AI Infrastructure Founders & Funders Lunch at Seattle Tech Week
Hosted by Forum Ventures & First Row Venture Partners 📍 Seattle Tech Week | 🥗 Private Lunch Gathering
AI is moving fast, and it’s only as strong as the infrastructure it runs on. Join us for a curated lunch bringing together the builders and backers of the AI infrastructure stack: the unsung enablers powering the next wave of agentic AI.
This event is an intimate gathering designed for early-stage founders building the rails that AI agents sit on, alongside investors focused on the tooling, platforms, and backend innovation that’s driving this category forward.
Expect meaningful conversations, shared insights, and new connections across the AI infra community. Whether you’re building distributed systems, LLM ops, data infrastructure, or developer platforms for AI, this lunch is for you.
🍴 Why Attend?
🤝 Meet other founders and funders shaping the future of AI infrastructure
🔍 Explore what’s working (and what’s not) at the infrastructure layer
💡 Spark collaborations and unlock capital for your next phase
🎯 Who Should Attend
AI Infra Founders (e.g., LLMOps, vector DBs, orchestration tools, deployment infra)
Early-stage investors focused on AI and deep tech
Ecosystem Builders supporting the AI backend
APPROVED GUESTS
Application DOES NOT guarantee attendance. Spaces for this event are limited to maintain the quality of interactions and to ensure every participant receives optimum value. Register now - we hope to see you there.
Admitted guests will be notified via event approval (with a calendar invite).
NOTE: Invites are non-transferable. NO +1s (space is very intimate, and capacity is strictly enforced).
About Forum Ventures
Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, program and community for B2B SaaS startups based in New York, San Francisco, and Toronto. Founded in 2014, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible and successful for early-stage founders. From our Studio to Accelerator to Pre-Seed fund, we have the resources and network to help founders go from zero to one.
Forum is investing in 60+ SaaS companies this year. Pitch Us here.
About First Row Partners
Founded in the innovation hub of the Pacific Northwest, First Row’s Founding Partners Minda Brusse and Yoko Okano have invested in 20+ pre-seed startups across the US and Canada since 2020.
At First Row, we believe outcomes will be better for founders, early investors and their LPs when capital strategy aligns with traction. Our pre-seed investment methodology lets us uncover high potential people and early ideas where technology transforms how people and organizations form and prosper.