Engineering for Real Impact
An exclusive evening with Promise — Y Combinator’s most successful GovTech startup, reshaping systems for 50M+ people by fixing what the world doesn’t yet see is broken.
July 17th, 2025
Downtown Oakland, CA
What to expect
Where World-Class Engineering Meets Real-World Change
An invite-only evening with Promise —
Y Combinator's #1 GovTech startup — reimagining how millions access government services through data, AI, and world-class engineering.
Where World-Class Engineering Meets Real-World Change
An invite-only evening with Promise — Y Combinator's #1 GovTech startup — reimagining how millions access government services through data, AI, and world-class engineering.
Featured guests
Michael Seibel
Y Combinator Partner Emeritus, Twitch, Reddit
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
CEO, Promise
Evan Marshak
CTO, Promise, ex-Palantir
What others are saying
Promise team, led by ...Phaedra..., is building an app that can help provide 'liberty and justice for all' to millions."
Jay-Z
Phaedra's entrepreneurial superpower is in taking a contrarian lens to existing systems and seeing where human dignity is lacking.
Reid Hoffman
Promise is the #1 GovTech company to come out of YC. By far.
Michael Seibel
Event Highlights
✨ Fireside chat with Promise leadership and YC
✨ Real talk about engineering inside government systems
✨ Networking with the Promise team: roles, roadmap, and real-world impact
Event Highlights
Promise leadership and YC
✨ Real talk about engineering
inside government systems
✨ Networking with the Promise team: roles, roadmap, and real-world impact
Event details
Why attend?
We’re not just building tech — we’re refactoring how government systems serve people.
Join a candid conversation with the team behind Promise and see what it takes to move fast, and ship real-world solutions inside messy, high-stakes systems.
Date
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Time
5:30pm - 8:00pm
Location
Downtown Oakland, CA
Audience
Engineers and product managers interested in building
high-impact tech
Event Snapshot
Date
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Time
5:30–8:00 PM
Location
Kapor Center
(4th Floor, Oakland, CA)
Audience
Engineers & product managers interested in building high-impact tech
Event Highlights
✨ Fireside chat with Promise leadership and YC
✨ Real talk about engineering inside government systems
✨ Networking with the Promise team: roles, roadmap, and real-world impact
Event Highlights
Promise leadership and YC
✨ Real talk about engineering
inside government systems
✨ Networking with the Promise team: roles, roadmap, and real-world impact
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