Hi Friends,

With the events that began yesterday, my heart is with the families seeking safety and protection. I wrote a short reflection as I tried to process this moment. If it resonates, your support on the post helps it reach others.

I’m writing this from the airport on my way to NYC for a speaking tour. It feels strange to talk about building in times like this — but maybe that’s when it matters most. If you’re in New York City, join us for our first YouCode Forum: Building What's Next in The Agentic Era!

Even while I’m away, our community continues to show up. This Wednesday, we’re hosting one of our biggest Women Founders events at Frontier Tower. Ladies, I’d love for you to join us.

Today is the last day to apply for Funding Breakthrough Lab: What Every Founder Should Know. If raising capital is on your roadmap this year, don’t miss it. Apply Here

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👉 AWS Builders: Beyond the Demo - When AI-generated code meets real infrastructure (3:30 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 AWS Builder Loft
💬 Join us for an exciting AI event exploring how to develop and deploy applications to AWS infrastructure using natural language instructions, no coding required.

👉 Engelhardt x IEEE (5:00 PM - 6:00 PM)
📍 Bishop Auditorium
💬 Fireside Chat with the creator of LTSpice and QSpice!

👉 SWITE Product Builders Series Pitch Day! (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Stanford
💬 SWITE Product Builders Series Pitch Day!

👉 Consumer App Growth Playbook — Female Founders Edition (5:00 PM - 6:00 PM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 An evening of actionable growth hacks, tips, and real founder lessons from Coco Chen (Voyage AI) and Nicole (Arcarae).

👉 Mission IRL: Growth & GTM Leaders (6:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Tembo, Delve, and Vercel invite you to Mission IRL, bringing together selective GTM leaders from high-growth startups.

👉 Happy { Influence } Hour (6:30 PM - 9:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join Inbazz for a curated Happy { Influence } Hour connecting founders, DTC brands, and agencies from Brazil and the US.

👉 Peninsula & South Bay Hospitality Happy Hour (5:00 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 British Bankers Club
💬 Perfect Venue & Hostie are bringing together the Peninsula & South Bay hospitality community for their first joint happy hour!

👉 Coding Agents: AI Driven Dev Conference (9:00 AM - 5:30 PM)
📍 Computer History Museum
💬 One day, learn what's working in shipping with AI from confirmed speakers like Sid Bidasaria (Claude Code) and Harrison Chase (LangChain).

👉 Professional Women's Network Lunch (11:00 AM - 1:30 PM)
📍 412 Olive Ave
💬 Join us for the first PWN meeting of the year, featuring keynote speaker Rachael Wade on Mary and Martha leadership

👉 Founders at Work: Dispatch Bio (12:00 PM - 1:00 PM)
📍 135 Mississippi St
💬 Founders at Work presents Dispatch Bio: Answering the Call to Bridge the Coasts and Break Through Solid Tumors.

👉 Stronger Muni for All - Kickoff (12:00 PM - 12:30 PM)
📍 Mission Dolores Park
💬 Join the Stronger Muni for All campaign kickoff event to prevent Muni service cuts, reduce traffic, and secure San Francisco's economic recovery.

👉 Silicon Valley Investing Summit: AI, Enterprise, Healthtech (1:00 PM - 6:30 PM)
📍 2490 Middlefield Rd
💬 Startups and advanced growth ventures are invited to pitch for funding or partners at the Silicon Valley Investing Summit, focused on AI, Enterprise, and Healthtech.

👉 Innovative Finance Spotlight 2026 (4:00 PM - 6:00 PM)
📍 Redwood City
💬 Join us for the Innovative Finance Spotlight 2026, an interactive session exploring financing tools beyond traditional grants and equity investments.

👉 Curated Founder Breakfast (Seed stage) (9:00 AM - 11:00 AM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 A highly curated breakfast for 15 Seed-stage founders, building in AI and SaaS.

👉 An Unglamorous AMA Guide to Growing a Mission-Driven Org - Open Registration (5:00 PM - 6:00 PM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 Allison Duettmann will host an AMA session on the untold truths of running a mission-driven organization.

👉 Architecture of Scale: What Enterprise Buyers and Investors Look for in Technical Decisions (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Explore the critical technical and architectural decisions that matter to enterprise buyers and investors in healthtech, beyond winning a demo.

