The AI world gathers at Cerebral Valley.
The Cerebral Valley AI Summit is the definitive invite-only gathering on artificial intelligence.
Join us on Thursday, November 12 in San Francisco and make new connections, ideas, and deals with the top venture-backed founders, backers, and builders in AI.
“Cerebral Valley is where I go to connect with some of the best minds in the industry.”
Anna Veronika Dorogush
Founder & CEO, Recraft
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The Cerebral Valley AI Summit is invite-only and made for venture-backed founders, top investors, media, and other AI leaders.
Apply NowOur Speakers
Dario Amodei
Founder & CEO
Anthropic
Ali Ghodsi
Founder & CEO
Databricks
Nikesh Arora
Chairman & CEO
Palo Alto Networks
Founders keep coming back to Cerebral Valley.
Even with the fast working pace at startups in the AI era, top CEOs take the time to attend our summits and consistently tell us it's one of the best.
See what past attendees say about the summit →Built for founders.
Everything about the summit — from the speakers, to the structure, to who we choose to invite — is made with the founders who attend in mind.
Deals happen here.
Databricks bought MosaicML for $1.3B after their CEOs met at our event. Menlo led Suno's $250m Series C after they met its CEO at our event. And many more.
Make high-value relationships.
We keep a high bar. The summit is carefully curated so you walk away with new connections to people building and backing the top AI companies.
Attendees can expect a small, curated room of elite founders, investors, media, and other AI leaders.
At venture-backed startups building AI products
GPs and AI-focused investors from top firms
From top tech outlets
At companies building and deploying AI
AI researchers and tech leaders
At venture-backed startups building AI products
GPs and AI-focused investors from top firms
From top tech outlets
At companies building and deploying AI
AI researchers and tech leaders
A lot can happen in three years.
CVAI1
March 30, 2023 - San Francisco
The Cerebral Valley AI Summit was born.
Our friends at Weekend had a beautiful office in Hayes Valley, a neighborhood the AI crowd was starting to call "Cerebral Valley." We thought we might try to host an event.
We had Daniella Amodei, Ali Ghodsi, Clem Delangue, Amjad Masad, and more on stage.
Anthropic was just a research lab valued at about $5 billion and generative AI was still a niche San Francisco obsession rather than the engine of the global economy.
You could have met these early founders before they raised their next round.
Before raising Seed
Now worth over $5.4B
Before raising Series A
Now worth over $2.2B
Before raising Series B
Now worth over $1B
Before raising Series D
Now worth over $7B
CVAI2
November 15, 2023 - San Francisco
Eight months later the summit had outgrown a loft office. Round two filled the SFJAZZ Center as the whole industry raced to keep up with generative AI. Ali Ghodsi and Naveen Rao joined for a victory lap after our first summit led to a $1.3B acquisition of Naveen's company.
Sam Altman dropped by our speaker's dinner. Two days later, OpenAI's board fired Sam and briefly turned the AI world upside down.
You could have met these early founders before they raised their next round.
Before raising Seed
Now worth over $21B
Before raising Series A
Now worth over $1.5B
Before raising Series A
Now worth over $2B
Before raising Series A
Now worth over $7.5B
CVNY
June 27, 2024 - New York
For our East Coast debut: we brought Cerebral Valley to Manhattan, trading the Bay Area crowd for bank CEOs, hedge fund investors, and East Coast founders eager to get in on the AI wave.
The mood had shifted from the previous two summits: instead of debating whether foundation models would keep leapfrogging each other, the consensus in the room was that it was time to stop waiting and start building. Suno's Mikey Shulman, fresh off a lawsuit from the music labels, drew a crowd, and Goldman Sachs announced a new multi-model platform on stage, a sign of just how fast "enterprise AI" had moved from theory to production.
You could have met these early founders before they raised their next round.
Before raising Series A
Now worth over $5.4B
Before raising Series A
Now worth over $1.25B
Before raising Series B
Now worth over $1.5B
Before raising Series D
Now worth over $5.9B
CVAI4
November 20, 2024 - San Francisco
Back in San Francisco, attendees packed the room to watch Scale AI's Alexandr Wang, Databricks' Ali Ghodsi, and Anthropic's Dario Amodei.
The question of the day: have foundation models hit a wall? Wang and Ghodsi argued pre-training gains were slowing, while Amodei closed the day insisting progress showed no signs of stopping. There was no consensus on whether models would keep improving at the rate we'd seen the last two years.
You could have met these early founders before they raised their next round.
Before raising Seed
Now worth over $4.5B
Before raising Series A
Now worth over $7.5B
Before raising Series B
Now worth over $2B
Before raising Series B
Now worth over $21B
CVL1
June 25, 2025 - London
We crossed the Atlantic for the first time, bringing together the AI worlds of Europe and America for a single day in London.
Figma's Dylan Field came out to talk to a room of founders and investors just days before their IPO. Last year's worries about hitting a wall were already gone, replaced by talk of speech and video replacing text as the way people interact with AI.
You could have met these early founders before they raised their next round.
Before raising Seed
Now worth over $2B
Before raising Series B
Now worth over $1.5B
Before raising Series B
Now worth over $1B
Before raising Series B
Now worth over $2.1B
CVAI6
November 12, 2025 - San Francisco
Three years after AI took over the tech industry, the conversation had shifted to it taking over the economy. Elad Gil, Guillermo Rauch, and the rest of our speakers had to contend with the idea that it'd become a bubble.
Nobody in the room seemed worried. Instead, the dominant theme among the founders who took the stage was the vast potential they're seeing in agentic AI.
You could have met these early founders before they raised their next round.
Before raising Series A
Now worth over $1.6B
Before raising Series B
Now worth over $2B
Before raising Series A
Now worth over $750M
Before raising Series B
Now raised over $62M
CVL2
June 24, 2026 - London
Back in London for round two, the mood had shifted from pure AI excitement to something more geopolitical. Cohere's Aidan Gomez argued we'd essentially already hit AGI, while Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru pointed to European governments waking up to the need for their own AI and defense capabilities, no longer counting on American protection.
An anonymous survey of attendees found most agreed we're in an AI bubble, though few expected it to burst this year. Anthropic was the runaway favorite unicorn people wished they owned, while OpenAI topped the list of companies people would short.
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