The Founder's Notebook by Venture Catalysts++ x Together

📓 The Founder's Notebook 🖋️

Building AI Companies That Last

Everyone is talking about creating AI, but very few focus on building AI companies. Behind every product launch and funding announcement, there are countless crucial decisions that rarely capture the spotlight — finding the right customers, building trust, and creating sustainable businesses over time. These invaluable lessons often stay hidden away.

The Founder's Notebook is a specialized, invite-only editorial series where founders and engineering leaders share practical insights and playbooks necessary for establishing enduring AI companies.

🗂️ Contents

• Page 01 · Earn the Right to Scale
  Tejas Pandit - Founder & CEO, MeshDefend
  Learn how to find design partners, validate products with real customers, build trust, and convert early users into long-term customers.

• Page 02 · Beyond the Demo
  Sunny Gupta - Head of Engineering & India Site Lead, Metaforms
  Discover the engineering strategies for transitioning AI applications from alluring demos to reliable, production-ready systems that can scale.

• Page 03 · AI in GTM
  Aniket Bajpai - Founder, LimeChat
  Explore practical methods for leveraging AI across marketing, sales, onboarding, and customer success to foster repeatable growth.

🍸 After the Notebook Closes

Continue the discussions during a curated mixer with AI founders, operators, investors, and engineering leaders, where the most meaningful conversations often unfold after the formal sessions.

📅 Event Details

• Date: 31 July 2026
• Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
• Location: Bengaluru
• Followed by: A networking mixer

🔑 Presented by

Venture Catalysts++ × Together Fund

Attendance is by invitation only to maintain a high-quality environment filled with AI founders, builders, investors, and technical leaders.

🌟 Why Attend?

Building an AI company extends beyond models; it involves earning trust, delivering reliably, finding distribution channels, and making decisions that yield dividends over years, not weeks. This is the essence of The Founder's Notebook.

🤝 Community Partners

• AI Learn Circle
  A community for builders dedicating their time to shipping rather than scrolling. AI Learn Circle gathers ambitious founders, engineers, and makers to build, learn, and launch AI products collaboratively.

• The AI Collective Bengaluru
  One of the fastest-growing AI communities in Bengaluru, connecting founders, researchers, engineers, and practitioners through events and workshops, fostering meaningful discussions about the future of AI.

🎟️ RSVP:

Secure your spot here — attendance is by invitation only.