House of 434

House of 434

Conversations. Connections. What's next.

A private community for founders, operators, and investors building AI-native companies in the real world.

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Upcoming Gatherings

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.

Sweet Iron — Special Preview
UpcomingPrivate film screening

Presented by Hemal Trivedi × Yetkin Yuce × House of 434

Sweet Iron — Special Preview

A private screening of the new film by Emmy and Oscar winning filmmakers

Date

Friday, September 25, 20266:00–9:00 PM EDT

Location

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

New York, NY

Attend the special preview of 'Sweet Iron' by Emmy and Oscar winning filmmakers. The film follows Soni Sori, a school teacher-turned-activist whose fight to save her community's sacred forest — the "Lungs of India" — sparks a nationwide indigenous movement.

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Family Offices Investors Summit — Climate Week
UpcomingInvestor summit

Family Offices Investors × House of 434

Family Offices Investors Summit — Climate Week

🥂 Michelin-Dinner Edition · New York Climate Week

Friday, September 25, 2026 · 2:00–5:00 PM EDT

New York

A Family Offices Investors Summit during New York Climate Week — 10k+ investors, $1T AUM — covering private markets, pre-IPO liquidity, and the future capital stack across AI, climate, and deep tech. Hosted with House of 434.

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Supercharge Your Routine
UpcomingLive AI agent session and webinar

House of 434 × CIVC

Supercharge Your Routine

Tools for impact. Master your process. A smarter, more productive you.

Wednesday, September 30, 2026 · 11:00 AM–12:00 PM PDT / 2:00–3:00 PM EDT

Virtual

A 45-minute live session where three real AI agents run on real tasks: emptying an inbox down to what matters, walking into a meeting already briefed, and turning raw numbers into a report someone can act on.

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The Gathering at Waverly Park
By Invitation OnlyInvitation-only gathering

House of 434

The Gathering at Waverly Park

Friday, October 2, 2026 · 6:00–9:00 PM PDT

Mountain View

An intimate, invitation-only gathering hosted by House of 434, bringing together founders, investors, operators, researchers, and creative leaders for thoughtful conversation and meaningful connection.

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AI Beyond the Screen
UpcomingCurated conversation and networking

House of 434

AI Beyond the Screen

#SFTechWeek edition

Monday, October 5, 2026 · 5:00–8:00 PM PDT

San Francisco

The SF Tech Week edition of AI Beyond the Screen — a curated gathering for founders, investors, researchers, operators, and engineering leaders exploring how AI is moving beyond software and into intelligent devices, edge computing, connected systems, and the products around us.

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Forward-Deployed AI Forum
UpcomingForum

Forward-Deployed AI Forum

#SFTechWeek edition

Wednesday, October 7, 2026 · 5:00–8:00 PM PDT

San Francisco

The SF Tech Week 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.

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The Hybrid Studio: What Survives When AI Meets Oscar-Grade Craft #LATechWeek
UpcomingPanel and reception

House of 434

The Hybrid Studio: What Survives When AI Meets Oscar-Grade Craft #LATechWeek

Monday, October 12, 2026 · 5:00–8:00 PM

Los Angeles

A #LATechWeek conversation with founders building the AI x media stack, including Oscar and Emmy-winning filmmaker Hemal Trivedi and former AMC Networks innovation lead Yetkin Yuce.

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Claude for Wealth Managers & Family Offices — #LATechWeek
UpcomingWorking session

House of 434 × Anthropic

Claude for Wealth Managers & Family Offices — #LATechWeek

Thursday, October 15, 2026 · 5:30–8:30 PM

Los Angeles

A #LATechWeek working session for LA's private wealth and family office community on where AI adoption is real versus hype, with live demos of Claude-based agent workflows.

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AI x Media Mixer
UpcomingHappy hour and mixer

House of 434 · Hosted by Shilpi Nayak

AI x Media Mixer

A House of 434 Happy Hour during Tasveer Film Festival & Market

Friday, October 16, 2026 · 5:00–8:00 PM PDT

Seattle

An intimate House of 434 happy hour in Seattle during the Tasveer Film Festival & Market, bringing together founders, investors, operators, creators, and media innovators around AI and the future of storytelling.

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Origin

Why We Built House of 434

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.

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What we explore

Four questions that shape the room.

01

AI

How intelligence is changing work, services, software, and physical systems — and the new companies being built across all of them.

02

Ownership

Who gets to participate in the value created by the next generation of technology.

03

Operators

Why builders, executives, and domain experts are becoming investors, angels, and company creators.

04

The Future

Where vertical markets, frontier technology, capital, and company-building are heading.

Gatherings

Private Gatherings

House of 434 hosts intimate dinners, salons, and roundtables for thoughtful people working across AI, capital, vertical markets, and company-building.

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Recent & upcoming themes

  • 01From AI Services to Software
  • 02Vertical AI in Regulated Markets
  • 03Operators Becoming Investors
  • 04Ownership in the Age of Intelligence
  • 05Intelligence and the Physical World
  • 06Building Across Verticals: Patterns in AI-Native Companies

Past gatherings

Moments from the room.

Evenings across New York, Palo Alto & San Francisco — the hosts, the conversations, and the people who make House of 434.

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Writing

Essays & field notes.

Essay

From Services to Software: Why the Next AI Companies May Start Closer to the Customer.

The most interesting AI companies of the next decade may not look like software companies at all — at least not at first. They will begin inside the workflow, beside the customer, and grow into software from there.

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Field notes

Operators, quietly becoming investors.

The most interesting capital in the next decade may come from the people who built the last one.

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The room

What this room is for.

Honest conversation

Smart people thinking out loud, without performance or posture. The kind of conversation that stays with you for a week.

Shared language

Operators, investors, and researchers in the same room, speaking the same language about what's actually changing in their work.

Substance over scale

Small rooms with the right people, organized around real questions rather than networking. Quiet by design.

The Brief

The House of 434 Brief

A periodic note on AI, ownership, venture, vertical markets, and the people shaping what comes next.

Who it's for

For people building, operating, and thinking long-term.

  • Founders
  • Operators
  • Investors
  • Engineers
  • Domain Experts
  • Researchers
  • Executives
  • Builders

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

Stewards of the House.

Portrait of Shilpi Nayak

Shilpi Nayak

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.

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