FOUNDERS
WINE CLUB
WINE WORTH DRINKING.
PEOPLE WORTH MEETING.
Private tables for founders, investors and people building companies.
01 — THE TABLE
ONE TABLE.
GREAT WINE.
ONE CONVERSATION
WORTH HAVING.
We bring founders, investors and people building companies together around carefully selected wines and conversations that rarely happen at conferences.
No pitches.
No panels.
No networking theatre.
NEXT TABLES
FOUNDERS WINE CLUB
PARIS
12–14 guests.
Business conversation:
To be announced
Wine lineup:
To be announced
Limited seats.
WEB SUMMIT WEEK
THE OFF-SUMMIT TABLE
Founders.
Investors.
Portuguese wine.
One table.
No pitches.
No panels.
No badges.
Wine lineup:
To be announced
Limited seats.
Founders Wine Club is a curated international community for people building companies.
Each table brings together a small group of founders, investors and operators around exceptional wine and one conversation worth having.
The relationships continue long after the bottles are empty.
Membership is curated. You enter the community by sitting at the table.
03 — ABOUT THE HOSTS
TWO WORLDS.
ONE TABLE.
ELENA KALMYKOVA
BUSINESS · COMMUNITY · WINE
Entrepreneur, international business development expert and founder of One9, a go-to-market agency helping technology companies grow across international markets.
Before building her own business, Elena spent more than 15 years in international media, technology and commercial development, working with companies and brands including Disney, Euronews and National Geographic.
Wine has long been a personal passion alongside business. Elena holds WSET Level 2, travels regularly through the wine regions of France, and collects and invests in wine, with a particular interest in Champagne and Burgundy.
Founders Wine Club brings these worlds together.
At FWC, Elena curates the table: the people, the business conversations and the connections that continue long after the evening is over.
YASHA LYSENKO
WINE · TERROIR · CULTURE
Wine journalist and writer for Wine Enthusiast, JancisRobinson.com, GuildSomm and Simple Wine News, as well as co-publisher of B.Y.O.B.
During five years living in France, Yasha has travelled through all of the country’s major wine regions, visited dozens of estates and spoken with some of the world’s leading winemakers.
He is currently studying for the WSET Diploma, one of the wine world’s most respected international qualifications, awarded by the London-based Wine & Spirit Education Trust.
Outside wine, Yasha finds inspiration in classical music. Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Prokofiev often find their way into the way he thinks and writes about wine.
At Founders Wine Club, Yasha curates the wine: the producers, terroirs, bottles and stories behind them.
The club grows one table at a time.
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Founders Wine Club is curated. Membership requests are reviewed individually.
FOUNDERS WINE CLUB