Overview Founder Dinner Series is an invite-only dinner run by Brderless for 15 to 20 founders who have raised a Series A or later, or who run at least $2M in annual recurring revenue. Brderless, a New York company, builds curated rooms for founders, operators and investors. It vets every guest and plans every introduction. The dinners run in New York and San Francisco, and Los Angeles has now joined them. Some tables are themed around one founder segment, such as consumer brands or AI-enabled services. On site Each dinner takes over a restaurant chosen for the night. In New York that has meant rooms in the West Village and Chelsea. In San Francisco it has meant a Michelin-starred table and a restaurant on the Chronicle's Top 100 list. Brderless draws up the seating plan in advance. Guests move between several conversation zones and get concierge-style introductions, then sit down to a three- or four-course dinner with sommelier-paired wines and signature drinks. New York invitations promise a live pianist. Menus are printed for the night, and each founder later gets a personal note of thanks. Audience Guests are founders in the middle of scaling. They come to compare notes on fundraising and go-to-market with people at the same stage. One recent table held a former metal-radio DJ who now runs an eight-figure consumer insights platform. Across the table sat a CTO building cancer care on one and a half lungs. Talent and Influencers Brderless founder Amy Quan hosts the dinners. Before Brderless she worked in deals and strategy consulting at Strategy and and KPMG, and she built a professional development network of 20,000 people. The consumer founder dinners in New York are co-hosted with VHS Ventures, an early-stage fund that backs consumer brands. Track record Brderless began with founder breakfasts and workshops in New York before starting the dinner series there. The dinners then spread to San Francisco and now to Los Angeles, and run several times a month across the cities. Partners come back. Chargebee has backed at least four dinners, and Rho, Sprinto, Multiplier, TriNet, Kruze and MongoDB have each returned for another. Brand presence Each dinner carries one to three partners, and each partner is named with a short description on the invitation page founders register through. The evening's conversation themes are built around what the partner offers. The partner gives welcome remarks at the table and is thanked by name in the recap Brderless posts afterward. Brderless handles vetting, RSVPs, seating, design and the follow-up introductions after the night.