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Tech Week: AI & Tech Networking in San Francisco
🚀 Join the AI Tech Networking Event in San Francisco!
Every month, we bring together startups and investors from diverse industries. This is your opportunity to connect with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, share ideas, and grow your business.
💡 Why Attend:
• Discover investors and valuable connections.
• Expand your network with like-minded professionals.
• Receive expert feedback to refine your ideas.
• Validate your concepts with industry experts.
• Learn strategies for scaling your business.
• Enjoy a relaxed networking atmosphere.
• Solve challenges and find partners for your projects.
📈 Pitch Your Startup:
Purchase the appropriate ticket, send your pitch deck to contact.us@startupvalley.club, and complete the application. You’ll have 5 minutes to present, followed by expert feedback and Q&A.
💼 For Investors:
We invite investors to join this event—register for free by completing the application on our website. This is a great opportunity to discover local startups and gain access to our global database of startups in 30+ cities worldwide. We’re confident you’ll find investment-worthy opportunities.
📅 Time:
• Event Start: 7:00 PM
• Startup Pitches: 8:40 PM
• Event End: 10:00 PM
🤝 Requirements:
• Age 21+
• Good mood and business casual attire
• Purchase at least one drink at the bar (to support the venue)
🎟 Reserve your tickets now!
Take the first step toward new opportunities with Startup Valley!
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
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Agentic Memory & Context Engineering Hackathon
We’re excited to welcome you to the hackathon hosted by MongoDB, presented by Cerebral Valley, and in partnership with: Meta, Voyage AI, Fireworks, Factory, Warp, Porter, Modelence, and AWS! 🚀
Today’s AI agents are only as good as the context they can hold onto. Traditional retrieval-augmented generation helps, but it’s not enough to power persistent, adaptive, and truly agentic applications. This hackathon challenges developers, researchers, and builders to redefine context engineering—how AI agents capture, store, retrieve, and reuse information to enhance memory and decision-making. Participants will work with MongoDB Atlas and Voyage AI, gaining full access to Atlas Vector Search and Voyage AI embeddings, while collaborating with top builders and AI community leaders to push the boundaries of context, memory, and truly agentic applications.
💰 Prizes: There will be $15K in cash prizes and partner credits.
📓 Content: We’re thrilled to announce the incredible lineup of speakers and judges for our upcoming hackathon! ➡️
🗣 Speakers
• Tengyu Ma: Chief AI Scientist & Founder at Voyage AI
• Suraj Patel: VP of Corp Dev and Ventures at MongoDB
• Kai Wu: Partner Engineer at Meta
⚖️ Judges
• Deepa Gopinath: Chief Information Officer at MongoDB
• Shawn Wang: Editor of the Latent Space Podcast
• Michael Grinich: Founder of WorkOS
• Nancy Wang: SVP, Head of Engineering at 1Password
• Dan Kim: VP of Business Development & Head of Digital Asset Listings at Coinbase
• Ray Thai: Founding PM at Fireworks
• And many more!
Note: This is a fully in-person event - remote teams are not allowed.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
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Consumer AI x Creator Economy: Techweek Afterparty
We're bringing together 300+ of the top founders, investors, creators, and operators in Consumer Tech, AI, and the Creator Economy. (First come, first serve — make sure to apply early!)
To promote meaningful connections, every guest will receive up to eight curated 1:1 introductions, powered. The night will cap off with a DJ set at one of Los Angeles’ finest venues, blending high-signal conversations with an unforgettable party.
This year’s thesis:
Consumer AI’s breakthrough moment — AI-native workflows, cost collapse, and momentum-driven growth reshaping the future of consumer tech.
The rise of community-driven growth — how audience leverage and creator-led distribution are becoming the new superpower for startups.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
AI+, Orbifold.ai, Memories.ai
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AI+ MultiModal Day
Marina
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AI+, Orbifold.ai, Memories.ai
AI+ Multimodal Day 2025
Scaling Beyond Text, Towards a Multimodal World
📍 San Francisco
📅 October 10, 2025 (Friday)
🕥 10:30 AM – 6:00 PM (followed by Panelist Dinner)
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About the Event
AI+ Multimodal Day brings together the world’s leading founders, researchers, and builders who are shaping the future of multimodal intelligence.