👉 Founder Happy Hour (5:30 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 The full Outlander team is in town. Join us for a founder's happy hour.

👉 StartX Contributor Happy Hour (6:00 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 Menlo Park
💬 Thank you for supporting StartX founders and community!

👉 [Unprompted After Hours] Cybersecurity Leaders & Cocktails (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Cybersecurity drinks and networking with an amazing group of security folks in SF this week!

👉 Nature of Code - Chapter 10 Neural Networks (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for a session on Chapter 10: Neural Networks from Daniel Shiffman's "The Nature of Code," a guide to teaching computers to simulate the real world.

👉 ID5 & AppsFlyer RampUp Dinner (7:30 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 John's Grill
💬 ID5 & AppsFlyer RampUp Dinner

👉 C150 | Q1 NYC | Seed Fintech Capital DInner (6:30 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Online
💬 Collective150 is hosting a private fintech dinner for 6-8 VC funds and 12-14 founders, as part of our quarterly Fintech Capital Series.

👉 Smart Vines, Sustainable Wines: AI for Prediction & Precision Inputs (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub
💬 This session brings together CropMind, Sonoma County Winegrowers, and Reservoir Farms to highlight a new collaboration under the Farm of the Future initiative in Santa Rosa.

👉 Defense Tech & Dual Use with Salesforce and Missionforce & Customer Service (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Context Ventures is hosting a Defense Tech & Dual Use with Salesforce and Missionforce & Customer Service Get-Together in San Francisco.

👉 Is Vietnam the Next Silicon Valley? Uncovering the Tech & Economic Revolution (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Park James Hotel
💬 Uncover its Tech & Economic Revolution at SZ 211, exploring the dynamic forces driving this "Ascending Dragon."

👉 Founding Sales Masterclass with Mark Roberge (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join Mark Roberge, Founding CRO of HubSpot and author of "The Sales Acceleration Formula," for a masterclass on building a scalable sales organization.

👉 How AI-native unicorns scale with the Co-Founder of Replit, COO of Linear, CPO of Harvey, and Cowboy Ventures (6:30 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Industrious
💬 Celebrate Women's History Month with a powerhouse AI panel moderated by Cowboy Ventures' Aileen Lee

👉 Rise & Grind with Stifel: Barry's Bootcamp for Founders and Investors (8:00 AM - 9:30 AM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Rise and Grind! Join founders and investors for a morning Barry's class in FiDi. All fitness levels welcome.

👉 Partner2Partner Breakfast hosted by Menlo Ventures, NFX, & Alpha Partners (8:30 AM - 10:00 AM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join Menlo Ventures, NFX, and Alpha Partners for a Partner2Partner Breakfast, a partner-only networking event for VCs.

👉 Stripe Startups Build Day San Francisco (9:30 AM - 4:00 PM)
📍 South San Francisco
💬 Join the Stripe founder community for a day of hands-on building and coworking, featuring a fireside chat with Zach Lloyd (Warp).

👉 Go Restive 2026 (10:00 AM - 6:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Go Restive 2026 is an invite-only, day-long event for very early-stage fintech founders, connecting them with top investors, builders, and operators shaping the industry.

👉 SF Coffee Club | Early Stage B2B Tech Founders & Funders (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Calling all early-stage B2B founders and funders! Join Sruthi Sivanandan and Deirdre Clute from Forum Ventures for a casual, no-pressure meetup over coffee.

👉 Expert Hour - Talk Liquid Handling with Will Van Trump (Cornucopia) (10:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
📍 953 Indiana St
💬 Contact Will Van Trump at [email protected]

👉 VC Investment Trends - Morning Coffee ☕️ (10:30 AM - 11:30 AM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 Join us for a relaxed morning coffee discussing the most recent investment trends in VC.

👉 [HOSTED BY FOUNDERS BAY] Founders Bay Virtual Workshop: Set Up Your Website to Drive Revenue with AI Optimization (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
📍 Online Event
💬 Join Holly Roland, Founder & CEO of Rebel GTM, for a hands-on virtual workshop on turning your website into a powerful revenue engine with AI optimization. Learn practical strategies for using AI tools to enhance content, design, SEO, and conversion funnels

👉 🌐 Climate Policy with Phil Ting - California as a Global Clean Tech Blueprint (11:30 AM - 1:00 PM)
📍 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub
💬 Join us for the monthly 9Zero Policy Cluster meetup, featuring Phil Ting discussing California's legislative and budgetary engine behind its climate goals.

