Founder Dinner with Gigsafe & Rho

Rho and GigSafe are hosting an intimate dinner for founders building marketplaces and gig economy businesses.

A small group around one table — no panels, no pitches, no name tags. Just a few hours with people running real supply-side operations, and the kind of conversation that only happens when the room is small enough to hear everyone.

Marketplace businesses live or die on the side nobody sees. Getting contractors onboarded and earning in days instead of weeks. Keeping thousands of 1099s compliant without a back office that grows with them. Paying fast enough that your best people stay. The demand side gets the headlines — the supply side is where the company actually gets built.

We'll get into what actually works at scale: liquidity in the early days, onboarding and retention on the supply side, the real cost of classification and compliance risk, insurance and payouts as retention levers, and how to grow a 1099 network without the operational drag catching up to you. Good food, small group, no agenda beyond the conversation. #sf

About the hosts

Rho is the all-in-one banking platform for startups and the accountants supporting them. With banking setup in minutes, cashback cards, and powerful tools for managing spend, paying bills, and closing the books, Rho helps high-growth startups move fast and stay focused — backed by support that goes to the end of the earth to help you win.

GigSafe is the workforce management platform for independent contractor businesses, unifying onboarding, credentialing, compliance, insurance, payments, and monitoring into a single system. GigSafe cuts onboarding from weeks to days, saves companies 30-40% on insurance through bulk purchasing, and automates the back-office work that slows 1099 networks down — so operators can scale their contractor base without scaling their risk. Trusted by modern delivery and logistics businesses including dlivrd, Airspace, and OTD Florida.

Rho is a fintech company, not a bank. Checking and card services are provided by Webster Bank, N.A., member FDIC; savings account services are provided by American Deposit Management Co. and its partner banks.