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- Day Zero #004
Hi! Welcome to Day Zero. Excited to bring this community to life in San Francisco.
dropped out of school, quit your job, or just landed in sf to build?
i’m putting together a series of intimate experiences this summer for early founders. think go-karting, pasta-making, poker nights, padel, basketball open gyms, topgolf, and more.
all designed for you to meet
— Jonathan Chang (@thechangj)
5:32 PM • Jun 24, 2025
What is Day Zero?
I started Day Zero as a place to bring together early stage founders that just started their companies & operators looking to start their next company or looking to join what is next.
The goals of Day Zero is:
Attract top emerging founder talent in the SF Bay Area
Support early builders with community, access, and early-stage funding opportunities
Host IRL gatherings to build authentic relationships among the next generation of founders
Help top operators find their next moves and connect them to the best founders
We had our 1st Day Zero event last week in San Francisco. Be on the lookout for more stuff coming soon!
Day Zero People to Meet in SF
Vivek Rajendran - CEO of Sentie & Looking for a Cofounder: He is creating robo buddies for kids. He comes from hardware background and looking for a software cofounder. Reach out [email protected]
Uma Venugopal - Uma is the founder of Incribo. She is a tech founder building in data+devtools and would like to team up with a cracked engineer who can join her as a cofounder. Reach out on X
Valentina Ratner - Valentia is the founder of All Spice, a collaboration hub for hardware teams to build more efficiently and bring products faster-to-market. They raised their Series ($15M) this past June, and are hiring across GTM, Product and Engineering teams to launch our AI Agent product and scale our GTM playbook. Apply at https://allspice.io/careers or reach out to her Chief of Staff ([email protected])
Kshitij Gupta - Startup operator and founding member of 2 VC-backed startups, scaled both to 100K+ MAUs. Currently building AI agents as a tech PM with an AI startup in stealth. Looking to work with another startup, more focused on vertical AI in an industry rather than core infra products. Open to operator or PM roles. Reach out [email protected]
Want to Be Highlighted?
Every issue we’ll be highlighting some of the top folks we meet in SF. If you want to be featured, submit your info here.
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