👉 3D Cell Culture Seminar with Corning (12:00 PM - 1:00 PM)
📍 1030 Brittan Ave
💬 This session focuses on breaking through the barriers of 3D cell culture to create more predictive, in vivo-like models for drug discovery and disease modeling.

👉 Wente Wines with VeUP 4th March (12:30 PM - 3:30 PM)
📍 The Course at Wente Vineyards
💬 VeUP is hosting an afternoon of food, wine tasting, networking, and discussions on working together for a successful 2026.

👉 MelanInScience x UC Davis STEM Connect: Biotech Industry Tour (6:00 AM - 8:00 AM)
📍 Gilead
💬 This industry visit provides UC Davis students with a behind-the-scenes look at how innovation happens within a leading Bay Area biotech company.

👉 Stanford Early Stage Aerospace & Defense Summit (2:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
📍 Stanford Graduate School of Business
💬 Join the Stanford Early Stage Aerospace & Defense Summit for three sharp, intimate, star-studded panels and a closing keynote with LTG Scott Howell.

👉 TechWalk | Silicon Valley, 3/4 (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
📍 Shoreline Lake
💬 TechWalk is building a different sort of networking event for members of the Tech and SaaS communities

👉 Engineered Flow: How Top Tech Leaders Enter Flow on Demand (4:30 PM - 6:00 PM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 Join Shummy, a 2X Asian Chess Medalist and former Google/Apple executive, for "Engineered Flow,"

👉 Fireside Chat with Net Impact Club (4:30 PM - 5:30 PM)
📍 Lucas Hall
💬 SCU Net Impact Club presents an exclusive Fireside Chat with Kimmy Nagpal, Senior Product Manager at Amazon, on embedding responsible innovation into products.

👉 Founder Breakfast (Seed to Series B) (9:00 AM - 11:00 AM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for a highly curated breakfast for 15 founders who have raised Seed to Series B, ideally with at least $1M+ ARR.

👉 A Date With Angels (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Japan Innovation Campus
💬 A Date With Angels brings together experienced angel investors and early-stage founders for a candid conversation on how angel investing really works.

👉 Women in AI Xchange | Innovation Panel & Networking Event (5:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Zenses Immersive
💬 Join us in celebrating International Women's Month with founders, operators, and leaders working with AI.

👉 Cybersecurity Pitch Night (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us where bold founders meet serious builders, investors, and strategists to accelerate the next generation of security innovation.

👉 xApple Internal Demo Day with NFX (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Our xApple community of 350+ ex-Apple founders invites you to a meetup at NFX's Hayes Valley office.

👉 Profound San Francisco Office Warming 🏡 (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 We're throwing an office warming to celebrate with our investors, team, friends, and the broader community.

👉 Circe Presents: Built to Last | an International Women's Day Party (5:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 An International Women's Day Party, an evening less like a conference and more like a gathering of brilliant, warm people.

👉 Ship It Tonight with Vybe: The Playbook Engine (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 80 Langton St
💬 In this hands-on "Ship It Tonight" session, see how a real Implementation Manager rebuilt an onboarding workflow into a scalable Playbook Engine in Vybe, and then build the same system for your own operations.

👉 The IDE as the New AI Command Center | Open Source Discussion (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join RocketRide's launch event for a panel discussion on IDE-native AI development, live demos, and the release of their first open-source project.

👉 BASES Challenge Final Round (6:00 PM - 8:45 PM)
📍 Bishop Auditorium
💬 Join us for the final round of BASES Challenge, Stanford’s premier startup competition, where finalist companies pitch for $140,000 in non-dilutive prize funding.

👉 BYOC: Crit and Cup [invitation only] (6:00 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 tiat
💬 So you received your first art critique at school, and your next when you make it to the New York Times.

👉 Founder x Creator Night · SF (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 90 Gold St
💬 For Those Who Do Both · SF: An intimate evening for founders who create and creators who build, bringing together

👉 YC Alumni Monthly #45 (6:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Southern Pacific Brewing
💬 Come hang out with your fellow YC founders on the first Wednesday of every month! Founders from all YC batches are welcome.

👉 Startup Pitch & Networking in San Francisco (7:00 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Startup Valley — San Francisco presents a curated pitch night for startup founders, operators, angels, and VC partners.

