Wildwood Ventures, Entrepreneur VC, Mostest
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AI that Amplifies Human Connection
West Hollywood
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Wildwood Ventures, Entrepreneur VC, Mostest
Join us for a panel on AI that Amplifies Human Connection — and why this approach is built to last from both an investor and founder perspective.
We’ll dive into AI copilots inside verticals—tools that don’t replace people but make them better. From healthcare and law to events and entertainment, these are the products that strengthen connection, amplify creativity, and empower experts to do their best work.
Panelists include: Sarah Klingman (Founder, Mostest), Oliver Hull (Founder, Memo), Amber Trivedi (Founder, Life Spark Labs), and Randy Rawlings (Founder, Aneu) moderated by Amy Maher (Principal, Wildwood Ventures).
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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WeAreLATech: LA Tech Community Beach Walk
Join us for the WeAreLATech's Los Angeles Tech Community Beach Walk for LA Tech Week 🌊🚶 happening Tuesday October 14th at 4pm.
Hosted and guided LA Tech Community beach walk with introductions and a featured speaker to walk along with attendees for an intimate QA. This is for networking amongst engineers, product people, heads of growth, designers. Founders and investors are welcome.
Where the waves meet the web, and the tech community comes to play. We'll be mixing and mingling for just an hour. It's the perfect chance to catch a stunning sunset with fellow startups and and make connections that go beyond the bandwidth.
Conversations breezy, and the vibes are as warm as the SoCal sun. See you there, where the palm trees sway, and the ideas play! 🌴🍹👩💻👨💻
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If you'd like to bring a guest have them register using this invite link:
This event is a part of #LATechWeek - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem.
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Berkeley Builders Makeathon
The barrier between a great idea and a functional product is getting smaller every day.
The modern builder is an architect, a director, and a visionary. Their most powerful collaborator is AI.
We're hosting a one-day makeathon to prove it. Teams will form, pick up AI native tools, and race to build. A few hours later: quick demos, prizes, and the satisfaction of shipping something real.
For the students and recent grads (≤5 years) in engineering, design, and product who are ready to build what's next.
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.
This Week in Fintech, SVB
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This Week in Fintech x SVB: SF Fintech Coffee
FiDi (SF)
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This Week in Fintech, SVB
Kick off your morning with This Week in Fintech and Silicon Valley Bank for a relaxed fintech networking coffee in the heart of San Francisco.
No panels. No pitches. No pressure. Just a chance to:
Swap ideas and insights with fellow founders, operators, and investors.
Meet new faces in the fintech community.
Enjoy great coffee, light breakfast, and better conversation before you dive into your workday.
Whether you’re deep in the fintech world or just curious about it, you’ll leave with fresh connections (and probably a few new LinkedIn invites).
Bring a friend (or two!) - Good conversations are even better shared.
Come for the coffee, stay for the conversation.
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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Devs vs Sales: Trivia Happy Hour
Sales sells products that don’t exist yet.
Eng complains about sales.
It’s the circle of life.
But for one night only — over skyline views, drinks, and trivia — we’re calling a truce.
Join founders and leaders from fast-growing companies at an exclusive happy hour hosted by Pump.co and Origami — two of the fastest-scaling YC startups in the Valley.
Expect laughs, friendly rivalry, prizes (and bragging rights), plus a casual chance to connect with people at top tier companies.
📍 Spots are limited. Address will be sent once you sign up
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AI for Energy & Infrastructure
Hosted by H*QUOTIENT & Orrick
AI is projected to drive a 20% reduction in global energy emissions by 2030, yet less than 5% of deep tech startups are fully leveraging its potential today. In this panel, we explore how AI is transforming the built environment, infrastructure systems, and the deep tech application layer—from optimizing grid efficiency to accelerating materials discovery and decarbonizing industrial processes. Join leading founders, researchers, and investors at the intersection of AI, energy, and next-gen infrastructure as we unpack what’s next—and what’s needed to scale impact fast.
H*QUOTIENT is a new-age deep tech community with 4,000+ engineers, scientists, founders, investors, and students across 55+ countries. We aim to empower the next generation of founders in IP-intensive industries, connect over niche STEM-adjacent events, and make deep tech sexy again.
Join our community here: https://tally.so/r/nWjGMe and tell us how we can help you! https://linktr.ee/hquotient
Orrick is a tech-focused law firm passionate about helping entrepreneurs, innovators and investors push boundaries. Through its extensive client portfolio, deal volume, and relationships in the ecosystem, Orrick provides commercial insight to each client’s strategy. From financing to protecting IP to retaining talent to advocating for innovation-friendly public policy, Orrick offers a holistic solution across the tech & venture lifecycle. Please reach out to Andy Bloom (abloom@orrick.com) if you're a founder or investor or want to learn more!
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.
By registering for this event, you consent to be photographed and receive email updates from the hosts and be added to the H*QUOTIENT newsletter mailing list. Photographs may be used for marketing and media purposes without compensation.
Freshfields US LLP, Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN), The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
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Next Steps for Tech: Mastering Successful Exits
SOMA
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Freshfields US LLP, Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN), The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
Freshfields, DFIN and NYSE invite you to join an exclusive Bootcamp for tech companies contemplating their next move. The program will feature legal and finance experts, as well as advisors with proven track records of guiding leading Bay Area tech companies to successful exits—through both IPOs and M&A.
The program will also include CFOs, GCs and investors, each of which will provide valuable insights based on their experiences.