From databases that index vision, audio, and video at scale, to productivity tools that augment our daily workflows, to AI-native entertainment platforms, and embodied AI in hardware—this is a full-day exploration of how AI is scaling beyond text to transform how we work, create, play, and live.
Expect a day of deep conversations, sharp debates, and new connections with the most ambitious founders and investors in the space.
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Agenda
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | Opening: Lynn, Founder @ AI+
10:30 AM – 11:20 AM | Panel 1: The Agentic OS: Seeing, Speaking, Doing
How multimodal tools augment our daily workflows and capture human context.
Host: Lynn, Founder @ AI+
Panelists: Genspark.ai, Browserbase.com, Tinyfish.ai, Composio.dev, etc
11:30 AM – 12:20 PM | Panel 2: Scaling Beyond Text – Multimodal Databases
The state of multimodal data: curation, storage, processing, and indexing.
Host: Paul Jun @ Depth VC
Panelists: Meta SuperIntelligence Lab, Lancedb.com, Memories.ai, Orbifold.ai, GMIcloud.ai, Sievedata.com
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch + Networking
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Product Showcase
Confirmed product showbase include founders from:
- Lenjoy Lin, Cofounder at Genspark.ai
- Karan Vaidya, Cofounder at Composio.dev
- Shawn Shen, Founder & CEO at Memories.ai
- Alex Yeh, Founder & CEO at GMIcloud.ai
- Div Garg, Founder & CEO at theagi.company
- Enoch Zhu, Founder & CEO at Orbifold.ai
- You Wu, Founder & CEO at Wanderboat.ai
- Linda S, GM of Global Businss at MiniMax (Minimax.io)
2:00 PM – 2:50 PM | Panel 3: AI-Native Entertainment & Creation
How AI and multimodal revolutionize content creation, social, and entertainment.
Host: Peter Pan @ Hat-Trick Capital
Panelists: Opusclip (opus.pro), Higgsfield.ai, Creatify.ai, Minimax.io, Wanderboat.ai etc
3:00 PM – 3:50 PM | Panel 4: Multimodal Intelligence for Physical AI
AI embodied in the physical world: wearables, robotics, vehicles, and beyond.
Host: Iris Sun @ 500 Global
Panelists: Tavus.io, Plaud.ai, theagi.company, Meta Reality Lab, Meta Glasses etc
3:50 PM – 5:00 PM | Networking
6:00 PM | Private Dinner (Panelists & Special Guests)
An intimate dinner gathering for panelists, investors, and select guests.
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Host: AI+
AI+ is a community-driven fund investing in early-stage AI and physical AI founders. To date, we’ve hosted 150+ events—spanning demo days, panels, workshops, and private founder dinners—connecting over 20,000 AI founders, investors, researchers and engineers worldwide.
If you’re a founder, builder or engineer looking to join our bi-weekly private dinners, speak at our events, or get support with fundraising, finding customers, making a voice, please react out.
👉 Subscribe to our event calendar: https://lu.ma/ai-plus?k=c
📩 Get in touch: aiplus.official@gmail.com
Conference Partner: Hat-Trick Capital
Hat-Trick Capital is a Palo Alto-based early-stage venture firm focusing on pre-seed to Series A. We primarily cover vertical agentic companies with a thesis-driven approach, where we conduct in-depth analysis of the verticals and form investment decisions. One of our core focuses is adtech/martech, with anchor LP back AppLovin as one of the biggest investors previously. We also invest in robotic solutions and consumer tech (in social and gaming).
Who Should Come
- Founders & builders working on multimodal AI, productivity, entertainment, hardware, or infra.
- Investors looking to understand the next wave of AI-native startups.
- Researchers & engineers exploring multimodal data, models, and applications.
- Creators & product leaders curious about AI-native entertainment and tools.
Anyone who believes AI is scaling beyond text into vision, audio, video, and the physical world.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
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Berkeley 10² Hack
Join the Berkeley Tech Week Speedrun Hackathon. Make something people love in 10 hours. Repository needs to be clean. Come in ready with good ideas and great people.
This event is only for the top top talent at Berkeley - those who want to scratch an itch of building something that doesn't exist.