👉 Builder's Dinner (7:00 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Builders Dinner: For 2x Founders Only — an intimate, salon-style dinner for those who've built more than once.

👉 Startup Pitch & Networking in San Francisco (7:00 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 A curated pitch night for startup founders, operators, angels, and VC partners. 4-8 startups will pitch live and receive direct, candid feedback from investors

👉 Berkeley Innovators' Summit: Igniting the Next Wave of Impact (4:30 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 University Club & Stadium Club
💬 The Berkeley Innovators' Summit is an exclusive, invite-only event spotlighting Berkeley's thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem and shared-carry venture funds.

👉 Pad-13 End of Program Celebration (Batch 21) (4:30 PM - 6:00 PM)
📍 Heroic Italian Berkeley
💬 Join us on Wednesday, March 4th, as we celebrate the incredible progress of our Pad-13 teams over the past few months!

👉 Shipping Trust: From MVP to Scalable Verification (4:30 PM - 6:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join a LinkedIn hosted panel discussion with product builders and industry leaders on how trust is designed, built, and scaled in real-world products.

👉 Silicon Valley Venture: Pitch & Panel Event at Foothill College (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 2200 Perimeter Rd
💬 Join us for an engaging night of insight and networking in Los Altos Hills for an investors panel and startup pitch event at Foothill College.

👉 [HOSTED BY FOUNDERS BAY] International Women’s Week: Women Founders & VCs Panel + Networking (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 To celebrate International Women’s Week, we’re bringing together inspiring female founders and VCs for an evening of conversation, connection, and shared learning.

👉 Autonomous Cloud Commitment Management (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 The View Lounge
💬 Join nOps for bringing together cloud, FinOps, and engineering leaders to discuss Autonomous Cloud Commitment Management.

👉 PearX Info Session: Healthcare/Biotech (6:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Lokey Stem Cell Research Building
💬 Join Pear VC for an info session focused on early-stage healthcare and biotech, covering how Pear partners with founders and their 12-week PearX accelerator program.

👉 REFRESH Keynote & Opening Night: Worldbuilding – Liminal Bodies (6:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 swissnex San Francisco
💬 How and why do immersive productions affect our perception of the everyday, and what if machines begin to sense and actively start configuring our world?

👉 FRONTIERED: TWO - Open Registration (8:00 PM - 2:00 AM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 FRONTIERED: TWO is a purpose-driven techno series by Red, uniting music, art, and global collaboration in an intimate, intentional space.

👉 Funded Female Founders Summit (10:00 AM - 4:00 PM)
📍 Entrepreneurs First
💬 The Funded Female Founders Summit, built on three successful series, brings together venture-backed women founders and investors

👉 Oakland-Claw: The Newest OpenClaw Hackers’ Den at STAK Ventures (12:00 PM - 3:00 PM)
📍 STAK Space - 1920 Broadway
💬 Oakland-Claw: The Newest OpenClaw Hackers’ Den launches a new AI + emerging tech series at STAK Space

👉 Innovation Pulse - Silicon Valley Tech Showcase 2026 (1:00 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 1401 N Shoreline Blvd
💬 Innovation Pulse - Silicon Valley Tech Showcase 2026 presents a full-day showcase featuring seven innovative Chinese tech companies.

👉 -1 to Elad Gil (4:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 South Park Commons is delighted to host Elad Gil as part of our -1 to Now Series, featuring a fireside chat with the founder and CEO of Gil & Co. Elad Gil

👉 Founder Breakfast (B2B SaaS) (9:00 AM - 11:00 AM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 A highly curated breakfast for founders who have raised Seed to Series B, with priority given to those building in B2B SaaS & AI.

👉 Closed-Door CROs: What Works in 2026 (5:00 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 Menlo Park
💬 Join Murray Newlands (IA Seed Ventures) for a Closed-Door CROs: Small-Group Executive Roundtable, focusing on what works in 2026

👉 March Orange Whip (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 140 New Montgomery St
💬 Join super{set} for their monthly community happy hour, Orange Whip, featuring pizza and drinks with the super{set} Hive

👉 Founders x Investors Mixer: Unicorns After Dark (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join UpScaleX, UpHonest Capital, and Beta Fund for "Unicorns After Dark," an exclusive founders and investors mixer celebrating AI entrepreneurship.

