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SF IRL - Mar 3rd, 2025

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

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Jonathan Chang
March 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 #133.

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 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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Events I’m Hosting 🎉

Location: Las Vegas

Time: 6:30-9:30pm

What: For founders who will be in Vegas for HumanX. We are hosting an exclusive dinner for founders with Brex CTO James Reggio.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 7-10pm

What: ​You are formally invited to Brex x Gradient VC Supper Club with Brex CRO Garrett Marker: On Selling to Mid Market and Enterprise Companies

​Open to founders who are building B2B companies, have raised a seed, and selling towards mid market and enterprise companies.

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.

Events Coming Up 🎉

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

What: Building local LLM solutions? Interested in meeting like-minded developers? Looking for inspiration for edge and forward-deployed AI solutions? Come join us at our networking event for developers building constrained AI solutions and learn how General Lithium can help enable your team to create world-changing solutions.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: Join us for a special evening as we kick off a groundbreaking collaboration between Tenstorrent and Koyeb with our friends from Plug and Play Tech Center.

​​This meetup is a great chance to meet the Tenstorrent and Koyeb teams and discover how their collaboration is delivering superior performance for cost compared to traditional GPUs.

​​​Whether you're training or fine-tuning models, performing inference, RAG, or running AI applications in production, this meetup is a great opportunity to connect with fellow AI developers and learn about cutting-edge innovations in AI infrastructure.

Location: Palo Alto

Time: 5-8pm

What: A high-energy, invite-only gathering for those building and backing the next unicorns.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: Join Aiify.io, OWOW, Fetch.ai Innovation Lab, theAgentic, and more, for our Agentic AI Demo & Pitch Night Featuring Keynote by Jeremiah Owyang with Blitzscaling Ventures!

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-9pm

What: ​Artificially Un-Intelligent Tech Comedy is BACK in SF with another FREE night stand of comedy and open bar networking brought to you by Explo.co and Fondo!

​Join us for a night of tech-themed comedy featuring engineers, PMs, sales monkeys, founders, quants, and VCs turned comedians seen on Netflix, The Tonight Show, NBC, NY Times, ABC, NPR, Comedy Central, and more!

Location: Palo Alto

Time: 7-9:30pm

What: Join us in the heart of the Bay Area for an evening dedicated to reimagining the future of AI. From startups to enterprise, foundation models to edge AI, and infrastructure to end-user applications, are we building on the right foundations?

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: 👋 We are delighted to invite you to join us for the AGI Builders meetup in San Francisco on March 6th.

​This special event, co-hosted with Entrepreneur First, will feature our first-ever AI Demo Night, where eight teams will showcase their work to the San Francisco tech community.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-7pm

What: ​We are hosting a cofounder dating event on Thursday [3/6] at our offices in SF (680 2nd St, SF).

​Folks will have 3 minutes to demo what they are currently working on.  And after, folks can meet the other people looking for cofounders.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: Join us for a developer demo night in SF! It's the biggest event we're hosting this year. We (Modal and Mistral) will demo some of our latest product capabilities, and we're also inviting builders in the community to showcase how and why they make use of open-source LLMs.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 1-5pm

What: We’re kicking off this mini-hackathon focused on crafting personal AI assistants using existing AI tools. Whether it’s automating workflows, managing emails, tracking deadlines, or optimizing daily tasks, this session is about building tools that make work (and life) smoother.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 11am-12pm

What: ​Join us at the Robotics Club SF, 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.

Mar 10th, 2025 - The Tech Giveback

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: Join us for The Tech Give Back 2025, an event designed to connect young leaders from all communities with the brightest entrepreneurs, investors, and VCs in San Francisco.

​While Silicon Valley has thrived as a hub for innovation, access to its opportunities has remained out of reach for many. This event aims to bridge that gap by fostering meaningful connections and knowledge-sharing between industry leaders and the next generation of problem solvers.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-9:30pm

What: We run large monthly events, and people are asking for smaller, more intimate gatherings to connect further.

​There's no better way to do that than over dinner. A hardware focused dinner.

​We're going to try 10-25 person dinners, 3 courses, great venues, with some featured guests. After each month's meetup, we'll invite everyone who wants to join for the dinner keeping the theme and momentum going.

Mar 12th, 2025 - Road to Mainnet: The Rise of Decentralized AI Agent @ Eth SF

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: ​Celebrate Eth SF with 0G for an immersive event exploring the future of Decentralized AI Agents. This event will feature three dynamic panel discussions with industry leaders, diving into the intersection of AI, blockchain, and decentralized systems.

Mar 13th, 2025 - Nebius AI Cloud Unveiled

Location: San Francisco

Time: 1-6pm

Time: ​Be among the first to experience Nebius AI Neocloud—our NVIDIA-accelerated AI cloud platform—with exclusive free GPU credits to test drive its capabilities, including our new text-to-image AI Studio.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: ​After an action-packed ETH SF week, it’s time to unwind, connect, and celebrate with fellow builders, investors, and pioneers in the Web3 space.

​Join us for an exclusive Happy Hour & Wrap-Up Social, where we’ll reflect on key takeaways, discuss the future of blockchain and AI, and toast to the innovations shaping tomorrow.

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