🌁 The SF Grind: Week of March 16th

👋 I’m Justin. I run The SF Grind, The LA Grind, and scout for Headline. I live in LA but spend a lot of time in San Francisco meeting founders, hosting gatherings, and enjoying the wonderful city.

Happy Monday! I’m back in SF this week hosting a couple of events :)

Let’s get to it.

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🌁 Upcoming Events We’re Hosting 🌁

🗓️ March 19: Startup Community Coffee Meetup. Marina. 8 - 10 am. Sponsored by Aspire.

🗓️ March 19: Curated Seed+ Founder Dinner. SF. 6:30 - 9 pm. Sponsored by Rho and Fidelity Private Shares.

🗓️ March 27: Matcha & Momentum | Volume 2. SoMa. 9 - 10:30 am.

🗓️ March 28: SF Startup Community Walk. Marina. 10 - 11:30 am.

🗓️ April 30: Curated Seed+ Founders Dinner. SF. 6:30 - 9 pm.

👋 This Week in SF 👋

🗓️ March 16: Cafe Compute. San Jose. 6 - 9:30 pm.

🗓️ March 16: AI Builders Welcome Party. San Jose. 7:30 - 10:30 pm.

🗓️ March 17: The Founders Stories: Evolution of Scaling. Civic Center. 6 - 8 pm.

🗓️ March 17: Break OpenClaw Hack Night. Marina. 4 - 9:30 pm.

🗓️ March 18: -1 to World Labs with Dr. Fei-Fei Li. SF. 11 am - 12 pm.

🗓️ March 18: Contrary SF Tech Talk. SF. 5 - 7 pm.

🗓️ March 18: AI Innovators Forum. SF. 5 - 8:30 pm.

🗓️ March 18: Artificially Un-intelligent Tech Comedy Show @ SF w/ Fondo. Lower Haight. 6 - 9:30 pm.

🗓️ March 18: GTC 2026 After Hours: From Models to Agents to Infra. Sunnyvale. 6 - 10 pm.

🗓️ March 19: 30 Global Founders to Watch | Honors Reception. North Beach. 5 - 7 pm.

🗓️ March 19: GTC Founder & Investor Happy Hour. Palo Alto. 5 - 8 pm.

🗓️ March 19: Rho Founder Topgolf. Burlingame. 6:30 - 8:30 pm.

🗓️ March 21: Rho Founder Padel. SF. 11 am - 2 pm.

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Top 5 SF Startup Jobs

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Quince, a consumer tech platform selling premium goods direct from manufacturer to consumer, raised a $500M Series E led by ICONIQ.

Juicebox, an AI-native recruiting platform, raised an $80M Series B led by DST Global.

ORO Labs, a procurement orchestration platform for global enterprises, raised a $100M Series C led by Brighton Park Capital and Goldman Sachs Alternatives.

BackOps, an AI-native operating system for supply chain and logistics, raised a $26M Series A led by Theory Ventures.

Gumloop, a platform that lets enterprise employees build their own AI agents and automations, raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark.