Mariane Bekker leads developer relations and engineering at You.com, an AI search platform. She also runs Founders Bay, growing it into a community of 200,000 founders and investors focused on bringing diversity to tech.
In her work, she bridges the gap between what developers build and what the market actually wants. Her recent talks focus on the reality of AI funding, breaking down what separates a fundable agent startup from a simple feature wrapped in a demo.