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SF IRL - Oct 7th, 2024 - SF Tech Week Edition

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

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Jonathan Chang
October 07, 2024

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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 #108. Happy SF Tech Week! Over 200+ events happening in the city this week. If this is your first time in SF, welcome to the city, I hope you have a great week here exploring everything this city has to offer.

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 🎉

Oct 8th, 2024 - Off the Record: Beats & Business w/ Empire & Brex

Join us for Empire | Brex Event in SF and connect with fellow professionals and be part of a thriving community in San Francisco Bay area during #TechWeek.

​This event is a part of #TechWeek - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem.

​Please RSVP, space is limited.​​

​Event Details:

​​📆 Date: October 8, 2024

​​⏰ Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

​​​​​Who is coming? Join us at with the Bay Area’s best founders, operators, and investors for a fun night of conversations, and connections.

​What to expect? 🥂 Networking/ Happy Hour + 🚀 Pop Up Performance +🎧 DJ set 

​​Hope to see you there. #BuildYourEmpire

Oct 9th, 2024 - Brex GP/Founders Pickup Basketball with Alpha Partners

We rented out an indoor court for you to get your workout in between Tech Week events. Come join the Brex & Alpha Partners team for some founder & GP pickup basketball.

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.

Oct 7th, 2024 - Hypersonic Jets with Hermeus

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4:30pm

What: ✈️ Hypersonic planes delivering payloads anywhere in the world in minutes? Sign me up! 🙌 Join us for a glimpse into the future with Hermeus’ Founder & CEO AJ Piplica as he’s interviewed by In-Q-Tel’s CEO Steve Bowsher, with introductory remarks from Brave Capital’s Managing Partner Ernestine Fu Mak.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: ​​Connect with like-minded women who are leading the way in entrepreneurship and investment. Build relationships that can fuel your growth and open doors to new opportunities.

Oct 7th, 2024 - DeepTech in Deep Stealth

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: Hosted by Greg Mark, Rebecca Trachtenberg, and Michelle Lee. This panel will touch on how the new frontier of robotics, satellites, chips, and drones is made a reality through AGI developments that push the boundaries of what's possible.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 8:30-10am

What: Join Owl Ventures and AI Fund for an exclusive breakfast during SF Tech Week, bringing together innovators and tech enthusiasts passionate about EdTech and AI. Explore how AI is shaping the future of education, from classrooms to workforce development, and driving global impact. Whether you're building EdTech solutions or eager to learn more, this is a great opportunity to connect and collaborate. Space is limited, so secure your spot by registering in advance!

Oct 8th, 2024 - SF Tech Week Partner2Partners

Location: San Francisco

Time: 8:30-10am

What: ​​The VC Partner2Partner Breakfast Series, a partner-only networking event without agenda or commercial sponsor, lets VC partners connect with each other without distraction.

​​Since 2017, New York Partner2Partner breakfasts have been hosted by Google Ventures, First Round Capital, Pritzker Group, Comcast Ventures, Boldstart, ffVC, and others. If you are interested in hosting, let us know.

​​We coordinate the quarterly breakfasts in NYC, San Francisco, Austin, Miami, LA and Chicago. As an open-source event, suggestions and future hosts are welcome.

Oct 8th, 2024 - CXO Breakfast with a16z

Location: San Francisco

Time: 9-11am

What: Come kick off your Tuesday of SF Tech Week with A16Z, Deel, DocSend and some incredible founders and CXOs! We're inviting founders and CXOs of Seed - Series D startups to join us for a morning of great coffee & food, amazing people, and even better vibes!

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: This SF Tech Week, it's time to find your startup soulmate! Are you an innovator looking for your business better-half? Or a creative genius seeking your operational yin to your yang? Then this is the rendezvous for you!

​Our event is designed to connect ambitious entrepreneurs, just like you, with potential cofounders who have the skills, vision, and most importantly, the chemistry to turn startup dreams into reality. Join us at Inception Studio's own curated cofounder matching event.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: ​Join us for a night of food, drinks, and fun as we bring together SF's future unicorn founders and funders. 🥂

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8:30pm

What: ​Modern AI/ML workloads require data infrastructure that is capable of handling the complexity of multimodal data. AI/ML is no longer about simple tabular features or clickstream data — modern AI/ML demands data infrastructure that can handle messy unstructured text, documents, images and even video.

