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SF IRL - Feb 3rd, 2025
A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco
Jonathan Chang
February 03, 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 #129.
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 🎉
I’m hosting Feb 12th, 2025 - Agentic AI Roundtable Dinner - Workflows & Apps for Seed & Series A Founders with $2B Venture Fund
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30pm
What: I am hosting an Agentic AI Roundtable Dinner in SF on Feb 12th with a big $2B AUM venture fund (announced at sign up). For founders building in Agentic AI with $2m+ raised.
I’m hosting Feb 5th, 2025 - Brex x SignalFire Supper Club: On Raising Your Preseed Round
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30pm
What: You are formally invited to Brex Supper Club with SignalFire in San Francisco.
Raising Your Pre-seed edition.
The Brex Supper Club is an exclusive dinner series dedicated to fostering meaningful connections. We have hosted these dinners in 20 cities last year and expanded internationally.
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.
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Feb 4th, 2025 - -1 to Forerunner with Kirsten Green
Location: San Francisco
Time: 2:30-4:30pm
What: South Park Commons is delighted to host Kirsten Green of Forerunner as part of our -1 to Now series!
Feb 4th, 2025 - Building Decagon’s AI Agent Engine
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What: Join us for an exciting evening meetup in San Francisco hosted at Pear Ventures, featuring a fireside chat with Harrison Chase (CEO of LangChain) and Bihan Jiang (Product Lead at Decagon).
Feb 5th, 2025 - Data Driven Pharma Networking Event
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8:45pm
What: Data-Driven Pharma hosted with Myriad Genetics!
Feb 5th, 2025 - Demo Night @ Entrepreneur First
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9pm
What: Brought to you by the GenAI Collective and Entrepreneur First, come experience a night of bold innovation and creativity as transformative demos redefine what’s possible! Witness the tech industry's brightest minds pushing boundaries and shaping the future! 🚀
Feb 5th, 2025 - Pizza & P&Ls: Dinner For Finance Leaders
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
What: Join us for an evening of good food, great conversations, and community building with fellow finance leaders in tech.
Whether you're forecasting budgets, closing books, or just a fan of good pizza, come build connections with peers who get what it takes to keep the numbers—and the business—running.
Feb 6th, 2025 - Applying for YC SF Meetup
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-9pm
What: We met 150+ founders a month ago at WeFunder in SF for the "Rejected From YC - Party!".
This time we are calling all the founders to come hang out with others who are applying for the upcoming YC batch. The deadline for the YC Spring batch is February 11, 8 PM PT.
Feb 6th, 2025 - Padel + Breakfast for Founders
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9am-12pm
What: Padel Anyone?
No presentations, no sales pitches—just good fun, food, exercise and networking.
Join Capicua and Fidelity Private Shares for a morning of Padel + Breakfast at Bay Padel in the Dogpatch neighborhood.
This event is for founders who are busy building, but want (need!) to take a much deserved break to get some physical activity and meet other founders.
Feb 6th, 2025 - The Future of the Body
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-7:30pm
What: What could our workplace, our home, our environment look like if we redesigned them around our wellbeing?
We’ll be joined by architecture professors from Berkeley, designers and engineers from San Francisco’s leading businesses, and experts from the field of somatics to discuss this question.
Feb 6th, 2025 - -1 to D’Angelo
Location: San Francisco
Time: 3:30-5:30pm
What: South Park Commons is delighted to host Adam D'Angelo as part of our -1 to Now series!
Event Details
3:30pm: Doors Open
4-5pm: Fireside Chat with Adam D'Angelo
5-5:30pm: Networking
Feb 7th, 2025 - Gemini vs Deepseek
Location: Mountain View
Time: 5-7pm
What: 5:00 to 5:30 pm Welcome!
(Security will be at the entrance facing Shoreline Blvd)
5:30 to 5:50 pm Magic Moments
5:50 to 6:20 pm Gemini vs DeepSeek
6:20 to 7:00 pm Networking
Feb 7th, 2025 - Fireside Chat: Topology Ventures x SBC x ASES
Location: Palo Alto
Time: 7-8:30pm
What: The Topology Ventures team is joining us LIVE on campus for a discussion around crypto, AI, and the venture space around these industries.
Casey Caruso, founder and Managing Partner of Topology, was a previously a Google engineer before getting into crypto VC at Bessemer Ventures and Paradigm. Her first fund at Topology Ventures raised $75 million with backers including co-founder of OpenAI, Marc Andreessen, and Chris Dixon.
Feb 8th, 2025 - AI + Mental Health Build Sprint
Location: San Francisco
Time: 10:30am-1:30pm
What: This is for anyone curious to explore the latest in how AI can help create new solutions in mental health:
Developers who want to test out the latest reasoning models in biomedical context
Researchers who want to see how different clinical benchmarks might make their way to a consumer facing solution
Clinicians or advisers with experiences and backgrounds in mental health.
Feb 9th, 2025 - Shippin’ Hours 02
Location: San Francisco
Time: 11am-3pm
What: what is sfhackerhouse?
we're a community of people who come together and build cool stuff. we're a hackerhouse born in bangalore, india and are a building hackerhouses around the world. we're community of around 700 folks, we meet every weekend and build cool stuff.
what is shippin' hours?
a 4-5 hour session in a workspace to work on your individual builds/projects with other folks. we talk about updates + brainstorm, for 30 mins at the end.
Feb 9th, 2025 - SF AI-Driven Robotics Club: Surgical Robots
Location: San Francisco
Time: 11am-12pm
What: Join us at the SF AI-Driven Robotics Club, where cutting-edge machine learning meets advanced robotics. This monthly gathering brings together professionals, researchers, and enthusiasts passionate about pushing the boundaries of intelligent automation.
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.
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.
Feb 15th, 2025 - Multimodal AI Agents Hackathon
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.
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