April Dinner Series 🍽️
Intimate, off-the-record dinners with breakout founders
🍽️ Apply now to the Founders You Should Know community — members are the first to know about future dinners and events.
We’re excited to announce three more upcoming dinners for engineers, all in San Francisco. Same format — a small table, no cameras, no decks, just a founder and a room full of interested engineers.
Early is everything and these are three companies worth knowing now.
The founders you’ll meet
These teams are growing quickly, and early hires will have real ownership and outsized impact.
Celeste Amadon, Co-Founder & CEO of Known
Known uses voice AI to replace the swipe — onboarding users through a real conversation, learning enough to make a single curated match, and getting two people to an actual date. In beta in San Francisco, 80% of introductions led to in-person meetings. Before Known, Celeste was a Stanford student working on AI applications in politics and civic tech.
Best for: engineers drawn to consumer AI with a genuine social mission and a product people actually love
Date: April 28th
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Adam Yala, Co-Founder & CEO of Voio
Voio builds a unified AI reading platform for radiologists — automating report generation across CT, MRI, and X-ray with accuracy that outperforms Google, Microsoft, and Alibaba’s leading models. Before founding Voio, Adam was an Assistant Professor of Computational Precision Health at UC Berkeley and UCSF, building and clinically validating AI models for cancer detection.
Best for: engineers excited about frontier AI with direct, measurable impact on human health
Date: April 30th
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Jake Stauch, Founder & CEO of Serval
Serval is an AI-native IT platform that automates help desk requests, access management, onboarding, and offboarding — replacing the legacy ticketing systems and drag-and-drop workflow builders that engineers have always hated. Before Serval, Jake was an early engineer at Rippling.
Best for: engineers who want to build the new operating system for the enterprise
Date: May 7th
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