Prizes include bragging rights and credits (+ cash if you care). Speakers from Anthropic, and VCs coming down to mingle and judge!!
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
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Fitofan AI Sport Forum
Co-organized by Fitofan (https://fitofan.com/) and Network VC (https://network.vc/), this event brings together 300 founders and investors interested in diving deep into the intersection between Sporttech and AI.
This event will consist of a startup pitch competition, panel discussion, and networking mixer.
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Startup pitch competition:
In this startup pitch event, 10 extraordinary startups will compete for the attention of VCs, angel investors, top AI, Robotics, AR, Product experts.
The finalists of our 400+ previous events in 55 countries have raised $1b+ - they are alumni of the YC, Alchemist, NVIDIA Inception, Techstars and more.
SETUP: We will have special invited investor judges who will have special seating. They will be voting for the best start up. Crowd will be voting the for the best start up as well.
For judging: We will have our VC Judges as well as crowd voting. People will judge at the end of each start up session – total of 3 sessions. The start up that collects the most votes will be the winner; and will be announced at the end. Theoretically, we might have 2 winners – VC choice and Popular Vote.
Please submit your pitch deck to info@fitofan.com for a chance to participate!
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Schedule:
4:30pm - Check-in and Networking
5:00pm - Opening Remarks
5:20pm - Panel 1
HAYLEY MELIDONIS:
We’re thrilled to welcome Hayley Melidonis, Founder & CEO of Bubbl.
TIM GHORMLEY:
We’re honored to welcome Tim Ghormley, Assistant Director of Athletics for Non-NCAA Sports at Menlo College and Stanford Taekwondo Program Director (5th-Degree Black Belt).
ADRIAN GONZALES:
Adriana Gonzales is an entrepreneur, investor, and global sports leader. She is the founder of Adrenaline Sports and Vice President of the non-profit Texas State Taekwondo Association, where she leads international events and athlete development programs.
ISAEL SILVA
College Basketball Player & Member of the Mexican National Team | Entrepreneur | Changemaker
5:50pm - START UP BATTLE No 1
1. My Vision Labs
2. Gridiron Survivor
3. Gnarly Tickets
6:10pm - Panel 2 - Startup Founders
My Vision Labs
No Limit
Fighter Foundry
GoPlai
6:40pm - STARTUP BATTLE No 2
1. No Limit
2. Fighter Foundry
3. Webout
7:00pm - Panel 3 - Investor
ROHIT GUPTA
Managing Director of Future Communities Capital, Managing Director of Big Sur Ventures, Partner of GFO Companies
ALEXANDER SOROKA
Managing Partner at Network VC & Venture Capital, Founder and CEO of Startup Network
KAVITHA RAMASWAMY
Operator turned VC, Researcher, Mercurius Media Capital, Global Women in VC
FILIP ORTH
Principal and Head of North American office at ZAKA VC
7:30pm - STARTUP BATTLE No 3
1. Bubbl
2. GoPlai
7:50pm - Startup Battle Winner Announcement & Networking
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This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
TYME INC., SilverDoor / AZOS
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2nd Annual LADYDAYDAO #buildinpublic event LA TECH WEEK
Santa Monica
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TYME INC., SilverDoor / AZOS
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Coworking @ Day One Partners HQ
Coworking Day @ Day One Partners HQ
Need a spot between events? Our Venice office will be open as a coworking space during LA Tech Week. Drop in to work, meet others, or just take a break. Bring your laptop, grab some coffee & snacks, and connect with other builders and operators.
About Day One Partners
The most trusted and innovative partner in building elite teams and scaling transformative companies, setting the standard for excellence in talent solutions and redefining what it means to drive growth at every stage.
This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
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Alternative Space Solutions Panel
🌌 Alternative Space Solutions Panel 🚀
Come hear from leaders at the forefront of orbital and lunar innovation as they unpack the overlooked (but critical) challenges of the next frontier.