👉 Kanwal Rekhi Book Launch | March 5 at Commonwealth Club SF (5:15 PM - 7:45 PM)
📍 The Commonwealth Club
💬 Join TiE SV and the Commonwealth Club for a special Bay Area book launch of "THE GROUNDBREAKER" by TiE Co-Founder, Kanwal Rekhi.

👉 are.na meetup (6:00 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 tiat
💬 step into the are.na and channel the internet

👉 The Rise and Fall of the San Francisco Doom Loop: A Panel Discussion (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for an in-person panel discussion on "The Rise and Fall of the San Francisco Doom Loop,"

👉 The VINE: The Video Industry Networking Event. (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 2044 Franklin St
💬 The March mixer promises to be another fantastic opportunity to catch up with colleagues and forge new connections in the video industry.

👉 FONP SF Meet Up (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 SPARK Social SF
💬 Meet up for FONP members! Bring a light jacket - some snacks will be provided but the food truck has lots of options for individual drink and food purchases.

👉 Systems Engineering Is Too Slow | R&D Leaders Dinner (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 Join a group of R&D leaders for a dinner conversation about making systems engineering fast enough to keep up with modern development

👉 Taking Funds from Foreign Investors or Hiring Foreign Nationals Could Kill Your Next Round or Exit (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 5 Palo Alto Square
💬 This workshop is designed for startup founders and early-stage operators in tech, AI, biotech, and robotics

👉 SF FDEs who cook, a jam sesh (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 680 2nd St
💬 afore capital presents: fde jam sesh, a low-key gathering for startup FDEs to share insights and strategies.

👉 The Future of Health is Regenerative (6:00 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join Cellino co-founders Nabiha Saklayen and Marinna Madrid as they discuss the future of regenerative health

👉 JFE SF x NFX: Longevity, Biohacking, and Innovation in Personalized Health (6:30 PM - 9:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 In 2026, the intersection of longevity and technology has moved from the fringes of "biohacking" into the heart of mainstream medicine.

👉 Heavy Influence Launch Party (6:30 PM - 9:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Fontaine Founders house is hosting the Heavy Influence app launch! Tech influencers, SF creators, & good vibes.

👉 Product Leaders Dinner (7:00 PM - 9:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for an intimate dinner in SF with a small group of product leaders, founders, and builders, designed for relaxed, off-the-record conversation.

👉 SF AGI Royale Networking Mixer & Gala (FAANG++ & Ivy/UC/Stanford++) | Supermomos x TanTan Dating (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Supermomos is hosting our SF AGI Royale Networking Mixer & Gala with TanTan Dating

👉 Startups Bootcamp - INNOVIT Demo Day (4:30 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 INNOVIT – Italian Innovation and Culture Hub
💬 Meet some of Italy’s most innovative startups across multiple industries at INNOVIT

👉 How Founders Turn Partnerships into Revenue: Partner Programs & GTM Ecosystems (4:30 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 4733 Chabot Dr suite 175
💬 Why most GTM partner strategies stall — and how leaders turn ecosystems into revenue engines.

👉 SnooSec SF (5:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for SnooSec, Reddit’s quarterly meetup, where the security community gathers to share ideas and build lasting connections.

👉 The Future of Engineering Leadership (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Mountain View
💬 Network with fellow engineering executives over food & cocktails, then hear from a panel of leading CTOs & Engineering Leaders

👉 131st SF Hardware Meetup @ HAI | AI + Robotics in Lab Automation (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for our next SF Hardware Meetup at Hanwha AI Center, covering different topics in robotics in science.

👉 The Accounting Leaders’ Table (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 You’re invited to The Accounting Leaders’ Table, an intimate dinner bringing together senior accounting firm leaders

👉 Vibe Coding x Chinese Medicine: Ship Clinic Tools in 1 Hour (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for a chill, hands-on build night where clinicians + builders vibe code small tools for small clinics—fast.

👉 Founders Chocolate Tasting (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 Join a small group of founders and operators for an intimate chocolate tasting at Alegio Chocolaté / Claudio Corallo in Palo Alto.

👉 Queries and Cocktails Happy Hour (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join Greybeam, Recce, Columnar, and MozartData for an evening of cocktails and conversation on the future of data infrastructure and BI.

