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Wed, Sep 16 · 5:00 PM ET New York, NY

Seed-Series A Founder Roundtable: Building Teams That Scale

Wed, Sep 16 · 5:00 PM ET New York, NY 41 attending

Giga AI Vibe-a-thon: Scoutmaxxing Edition

Wed, Sep 16 · 5:30 PM ET New York, NY

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

Wed, Sep 16 · 5:30 PM ET New York, NY

Arena After Hours

Wed, Sep 16 · 6:00 PM ET New York, NY

Founder × Funder Exclusive Tech Event

Wed, Sep 16 · 6:00 PM ET New York, NY

AI x Finance: Founding Engineer Panel

Wed, Sep 16 · 6:00 PM ET Financial District, New York, NY, USA 45 attending

Studying Human Minds To Build Safer Machines

Wed, Sep 16 · 6:00 PM ET 7 W 34th St., New York, NY 10001, USA 51 attending

Postgres Tuning in the Age of AI: Context Is Everything

Wed, Sep 16 · 6:00 PM ET New York, NY

Net Gains: A Founder Pickleball Social

Wed, Sep 16 · 6:00 PM ET New York, NY 84 attending

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

Wed, Sep 16 · 6:00 PM ET New York, NY 85 attending

LeadDev NYC After-Hours w/ Rootly AI, Runpod, Endor Labs, Twingate, Swarmia, & Logz.io

Wed, Sep 16 · 6:30 PM ET New York, NY

NYC Commerce Club Champions Dinner

Wed, Sep 16 · 6:30 PM ET Zuma New York, 261 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016, USA

The Modern Software Factory: A Dinner for Engineering Leaders | New York

Wed, Sep 16 · 6:30 PM ET Caveat, 21 A Clinton St, New York, NY 10002, USA 63 attending

Pitch Quemado - Hispanic Heritage Month 🌎

Wed, Sep 16 · 6:30 PM ET 300 Kent Ave suite 604, Brooklyn, NY 11249, USA

Merit Systems x Blackbird

NYC High Signal

The Traders Invitational

Wed, Sep 16 · 7:00 PM ET New York, NY

Wed, Sep 16 · 7:00 PM ET New York, NY 209 attending

AI Founders, Operators, & Investors: Mocktails and Legal AMA

Wed, Sep 16 · 7:00 PM ET estiatorio Milos Hudson Yards, 20 Hudson Yards Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10001, USA

Longaxis NYC Dinner

Wed, Sep 16 · 8:00 PM ET Left Bank, 117 Perry St, New York, NY 10014, USA

consumer ai dinner

Wed, Sep 16 · 8:00 PM ET Brooklyn, NY

Founders Basketball New York City (September 2026)

Tomorrow Thursday, September 17 19 events

Thu, Sep 17 · 8:00 AM ET New York, NY 14 attending

NYC Founders & Operators: Breakfast Club

Thu, Sep 17 · 8:30 AM ET 91 E 3rd St, New York, NY 10003, USA 121 attending

Amplitude NYC Meetup: Building & Measuring with AI

Thu, Sep 17 · 3:00 PM ET TBD

2026 PECS NYC - September

Thu, Sep 17 · 3:00 PM ET Ariston Coffee Bar, 78 5th Ave, New York, NY 10011, USA 34 attending

NYC GTM x AI meetup

Thu, Sep 17 · 4:00 PM ET New York, NY, USA

Founder confessions: Building the right business for you

Thu, Sep 17 · 5:00 PM ET Mr. Purple, 180 Orchard St 15th floor, New York, NY 10002, USA

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

Thu, Sep 17 · 5:30 PM ET WorkOS, 56 Greene St Fl 4, New York, NY 10012, USA

An evening with The Pragmatic Engineer

Thu, Sep 17 · 5:30 PM ET New York, NY

Micro x PES: Founders & Investors Happy Hour

Thu, Sep 17 · 6:00 PM ET NY Vintners

2026 ACG NY Women of Leadership Series – Fall Edition

Thu, Sep 17 · 6:00 PM ET New York, NY 45 attending

Back to School Fintech and AI Founder Happy Hour

Thu, Sep 17 · 6:00 PM ET WORKVILLE, 1412 Broadway 21st Floor, New York, NY 10018, USA 54 attending

