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- SF IRL - Aug 4th, 2025
SF IRL - Aug 4th, 2025
A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco
Jonathan Chang
August 04, 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 #157.
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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Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What: Oddbird VC & Brex are hosting a preseed & seed founder dinner for founders building in vertical SaaS.
Aug 12th, 2025 - Seed & Series A Founder Baseball Game with Brex
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What: Baseball game with Brex for seed & Series A founders
Building out an IRL SF community for young hustlers starting out in the founder journey. Will have a series of intimate events in SF all designed to meet your future cofounder, customers and collaborators. We also have a Whatsapp group to join as well!
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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.
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Events Coming Up
Aug 5th, 2025 - 🧠 The AI Collective SF 🧠 SF Newcomer Night
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What: Calling all interns and newcomers to SF! We're bringing together interns, recent grads, and newcomers from across the Bay Area to SF for a night of good vibes, new faces, and casual networking that feels fun.
Aug 5th, 2025 - Hyperspace: Agentic OS
Location: San Francisco
Time: 12-2pm
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.
Aug 5th, 2025 - RoboCon @SBC
Location: San Francisco
Time: 11am-5pm
What: RobotCon by PrismaX is a gathering of the world’s most visionary minds in robotics, AI, crypto, and frontier technology. The inaugural edition of RobotCon is hosted by PrismaX, Ethereum House, Vana, and Stanford Blockchain Builders (BBF) at the Frontier Tower, located at 995 Market St, San Francisco on Tuesday August 5 during SBC. Event sponsors include Sentient, OpenMind, Cambrian, Rumi, and GAIB.
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8pm
What: Join us in San Francisco for an exclusive event focused on Autonomous Workforces: Architecting & Governing Multi-Agent AI at Enterprise Scale, hosted by VentureBeat and SAP.
Aug 5th, 2025 - FC SF • Founders Run & Coffee!
Location: San Francisco
Time: 7-9am
What: Join Founders Common for our weekly early morning run with other founders, operators & creatives! Come run and then hang out afterward to chat with new friends across the startup community over coffee.
Aug 5th, 2025 - Ensuring Accurate AI Agent Paths through Tracing and Evaluation
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-9pm
What:
Aug 5th, 2025 - 🧠 The AI Collective SF 🧠 SF Newcomer Night
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What: Modern AI agents don’t always follow a straight path — and they don’t always get it right. As agent-based applications move from prototype to production, observability becomes critical to ensuring correct, efficient, and trustworthy behaviors.
Join Arize AI, AWS, and CrewAI for an evening focused on tracing and evaluating AI agent workflows. We’ll explore real-world techniques for gaining visibility into agent decisions, verifying tool usage and parameters, and implementing feedback loops that drive continual improvement. Learn how to debug, optimize, and monitor agents in dynamic, non-deterministic environments with the help of modern observability tools and agent frameworks.
Aug 5th, 2025 - SF Founders Shuck & Sip with MongoDB & Brex
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What: Join MongoDB Ventures & Brex on the Bay for a relaxed evening with a curated group of early-stage, high-growth startup founders—enjoy drinks, oysters, and conversation on the San Francisco waterfront. Connect with other Bay Area founders, chat with MongoDB Ventures and Brex, and unwind with your favorite beverage!
Aug 6th, 2025 - SF Coffee Club | AI Infrastructure Founders & Funders
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9-10am
What: Calling all early-stage B2B SaaS founders and funders!
👋 Hi! We’re Sruthi Sivanandan and Deirdre Clute from the Forum Ventures team. We’re teaming up with M12 Ventures and are proud to have JustWorks as our event sponsor to help foster deeper connections in the early-stage ecosystem for founders and investors in the AI infrastructure space.
Aug 6th, 2025 - Poker Night: All-in on build mode
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: We're betting the roadmap on a flush.
Poker night for engineers and founders, August 6.
Swing by for cards, snacks, and unfiltered product chat. All skill levels welcome, from beginners to card counters.
Aug 7th, 2025 - Humans, Agents, and Autonomous Economy 🤖
Location: Menlo Park
Time: 5-8pm
What: What does it take to build the next breakout AI company—from scratch?
Join us for a candid panel discussion with founders and investors shaping the future of full-stack AI startups. We’ll explore what it really means to build end-to-end AI products, from infrastructure to interface, and how early-stage teams can stay ahead in a rapidly evolving space.
Aug 8th, 2025 - LangChain Presents: College Night
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What:
Aug 6th, 2025 - Poker Night: All-in on build mode
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: An evening designed specifically for students and recent graduates to dive deep into LangChain, connect with our team, and get insider insights into the world of AI agents.
Aug 8th, 2025 - AI Dev Tool Demo Night @ AWS Gen AI Loft (#2nd Edition)
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9pm
What: Join us for an exclusive AI Dev Tool night & Networking session. Learn about the latest and top AI Dev Tool & APIs in the market.
Organised by Sampleapp.ai & Alchemist Accelerator. If you would like to showcase your company's public API/SDKs, reach out to us to demo your APIs in the event. (Limited slots available)
Aug 8th, 2025 - The To Do List Summit
Location: San Francisco
Time: 8am-6pm
What: A one-day action summit for early-stage founders – brought to you by the experts who led communications, video, social, and events at Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz.
Aug 9th, 2025 - Biopunk DeSci Hackathon - Public
Location: San Francisco
Time: 12pm
What: Welcome to the bleeding edge of science and technology.
**The Biopunk DeSci Hackathon** is a 2-day buildathon at the intersection of synthetic biology, web3 tooling, and radical open science happening in the heart of San Francisco. ❤️
Whether you're a scientist, dev, designer, or just DeSci-curious, come help prototype the future of:
💊 Citizen-led clinical trials
🤖 Remote wet lab automation
📚 Peer-to-peer science publishing
🧠 DAO-governed science
🧬 NFT-mintable lab protocols
🌱 Decentralized environmental sensing
Aug 10th, 2025 - AI Founders Play Pickleball
Location: San Francisco
Time: 10am-1pm
What: Time to recharge - and better to do it with like-minded folks.
12 founders play pickleball to reset before the week kicks in.
No matter your skill level - we've got a coach and it'll be fun!
Aug 12th, 2025 - The AI Hustle: Happy Hour for Startup Founders & VCs
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Calling all AI founders in San Francisco! 🧠 Join us for an evening of networking, learning, and fun as we connect with fellow founders, explore fundraising strategies, and discover the latest advancements in AI. 📈
Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting your AI journey, this event is for you. 💯 We'll have plenty of opportunities to mingle with like-minded individuals and get insights into the ever-evolving AI landscape. 🚀
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: An invite only evening for DevRel and community leaders as we launch our new series for practitioners to share case studies swap tactics and build networks
Aug 14th, 2025 - Inworld x Lightning AI: How To Integrate & Deploy Voice AI Agents
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What: Join us in San Francisco for a hands-on developer workshop with Inworld’s Director of ML Engineering, Feifan Fan. Learn how to leverage Inworld + Lightning to integrate state-of-the-art voice AI (STT, TTS, LLM) into a consumer application and make it production ready.
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