Conversations. Connections. What's next.
A private community for founders, operators, and investors building AI-native companies in the real world.
A private community for founders, operators, and investors building AI-native companies in the real world.
Upcoming Gatherings
House of 434 brings together founders, investors, operators, researchers, and builders through thoughtful conversations, private dinners, and carefully curated gatherings. Each experience is designed around depth, generosity, and relationships that continue beyond the room.
Date
Friday, August 21, 2026
Location
Waverly Park, California
An intimate, invitation-only gathering hosted by House of 434, bringing together founders, investors, operators, and creative leaders for thoughtful conversation and meaningful connection.
Synthefy × House of 434
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 · 5:30–8:00 PM PDT
San Francisco
An evening with researchers, founders, applied ML leaders, investors, and technical operators exploring where tabular foundation models work, where they struggle, and what it takes to deploy them at scale.
San Francisco edition
Thursday, September 10, 2026 · 5:30–7:30 PM
San Francisco
The San Francisco edition of the Forward-Deployed AI Forum — a series exploring how AI companies work alongside customers, shape products in the field, and turn customer proximity into product advantage.
NEXT100
Wednesday, September 16, 2026 · 6:00–9:00 PM
San Francisco
An evening bringing together early-stage tech founders and active investors for the conversations that actually move companies forward.
Aurelian Ventures × House of 434
Thursday, September 17, 2026 · 10:30 AM – 6:00 PM
New York
A private full-day gathering of senior leaders from banking, asset management, capital markets, fintech, and investment examining how the systems underlying global finance are shifting.
Origin
House of 434 is named after Shilpi's first home: 434 Bayview.
It was where possibility began to feel real — a place filled with ambition, uncertainty, optimism, and the belief that a better future could be built.
House of 434 is an extension of that idea: a room for thoughtful people, honest conversations, and the relationships that shape what comes next.
House of 434 is a long-term community around the ideas, people, and questions we care about — how AI reshapes work, ownership, and company-building. It's built to last: a room that outlives any single project, and grows through the people in it.
What we explore
How intelligence is changing work, services, software, and physical systems — and the new companies being built across all of them.
Who gets to participate in the value created by the next generation of technology.
Why builders, executives, and domain experts are becoming investors, angels, and company creators.
Where vertical markets, frontier technology, capital, and company-building are heading.
Gatherings
House of 434 hosts intimate dinners, salons, and roundtables for thoughtful people working across AI, capital, vertical markets, and company-building.
Apply to Join →Recent & upcoming themes
Past gatherings
Evenings across New York, Palo Alto & San Francisco — the hosts, the conversations, and the people who make House of 434.
Writing
Field notes
The most interesting capital in the next decade may come from the people who built the last one.
The room
Smart people thinking out loud, without performance or posture. The kind of conversation that stays with you for a week.
Operators, investors, and researchers in the same room, speaking the same language about what's actually changing in their work.
Small rooms with the right people, organized around real questions rather than networking. Quiet by design.
The Brief
A periodic note on AI, ownership, venture, vertical markets, and the people shaping what comes next.
Who it's for
House of 434 brings together people with different backgrounds but a shared orientation: curiosity, ambition, judgment, and a desire to understand what comes next.
Stewards
Founder, House of 434
Founder, operator, and investor working across AI and regulated professional services, with a center of gravity in finance and wealth. Founder & Managing Partner of 434 VC. Previously Co-Founder & CTO of Goodfin (YC) and an engineering leader at Google.
Request invitation
Apply
The full application takes a few minutes. It helps us understand who you are, what you are building, and how you might fit into the House.