GTM in the Age of Agents: Rethinking an AI First Funnel

Thu, Sep 17 · 6:00 PM ET New York, NY

September Nexus Networking Meet Up

Thu, Sep 17 · 6:00 PM ET The Woods, 48 S 4th St, Brooklyn, NY 11211, USA 177 attending

Honcho Happy Hour - NYC Agent Builders

Thu, Sep 17 · 6:00 PM ET New York, NY

Venture Week Real Estate Mixer

Thu, Sep 17 · 6:00 PM ET New York, NY

NYC Data + AI Happy Hour Meetup

Thu, Sep 17 · 6:00 PM ET New York, New York

Sept AI Engineers: Devs & Drinks

Thu, Sep 17 · 6:00 PM ET Brookfield Place, 230 Vesey St, New York, NY 10281, USA

Claude & Content

Thu, Sep 17 · 6:00 PM ET Brooklyn, NY

Storage is a Skill Salon

Thu, Sep 17 · 7:30 PM ET Roscioli NYC, 43 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10012, USA

Antimetal at Roscioli III

Friday, September 18 8 events

Fri, Sep 18 · 8:00 AM ET New York, NY

Founders On The Pitch

Fri, Sep 18 · 9:00 AM ET New York, NY 129 attending

Founders & Makers: Coworking & Mocktails

Fri, Sep 18 · 9:00 AM ET New York, New York

Wallet Max Emerald Summit: Sustainability & AI for Business

Fri, Sep 18 · 11:00 AM ET New York, NY

Monad Metropolis Hacker House: NYC

Fri, Sep 18 · 2:00 PM ET Queens, NY 73 attending

AI Databricks Hackathon + Networking Mixer NYC

Fri, Sep 18 · 4:30 PM ET New York, NY

AI Founders Summit

Fri, Sep 18 · 5:45 PM ET TBD 34 attending

Flynet Agent Crawl NYC

Fri, Sep 18 · 6:00 PM ET New York, NY

Venture Week Networking Mixer

Saturday, September 19 4 events

Sat, Sep 19 · 10:00 AM ET Brooklyn, NY 366 attending

Trust in the Hiring Funnel Hackathon @ NYU

Sat, Sep 19 · 11:30 AM ET Brooklyn, NY

RUNTIME: Build + Demo Day!

Sat, Sep 19 · 12:00 PM ET New York, NY

Work Hard. Land Soft. | Women in Venture Pilates Social

Sat, Sep 19 · 9:00 PM ET New York, NY

Climate Stakeholder Gathering: NYCW 2026

Sunday, September 20 4 events

Sun, Sep 20 · 9:00 AM ET New York, NY, USA

Wildfire Resilience Workshop: NYCW2026

NYC Philanthropy

Concordia Annual Summit 2026

Sun, Sep 20 · 9:00 AM ET New York, NY

NYC Philanthropy

Climate Week NYC 2026

Sun, Sep 20 · 9:00 AM ET New York, NY

Sun, Sep 20 · 1:30 PM ET New York, NY

The Deployment Room: 6 Active Funds, Funding Founders (Seed to Series A+) - Sept. 20th

Monday, September 21 4 events

Mon, Sep 21 · 3:00 PM ET 711 5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, USA 3 attending

🇺🇸 Family Offices Investors Summit 🥂🕯Michelin‑Dinner 📍NYC📍Sep 21-27 Climate Week NYC🇺🇸

Mon, Sep 21 · 5:30 PM ET Pubkey, 85 W Washington Pl, New York, NY 10011, USA

BitcoinMondays NYC - Featuring A Fireside Chat With Dr. W. Scott Stornetta

Mon, Sep 21 · 6:00 PM ET Microsoft Research Lab, 300 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012, USA 186 attending

AI Show and Tell - New York

Mon, Sep 21 · 6:00 PM ET 711 5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, USA 3 attending

