Startup Grind NYC

Advanced Founder Roundtable Lunch: Series A+ and Scaling

Fri, Jun 5 · 12:00 PM EDT

Gramercy Park, 123 e 15th Street, New York, NY, US

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A Founder Peer Group for the Scaling Phase

You're past finding product-market fit. Now you're managing the messy reality of scaling:

• Organizational design that needs work
• Sales compensation you're making up as you go
• Technical debt threatening to collapse the system

This is a closed-door session for founders dealing with scaling problems right now.

📅 Friday, June 5th • 12:00-2:00 PM
A private members club near Gramercy Park.
24 founders working to solve problems with peers in the same phase.

✅ You're likely a fit if:

• This is your full-time focus
• $15M+ in revenue or funding raised
• You're managing managers, not just ICs
• Your company has meaningful traction (Series A/B stage, scaling revenue)
• You're dealing with operational complexity (GTM strategy, org design, unit economics, hiring executives)

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🤝 What happens:

• Meet founders like you
• Share your current bottleneck
• Get specific input from founders who've solved similar problems
• Build relationships with peers you can call when you need a sanity check

🏢 Sector agnostic. Fintech, SaaS, marketplaces, D2C—the scaling challenges are the same.

📍 Details:

• 24 seats (strict cap)
• No pitches. No panels.
• $100 (includes lunch and bar)
• Business casual dress
• Application required for stage alignment

Apply if: You're dealing with scaling problems and want peers who understand the specific challenges of this phase (not requests for advice from founders three stages behind you).

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Bare Metal Happy Hour: Autonomous Systems & Agent Fleet Orchestration

Fri, Jun 5 · 5:00 PM EDT

Time Out Market Union Square, 124 East 14th Street, New York, NY, US

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Are you an engineer or builder working on autonomous systems or agent fleet orchestration?

We're bringing together practitioners who are moving beyond individual AI tools and into autonomous, continuously running systems — whether you're maxing out managed API plans or running open source models on your own hardware.

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Join us if you're building toward AI as a scalable workforce: agent loops that run for hours, parallelized workflows, and the infrastructure decisions that make or break production systems.

Expect to talk about things like:

• Scaling agent fleets on managed APIs vs. self-hosted inference
• Open source models and where local compute actually makes sense
• State persistence, monitoring, and reliability for long-running agents
• The real tradeoffs between cost, latency, and control at scale

Whether you're orchestrating agents through Claude or running Llama on bare metal, come ready to talk implementation details with people who are building the same way you are.

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This event is a part of #NYTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com