About us
Startup Founder 101 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!
Upcoming events
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How to Build an AI Startup
·OnlineOnlineYou have years of experience in your industry and a problem you keep noticing, but you have never built a company. What usually stops people is the order: what to do first, what can wait, and what to skip.
This session has two parts: Kais Neffati, a graduate of our Austria-France Fall 2025 cohort, shares what he learned building Hyvop: how he picked the problem, what he tested first, and how he found his first users. Kasia Sadowska shows the AI tools founders use for early-stage validation, so you can test your idea before you build anything. Register now and leave with your next three steps.
❯ What You'll Learn:
- How a founder turned years of industry experience into a startup
- Which AI tools to use to test an idea before building
- How to check whether a problem is worth solving
- How to find and talk to your first users
- How to fit all of this around a full-time job
❯ Featured Speakers:
- Kais Neffati - Founder @ Hyvop: Software and cloud architect, previously at JCDecaux, VINCI Autoroutes and Ingenico. He is building Hyvop, an AI agent in Slack and Microsoft Teams that finds the owners of unused cloud resources, gets their approval and applies the fix.
- Kasia Sadowska - Director @ Founder Institute Austria: AI product developer with over 10 years of experience building and leading tech startups across Europe. Mechanical engineer by background, she has co-founded ventures in mobility, compliance, edtech and sustainability. She helps founders build and validate products with AI and no-code tools.
❯ Who Should Attend:
- Professionals with years of industry experience who have never built a company
- Employees with an idea they have not acted on yet
- Aspiring founders without a technical background
- Anyone who wants a clear sequence for starting an AI startup
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❯❯ This is a live, interactive online event, so be sure to RSVP at https://fi.co/e/406101/meetup to receive the Zoom URL to join us live!
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From Founder to Funded: Interactive Q&A with Brian Bell
·OnlineOnlineNo filters. No pitch decks. Just real talk about fundraising. Join us for a candid, live Q&A where you can ask a top startup investor anything about raising capital. What do investors look for, especially in AI startups? What kills a deal? How do you get a meeting? Get the answers you've always wanted in a friendly, open environment, and walk away with the knowledge and connections to take your fundraising to the next level.
❯ Guest Speakers include:
- Brian Bell (Founder and Managing Partner, Team Ignite Ventures)
- Jonathan Greechan (Co-Founder & CIO, Founder Institute, GP Founder Capital)
❯❯ RSVP now at https://fi.co/e/405860/meetup to get your link and join us live!
❯ What You’ll Learn:
- What investors look for when evaluating early-stage startups
- How investors are evaluating AI startups right now
- The signals that make founders stand out to investors
- Different sources of startup funding and when to pursue them
- How to prepare your startup before approaching investors
- Common mistakes that cause founders to lose investor interest
❯ Who Should Attend:
- Idea-stage founders exploring future fundraising
- Startup teams preparing for their first funding round
- Founders building AI-powered startups who want to know what investors expect
- Professionals considering starting a venture-backed startup
- Entrepreneurs curious about how investors make decisions
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❯❯ Don’t miss this live, interactive online event packed with valuable insights! RSVP now at https://fi.co/e/405860/meetup to get your link and join us live!
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Past events
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