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SF IRL - Feb 17th, 2025

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

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Jonathan Chang
February 17, 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 #131.

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 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: đź’ˇ 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.

Feb 18th, 2025 - GenZ Founders Meetup

Location: Palo Alto

Time: 5-8pm

What: Join us for an exclusive Gen Z Founders Meetup, where ambitious young entrepreneurs come together to connect, share insights, and build a stronger startup ecosystem.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-9pm

What: ​Founders, builders, and problem-solvers—join us for a down-to-earth conversation about how DeepSeek’s open-source models can actually help startups. No buzzwords, no fluff—just practical insights, real challenges, and a room full of people figuring it out together!

Feb 19th, 2025 - tldr 2 - tech happy hour

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8pm

What: ​​tldr tech happy hour sf is back for round two

​it’s a happy hour for the tech folks and friends in SF interested in supporting new bars and meeting good people.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: ​Believe in tech? Believe in user rights? Believe founders can build the best companies AND protect users WITHOUT sacrificing hyperscale innovation or growth? We do. And we know how to do it.

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: 6-9pm

What: ​Join us for an inspiring evening at the AIF Young Professionals Happy Hour with Robert Chatwani, President of DocuSign, former CMO of Atlassian and eBay. Robert will share his journey of leading a purposeful life and career, diving into how he discovered his career path, overcame setbacks, and stayed true to his values.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8:30pm

What: ​A night of engineering Trivia, like a traditional trivia night but for engineers by engineers. Sponsored by OpenAI, LaunchDarkly, SignalFire and more! Come win incredible prizes (early access to coveted AI models?) meet investors and hang out with other bay area developers.

Feb 21st, 2025 - Food Tour & Tech SF

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-7:30pm

What: Are you in tech and love food? Whether you are a tech builder, founder, investor, or professional, this tour is for you to seek collaboration through connection- while exploring some of SF’s best food scenes and supporting small businesses.

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

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-10pm

What: ​Join us for an unforgettable evening at ACCELR8 | Slow Jam Party @ Homebrew, where soulful R&B rhythms meet the innovative spirit of the tech community. Hosted at the member-owned Homebrew Crypto Club, this event is designed to foster connections, celebrate creativity, and showcase the club's dynamic co-working space.

Location: Palo Alto

Time: 6:30-9pm

What: 🚀 AI is Everywhere—But Is It Efficient?

​What if you could supercharge AI on edge and endpoint devices, unlocking next-level performance, efficiency, and reasoning?

​Join us for a deep dive into the next generation of ultra-efficient AI designed for on-device intelligence. This is your chance to gain unfiltered insights from top experts pioneering lightning-fast, scalable AI across millions of devices.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: Welcome to the Cline | AI Agent CodeGen Meetup
We're bringing together the innovators in AI code generation for an evening of networking, demos, and good pizza.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-9pm

What: curious about how new machine learning models are finding their way into clinical workflows, biosensors, and healthtech?

​join us for a series of demos that remove the hype of ai and focus on active solutions being implemented today.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: â€‹Gusto Co-Founder and CEO Josh Reeves sits down with Jeff Seibert, Co-Founder and CEO of Digits, to share behind-the-scenes challenges, pivotal moments, and valuable lessons learned towards building a category defining company.

Feb 26th, 2025 - Expert Perspectives on LLMs & MultiModal Evaluation

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: Dive deep into the cutting edge of AI evaluation at GitHub HQ in San Francisco! This meetup brings together AI developers and practitioners for two in-depth talks from industry experts, covering the latest techniques for evaluating AI applications, including multi-modal systems. Whether you’re working on classifying audio sentiment, evaluating agentic systems, or still figuring out what evaluations are right for your use case, this event offers actionable insights to elevate your work. Enjoy light food, drinks, and the chance to connect with fellow AI professionals.

Feb 26th, 2025 - AI Leaders Chat and Network at Cloudflare

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: Join Us for an Unparalleled AI Leadership Panel

​Want to learn about what AI Leaders in the industry are thinking about when it comes to their AI Strategy? Join us for an evening discussion panel with prominent leaders in AI and get a sneak peek into how the industry is thinking about these problems while you enjoy some food and beverages!

Feb 28th, 2025 - Hacking Agents Hackathon

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5pm

What: Join DataStax, Cloudflare, Unstructured, Twilio and OpenAI for an epic 24 hour hackathon where we'll be diving into what developers can build with the latest and greatest in AI tooling!

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