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The Startup Funding & Traction Network brings together aspiring and experienced tech entrepreneurs to discuss, meet, and collaborate to build great new startups, and to push the local startup ecosystem forward.\
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This group hosts numerous free events throughout the year where you can learn the best practices of starting a company from people who have been there and done that. You’ll have the opportunity to meet local founders and investors, exchange ideas with experts, get feedback on your idea, participate in startup workshops, and more.\
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Typical startup event topics include:\
• Coming up with a strong startup idea\
• Startup legal basics\
• How to pitch your startup\
• Starting a company without quitting your day job\
• How to raise funding for your startup\
• And much more!\
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Join the group to be invited to our next event!
Kommende Veranstaltungen
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Building a Unicorn with AI Agents: From Idea to First Check
·OnlineOnlineYou have the idea. What you don't have is the money to hire a team, and no investor will write a check until you show traction. Join Adeo Ressi, Chairman of the Founder Institute, to learn how solo founders run a squad of AI agents in place of their first five hires, what investors look for in AI-native companies in 2026, and how FI companies get funded, from Founder Capital's $25K first checks to the FI Venture Network and local demo days. Register now and bring your questions for Adeo.
❯ What You'll Learn:
- How a squad of AI agents can cover the work of your first five hires, from market research to sales outreach;
- What investors look for in AI-native companies in 2026, and which signals get you a first meeting;
- What a fundable AI-native company needs to show before it gets its first check;
- How FI companies get funded, including Founder Capital's $25K first checks, the FI Venture Network and local demo days;
- How to put questions about your own company directly to Adeo, who has launched 14 venture capital funds.
Featured Speaker:
- Adeo Ressi - Chairman @ Founder Institute - Adeo Ressi is the Chairman of the Founder Institute, the World's Largest AI-Native Company Builder, and CEO of Decile Group. He has founded 11 startups, launched 14 venture capital funds and generated nearly $2 billion in exits before the age of 30. He is also the inventor of the SAFE note, and through Decile Group he backs emerging venture capital managers around the world.
❯ Who Should Attend:
- Solo founders who already have an idea and want to turn it into a fundable company;
- Founders already building with AI tools who want to know what investors expect next;
- Professionals planning to leave their job and start a company in the next year;
- Aspiring founders considering the next Founder Institute cohort.
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❯❯ This is a live, interactive online event, so be sure to RSVP at https://fi.co/e/405478/meetup to receive the Zoom URL to join us live!
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How to Use AI to Position Your Startup to Buyers
·OnlineOnlineYou built the product. The market isn't buying it yet. Usually the gap is positioning: buyers don't see themselves in your pitch. In this hands-on session, Jonathan Grover shows you how to use AI to fix that. You'll build a synthetic version of your ideal buyer as an AI agent, then let it tear into your pitch in real time, surfacing the objections and gaps a real buyer would raise. You'll leave with sharper positioning that actually converts, plus a Claude skill you can take home and reuse on your next pitch. Come with a product and a pitch you're willing to put to the test.
❯❯ RSVP now at https://fi.co/e/405381/meetup to get your link and join us live!
❯ Featured Speaker:
Jonathan Grover — Founder & Fractional Chief Product Officer, Supergrover- Jonathan Grover is a product, AI, and go-to-market leader who helps founders and executives turn a built product into real market traction. A former Fortune 50 executive, he has managed billions of dollars of product roadmap and shipped AI products that scaled to $100M+ ARR across 180+ countries. He has structured go-to-market deals worth more than $150M, holds patents in AI, and across 60+ early-stage ventures has helped raise $500M+ in funding and taken part in multiple exits. Today he runs Supergrover, advising CXOs and product teams on product strategy, go-to-market, and AI transformation.
❯ What You'll Learn:
- How to turn your ideal customer into a synthetic buyer persona you can interrogate with AI
- How to pressure-test your pitch against that AI buyer and surface objections before real buyers do
- What separates positioning that converts from features that fall flat
- How to spot and close the "traction gap" between building a product and selling it
- A reusable Claude skill you can take home to sharpen future pitches
❯ Who Should Attend:
- Founders whose product works but isn't converting buyers yet
- Early-stage founders refining their positioning, pitch, or messaging
- Technical founders who need to sell to non-technical buyers
- Anyone who wants to use AI to sharpen how they go to market trends.
. ❯❯ Don’t miss this live, interactive online event packed with valuable insights! RSVP now at https://fi.co/e/405381/meetup to get your link and join us live!
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How to Turn Your Industry Expertise Into an AI Startup
·OnlineOnlineAfter years in one industry, you know problems that outsiders never see: the workarounds, the manual steps, the things everyone complains about and nobody fixes. That knowledge is the hardest part of a startup to copy. This is a hands-on workshop. You will name one problem from your own industry, check whether AI makes it solvable now, and leave with a short list of people to talk to next week to test it. Register now and bring one problem you have seen for years.
❯ What You'll Learn:
- How to list the problems in your industry that people already pay to work around
- How to judge whether AI makes one of them solvable today
- Why domain experts have an edge over technical founders in the first months
- How to write the problem in one sentence a customer would agree with
- Who to talk to next week to test it, and what to ask them
❯ Who Should Attend:
- Professionals with 5 or more years in one industry
- Domain experts who have spotted a problem but never started a company
- People without a technical background or a co-founder
- Employees thinking about building something of their own
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❯❯ This is a live, interactive online event, so be sure to RSVP at https://fi.co/e/406072/meetup to receive the Zoom URL to join us live!
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