San Francisco – – September 15, 2026 -- Twenty-one venture capital firms will co-host the second annual Connected Stack Enterprise AI Summit on September 10, 2026, at The Presidio Theatre, with Anthropic Head of Americas Kate Jensen delivering the keynote address.
Anthropic executive to discuss agentic ROI measurement with True Ventures partner
Jensen, who leads Anthropic's enterprise sales and partnerships across the Americas, will join True Ventures Partner Mike Montano for a session titled "Real ROI: How the Agentic Enterprise Measures What Matters."
Founders nominated by co-host VCs to present four Spotlight Conversations
Nectar Social co-founders Farah Uraizee and Misbah Uraizee will discuss marketing strategy with Menlo Ventures' Amy Wu Martin. HappyRobot co-founder and CTO Luis Paarup will address enterprise AI value creation alongside Andreessen Horowitz's Anish Acharya. Unconventional AI CEO Naveen Rao will debate inference costs with Sequoia Capital's Konstantine Buhler, while Glean Founder and CEO Arvind Jain will cover enterprise-wide AI context with Kleiner Perkins' Mamoon Hamid.
Thirteen-plus startups selected for Founder Flash Talks segment
Featured companies presenting flash talks include Sailplane, Knit, LlamaIndex, Plain, Corridor, Resolve AI, Natural, Aegis AI, Maxima, Latent Defense, Vero Security and GetReal Security.
Twenty-one firms including a16z, Sequoia and GV serve as event co-hosts
The full co-host roster spans True Ventures, Accel, Addition, a16z, Ballistic Ventures, Battery, Conviction, Felicis, Forerunner, Greylock, GTM Capital, GV, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, Menlo Ventures, MTF.VC, Notable Capital, NVIDIA Inception Program, Redpoint, Sequoia Capital and Sound. Lowenstein Sandler, Silicon Valley Bank, Aduro Advisors, Attivo Partners, Goodwin Procter and PwC provide additional support.
Event runs from 8:30 AM through afternoon networking and demo sessions
Programming includes a networking lunch, followed by True Ventures' Scrappy Sessions, an informal demo series open to any AI builder seeking to present to investors and industry attendees. Past Connected Stack speakers have included Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, Anthropic CCO Paul Smith and Box CEO Aaron Levie.