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👉 NYC Startup Events for Founders & Operators

NYC B2B Events:

• Seed → Series B Founder Brunch with Rho

• NYC B2B: AI Founders & Investors Meetup [October]

• NachoThursday: NYC SaaS & AI Founder + Investor Rooftop Happy Hour

• Tribeca Club: 76ers vs Nets @ Barclays Center —> Apply Here to Join 

• Tribeca Club Brunch —> Apply Here to Join 

• Tribeca Club: Morning Coffee & Pastries Walk —> Apply Here to Join 

• Tribeca Club: Game Night —> Apply Here to Join 

• Tribeca Club Mixer —> Apply Here to Join 

Wednesday 9/16:

• Seed → Series B Founder Brunch with Rho

• Seed-Series A Founder Roundtable: Building Teams That Scale

• AI x Finance: Founding Engineer Panel — Rogo, Ramp, Tabs, Rowspace

• Pitch Roast en Vivo - Hispanic Heritage Month 🌎

• Bulletpitch: Founder & Investor Dinner

• Founders Basketball New York City (September 2026)

• AI Native Dev New York: Many agents, one repo.

• Building with AI: Meet & Greet (w/ The AI Collective)

• Daring Ventures: Coffee Circle

• Lenny’s Newsletter September Meetup in NYC (with free drinks courtesy of Revolut)

• Engineering Exec Dinner @ Portale in NYC

Thursday 9/17:

• NYC GTM x AI meetup

• An evening with The Pragmatic Engineer (Gergely Orosz)

• Frontier Build NYC: Build your Autonomous Code Factory

• K-pop x Tech Rooftop Mixer by Vibranium Labs (a16z-backed)

• Grok Bot for Marketing build night (NYC)

• Regal Rise: The Future of Better Customer Experience

• Harmonic Officewarming

• Sept AI Engineers: Devs & Drinks

• NYC Founders Dinner | Hosted by: T Palmer Agency & InsurtechNY

• Antimetal at Roscioli III

• The IRL Advantage: How to Turn In-Person Connections into Lasting Relationships

Friday 9/18:

• Espresso & Astra: Cowork at OpenAI in NYC

• NYC Coffee Club | Early-Stage B2B Founders & Funders

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Saturday 9/19:

• NYC | Food + A.I. Hackathon

Tuesday 9/22:

• 120th NY Hardware Meetup - Climate Tech Week at Antler VC

• AI Founders Supper Club (Hosted by The AI Furnace)

• Climate in Color: A Climate Week Mixer

• More Intelligence. Less Energy. The Future of Efficient Compute.

• Encord GTM Happy Hour

• Founders Breakfast Club and Coworking @ Corgi Cafe

Wednesday 9/23:

• MIT Hard Tech Happy Hour

• NYC CTOs & Tech Founders Night: Secret Garden Edition

• Reitler Princeton Office Grand Opening Celebration

• Empanada Entrepreneurs @ Microsoft

• Impact x Deeptech: Where Frontier Meets Purpose

• Ramp Design Night: Play

Thursday 9/24:

• AI Engineers: Poker & Game Night

• Sept AI Engineers: Devs & Drinks

• Founder Dinner (Series A & B+)

• THE PITCH ROOM. Live. Interactive. Built for Founders.

• Women of SaaS New York – Your Career: Repriced in an AI World

• Business Dads

• Double Diamond ft. Sebastian Speier, John Bai, and Kelin Zhang

• Securing AI in Healthcare

• Double Diamond ft. Sebastian Speier, John Bai, and Kelin Zhang

• Table Stakes NYC Poker Tournament

Friday 9/25:

• Builders & Brews NYC

Saturday 9/26:

• The Harness Engineering & Model Wrangling Hackathon