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SF IRL - April 14th, 2025
A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco
Jonathan Chang
April 14, 2025
Hi SF IRL! There's a ton of vibrance and energy coming back into the city and at SF IRL, we are excited to be a part of it. Excited to come with you all with some great events for Issue #140. Apologies if you haven’t seen us in a while, we’ve had some deliveribility issues and have been in people’s spam over the last 3 weeks.
First, if you checked sfirl.com recently, you might have noticed we have a new website. New design, same great newsletter sending you the top events in the Bay Area.
I'm Jonathan, the creator of SF IRL. I've been a Bay Area resident all my life and moved into San Francisco about 3 years ago. My full-time job is at Brex as an XIR where I meet founders and VCs while trying to create a community in the city. My vision for SF IRL is simple. Showcase the best tech + startup events in SF and to connect all of our builders and investors together. We are a growing community having over 9000+ subscribers. As we keep growing, if you enjoy reading these, please share this with your friends so we can hit 10,000 readers. As always, SF IRL is one of my many side projects. If you like to be involved in helping, please shoot me an email!
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Apr 21st, 2025 - Brex Baseball Club 4/21
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: You are formally invited to Brex Baseball Club in San Francisco.
Join the Brex team and fellow founders and investors in the Tony Bennett Suite at Oracle Park to enjoy the baseball season with great company!
Apr 22nd, 2025 - Brex x IVP Supper Club Vertical SaaS Series A dinner
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9:30pm
What: You are formally invited to Brex x IVP Supper Club in San Francisco for Vertical SaaS Series A founders.
I’ve made a form to connect the best founders raising with my list of VCs. If you are a founder raising your next round and want to potentially be featured to investors in the SF IRL network, please fill out this form.
I’m launching a newsletter that will feature the top founders looking to hire, founders looking for their cofounder, and operators that are looking for their next role. If you are interested in being featured, fill this form here.
You can subscribe to Jonathan’s People You Should Meet here - coming soon.
Events Coming Up 🎉
Apr 15th, 2025 - AI Unleashed - TaxGPT & the AI Fintech Revolution
Location: San Francisco
Time: 4-7pm
What: AI is transforming the way we handle money—are you keeping up? From personalized banking to AI-powered tax optimization, the future of Fintech is here, and it’s changing the game.
Join us for an electrifying discussion on how AI is revolutionizing taxes, banking, and investments. Whether you’re an investor, founder, or just curious about what’s next, this is your chance to hear from the experts shaping the future.
Apr 15th, 2025 - Funded Female Founders
Location: Palo Alto
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: Join us for an evening spotlighting powerhouse female founders and the investors who back them. This event is for post-seed founders gearing up for Series A (and beyond) fundraising and will feature candid conversations, strategic insights, and high-impact networking.
Apr 15th, 2025 - Serendipity (Palo Alto Edition)
Location: Palo Alto
Time: 7:30-9:30pm
What: 🚀 Join The Product Folks and The Financialist for an Exclusive Evening for High-Agency Operators and Builders
🗓 Date: April 15, 2025
⏰ Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
📍 City: Palo Alto
Location: San Francisco
Time: 4:30-8pm
What: The AI GTM Playbook for Scaling 0→100M ARR
✨ Why drop everything to attend?
You’re invited to a strictly curated discussions with 50 elite GTM and Sales leaders who’ve cracked the code on scaling AI products. No observers. No vendors. Just the operators behind category-defining AI products.
Apr 15th, 2025 - AI and the New Investor
Location: Palo Alto
Time: 6-8pm
What: Speakers: Vinod Khosla, Founder and Managing Director of Khosla Ventures
Event Description: Organized by Stanford GSB AI Club and AIx2, we will ask Vinod to share his view on how AI is shaping a new investment era and the future investor both as an investing opportunity and as an investment tool:
How will AI change the investment across asset classes (VC, Private Equity, Public Equity) and their landscape in the long run? Will they be even more consolidated?
What are AI investment trends at the application layer across different stages from pre-seed to series B?
What are different routes for graduating students for successful careers in investment including VC, private equity, etc. in light of the AI disruption? From starting their own investment firm to joining existing ones.
Apr 15th, 2025 - Mike Kreiger & the Future of AI
Location: San Francisco
Time: 3-5pm
What: Join SPC for an off the record conversation with Mike Krieger, Chief Product Officer at Anthropic. This is the final event of the SPC x Anthropic Hackathon. All approved hackers who complete a project are guaranteed admission to the fireside chat- register here to hack.
Apr 16th, 2025 - Harry’s Healthtech Happy Hour
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: A happy hour but one where everyone has the intention of helping others, empowering them to achieve their professional and personal goals. You will mingle, enjoy beverages and light bites (read: open bar for beer & wine), pay it forward, and maybe get help in return.