Oct 9th, 2024 - StoryHQ Grand Opening

Location: Palo Alto

Time: 6pm

What: Story HQ is in Palo Alto! Though San Mateo served us well, we're happy to be just a few minutes from Stanford with the best weather on Earth. We'd love to host the Bay Area community as we open up Story HQ. Our space is yours, and always open for coworking. We'll be hosting many more events to come!

Location: San Francisco

Time: 8-10am

What: You are formally invited to apply to the Brex Flex Club - Founder + GP Basketball edition in San Francisco co-hosted with Alpha Partners.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-7pm

What: Join us for an exclusive event designed to connect current and aspiring founders, investors, and creators. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage in discussion and meet other professionals in the world of consumer tech and marketplaces.

Oct 10th, 2024 - The Future of AI In Enterprise

Location: San Francisco

Time: 8:30am

What: Join us for a conversation hosted by a16z, where you will hear from executives of Box, Pylon, and Zoom. Networking begins at 8:30 AM, followed by the moderator-led panel at 9:00 AM. The last 15 minutes will be open for audience Q&A.

Oct 10th, 2024 - 117th SF Hardware Meetup

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-9:30pm

What: Come celebrate SF Tech Week with humanoid robots, speakers, food, and demos!

​​There will be a chance for an open mic. All demos are welcome.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 9-11am

What: ​Join Google Cloud and Turing for an insightful morning tea as we gather leading AI innovators and technical VCs to discuss the latest technologies and trends shaping the AI landscape. Engage in a stimulating roundtable discussion, exchange ideas, and inform your theses in this rapidly evolving field.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 3-6:30pm

What: You are invited to a Founder & VC Mixer event hosted by Brex, Puzzle and Newmark to connect with fellow finance professionals and founders and be part of a thriving community in San Francisco during #TechWeek.

​​This will be a highly curated group of founders and finance professionals, and there will be flowing 🥂 and delicious 🍣, breathtaking views of the city and conversation starters. You'll leave with new friends, business connections, and new thoughts on how to hit that next level of personal or company growth.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4pm

What: Join us for an insightful discussion on the future of media with Andrew Chen, GP @ Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Chris Best, CEO and co-founder of Substack.

Oct 10th, 2024 - Sauna & Blood Test Superpower Spa Breakfast

Location: San Francisco

Time: 7:30-10am

What: This event is for Superpower members intending to have their blood drawn at Alchemy Springs as part their superpower membership. After approval on Luma, you will receive a link to purchase a Superpower membership, onboard and further instructions on how to register for an on-site blood draw. Alternatively, you can sign-up during the event.

​Start the morning right with a sauna session, cold-plunge, sound bath, a nurse-administered blood draws and on-site sign-up for Superpower in San Francisco's newest Bathhouse and Social Club, Alchemy Springs.

​Skip the waitlist at our first official on-site blood draw to receive access to the world’s most advanced digital clinic Superpower tests your whole body, visualizes all your data, and provides unlimited, insurance-reimbursed consultations with our longevity clinicians. All for $499/year.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: Join us for an exclusive panel discussion featuring AI startup founders as they reveal the pivotal role of data in taking their AI models from concept to deployment. In this session, we'll dive deep into how innovative startups are building robust data pipelines, managing complex datasets, and overcoming challenges to scale AI solutions effectively.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8pm

What: Get ready to mix, mingle, and make magic happen at the Founder and Investor Happy Hour! ✨ Hosted at 9Zero, the new home for all things climate, this is your golden opportunity to connect with like-minded founders and investors who are passionate about solving climate change.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 3-6pm

What: ​Saywise, Brex, and Notion invite you to an insightful Ask Me Anything panel with 3 early stage venture capital investors.

​Confirmed Panelists

Location: San Francisco

Time: 3:30-6:30pm

What: ​We are inviting 50 tech founders, investors, operators and creators to join us at the Lumos House for a conversation with Rajat Suri, the Co-founder of Lyft/Zimride, and Presto.

Oct 12th, 2024 - Deep Galactic Chillout

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-10pm

What: We decided that the entire world in SF Tech Week is doing a hackathon so we ought to do something to end it off. Thus, like SF startups often 'pivot', we're pivoting our event to a chill session at one of our SF hacker houses - sf parc.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 12pm

What: Calling all YC Founders & Alumni! It's fall, Fleet Week, and the best time to be in SF. Artisan x Puzzle are hosting a brunch at the Artisan House in Russian Hill.

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