👉 REFRESH Keynote: Futures of Uncertainties – New Ecologies (6:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 swissnex San Francisco
💬 What do we gain, and what do we lose, when nations preserve heritage through digitization under ecological crisis, and robots produce experiences and become active agents?

👉 Brex x Niural Supper Club (6:30 PM - 9:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for our Brex Supper Club, co-hosted with Niural, for a special evening with a small group of peers and friends from the startup community.

👉 e2vc after hours w/pebblebed (7:00 PM - 10:30 PM)
📍 1417 15th St
💬 Drinks & bites with friends & people we’ll call friends by the end of the night

👉 Funding Breakthrough Lab: Startup Bootcamp (Fintech + Health Tech Panels + VC Wine Social) (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)
📍 Nixon Peabody LLP
💬 This intensive one-day bootcamp is designed to transform how you approach fundraising, providing a solid grasp of fundamentals and what investors actually look for.

👉 First Friday Breakfast (9:00 AM - 10:30 AM)
📍 Santa Clara
💬 First Friday Breakfast is a monthly gathering for entrepreneurs, founders, and builders who believe their work is more than a means to an end. 

👉 "Timing Meets Conviction" - An Invitation by Beillion & 922 Capital (9:30 AM - 3:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Beillion Capital and 922 Capital invite you to an invitation-only investor gathering, bringing together limited partners and general partners

👉 Kindredly - In Person Gathering (10:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
📍 Berkeley
💬 Kindredly is changing the shape of business, inviting leaders from all backgrounds who are curious, seeking community, and building from values-centered visibility. 

👉 Expert Hour - Talk Liquid Handling with Will Van Trump (Cornucopia) (10:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
📍 135 Mississippi St
💬 Contact Will Van Trump at [email protected]

👉 Monday Girl Panel: The IWM 2026 Leadership Playbook (11:00 AM - 1:30 PM)
📍 1 Hotel San Francisco
💬 Join 1 Hotel San Francisco and Monday Girl for an exclusive salon series event celebrating International Women's History Month, by invitation only. 

👉 Interns Mixer with the University of San Francisco (11:00 AM - 1:00 PM)
📍 1030 Brittan Ave
💬 Join us for our upcoming internship matching event with the University of San Francisco at 1030 Brittan Ave, San Carlos.

👉 International Women’s Day Co-Work & Connect (12:00 PM - 6:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join an afternoon of focused co-working followed by an intimate happy hour for women founders, investors, and operators.

👉 Biopunk Tour + Open Cowork - Open Registration (1:00 PM - 4:30 PM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 Weekly Tour (starting promptly at 1pm) + coworking on the Biopunk floor! 

👉 Invite Only Founders and Funders Wine Social (3:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
📍 Nixon Peabody LLP
💬 Join us for a quick free wine social following our Funding Breakthrough Lab Full Day Bootcamp for Fintech & Health Tech. 

👉 Founders Exclusive: 2026 Economic Outlook & Investment Strategies (4:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 Celebrate International Women’s Day with an exclusive event for women leaders, focusing on wealth, ownership, and intentional investing. 

👉 CCA Figbuild Launch Party (5:00 PM - 6:00 PM)
📍 California College of the Arts (CCA) Blattner Hall
💬 Come kick off FigBuild with us! We’ll reveal this year’s prompt and start the weekend with hands-on activities

👉 The State of Biotech: Capital Markets, Industry Evolution & The Real Impact of AI (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Burlingame
💬 The biotech industry is navigating a defining moment, shaped by capital discipline, strategic partnerships, and AI's accelerating influence. 

👉 Openclaw Hackathon For Longevity (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join the Openclaw Hackathon For Longevity on March 7th, where engineers, scientists, clinicians, and founders will tackle the biggest unmet needs in longevity biotech.

👉 UC Berkeley FigBuild Launch Party (6:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
💬 We’re revealing this year’s design prompt and starting the weekend with hands-on activities to get you inspired and ready to build. 

👉 Solarpunkification 2026 (3:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
📍 435 Broadway
💬 Solarpunkification 2026 is a three-day gathering where solar punks, artists, musicians, and futurists explore how a cultural space becomes a working laboratory for desired futures.

👉 2026 SVEC Hall of Fame Ceremony and STEM Student Awards (5:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Delta Hotels Santa Clara Silicon Valley
💬 Join us for an exciting evening honoring outstanding individuals for their contributions to engineering and the community.