1:30pm – 2:30pm: Getting Your House in Order - Preparing for an IPO or a Sale
2:30pm – 3:30pm: From Private to Public: Navigating the Tech IPO Journey
3:30pm – 4:30pm: The Art of the Deal: Mastering a Tech M&A Exit
4:30pm – 5:30pm: Networking Cocktail Reception
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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Building Construction Tech
Join us for an intimate conversation with Curri Co-Founders Matt Lafferty and Brian Gonzalez as they share their journey building the logistics platform for the built environment.
Moderated by Darren Bechtel, Founder and Managing Director of Brick & Mortar Ventures, this session will provide actionable takeaways for entrepreneurs seeking to build technologies for the construction industry.
Food and drinks will be available starting at 3:00 PM. Guests are encouraged to settle in for the panel discussion from 3:15 to 4:00 PM, followed by networking from 4:00 to 6:00 PM.
This event is hosted by Brick & Mortar Ventures, the first sector-focused venture capital firm investing in the construction industry. Our portfolio exits include PlanGrid, BuildingConnected, Fieldwire, and Levelset.
Curri operates the nation’s largest and most diverse last-mile logistics network, covering 49 states 24/7 with over 800,000 drivers and carriers.
This event is part of #TechWeek — 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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Unlocking Our Quantum Future with IBM
iHeartMedia and IBM Present: A Live Conversation on Quantum Computing at SF #TechWeek
Join Malcolm Gladwell and Jay Gambetta, IBM Fellow and the newly appointed Director of IBM Research, as they dive into the transformative potential of quantum computing, from groundbreaking research to real-world applications and a growing ecosystem driving the future of technology.
This discussion will be a live recording of the Smart Talks with IBM podcast series. Registration will open at 8:45AM, with the podcast recording beginning promptly at 9:30AM. A reception with coffee and light bites to follow. Seating is limited and subject to approval - request an invite ASAP!
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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Unlock Your Investor Potential
Are you a technology professional with vested stock units from companies like Google, Amazon, or Apple? Curious about how you can leverage those assets to become a Limited Partner (LP) in a venture capital (VC) fund? Join us for an exclusive Office Hours event where we’ll guide you through the process of converting your vested stock units into investments in VC funds.
In this session, you’ll learn:
How you can use in-kind securities as an LP investment.
The unique investment opportunities available for Employee LPs.
The benefits of diversifying your portfolio through VC investments.
How Musa Capital’s fund model is democratizing access to venture investing.
Whether you’re new to venture capital or exploring ways to maximize your equity holdings, this event is designed to provide practical insights and answer your questions. Don’t miss this chance to learn from experts and discover how your vested stock can work for you beyond the tech industry.
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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Eleven Wall Ventures -LP/GP Dinner
Join us for an intimate al fresco farm-to-table dining experience showcasing local champagne and wine produces at a beautiful home in Venice.
Guest will include a curated list of Limited and General Partners who are interested in the high-growth opportunity of investing in Frontier Innovators, early-stage startups building outside of the traditional tech hubs of SF, NYC and Boston.
Eleven Wall Ventures is on a mission to deliver exceptional returns for our Limited Partners by
backing visionary founders who are reinventing the operational backbone of America’s core economic sectors. We focus our seed-stage investments on Frontier Innovators who are building transformative solutions away from the traditional tech hubs, rooted instead in emerging innovation ecosystems across the US where industry knowledge runs deepest and market dynamics create the biggest returns.
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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Build at the speed of thought with Dualite Alpha
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Health & Wellness Tech Innovators Summit
The Ionava Health & Wellness in Tech Festival presents this powerful message: time for a total revolution in how we approach, think about, and participate in well-being. True wellness springs from the intersection of financial, social, personal, spiritual, mental and physical health.
Join the Ionava team as we partner with ima members lounge in LA and bring together innovators from local as well as national companies (Kreation, Love.Life, Wuum, Ezra, Selfiie, and many more) to live, work, play. This event highlights how Ionava breaks free of the traditional health insurance model and helps pay for the products and services which support everyone’s healthiest life.
The Festival sponsors coworking space with fre wifi and we encourage everyone to come work at the beautiful space in ima's members lounge. Later in the afternoon, expect a DJ, zero-proof cocktails, coffee/tea with adaptogenic supplements, ayurvedic nutrition experts, hormonal health experts, massage, and more as we celebrate all that LA and LA Tech Week have to offer for the future of health.
Schedule
10:00 am - coworking space open with free Wifi!
1 pm - adaptogenic coffee/tea bar opens, mingle with the best in health and wellness tech
2-3 pm - health and wellness tech companies showcase
3 pm - 6 pm Live DJ, zero-proof cocktails, demos/samples, innovation celebration
6:00 pm - coworking closes
This is the future of work and wellness. Come for the coworking and stay for the celebration and activation!
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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Stacked Frequencies, a Phi Health Tech Week Event
Stacked Frequencies: Where Music, Tech & Human Performance Converge
Fuel the sound. Sustain the creator.
What do touring artists, music producers, and tech founders have in common? They all operate in high-output, high-stakes environments that demand creativity, clarity, and relentless energy, yet offer little room for recovery.
Stacked Frequencies is an LA Tech Week experience from Phi Health designed for those building and creating at the edge of burnout. This is not just a wellness event, it’s a conversation and activation around how we sustain performance in the industries that never sleep.
Whether you’re scaling a startup or scaling a tour, this is the place to learn how to protect your energy, upgrade your biology, and create with longevity in mind.
About the Host: Phi Health – creators of Stack, the first performance supplement system engineered for both all-day energy and deep nighttime recovery
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.