🥂🥑🇺🇸 Michelin-Starred Investors DinnerFamily Offices & Investors Summit (FOIS)📍Climate Week NYC📍September 21-27 🇺🇸

Tuesday, September 22 7 events

Tue, Sep 22 · 8:45 AM ET New York, NY

Fonzi's AI & OJ: Founder's Breakfast

NYC Philanthropy High Signal

Clinton Global Initiative 2026 Annual Meeting

Tue, Sep 22 · 9:00 AM ET New York City

Tue, Sep 22 · 5:30 PM ET New York, NY

Tech Social | Supermoon, Avahi, Concord Visa

Tue, Sep 22 · 6:00 PM ET Brooklyn, NY 15 attending

NYC Creative AI September Forum

Tue, Sep 22 · 6:00 PM ET New York, NY

GTM as Code: GTM + AI Lightning Talks with experts from Vercel, Parallel, WorkOS, Profound, Air.inc, and Go Nimbly!

Tue, Sep 22 · 6:00 PM ET 420 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10170, USA 36 attending

Q4 Full Funnel Performance Creative: Discovery to Post-Click

Tue, Sep 22 · 7:00 PM ET New York, NY

Off The Court Series: Private Training Session @ GÜDSPORT

Wednesday, September 23 8 events

Wed, Sep 23 · 9:30 AM ET Betaworks, 29 Little W 12th St, New York, NY 10014, USA

CoClaude & CoWork NYC

Wed, Sep 23 · 5:00 PM ET 19 W 24th St, New York, NY 10010, USA

Everesteer Hedge Fund Hackathon: New York City

Wed, Sep 23 · 6:00 PM ET The Yard: Herald Square Coworking Office Space Manhattan, 106 W 32nd St, New York, NY 10001, USA

Who's Paying for AI? Product, Pricing & the Planet

Wed, Sep 23 · 6:00 PM ET New York, NY

PMAI Fight Right: A Co-Founder’s Guide to Disagreement

Wed, Sep 23 · 6:00 PM ET New York, NY

Astra vs Fable vs Open Weights

Wed, Sep 23 · 6:00 PM ET New York, NY

Dinner & Drinks with Superfiliate x Evertune

Wed, Sep 23 · 6:30 PM ET New York, NY

NYC CTOs & Tech Founders Night: Secret Garden Edition

Wed, Sep 23 · 7:00 PM ET New York, NY

NYC Startup Casino Night🗽🎲

Thursday, September 24 13 events

Thu, Sep 24 · 8:00 AM ET Capitale, 130 Bowery, New York, NY 10013, USA

Q4 Summit - Ecom Founders

NYC EA & Safety

From Patient Capital to Global Impact: Financing Responsible AI at Scale (By invitation only)

Thu, Sep 24 · 9:00 AM ET New York, NY, USA

Thu, Sep 24 · 9:30 AM ET Capitale, 130 Bowery

Ecom Founders Q4 Summit 2026

Thu, Sep 24 · 5:00 PM ET New York, NY

The Studio Investor Fireside Chat: A100X Ventures | Brian Li

Thu, Sep 24 · 5:30 PM ET 14 W 23rd St suite 6, New York, NY 10010, USA 57 attending

AI Adoption Open Mic & Happy Hour: Volume 3

Thu, Sep 24 · 6:00 PM ET New York, NY 18 attending

Notepass x She AI

Building in AI × Life Sciences: A Fireside Chat with NVIDIA, Databricks, and Amigo AI by NYC Founders Club

