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Startup Grind is the largest independent startup community, actively educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs globally.
The cornerstone of our global community are monthly events featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share lessons learned on the road to building great companies.
Founded in Silicon Valley, Startup Grind has helped millions of entrepreneurs build their businesses, connect with strategic partners, and secure funding.
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Upcoming events
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The AI Briefing by Startup Grind
Location, TBD, New York, NY, US**NO RSVP ON MEETUP. FOLLOWING LINK IN DESCRIPTION TO ATTEND**
The AI Briefing is a new recurring AI deep-dive for decision-makers.
Each month, we select one high-signal industry report, circulate it in advance, and meet to cut through the noise.You must complete your RSVP here to be considered to attend:
https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-new-york-city-presents-the-ai-briefing-by-startup-grind-1/This Month’s Source: 2026 AI Business Predictions (PWC 2026)
Most AI initiatives pay for themselves, but fail to drive actual transformation. Join the AI Briefing to become one of the few front-runners who are able to capture top-line growth by moving past sporadic, ground-up experiments.
The Mission: Focus on the shift from exploratory pilots to a disciplined march to value. We'll use the latest PwC benchmarks to identify the levers required to turn agentic AI into an engine for revenue growth.
📊 The Format:
- 10-Minute Executive Download: A rapid-fire summary of the report’s critical metrics (e.g., the 8x growth in message volume and the rise of non-technical coding).
- Cross-Pollinated Debate: Founders share what they are shipping; Executives share what they are actually deploying (and blocking).
- Operational Reality Check: We’ll discuss the Shadow AI reality: 75% of workers are completing tasks they previously couldn't do. And how IT is scrambling to govern it.
You must complete your RSVP here to be considered to attend:
https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-new-york-city-presents-the-ai-briefing-by-startup-grind-1/🤝 Who Should Attend:
- Enterprise Executives: Benchmark your adoption curve. Are you in the AI Leader bracket seeing 1.7x revenue growth, or falling behind?
- Founders & Builders: Stop guessing what enterprises want. See the exact use cases (IT, Marketing, HR) that are scaling right now.
- Operators: Learn how non-technical teams are using AI to write code and automate their own workflows.
📍 Where: Location on approval 🗓️ When: Friday, February 13th | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
📬 The Prep: This is a working session, not a lecture. Review the report here. Bring your perspective.
RSVP to be considered. Strictly limited capacity to ensure high-quality dialogue.
You must complete your RSVP here to be considered to attend:
https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-new-york-city-presents-the-ai-briefing-by-startup-grind-1/2 attendees
The Startup Pitch: Demo Showcase
The Yard: Herald Square, 106 West 32nd Street, New York, NY, USComplete your RSVP here:
https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-new-york-city-presents-the-startup-pitch-demo-showcase-2/It's time to go beyond the deck and see the best live tech from New York's emerging startups.
Welcome to a pitch event with a twist. We skip the fluff and focus on what matters: a live look at real products.
This pitch & demo showcase gives you a first look at new technology from startups that are actively building and shipping product — sometimes even before VCs have seen them!
Complete your RSVP here:
https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-new-york-city-presents-the-startup-pitch-demo-showcase-2/The format is fast-paced and interactive. After each demo, the floor is open for questions, ideas, and honest feedback from the community.
We welcome investors who want an unfiltered look at new technology and early-stage teams.
- 📅 Date: Thursday, February 19th
- 🕓 Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
- 📍 Venue: The Yard: Herald Square
- 🎫 Tickets: Only $5 (includes happy hour refreshments)
- 📑 Founders: **Sign up here to pitch **at an upcoming event
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Startups ready to demo a real product and get honest feedback
- Engineers, PMs, and designers who love seeing new tech in action
- Investors looking for a ground-floor, early look at local startups
- Anyone in the NYC tech scene who wants to connect with and support the people building things
AGENDA
- 5:30 PM: Doors Open & Networking
- 6:00 PM: Startup Pitches & Demos with Audience Q&A
- 7:00 PM: Meet the Presenting Startups
PITCH FORMAT
- Pitch & Demo - 6 minutes
- Audience Q&A - 4 minutes
- Pitch deck AND product demo are required
Complete your RSVP here:
https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-new-york-city-presents-the-startup-pitch-demo-showcase-2/22 attendees
Deconstructing the Twilight Zone: How 1960s Sci-Fi Predicted our AI Future
The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY, USLong before we were debating the ethics of Agentic AI or the security of edge systems, The Twilight Zone was exploring these same dilemmas on a black and white screen.
