Skills & Agents - YC Founder Night

🌟 Overview

Anyone can build a demo now — the harder question is what comes next. 🤖

Hosted by FinChip.ai with GMI Cloud and Topify, YC Founder Night brings YC founders, AI builders, infrastructure leaders, investors, and leaders from Coinbase and Circle into one room to trace the path:

➡️ demo → product → users → revenue → infra → payments → agent markets.

We’ll explore what comes after the demo: real users, monetization, developer platforms, stablecoins, programmable payments, and the financial infrastructure needed for AI agents to transact and scale.

Featuring speakers from Coinbase Developer Platform, Circle, GMI Cloud, FinChip.ai, Linea VC, Sixty Degree Capital, Prosperity7, and YC-backed startups including Besimple AI, Openmart, QualGent, and Ontora.

📋 Details

📅 Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2026
⏰ Time: 5:00 – 8:00 PM
📍 Location: Frontier Tower
Address: 995 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103, 2nd Floor
🎤 Format: Keynotes + Demos + Panel Discussions

🗓️ Agenda

5:00 – 5:25 PM · Check-in
5:25 – 5:30 PM · Opening Speech
5:30 – 6:00 PM · YC Demos — Founder Lightning Talks
6:00 – 6:05 PM · Flash Talk - FinChip.ai
6:05 – 6:10 PM · Lightning Talks — Infrastructure
6:15 – 7:35 PM · Panel Discussions
7:35 – 7:40 PM · Closing Speech
7:40 – 8:00 PM · Networking

🎙️ Speakers

👩‍💻 YC Founders
Yi Zhong — Co-Founder, Besimple AI (YC P25)
Kathryn Wu — Co-Founder, Openmart (YC W24)
Aaron Yu — Co-Founder & CTO, QualGent (YC P25)

⚙️ Infrastructure & Ecosystem
Yijie Hong — Director of Engineering, GMI Cloud
Gary Yang — Incubation Investor, FinChip.AI
Chelsey Huang — Co-Founder, FinChip.AI
Kevin Leffew — GTM Lead, Coinbase Developer Platform
Gagan Mac — VP Product, Circle
Chenglin Wei — CTO, Topify

💰 Investors
John Lin — Managing Partner, Linea VC
Benny Liao — Principal, Acorn Pacific Ventures
Viki Huang — Investor, Prosperity7

🎬 Host & Moderator
Coco Wang — Main Host & Livestream Lead, FinChip.AI
18VC Podcast — Panel Moderator

✨ Why You Should Join

🎯 Hear it straight from YC founders — what really worked after Demo Day
🏗️ Meet the infra that makes agents real — compute, payments, stablecoins, skill markets
💡 Get the investor lens on what's investable in the agent economy
🌐 Be early to agent markets
🤝 Network with YC and AI founders, builders, operators, and investors

🏛️ Hosts & Partners

🔵 Hosted by FinChip.AI — the infrastructure for AI value tokenization and capitalization, turning agent skills into ownable, tradable on-chain assets.

☁️ Co-hosted by GMI Cloud & Topify

🎙️ Partnered with ME Group, GoodVision AI