THE BANG

No. The Bang isn't a conference. You won't hear a keynote telling you AI is going to change everything — no word salads, no process diagrams. It's not a fund update meeting dressed up as an event, or a panel where everyone agrees and nothing new gets said. No one is selling anything. Just smart people sharing the thing innovation values most: earned secrets.

Get closer to the deal flow. You'll meet the founders GWC is backing before the market catches up. Hear directly from enterprise buyers validating their markets in real time and find co-investment opportunities with the VCs, CVGs and family offices that syndicate with us in industrial AI. You'll hear how GWC thinks about the 4D Economy — what we're betting on, where we're betting with and why. The Bang is one of the few moments when the full GWC platform — portfolio, buyer network and co-investors — is visible in one room. Come see how we source, think and win.

Come meet your future customers and backers. The GWC network will be in the room — growth VCs, family offices and corporate VCs working inside the category you're building. Enterprise buyers will be there, too — the people actually evaluating, purchasing and deploying the technology you're building. This is where we bring your future customers, co-investors and our LPs into the same conversation. It's not a pitch competition: it's where the relationships that matter begin.

The Bang gives you three things you can't get anywhere else: candid conversations with peers fighting the same battles you are, direct access to the builders whose products you'll be evaluating next and early visibility into what's being tested and what's coming. No vendor pitches. No sponsored content. Just the people doing the work.

The buyers in this room navigate board skepticism and employee fear while trying to translate a pilot into a P&L line. The builders have lived serious operational problems firsthand. The investors have backed companies before opportunities became obvious. When those three groups get in the same room with no agenda to sell anything, the conversations that result are priceless. They'll happen once, in one room, on one afternoon — and then they're gone.

Conversations like:

• Founders on their sixth iteration after the fifth one failed in production
• Buyers on the internal politics, failure cycles and real threshold that prevent their AI deployments
• Investors on what actually convinces them to lead — and why an operator-led firm like GWC sees opportunities before the market does

One afternoon — 1:00 to 6:00 PM. Lunch, office tours and a curated series of conversations featuring GWC's portfolio and the buyers deploying their technology, plus a networking reception. We'll share the full agenda with confirmed attendees via email.

Growth Warrior Capital HQ · 171 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA.

The source code for AI innovation is being written in the 408, the 510 and the 415. GWC's San Francisco headquarters is a space where backers and builders work and collaborate, and where our team brings together other investors, people actively working in the industrial sector and functional experts who provide hands-on support to our portfolio companies. And on May 19, it's where the most important conversation in the industry takes place. If you know, you know.