Founder Friday
Enjoy our new Founder Friday ticket, which gives you access to a 1/2 day of 1:1 meetings with investors & corporate partners, tailored workshops, investor "Ask Me Anything" panels, and the $200k investment check presentation from Connetic Ventures!
Founder Friday is open to founders of all industries, not just fintech and insurtech.
Founder Workshops
Designed for founders, led by experts.
Venture135’s hands-on workshops dive deep into fundraising readiness, GTM strategy, scaling operations, and investor relations.
Each session offers actionable insights from operators, investors, and innovation leaders — equipping founders to grow smarter and faster.
More workshops to be announced soon!
IP Foundations: Protecting What You Build, When You Build It
Finnegan is one of the world's largest law firms devoted exclusively to intellectual property, covering patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets across every major industry and technology area.
In this session, attorneys from Finnegan will walk founders through the IP fundamentals that matter most in a company's early life: how to protect core innovations, avoid common pitfalls in filing and prosecution, and build an IP strategy that supports fundraising, partnerships, and long-term growth. Founders will leave with a practical understanding of what to protect, when to protect it, and how to avoid costly mistakes as their company scales.
Ready for Diligence: Preparing for Funding, Partnerships, and Acquisition
Whether you're seeking your first round of seed money or preparing for acquisition, due diligence is a complicated process that can become an obstacle if you are not prepared.
This workshop, led by Fintech attorneys from Blank Rome, will explore the due diligence process for investment and seed funding; partnerships with financial institutions and other regulated companies; and acquisition and real-world scenarios in each of these transaction categories.
Agents at Work: Orchestrating AI for Real Business Impact
AgilityFeat will showcase how to move beyond chatbots into agentic workflows that actually deliver business impact. This session explores how AI agents can be orchestrated to take meaningful action within production-grade fintech and insurtech environments.
We’ll review design patterns for agentic workflows, discuss orchestration and integration best practices, demo a real-world use case, and outline strategies for maintaining and scaling sustainable AI operations.
