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Come with your AI product and open questions. Leave with real progress, better decisions, deeper market context, and connections that last.

The most hands-on edition yet
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Editions completed
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Startups helped explore US markets
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NPS for 2025 edition
Register for Caravan →22–26 September · San Francisco Bay Area
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// WHY CARAVAN'26?

Don't just learn about the US market. Experience it.

Building is easier than ever. Understanding the market you're building for isn't. Spend a week working on your company, immersed in the market, conversations, and people you're building for.

Now in its fifth edition — four years of taking ambitious India-origin founders into the heart of the US ecosystem.

// WHAT YOU'LL DO
Build · Distribute · Connect
Make better product decisions
Build

Make better product decisions

Pressure-test your product, positioning, and pricing in founder workshops and hands-on working sessions.

Win customers, not just attention
Distribute

Win customers, not just attention

Work through distribution challenges, refine your messaging, and sharpen your path to the US market.

Build relationships that compound
Connect

Build relationships that compound

Every workshop, cohort, and conversation is designed to move your company — and your network — forward.

// PREVIOUS SPEAKERS

Learn from founders who've cracked the US, year after year

Meet some of the founders, operators, investors, and builders who've joined us in previous years. We're carefully curating this year's lineup.

David Politis
David Politis
// Co-founder
Not Another CEO
John Chambers
John Chambers
// Chairman Emeritus, Cisco / CEO, JC2 Ventures
Kanav Hasija
Kanav Hasija
// Co-founder & CEO
MeltPlan
Marc Manara
Marc Manara
// Head of Startups
OpenAI
Nick Mehta
Nick Mehta
// Former CEO
Gainsight
Selin Kocalar
Selin Kocalar
// Co-founder & COO
Delve
Tanay Kothari
Tanay Kothari
// Co-founder & CEO
Wispr Flow
Udi Ledergor
Udi Ledergor
// Chief Evangelist & former CMO
Gong
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2026 Speaker announcements coming soon
// AGENDA

Five days in the Bay Area. Built to compound.

Every edition taught us something. Caravan '26 brings four years of those lessons together, so that you can make real progress.

Day 1
Arrive

Settle in, meet everyone, and find your cohort. Align on your biggest product, positioning, and distribution challenges, and set the direction for the days ahead.

Day 2
Build

Sharpen what you're building through founder workshops, live product teardowns, hands-on working sessions, and candid feedback from founders solving similar problems.

Day 3
Distribute

Turn your GTM into an action plan. Work through messaging, positioning, customer conversations, and distribution workshops designed to help you reach the right customers.

Day 4
Connect

Meet founders, operators, investors, and ecosystem leaders through VCBridge, Unconference sessions, and conversations that build relationships lasting long after the week.

Day 5
Reflect

Commit to what comes next, close out loose threads with your cohort, and celebrate the week over cricket, great food, and the friendships you've built along the way.

Throughout
Founder WorkshopsLive TeardownsOffice HoursFounder CohortsMealsCricketHikesLate-night Brainstorming
* Agenda subject to change. Full session-by-session detail drops closer to the event.
// PASSES

Choose how you want to experience Caravan '26

For founders

Founder Pass

For founders building AI companies for the US market with an early product, encouraging signals, and serious ambition.

The full Caravan experience
Curated networking initiatives
Conversations over meals
For investors

VC / Angel Pass

For investors looking to meet ambitious India-origin AI founders building for global markets.

Curated networking initiatives
Select Caravan sessions
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// PARTNER WITH US

Help shape the next generation of AI-native companies

Caravan is where ambitious AI founders come together to make better product, distribution, and company-building decisions. If your organisation believes in strengthening the ecosystem around them, let's build something meaningful together.

Become a Sponsor →

Backed by the ecosystem

Platinum
AccelPeak XV PartnersTogetherWestBridge Capital
Gold
Avataar VenturesDC AdvisoryEight RoadsLightspeedStripe
Financing Partner
Efficient Capital Labs
Silver
BatteryB Capital GroupIdeaspring CapitalZ47
// COMMONLY ASKED

Some things you'd like to know

If the US is next, start here

Come with a product. Leave with more certainty.

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22–26 September · San Francisco Bay Area · AIBoomi