Advanced Founder Roundtable Lunch: Series A+ and Scaling

Jun 5, 4:00 – 6:00 PM (UTC)

New York City

The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, 10003

A closed-door peer group for Series A/B founders dealing with scaling challenges. Meet founders like you who are solving real operational problems (org design, technical debt, GTM strategy) with peers in the same phase. No panels, no pitches. $15M+ revenue/funding required.

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About this event

A Founder Peer Group for the Scaling Phase

You're past finding product-market fit. Now you're managing the messy reality of scaling: 

  • Organizational design that needs work
  • Sales compensation you're making up as you go
  • Technical debt threatening to collapse the system

This is a closed-door session for founders dealing with scaling problems right now.

📅 Friday, May 1st • 12:00-2:00 PM

A private members club near Gramercy Park.

24 founders working to solve problems with peers in the same phase.

✅ You're likely a fit if:

    • This is your full-time focus
    • $15M+ in revenue or funding raised
    • You're managing managers, not just ICs
    • Your company has meaningful traction (Series A/B stage, scaling revenue)
    • You're dealing with operational complexity (GTM strategy, org design, unit economics, hiring executives)

    🤝 What happens:

    • Meet founders like you
    • Share your current bottleneck
    • Get specific input from founders who've solved similar problems
    • Build relationships with peers you can call when you need a sanity check

    🏢 Sector agnostic. Fintech, SaaS, marketplaces, D2C—the scaling challenges are the same.

    📍 Details:

    • 24 seats (strict cap)
    • No pitches. No panels.
    • $100 (includes lunch and bar)
    • Business casual dress
    • Application required for stage alignment

    Apply if: You're dealing with scaling problems and want peers who understand the specific challenges of this phase (not requests for advice from founders three stages behind you).

    When

    When

    Friday, June 5, 2026
    4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (UTC)

    Agenda

    Arrival & Networking
    Lunch & Roundtable
    Back to the Office

    Organizers

    • Joshua Ness

      Fulbright Program

      Director, Startup Grind

    • Tova Feldheim

      York Effect

      Cofounder

    • Paul GUILLARD

      Chief of Staff / BizOps / Project Manager / BD

    • Prianka Ball

    • Michaela Freedman

    • Payton Shafer

      CAUSE+EFFECT Strategy

    • KT Goldthorpe

      Champ: Building Competitive Brands

    • Bhavnish Walia

      Amazon

    • Rebecca Liang

    • Pushkar Taday

      Opus Training

      Software Engineer (AI Operations)

    • Theophila Lee

      Reitler Law

    • Mo Salah

      Startup Grind

      Director

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