👋 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’ll be in SF in a couple of weeks hosting a few events. Working on getting those scheduled, but you’ll see them soon!
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🌁 Upcoming Event We’re Hosting 🌁
🗓️ June 19: SF Startup Community Coffee Meetup. Union Square. 9 - 11 am.
👋 This Week in SF 👋
🗓️ June 1: Oak & Sparrow System Enterprise: Launch Event & Demo Night. Mid-Market. 4 - 6 pm.
🗓️ June 1: MCP Connect with Sentry, Bitmovin and Alpic. Financial District. 5:30 - 9:30 pm.
🗓️ June 1: Solana x Corgi: After-Work Builder Hang. Financial District. 5:30 - 8 pm.
🗓️ June 1: Agents that Pay. Financial District. 6 - 8:30 pm.
🗓️ June 1: Pebblebed's Builders Late Night Café. Mission District. 7:30 pm - 12 am.
🗓️ June 2: fal Presents: the 3D GenMedia Meetup. Financial District. 6 - 9 pm.
🗓️ June 3: OpenClaw: After Hours @ GitHub. South Beach. 5:15 - 8:45 pm.
🗓️ June 3: Callstack x Expo AI Meetup. SoMa. 6 - 9:30 pm.
🗓️ June 3: Agentic Analytics Demo Night. SoMa. 6:30 - 9:30 pm.
🗓️ June 3: VCN #35: Well-Known — Make Your Site Discoverable by Agents. Mid-Market. 7 - 10 pm.
🗓️ June 4: Investing in Startups: Live Networking. Mountain View. 4 - 5 pm.
🗓️ June 4: The 2026 Harvard Club SF Alumni Olympiad. Mid-Market. 5 - 9 pm.
🗓️ June 6: AI Agents + Crypto Buildathon. Mid-Market. 12 - 9 pm.
🗓️ June 6-7: WeaveHacks 4: Multi-Agent Orchestration Hackathon with Weights & Biases. Mission District.
🗓️ June 7: The AI Night @ WWDC26. San Jose. 7 - 11 pm.
🗓️ June 7-8: Flip the Script: WWDC Watch Party + Mac Dev Conference on Building, Distributing & Monetizing AI Apps by MacPaw. Hillsborough.
👀 Events Coming Soon 👀
🗓️ June 9: RevenueCat H̶o̶u̶s̶e̶ Mansionparty: WWDC Edition. Hillsborough. 1 - 9 pm.
🗓️ June 9: [AI Founders & VCs Mixer] Come meet VCs, Founders & talk AI. Book Launch. Mid-Market. 5:30 - 8 pm.
🗓️ June 10: Founder Breakfast. Union Square. 9 - 11 am.
🗓️ June 10: Cafe Cursor San Francisco. Fisherman’s Wharf. 10 am - 6 pm.
🗓️ June 11: Immigration for Founders (with Path Law). Mid-Market. 6:30 - 8 pm.
🗓️ June 11: Founder Dinner. Pacific Heights. 6:30 - 8:30 pm.
🗓️ June 17: AI Executive Dinner. Los Altos. 7 - 9:30 pm.
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Top 5 SF Startup Jobs
Application Scientist - Computational Chemistry @ Tamarind Bio
Backend Engineer @ Conduit
Head of Developer Relations @ Wasmer
Senior Product Designer @ Vitalize
Head of People @ Salient
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Other Opportunities
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Reactor, a company providing a developer platform for real-time generative video, raised a $59M round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Reprogram Biosciences, a preclinical oncology biotechnology company, raised an undisclosed amount Seed round backed by Unshackled Ventures, 1517 Fund.
Corgi, a provider of an insurance platform, raised a $161M Series B1 led by TCV.
Saris, a provider of an agentic workflow platform for banks and credit unions, raised a $28.8M Series A led by 8VC.
Modiqo, an AI infrastructure company providing services for reliable AI agent workflows, raised a $3M Pre-Seed co-led by Heavybit and Seligman Ventures.
Countable Labs, a developer of Countable PCR, a single-molecule PCR technology, raised a $26M round led by ARCH Venture Partners.
Cognition, a developer of autonomous AI software engineering agents, raised a +$1B round co-led by Lux Capital and General Catalyst.
Trajectory, a research and product lab building a platform for continual learning, raised a $15M Seed round led by Conviction.
Tensormesh, a company developing caching-accelerated inference optimization for enterprise AI, raised a $20M round led by AMD Ventures, CoreWeave, NVentures, Valley Capital Partners, and Laude Ventures.
Protuoso Biosciences, a biotechnology company developing multifunctional biologics designed to address complex disease biology, raised a $9.5M Seed round led by Taya Venture and Darwin Ventures.
Itera, a company which specializes in real-time hardware prototyping for electronics, raised a $12M Seed round led by Upfront Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, and Colle Capital.
NavigateAI, a provider of an AI copilot service supporting field workers, raised a $25M round led by Elad Gil.
Canyon Code, a company developing a layer service that enables granular controls on multi-agentic apps, raised a $5M Pre-Seed led by Cota Capital.
Exa Labs Inc., a developer of an AI-native search engine and web data retrieval platform, raised a $250M Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Featured Location
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See you next week,
Justin