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SF IRL - Feb 10th, 2025

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

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Jonathan Chang
February 10, 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 #130.

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 8000+ 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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Events Coming Up 🎉

Feb 11th, 2025 - Brex TopGolf 1:1 VC/Founder Edition

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: ​We rented out a bay at Top Golf for founders raising their seed round & investors investing in that space. We’ll plan to have a 1:1 ratio of founders raising to investors so we’d love to see you come out and play.

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.

Feb 11th, 2025 - SF Platform Meetup

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8:30pm

What: ​We're bringing the SF Platform community together for a third time! RSVP today to secure your spot — you won't want to miss this one.

​For this event, we're honored to be joined by our speakers Deepti Srivastava (Founder of Snow Leopard, and former Google Spanner PM), and Nathen Harvey (Google DORA Lead and Developer Advocate).

Feb 11th, 2025 - -1 to Vinod Khosla

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4:30-6:30pm

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

​​​​Event Details

  • ​​​​​​4:30pm: Doors Open

  • ​​​5-6pm: Fireside Chat with Vinod Khosla + Aditya Agarwal

  • ​​6-6:30pm: Networking

Feb 12th, 2025 - Harry’s Healthtech Hang

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.  

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8:15pm

What: ​Join Us for an Exclusive Founder & VC Happy Hour!

​🎯 What: Exclusive Founders Happy Hour in San Francisco, hosted by Grace Gong (Smart Venture Media) and Christopher Kennamer (OneSixOne Ventures)

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: Join us for an enlightening evening at "AI & Beyond: Fireside Chat with Azeem Azhar & Pete Flint," hosted by NFX. Taking place on February 12, 2025, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at 34 Page St in the lively Hayes Valley of San Francisco, this event promises to be a thought-provoking exploration into the future of technology.

Feb 12th, 2025 - Agentic RAG in Action

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8pm

What: ​Join us for a set of walkthroughs centered around Agentic RAG. We'll cover how to prepare, manipulate, and transform data using Airbyte's toolset, how to build an Agentic RAG system using that data, and how to trace and evaluate that system using Arize Phoenix. By the end of the sessions, you'll be ready to build and observe your own production-ready Agentic RAG system.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: ​​Join us for a dynamic conversation on the evolution of sports tech investing and the strategies shaping its future. This discussion will bring together seasoned investors and founders who have been at the forefront of the industry, exploring how sports tech has evolved, where capital is flowing, and what it takes to build and scale in this competitive space.

Feb 13th, 2025 - 119th SF Hardware Meetup

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-9:30pm

What: Join for our first demo night of the year exploring how hardware is helping respond to natural disasters.

​There will be a chance for an open mic. All demos and standup pitches welcome.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 10am-12:30pm

What: ​You are invited to a Women's Economic EmpowHERment brunch tipping off NBA All-Star Weekend 2025 curated by Untapped Investing - an angel investment group who come together as a powerful collective catalyst for change in venture - in partnership with PlayersTV!

Location: San Francisco

Time: 10:30am-11pm

What: Join us for our 9th annual BIG Summit experience in San Francisco during NBA All-Star weekend. This year's theme, "Legends of the Bay", pays homage to our host city and the city our founder, Baron Davis, played four seasons with.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 9am-7pm

What: CreatorsCorner, collaborating with
Google Deepmind, Weights & Biases, Together.ai, Stytch, Senso, LlamaIndex and others enthusiastically welcomes individuals and teams to join our fourth hackathon! Seize this opportunity to create cutting-edge solutions that enhance human potential through AI-powered software.

Feb 18th, 2025 - Built on Bedrock Demo

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

What: Built on Bedrock Gen AI demo night

​​Join us for an exciting evening of Generative AI demos from local startups leveraging Amazon Bedrock.

​​Generative AI is truly changing our lives and the way we work - opening up new use cases and opportunities.

Feb 18th, 2025 - Techstars Startup Weekend

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-9pm

What: 💡 Hustle hard. Stay healthy. Win big.

​Most founders burn out before they break through. Not you.

​Join us at MBC Biolabs on Feb 18, 2025, where entrepreneurs, biohackers, and longevity experts come together to crack the code on high performance without self-destruction.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6pm

What: Each week on every Wednesday, we highlight incredible teachers, doctors, artists, musicians, and experts in the wellness & yoga worlds.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-9pm

What: ​Join us for a curated, invite-only dinner to celebrate the start of 2025.

​We're bringing together 20 seed to Series A founders from our community—founders that we believe have a unicorn trajectory. All founders here have either been previously covered by Unicorner or have attended one of our past events.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: ​You’ve been personally selected as an elite seller to join Codeium's sales team for an exclusive evening in San Francisco on February 20th. Learn how to evaluate AI startups and choose the right company for YOU.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: ​Join us for an exclusive evening of networking and collaboration at the Founders & Investors Social!

​This event brings together visionary founders and forward-thinking investors for meaningful conversations, idea exchanges, and potential partnerships.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: ​Join us for a YC founder gathering hosted by Solidroad (YC W25) & Intercom

​Who is this event for?

  • ​​YC founders and alumni

  • ​Investors in YC companies

​Catch up with old founder friends and make new ones all over refreshing drinks and small bites.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 2:30-4:30pm

What: ​By popular demand, our Female Founders and Funders Walk is back on Friday, February 21st!

​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. After the fantastic turnout at our past events, we’re thrilled to bring it back! 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! If you haven’t had the chance to join us at one of our previous walks, we hope to see you there for this one!  

Feb 22nd, 2025 - Lofi Hack

Location: San Francisco

Time: 8am-6pm

What: Lofi hackathon

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