Upcoming Founder & VC Events Happening This Week

Author

Mariane Bekker
January 29, 2024

Networking events are a great way to meet fellow founders and investors. Here are events happening in San Francisco this week for founders.

🗓 Monday (Jan 29)

📍 Pier 5, San Francisco

💬 8VC is thrilled to invite you to our January edition of Chat8VC on Monday, January 29th, 2024. Doors open at 6:00 pm and the event will begin promptly at 6:30PM. We’ll kick off with an interactive demo and conversation focused on the future of consumer and AI led by Landon Smith of Character.ai.

🗓 Tuesday (Jan 30)

📍 San Francisco

💬 ​To kick-off the new year, we're inviting entrepreneurs, leaders, and people managers to join us at our first Leaders' Wellness Summit—a half-day event focused on well-being and fostering workplace culture.

📍 CELO Center, 500 Treat Avenue, San Francisco

💬 ​Join Light Dao and conscious founders and investors for an evening filled with connection, deep conversations, and a fireside chat with Matthew Stepka and Ruby Yeh, Co-Founder of Light Dao.

📍 San Rafael

💬 ​​We are thrilled to invite you to the first ever AI-focused Meetup in Marin - a unique "Unconference" designed to spark discussion and innovation as we foster a vibrant AI community in our wonderful county.

🗓 Wednesday (Jan 31)

📍 San Francisco

💬 Join host Walter Thompson (TechCrunch, Hoodline, San Francisco Magazine) for a live recording of “Fund/Build/Scale,” a podcast series that will offer listeners a holistic look into the world of AI startups.

📍 San Francisco

💬 ​MindsDB and AI Product Creators present the AI Symposium, an exclusive gathering tailored for professionals and enthusiasts in the fields of FinTech, Consumer, and Healthcare. This symposium brings together thought leaders, innovators, and industry experts to explore the dynamic landscape of artificial intelligence within these pivotal sectors.

📍 San Francisco

💬 Mercury, in partnership with Inkle, a tax, accounting, and compliance automation platform, invites you to drop in on an intimate fireside chat between Mercury CEO Immad Akhund and Inkle CEO Anand Krishna. Gather insights about building startups while enjoying delicious small bites and refreshments in the company of fellow founders.

🗓 Thursday (Feb 1)

📍 San Francisco

💬 Building a GTM motion in an AI/ML startup is easier when you have experts to show you the way! Submit your interest to join us for this unique opportunity to dive in IRL on GTM.

📍 San Francisco

💬 Join us for Founders Night SF hosted by Entre and Fidelity for Startups.

🗓 Friday (Feb 2)

📍 San Jose

💬 At a Bootstrappers Breakfast® we have serious conversations about growing a business based on internal cashflow and organic profit: this is for founders who are actively bootstrapping a startup.

📍 Mountain View

📍 San Francisco

💬 We are hosting casual gatherings with tech start-up founders, offering networking opportunities to find partners, clients, investors, or like-minded friends.

📍 San Francisco

💬 ​​Women in AI Club fosters a vibrant community dedicated to empowering, connecting, and elevating women in artificial intelligence. We envision an industry where women are at the forefront of AI innovation, leading groundbreaking discovery and implementation. #WIA

📍 Santa Clara

💬 Join us in Silicon Valley for the in-person LlamaIndex RAG-A-THON, a groundbreaking event showcasing the transformative potential of Retriever-Augmented Generation (RAG) technology in advancing AI agents. This event, hosted in collaboration with LlamaIndex and sponsored by DataStax, is not just about enhancing chatbots; it's a leap towards creating more intelligent, contextually aware AI agents.

🗓 Sunday (Feb 4)

📍 Broadway Studios Venture, San Francisco

💬 ​This Aiify.io event will have a combination of pre-scheduled sessions, along with time for self organizing sessions in the style of an "unconference." Participants will have the opportunity to present thoughts, demo work, and lead discussions, based on a group process for voting on topics and dividing by available time.

Hi! I'm Mariane Bekker, a tech executive with over a decade of experience building high-performing engineering teams at leading startups such as New Relic and Mindbody. I've led engineering through 5 acquisitions and 1 IPO. 

I'm passionate about promoting diversity and inclusion in the tech industry and helping founders succeed. That's why I founded Upward, an agency specializing in assisting early-stage startups find and hire top local engineering talent.