Powell is a community of technologists based out of a house in San Francisco. To date, it has produced six companies - four backed by YC, two by a16z.

Headstarter is building an arena for engineers to compete building open-source, SDKs, projects alongside companies like Google, Polymarket, and AGI Inc.

Who's coming
Founders building agentic systems, AI infrastructure, and frontier applications. Investors. Founding engineers. Operators.

This is a private event. If you're invited, please keep it that way.