Dinner with Airbase in NYC 🍽️
An intimate, off-the-record evening with the founders building the software layer for America’s wireless infrastructure
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The best founder conversations don’t happen on stage. They happen at a table, off the record, where you can dig into the details that never make it into a pitch deck.
This April, we’re bringing back our private dinner series, with intimate dinners where a small group of high-intent engineers and operators sit down with founders of inflecting companies to talk candidly about the real stories behind the build. These dinners are:
Intimate by Design: We emphasize conversation over presentation. Small groups create space for probing questions, candid discussion, and a deeper understanding of the company’s inner workings.
For Serious Explorers: These seats are reserved for engineers and operators who are serious about their next move and want to do their due diligence thoughtfully.
Completely Off the Record: Everything discussed at these dinners stays at the table. These conversations won’t be recorded, shared, or posted anywhere.
Our first dinner in the April series will be with Airbase.
Airbase
The entire modern world runs on radio frequency spectrum from weather satellites and 5G to encrypted military comms. Every system we rely on competes for the same finite, invisible resource.
When the U.S. rolled out 5G networks, it nearly caused a catastrophic grounding of commercial aviation. Telecom companies had spent billions for new frequencies, but because federal agencies were operating with siloed data, nobody realized until the last minute that those new signals risked jamming the radar altimeters used by passenger jets to land. The result? Mass flight cancellations, international panic, and engineers scrambling to manually deconflict the airwaves at the eleventh hour.
Spectrum coordination still runs on static databases and PDF forms — tools built decades ago, operated by brilliant people who’ve simply never had anything better. This is the bottleneck Ari Rosner and Millen Anand set out to fix.
Airbase is the software platform for spectrum licensing, coordination, and intelligence, rebuilt for the pace of modern operators. The team is backed by a16z American Dynamism and Squadra Ventures.
The founders you’ll meet
Ari Rosner, CEO
Ari was employee #2 at True Anomaly, where he served as Chief Engineer on two orbital missions and scaled the company past 200 people. Before that he was a deep tech investor at Riot Ventures and mechanical engineer at NASA JPL — with hardware currently sitting on Mars.
Millen Anand, CTO
Millen led design and deployment of hundreds of next-generation Earth imaging satellites at Planet. He built RF payloads for geostationary satellites at Boeing, and was part of the inaugural class of a16z Engineering Fellows.
Interested?
The team is looking for software and RF engineers in New York City drawn to hard infrastructure problems with real stakes.
Request to join here.