Fellows Fund Launches Fellows Forum, the Flagship AI Conference Featuring 25+ Unicorn and Breakout AI Founders

September 09, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT

Artificial intelligence is transforming industries at unprecedented speed, creating both opportunity and urgency for collaboration between innovators, enterprises, and investors.

Rising to this moment, Fellows Fund, in collaboration with Nebius, is launching Fellows Forum 2025, its flagship AI conference, on September 25–26 in Menlo Park, CA.

RSVP website of Fellows Forum: AI Summit - Where Unicorns Meet Giants: fellowsforum.com

This invite-only gathering of 450 leaders will feature 25+ unicorn and breakout AI founders — including Nebius, Abridge, Anyscale, Anthropic, Corgi Insurance, Dyna Robotics, ElevenLabs, Gamma, GC AI, Glean, HeyGen, Hippocratic AI, LangChain, Manus, Motion, Notable AI, OpenAI, Physical Intelligence, Replit, Sierra, Surge AI, Writer — alongside senior executives from Nvidia, ServiceNow, Atlassian, Microsoft, Zoom, and other global powerhouses.

Fellows Forum is designed not only to foster collaboration but also to track AI adoption across verticals and showcase the latest technological progress, creating a true nexus where breakthrough ideas evolve into industry-defining impact.

“Traction is all you need,” said Alex Ren, Founding Partner at Fellows Fund. “We only feature AI companies with proven traction — and this year, we have more than 50 represented at the conference.”

AI founders — if you have traction, or want to learn how to build it, come join us.

AI leaders — if you are transforming your company into an AI-native model or building a successful AI product, come join us.

AI investors — if you want to discover which companies have real traction and durable moats, come join us.

About Fellows Forum

Fellows Forum is the flagship AI conference of Fellows Fund and Fellows AI Club, created to showcase breakthrough innovation and accelerate AI entrepreneurship. Organized by the Fellows AI Club community of 10,000+ members and guided by 30+ AI Fellows—seasoned leaders who advise and support the fund—the Forum convenes the people and companies defining the AI frontier.

The Fellows AI Club community is intentionally curated:

1/3 AI Leaders – executives driving adoption across industries
1/3 AI Founders – high-growth startups with proven traction
1/3 Investors & Researchers – leading VCs and global AI labs shaping the frontier

Partial List of Confirmed Speakers

Alex Ren — Founding Partner, Fellows Fund

Roman Chernin — Co-founder and CBO, Nebius

Amit Zavery — President, CPO and COO, ServiceNow

Andrew Mauboussin — Co-founder and CTO, Surge AI

Artemis Seaford — Head of AI Safety, ElevenLabs

Baris Gultekin — VP of AI, Snowflake

Brian Ichter — Co-founder, Physical Intelligence

Clay Bavor — Co-founder, Sierra

Dawn Song — Professor, UC Berkeley; Co-founder, Virtue AI

Grant Lee — Co-founder and CEO, Gamma

Harry Qi — Co-founder and CEO, Motion

Jamil Valliani — VP and Head of Product – AI, Atlassian

Jason Ma — Co-founder, Dyna Robotics

JP Sanday — Partner, Menlo Ventures

Julia Schottenstein — COO, LangChain

Michele Catasta — President, Replit

Robert Nishihara — Co-founder, Anyscale

Rong Yan — CTO, HeyGen

Scott White — Head of Claude AI Product, Anthropic

Sherwin Wu — Head of Engineering, OpenAI API

Subhabrata Mukherjee — Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Hippocratic AI

Tao Zhang — Co-founder, Manus

T.R. Vishwanath — Co-founder and CTO, Glean

Xuedong Huang — CTO, Zoom

Zachary Lipton — Co-founder and CTO, Abridge

Event Details

Dates: September 25–26, 2025
Location: Menlo Park, CA
Audience: 450 invite-only participants
Format:
- Day 1 (Sept 25): Foundation Models • AI Infrastructure & Tooling • AI Agent Platforms
- Day 2 (Sept 26): Enterprise AI • Consumer AI • Healthcare • Robotics

Full agenda available at: fellowsforum.com

About Fellows Fund

Fellows Fund is a Silicon Valley–based venture capital firm dedicated to backing the next generation of AI entrepreneurs. With investments in more than 40 rapidly growing startups—including Abridge, Artisan, Dyna Robotics, Evidently, Gamma, GC AI, Harmonics, OpusClip and Replit—the fund combines capital with mentorship and strategic guidance from its network of 30+ senior AI executives at Abridge, Amazon, Atlassian, Canva, Chime, HeyGen, HubSpot, LinkedIn, Oracle, Replit, Salesforce, Thinking Machines, Waymo, Zoom, and others. Fellows Fund’s mission is to accelerate AI adoption across industries and empower founders building transformative companies at the frontier of technology.

For more information: fellowsfundvc.com