How I Met My VC: What does it actually take to make an investor say yes?
Schedule
Thu, 28 May, 2026 at 04:30 pm
UTC-07:00Location
100 Middlefield Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025-3683, United States | Menlo Park, CA
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A conversation with Roya Amini-Naieni, Co-Founder and CEO, Forbes 30 Under 30 at Trilobio and Andrew Sather, Partner at Initialized Capital.Andrew is an investor specializing in frontier technology, space, and robotics. As a serial entrepreneur, he has co-founded multiple companies.
Trilobio is building a unified robotics and software platform to make lab automation more accessible, scalable, and usable for modern biology teams. By reducing the cost and complexity of automation, the company is working to give researchers more power to focus on discovery.
Trilobio's automation startup closed an oversubscribed $8M seed round led by Initialized Capital.
Together they'll talk about what made the investor say yes, with a focus on making a complex startup easy to believe in.
Hosted by Venturous Counsel, a uniquely mission-driven law firm that serves as US fractional general counsel to values-aligned and diverse-led startups and investors.
Program:
- 4:30pm Arrival + Introductions
- 5:15pm Talk and Q&A with Roya and Andrew
- 6:00pm Dinner and more networking
A special thank you to Korea Venture Investment Corp. (KVIC) for sharing their facilities for this event.
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