Apr 17th, 2025 - GenAI Collective x Thesys + Exploring GenUI
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9pm
What: Join us for a high-energy evening at the frontier of human-computer interaction, where we explore the emerging world of Generative UI—the next evolution of how we build, design, and interact with software! Whether you’re a founder, builder, researcher, or investor, this is your chance to connect with the sharpest minds and boldest innovators redefining the interface layer! 🤝
Apr 17th, 2025 - Bring Your Own Cloud Meetup
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: Interested in discussing deployment options beyond the constraints of traditional SaaS?
This group is for anyone looking to explore the opportunities and challenges around Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) – an emerging deployment pattern that’s gaining traction across the industry. Are you your company’s Chief Deployment Officer? We built this meetup with you in mind.
We’ll explore real-world challenges like ensuring security, compliance, and access control in BYOC deployments while maintaining scalability and high availability. Plus, we’ll discuss strategies for seamless integration with enterprise systems and balancing flexibility with the operational complexities of cloud ownership.
Apr 17th, 2025 - GenAI Collective - Living Room Chats for AI Founders
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What: Cozy living room style discussions for AI founders with the topic of the day as a staring point!
We’ll break into small, intimate discussion groups so you can connect directly with other founders and leaders in the field—sharing strategies, lessons learned, and ideas for what’s next! Whether you're integrating AI, cutting costs, or just exploring what’s possible, this is your chance to have real conversations with the people shaping the future 🚀
Apr 17th, 2025 - AI Agent Swarms
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: lindy ai just released the ability to run 300+ agents with one click with loops.
🐝 time to build and test out this new feature!
come join for a no code ai build sprint with the chance to demo, get feedback, and discuss applications with flo, ceo of lindy.
curious to see what's possible? check out this live stream from last week with different examples.
Apr 18th, 2025 - VIBE25-1: After Dark Vibe-Coding Hackathon
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-11pm
What: VIBE CODING IS THE NEW DEFAULT — SHIP FAST, HAVE FUN
🗓 Friday, April 18 | 5–11PM
📍 27 South Park St, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107
Apr 19th, 2025 - Hack#3 Build Your AI Copilot
Location: San Francisco
Time: 1-5pm
What: This mini-hackathon is for anyone who’s ever said,
“I wish AI could just handle this one thing I do every week.”
Whether it’s generating weekly ops updates, auto-responding to support tickets, creating bug triage summaries or project status reports—this session is about building your own AI-powered tool that runs end-to-end:
Takes input → does the work → delivers results.
Apr 22nd, 2025 - World Wide Web and AI Hack Night
Location: San Francisco
Time: 4:30-8pm
What: Join Cloudflare, Neon, Twilio and Fiberplane for an evening of fun, learning, and community. Together we will explore HONC (https://honc.dev/), an opinionated stack consisting of Hono, ORM (Drizzle), Neon, and Cloudflare Workers).
You can join the hacking challenges or just enjoy meeting other web developers. We invite developers, AI builders, startups, and anyone interested in technology to hang out, hack away, and learn together about new tools shaping the web development space.
Apr 24th, 2025 - NextGen GPU Programming
Location: Los Altos
Time: 6-9pm
What: Join us for a meetup at Modular HQ in Los Altos, California!
Venue: Modular HQ in Los Altos, California (199 1st St, Suite 200, Los Altos, CA 94022)
Refreshments and swag will be provided.
Apr 24th, 2025 - 121st SF Hardware Meetup
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
What: Join for our next meetup as we explore all different areas of designing, building, and launching consumer tech!
🤖 There will be a chance for an open mic. All demos and standup pitches welcome.
Hardware Meetups happen across 30+ cities around the world, bringing together hardware professionals to network, share knowledge, and support each other and the larger hardware ecosystem.
Apr 24th, 2025 - The Future of AI Driven Reliability
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8pm
What: MCP servers are opening a sea of possibilities for developer tols. They have the potential to make every developer a 10x engineer and allow SRE teams to reach six nines of reliability.
Apr 24th, 2025 - Female Founders & Funders Walk
Location: San Francisco
Time: 2:30-4:30pm
What: Join us for our Female Founders and Funders Walk on Thursday, April 24th
Step away from your busy work week a little early and join us for a fun, relaxed networking opportunity. This walk will be held at Salesforce Park from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm. There’s no formal agenda—just an incredible opportunity to connect with and be inspired by the amazing women in our community. Get some fresh air, walk, chat, and connect with other like-minded women and woman-identifying founders and funders in the startup world. We can’t wait for some great conversations and new connections!
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