Silicon Xchange × Asana: The Africa–Silicon Valley Corridor @ SF Tech Week

SF Tech Week brings the industry to San Francisco. We’re using the week to bring the Africa–Silicon Valley corridor into one room.

Silicon Xchange × Asana will convene a curated group of investors, founders, operators and ecosystem leaders actively building, backing and expanding companies across Africa and Silicon Valley.

This is a peer-to-peer room — not a conference.

Expect candid fireside conversations with people who have invested through multiple venture cycles, built and sold technology companies, taken African founders into Silicon Valley, and are building at the frontier of AI.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Marcus Stallworth, OpenAI — on how AI is changing the way small teams build and ship

• Yousuf Khan, Clario / formerly Ridge Ventures — VC turned founder, on capital and conviction from both sides of the table

• Yousra Gaballah, Sprintly Partners — on bringing emerging-market founders into Silicon Valley

• Bernard Aceituno, StackAI — co-founder of StackAI, acquired by Asana, on building from frontier AI research to enterprise adoption and acquisition

• Plus founders behind major AI companies and acquisitions, including the StackAI story following its acquisition by Asana

And we’re putting founders in front of the room.

The room will include investors actively deploying capital, founders raising and expanding internationally, operators entering African markets, and policy and ecosystem leaders working across geographies.

If you are investing in the corridor, raising across markets, looking for deal flow, or building between Africa and Silicon Valley, this is the room to be in during SF Tech Week.

Hosted by Silicon Xchange × Asana.