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SF IRL - Aug 25th, 2025

A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco

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Jonathan Chang
August 25, 2025

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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 #160.

I'm Jonathan, the creator of SF IRL. I've been a Bay Area resident all my life and moved into San Francisco about 4 years ago. My full-time job is at Brex 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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Day ZeroMeeting the top folks in tech, find your next cofounder, and your next role

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8:30pm

What: No experience necessary! Join us for a high-energy evening of padel followed by great food, refreshments, and conversation with fellow leaders from the Startup/VC community.

​Whether you're new to the game or a seasoned player 🎾, it’s all about having fun, getting a little competitive, and making meaningful connections off the court.

​Event Details:

​​📅 Date: September 4th, 2025

​​⏰ Time:

​6:00pm - 8:00pm - Time with the Coach + Game

​8:00pm - 8:30pm - Food + Refreshments

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Events Coming Up

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4-6pm

What: ​We The Builders is back for another live event in SF, this time featuring David Cramer, Cofounder and CPO of Sentry (raised over $200m from tier VC firms like NEA and Accel and is valued at $3B)

Sentry, helps developers find and fix bugs faster so they can get back to the fun parts of building. David started Sentry as an Open Source side project in 2012; today it’s used by over four million developers at over 100,000 organizations, including companies like Anthropic, Disney, Instacart, Duolingo, Slack, and Cursor. In his spare time, he builds projects to dogfood Sentry on and is an angel investor in Vercel, Laravel, Dandelion Chocolate, and dozens of other companies.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: ​We’re opening up 10 confession slots for founders to share their rawest, realest 5-minute stories.
No slides. No ego. Just the sh*t you usually keep to yourself.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8:30pm

What: Join us for an exclusive AI HackNight & Networking. Learn about the latest about AI Development with Neo4j, Galileo and SambaNova.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 9-11am

What: ​Join us for our first off-the-record legal breakfast session where we bring in top startup attorneys to give actionable founder advice and straight answers to your burning legal questions. Lang Liu from Wilson Sonsini comes with over a decade of experience providing counsel to startups, and will be presenting her Founder's Legal Playbook before answering your questions. We'll collect anonymous questions from attendees for Lang to answer, as well as an open Q&A.

Location: Oakland

Time: 5-8pm

What: ​In a rare joint session, public finance meets film innovation. Fiona and Chaniah unpack what it means to fund the future of storytelling, from state-backed incentives to grassroots studio builds. This is a must-hear conversation for creators and investors alike.

Aug 27th, 2025 - Hyperspace: Agentic OS

Location: San Francisco

Time: 11am-1pm

What: ​Join us for a special keynote presentation on the detailed product vision of the Hyperspace Agentic OS, including an extended live demo of our breakthrough new agentic browser with it's spatial AI, and the announcement of the first-ever agentic blockchain protocol.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8:30pm

What: ​​​​Join us for an exclusive AI HackNight & Networking. Learn about the latest about AI Development with Neo4j, Galileo and SambaNova.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8:30pm

What: AI Trivia Night is back for V3. The last two have been sold out and ranked as one of the best events in SF for Engineers. Don't miss this one!

How does it work? Each round gets progressively harder including rounds like "Debug this code" and "Guess the prompt" in which players need to guess the prompt that generated the image.

Aug 28th, 2025 - Silicon Valley Demo Night 🚀 (w. The AI Collective & Atlassian)

Location: Mountain View

Time: 6-9pm

What: ​Every month, we host the most electric demo nights in San Francisco – and now, for the first time ever, we’re bringing that same magic to Silicon Valley. This special night in Mountain View will gather the Bay Area’s top builders, sharpest minds, and boldest new ideas for a showcase of frontier tech you won’t want to miss. Expect a packed room, high energy, and 10 elite pre-Series A teams ready to steal the show!

Aug 28th, 2025 - -1 to Boz

Location: San Francisco

Time: 11am-12pm

What: South Park Commons is delighted to host Boz as part of our -1 to Now series!

​​​​​​Event Details:

  • ​​​​​​​​10:30am: Doors Open

  • ​​​​​11:00am-12:00pm: Fireside Chat

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8:30pm

What: ​Join us for a lively evening at our Founders & Investors Social! This casual gathering is the perfect opportunity to mingle, connect, and unwind with fellow founders and investors in a relaxed atmosphere.

Aug 28th, 2025 - Get YC Ready!

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: Thinking about applying to Y Combinator? This 2-hour live session could give you the edge.

​Join YC Founders for a hands-on workshop breaking down what it really takes to stand out in the YC application process and pitch with confidence under pressure.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8:30pm

What: Join us for Demo Night, where our community takes center stage to showcase the incredible projects they're building with LangGraph and LangChain! Watch lightning-fast 3-5 minute demos from fellow builders.

​Stick around after the presentations for networking, pizza, and beverages as we connect with fellow AI builders and dive deeper into the demos that caught your attention.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 2-3pm

What: Join us at Susa Venture's office to discuss what it really takes to build and defend an AI startup today. The next iconic startups will be built by founders who move fast, read the market, and leverage platforms like X to shape the conversation while scaling their products. If that’s the game you’re playing — or want to — this event is for you.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: ​Join Arize and Turing for an evening exploring how to optimize agents with RL Gyms and Prompt Learning.

Location: Palo Alto

Time: 8:30-10:30am

What: ​Deep Tech Connections is hosting the monthly breakfast networking event on Friday, August 29th, from 8:30-10:30 am.

​This is an exclusive opportunity to network with key players in the deep tech community, including entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, corporate innovators, and government professionals.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-6:30pm

What: ​📣 Do you want to join the next Antler Residency in SF?

The Antler Fall Residency kicks off on September 30th, and we’re hosting an exclusive in-person interview experience in San Francisco for female founders at the beginning of your entrepreneurial journey.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-10:30pm

What: ​Join us at House of Web3 for an evening of practical blockchain innovation, short, sharp demos, and real builder stories from UTXOS, DeltaDeFi, Charms, and BOS. We’ll show how Bitcoin- and Cardano-native UTXO architecture powers apps that onboard users faster, scale reliably, and open new markets across payments, trading, and tokenized assets.

Sept 4th, 2025 - Startup Talent Summit

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4-7pm

What: The talent summit is for startup-ready or startup-curious job seekers looking for their next role in an early stage startup.

Location: Palo Alto

Time: 6-8pm

What: 6 pm Arrival and open networking
6:30 pm Live demos
 • PDD legacy-to-cloud migration powered by Kimi-K2 on Groq hardware
 • Toolhouse Agent Studio: YAML spec → running agent
7:30 pm Second networking block
The room is booked until 9 pm; feel free to stay late.

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