Thu, Sep 24 · 6:30 PM ET New York, NY 76 attending

Zavo Capital Club: Bridging Startup Founders and Investors- Mixer & Dinner

NYC Founders & Operators: Oktoberfest

Founder Dinner

UGLY TALK: UNMASKING THE FEMALE POWERHOUSE

Thu, Sep 24 · 7:00 PM ET Little More, 111 Reade St, New York, NY 10013, USA

NYC's Ultimate Networking Event – Ecommerce Founders & Entrepreneurs ✨🎉

Thu, Sep 24 · 7:00 PM ET Kings County, New York

AI Engineers: Poker & Game Night

Friday, September 25 1 event

Fri, Sep 25 · 9:00 AM ET New York, NY 208 attending

Builders & Brews NYC

Saturday, September 26 2 events

Sat, Sep 26 · 9:00 AM ET New York, NY

Climate System Thinking: NYCW2026

Sat, Sep 26 · 9:00 AM ET New York, NY

The Harness Engineering & Model Wrangling Hackathon

Monday, September 28 5 events

Mon, Sep 28 · All day TBD

Independent Sponsors Summit: New York

Mon, Sep 28 · 9:00 AM ET Marriott Marquis

Programmatic I/O New York 2026

NYC Bio

Nucleate NY 6.0 Kickoff

Mon, Sep 28 · 5:30 PM ET Queens, NY

Mon, Sep 28 · 6:00 PM ET New York, NY

The Shortlist: September Founder Showcase

NYC High Signal

Rho & InstaSwitch: Founders Only Dinner

Mon, Sep 28 · 6:30 PM ET New York, NY

Tuesday, September 29 6 events

Tue, Sep 29 · All day TBD

Boardroom Summit

Tue, Sep 29 · 5:30 PM ET New York, NY

Events as a Growth Strategy | Supermoon Playbook

Tue, Sep 29 · 5:30 PM ET New York, NY

Token Economics: Why Cost Kills More AI Projects Than Hallucinations

NYC Investors High Signal

2026 ACG NY DealSource Series - September Edition

Tue, Sep 29 · 6:00 PM ET New York Athletic Club

Tue, Sep 29 · 6:30 PM ET Brooklyn, NY

September Tech Rooftop Mixer (Hosted by Andrew Yeung)

Tue, Sep 29 · 7:00 PM ET Le Petit Village, 173 7th Ave S, New York, NY 10014, USA 7 attending

[Founders Only] DTC Dinner | DTC Builders NYC

Wednesday, September 30 8 events

NYC Bio

Nucleate Australia - Queensland Hub: Reverse Pitch and Pitch Night!

Wed, Sep 30 · 3:00 AM ET Institute for Molecular Bioscience, 306 Carmody Rd, St Lucia QLD 4067, Australia

Wed, Sep 30 · 9:00 AM ET Pier 36 NYC, 299 South St, New York, NY 10002, USA

MongoDB.local NYC: For Startups Building What's Next

Wed, Sep 30 · 9:00 AM ET Microsoft Experience Center, 677 5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, USA

Vibe Summit NYC

Wed, Sep 30 · 6:00 PM ET Huso, 323A Greenwich St, New York, NY 10013, USA

Rootly AI x Anthropic Executive Dinner (NYC)

Wed, Sep 30 · 6:00 PM ET Brooklyn, NY

Best of NYC with Work-Bench: Forward Deployed Engineers!

Wed, Sep 30 · 6:00 PM ET Brooklyn, NY

Fonzi's Founders to Follow

Wed, Sep 30 · 6:00 PM ET TBD

The Shortlist NYC - Fireside Chat @ Datadog

Wed, Sep 30 · 6:30 PM ET Mindspace Williamsburg, 25 Kent Ave lobby; Suite 401, Brooklyn, NY 11249, USA

Papers We Love: NYC | What Saltzer & Schroeder knew in 1975 about the agents we're building in 2026

Thursday, October 1 4 events

Thu, Oct 1 · 9:00 AM ET Brooklyn, NY

Consumer Perks (October 2026)

Thu, Oct 1 · 5:30 PM ET New York, New York

NYC Founders Forum with infra.nyc and MongoDB

Thu, Oct 1 · 6:30 PM ET New York, NY

NYC Founders & Operators: Rooftop Social

Thu, Oct 1 · 7:00 PM ET New York, NY

Meow + Freeport Markets: Private Founder Poker Night

Friday, October 2 1 event

Fri, Oct 2 · 9:00 AM ET New York, NY

tech pawty with PuppySphere x Fibe

Saturday, October 3 1 event