👉 VotersAI Inc Launch Event (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Fremont Downtown Event Center
💬 An Exclusive VotersAI Showcase, featuring an all-in-one technology platform for intelligent voter data and powerful election campaign management tools. 

👉 VentureBridge 2026 Accelerator Info Session #2 (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)
📍 Online Event
💬 VentureBridge (VB) is a pre-seed fund and accelerator program supporting Carnegie Mellon founders working on their startups full-time.

👉 Open Metaverse Hackathon @ The Immersive Commons - DAY 1 - Open Registration (9:00 AM - 10:00 PM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 Build the future before big tech does, where new open metaverse standards allow anyone to create interoperable spatial experiences

👉 The Founders Guild "Decelerator" Weekend (10:00 AM - 10:00 AM)
📍 San Gregorio
💬 Join The Founders Guild for a "Decelerator" Weekend, bringing together leaders of Bay Area startup communities. 

👉 Scout Athletic Club (March) (11:00 AM - 1:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for a hands-on athletic conditioning session designed for all fitness levels

👉 Stanford Figbuild Work Session (11:00 AM - 2:00 PM)
📍 Building 550
💬 Come hang out and work on your FigBuild projects with your teams!

👉 REFRESH Masterclass: You’re Absolutely Right! (11:30 AM - 1:30 PM)
📍 swissnex San Francisco
💬 Join where you will gain insights into their design processes and see how robotics shifts from industrial automation to a creative partner.

👉 Signature Gathering at Powell BART in San Francisco (11:30 AM - 1:30 PM)
📍 Hallidie Plaza
💬 Join us to start gathering signatures for Connect Bay Area, the five-county regional transit funding measure!

👉 popup internet cafe 3/7 (1:00 PM - 6:00 PM)
📍 78 Gough St
💬 Drop by where the menu features seven interactive works by artists and gamemakers exploring forgotten memories of an earlier web. 

👉 World Café for Friends of the Tower (1:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
📍 Register to See Address
💬 A facilitated conversation around creativity and future possibility, with fresh eyes. 

👉 REFRESH Masterclass: Anatomy of Non-Fact: The Boardgame (1:30 PM - 3:30 PM)
📍 swissnex San Francisco
💬 Where you will deep dive into her artistic research practice and learn how to read synthetic images, track patterns, and sharpen visual literacy. T

👉 Gamedev Australian Grand Prix Watch Party (7:00 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 Mad Dog in the Fog
💬 The traditional games industry gathering of F1 fans ahead of GDC for the first race of the season!

👉 RP1 Hackathon @ The Immersive Commons - DAY 2 - Members Only (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 TBA

👉 Women of SaaS San Francisco – The Unspoken Rules of Executive Presence (1:30 PM - 3:30 PM)
📍 Junior League of Palo Alto•Mid Peninsula
💬 Featuring fireside chats with women leaders who've cracked the code on executive presence. 

👉 eChai: International Women's Day - Bring Your +1 (2:00 PM - 4:00 PM)
📍 Santa Clara
💬 A"Bring Your Plus One" gratitude and amplification gathering, focused on celebrating the women who changed your trajectory. 

👉 Notch Magazine x Specs (2:00 PM - 4:00 PM)
📍 Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe
💬 Join us for an afternoon of readings and artist talks featuring our contributors.

👉 GDC Kickoff Mixer - Open Registration (7:00 PM - 11:00 PM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 GDC launches at the top. Join us for the official kickoff mixer bringing together operators, builders, security minds, capital allocators

👉 tiat salon #15 (the intersection of art & technology) (7:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Internet Archive
💬 Come see a lineup of demos at the intersection of art & technology at tiat salon #15, featuring short, 5-minute talks on personal projects

👉 Daytona Compute (5:00 PM - 6:00 PM)
📍 Chase Center
💬 Compute is the conference focused on the new infrastructure layer being built for AI, agents, and the next generation of cloud.

👉 Spatial XR Mixer at GDC 2026 (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Frontier Tower 🧑‍🚀
💬 Meet and connect with other XR professionals and enthusiasts at GDC 2026.

👉 Beta Hat X Deconstructor Of Fun GDC-Pregame (7:00 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 Persona
💬 Get ready to kick off your GDC experience with a bang at the Beta Hat x Deconstructor of Fun Pre-Game!

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