What we’ll dive into:
🚀 Alternative paths to building sustainable space ventures
🛰️ Governance, infrastructure, and collaboration models that reduce risk and unlock growth
💸 How government investment cycles shape opportunity — and how startups can stay resilient
🌍 Dual-use tech that works on Earth and in space
🔑 Investment opportunities hiding in high-leverage bottlenecks (navigation, comms, lunar infrastructure)
Panelists:
Paolo Pino — Volta Space
Abhishek Tripathi — Spaceflight Programs Leader & Berkeley Space Sciences Lab Advisor
Gulmohar Ahluwalia — CEO & Co-founder, Nyxara
Whether you’re a founder, investor, or just space-curious, you’ll leave with fresh perspectives and big ideas.
🌟 This event is part of #SFTechWeek — a week of events hosted by VCs and startups bringing the tech ecosystem together. Learn more: www.tech-week.com
We're excited to support a local SOMA business, Mukunda Studio! A yoga and wellness center.
Sponsored by the Open Lunar Foundation and Nyxara
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R42 Longevity Morning Yoga
Provided by R42 Group, a monring yoga session taught by a yoga master instrustor to kick-off your tech week(if condition permits). All levels are welcomes.
After the yoga session founders & investors will come to a mix&match coffee gathering across the street at a private location. Direction will be provided after the yoga session.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
Salesbricks, Exonome, Sprinto, DevRev
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The Startup Smash - Pickleball Party!
Marina
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Salesbricks, Exonome, Sprinto, DevRev
A Pickleball Party for Founders Who Hustle—On and Off the Court
We’re curating an exclusive group of founders, funders/investors, and senior decision-makers & leaders from B2B SaaS for an afternoon of rallies, real talk, and a little friendly fire on the court.
Whether you're here to play hard or just connect over post-game BBQ and drinks, this is your chance to build real relationships with the Bay Area’s sharpest minds—founders scaling, investors deploying, and operators leading from the front.
New to pickleball? No problem. Jonathan Padilla, founder of Exonome and Certified PPR Pickleball Coach, will lead a free 30-minute beginner clinic to get you game-ready.
Game on. Smashes, startups, and serious connections await.
Note:
We’ve been getting amazing feedback for this event, and space is limited to 50 guests. DinkSF will need to turn away guests once we reach capacity, so please come early to secure your spot!
Hosted by:
Salesbricks - Close deals faster with Salesbricks, the modern way to sell software and AI. Configure pricing instantly, generate quotes in seconds, and unify quoting, signing, and billing in one platform. From proposals to collections, everything is automated so your team can focus on selling, not admin. Learn more.
DevRev - DevRev is an AI-native business operating system that unifies customer support, product, and growth on a single platform. We ingest structured and unstructured data into a knowledge graph that powers context-rich, permission-aware, and secure agentic workflows—so software doesn’t just respond, it acts. Explore our Devrev for Startups program and apply to receive up to $10K in credits, contract discounts, and pro-level access and enablement.
Sprinto - Sprinto is a GRC automation platform that's helping companies automate their compliance processes. Sprinto has helped over 1500+ companies become compliant and supports over 50+ infosec compliances.
For more details check out: https://sprinto.com/
Autonomy - Complete dev tasks and create production grade prototypes on your codebase using your components and coding structure with simple input
Exonome is an AI-powered, fintech-enabled platform that lets anyone launch and operate their own vertical online marketplace—in minutes.
Whether you're a community leader, creator, entrepreneur, or SMB, Exonome gives you the tools to monetize your ecosystem with:
✅ Built-in payments, payouts, and subscriptions
🔐 Trust and compliance layers
🔁 Network-effect and revenue-sharing features
From real-world rentals to digital services, Exonome empowers passionate operators to build commerce and community—on their terms.
👉 Learn more at www.exono.me
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
Hustle Fund, Rivian, Fidelity Private Shares, Mercer Advisors
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Founder Friends
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Hustle Fund, Rivian, Fidelity Private Shares, Mercer Advisors
Join the LA founder community to connect with other founders and hear war stories from a founder who went through the wringer and came out the other side.
This event is a part of #LATechWeek - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem.
Khalil Zahar is the Founder & CEO of FightCamp, the connected‑fitness platform bringing an interactive boxing gym into the home. The company grew out of his own years in the ring and a drive to make improvement measurable for everyday athletes.
An engineer by training and avid boxer, Zahar first built punch‑tracking wearables under the Hykso brand. That traction with competitive athletes propelled the team from Founder Institute Montréal into Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 class.