Between 1959 and 1964, the popular show served as a speculative sandbox for the postwar technological boom. It provided a roadmap for both the shining promises and the darker corners of innovation that we are currently navigating in 2026.
It provided early evidence of how humans would eventually interact with complex, connected ecosystems.
Join author and designer Arlen Schumer — the creator of Visions from The Twilight Zone and the new book The Five Themes of The Twilight Zone — as he examines more than a dozen classic episodes that brilliantly anticipated the technological struggles of our own century.
Complete your FREE RSVP here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1979900491668In collaboration with the National Arts Club and its Art and Technology Committee, this is a specialized opportunity to hear directly from an expert whose work sits at the intersection of historical media, hardware deconstruction, and the architectural foundations of our modern tech stack; helping technologists understand how to present and build systems with code, data, and machine logic.
What You Will Learn
- Autonomous Logic: How the series predicted the sensor-heavy ecosystems required for machine decision-making and smart city infrastructure.
- Deconstructed Hardware: Identifying the shift from single-purpose devices to the personal digital ecosystems of wearables and haptics we use today.
- Intelligence as Disruption: Connecting early speculative tech to the current rise of Agentic AI models and industrial automation.
Reserve your spot and arrive early. Space is limited.
Complete your FREE RSVP here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/19799004916683 attendees
The Algorithmic C-Suite: Scaling the Fractional Economy with AI
Civic Hall, 124 East 14th Street, New York, NY, USMost founders hire their C-suite based on gut instinct or a frantic search through their immediate LinkedIn network. That leads to expensive mis-hires and wasted runway.
Roei Samuel is turning executive hiring into a data science problem.
COMPLETE YOUR RSVP HERE TO ATTEND:
https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-new-york-city-presents-the-algorithmic-c-suite-scaling-the-fractional-economy-with-ai/After scaling his first venture to 9 million users and exiting at age 26, Roei noticed a systemic friction in the startup ecosystem: founders couldn't find the right experts, and senior talent was burned out by the traditional 9-to-5.
So he founded Connectd to solve this using an AI-native engine that doesn't just match keywords, but analyzes a company's actual operational math.
Connectd’s AI ingests real-time data from each startup to determine exactly when they will be hitting a wall and who (CFO vs. CRO vs. CMO) is required to climb it.
Since expanding to the U.S., the platform is generating revenue 10x faster than it did in the UK, with New York City serving as the primary engine for this growth.
On February 24th, Roei joins us at **Civic Hall **to break down how he’s building the infrastructure for the fractional economy and why your next high-impact hire shouldn't be a full-time employee.
COMPLETE YOUR RSVP HERE TO ATTEND:
https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-new-york-city-presents-the-algorithmic-c-suite-scaling-the-fractional-economy-with-ai/WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
- The Predictive Hire: How Connectd uses AI-powered insights to identify leadership gaps before a founder even realizes they exist.
- 10x Expansion Playbook: The specific tactics Roei used to scale U.S. revenue 10 times faster than the UK market in just 16 months.
- Runway-Friendly Leadership: When to stop searching for a full-time executive and how to leverage a fractional C-suite to preserve capital.
- The Data Integration Layer: Moving beyond resumes to analyze burn rates, churn, and financial signals as the primary drivers for talent matching.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Early-Stage Founders: Stop guessing your next hire; learn to use operational data to build a specialized, fractional leadership team.
- Senior Professionals: Learn how to move from corporate burnout to a high-leverage "fractional" career using intelligent algorithmic matching.
- Investors: See how AI-driven reporting and expert matching can reduce the failure rate across your early-stage portfolio.
Tickets for this event include food and drinks, as well as direct access to a founder who has successfully navigated the high-stakes journey from student side-hustle to international AI-powered scale-up.
You'll also meet dozens of other high-performing entrepreneurs who are creating their next big thing. Seriously, it's some of the best founder networking in the city.
COMPLETE YOUR RSVP HERE TO ATTEND:
https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-new-york-city-presents-the-algorithmic-c-suite-scaling-the-fractional-economy-with-ai/Getting a ticket guarantees admission. No waitlisting.
AGENDA
- 6:00 PM: Networking, Food & Drinks
- 7:00 PM: Fireside Chat with Roei Samuel
- 8:00 PM: Meet the Speaker
And don't miss our other monthly tech events. They are great opportunities for builders, founders, and operators to network with each other to share best practices and find new resources to grow your startup the right way. See our full event lineup here.
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