That work evolved into FightCamp’s full at‑home experience—and investors took notice, with the company raising $90M led by NEA and Connect Ventures, alongside backing from combat‑sports icons like Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather. Join the fireside chat to hear how Zahar turned lab‑bench sensors into a movement reshaping connected combat sports.
The Schedule:
5-6:30pm: Get here, test drive a Rivian, grab a snack, make friends
6:30-7pm: Fireside chat w/ Khalil Zahar, Founder & CEO of FightCamp,
7-7:30pm: Q&A
7:30-8pm: Finish pizza, make more friends, do more test drives
8pm: End
Who's behind this?
Rivian is an American company that makes electric vehicles. Founded in 2009, Rivian’s products inspire people to explore and enjoy our world, while caring for generations to come. Rivian vehicles are built for every adventure, from off-roading to family road trips with incredible battery range, thoughtful interiors, and software that makes the experience helpful and personal to you.
Rivian vehicles (R1T, R1S, and RCV) help you explore the places you love with the people you love, in a way that protects our future. Every part of the experience – from buying, to driving, to charging feels markedly different than anything that has come before. This is due to the fact that we’ve built everything from the ground up. Learn more at https://rivian.com/demo-drive/book?locationId=e86d5ff0-4ba3-40e6-a95b-b3308afd25eb
QuantFi is the outsourced finance department built for investor-backed companies. We bring CFO-level leadership, controller oversight, and data-driven financial tools to deliver clarity on cash, margins, and growth. From bookkeeping cleanup to strategic planning and fundraising support, we help founders and investors make smarter decisions and scale with confidence. Book at a call at https://calendar.app.google/zZsUXvkfCNtqnQz27
Fidelity Private Shares SM is committed to supporting the startup and venture capital ecosystem. We help companies prepare for their next round of funding with our cap table management and data room platform and offer educational content, events, and opportunities for community connections.
No matter where you are in your journey – from idea to exit, and beyond – Fidelity has the solutions to support you. Book a call now: https://www.fidelityprivateshares.com/schedule-demo?utm_campaign=2024%20Partner%20Program&utm_source=community-referral&utm_medium=bpm-jason-hammond
Hustle Fund is an early stage venture firm that believes great founders can look like anyone and come from anywhere. We invest in startups all over the world and we'd love to see what you're building. Learn more at hustlefund.vc
This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
**By signing up for this free event, you agree to hear from us and our highly vetted, super amazing partners**
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Deeptech After Dark
Deeptech After Dark - Future Mobility & Clean Energy Mixer.
From automotive to aerospace, energy to cleantech, meet the builders shaping the future of deep technology. An evening of great conversation, interesting people and delicious drinks, brought to you by AVL and Curbivore.
Celebrate LA Tech Week with the industry's best and brightest: investors, builders, entrepreneurs, designers, regulators, OEMs, founders, funders and more!
This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
Founders & Builders Connect
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Founder + Investor Mixer
Santa Monica
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Founders & Builders Connect
Founders & Builders Connect comes to #LATechWeek for an evening of honest conversations, tactical insights, and meaningful connections — all focused on the art (and chaos) of scaling engineering teams.
This intimate event brings together 150+ founders, CTOs, CPOs, and engineering leaders navigating the many intersections of product velocity, hiring, remote growth, and AI-era innovation.
This isn’t a stage for just polished success stories — it's a space for shared experiences, hard-won lessons, and unfiltered dialogue. Whether you’re scaling your first team, leading product at a fast-moving startup, or hiring your 50th engineer — you’ll find something here.
🔥 What to Expect:
- Mixer: Buy your own food, drink and network with like-minded individuals
- Community: A room full of sharp, ambitious builders solving real problems
-From 0 to 100 Engineers: What They Don’t Tell You
- Build Fast, Hire Smart: Scaling Without Slowing Down
- Remote Talent: Lessons in Building Global Teams
AI-Driven Products: Behind the Tools, Teams & Tradeoffs
🧠 Past Highlights:
In 2024, we welcomed over 400 startup operators for an energizing day of deep conversations, tactical takeaways, and new partnerships. This time we will bring that same momentum — in a tighter, more focused format tailored to engineering and product decision-makers.
🔗 More details and speaker lineup to be announced soon.
This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
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