About us
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 Startup Pitch: Demo Showcase
The Yard: Herald Square, 106 West 32nd Street, New York, NY, US🚨 CLICK HERE to RSVP 👈
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!
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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, Sept 17th
- 🕓 Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
- 📍 Venue: The Yard: Herald Square
- 🎫 Tickets: Only $5 (includes happy hour refreshments)
- 📑 Founders: Sign up here to apply to pitch at an upcoming event
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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
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2 attendees
The AI Workflow Exchange: Live Builder Demos by Startup Grind
The Yard: Herald Square, 106 West 32nd Street, New York, NY, US6 builders show how they use AI to solve real problems, at work or in life. Come see how you can steal their prompts and repos and put them to use yourself.
Each practitioner gets 10 minutes to demo a workflow they actually use. These aren't intimidating AI Engineers (probably).
They're AI users, just like you and me.
What to expect:
- 6 live demos: 10 minutes each, with the presenter walking through the decisions behind the build.
- The problem first: every demo opens with what was slow or broken before the workflow existed.
- Simple and complex side by side: a single custom GPT gets the same stage as a full multi-agent system.
- Take something home: presenters share a prompt, template, or setup you can copy after the event.
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Come curious about what other builders have made, and leave with ideas for putting theirs to work for you.
Want to apply to be a presenter for the next AI Workflow Exchange? Click here to submit your workflow to be considered.
Agenda:
6:00 PM - Arrive & mingle
6:30 PM - Live demos
7:30 PM - Meet the presenters2 attendees
Hidden Patterns: The Visual Journey of Networks
The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY, USHave you ever wondered why one startup, one tweet, or one node in your product's user graph explodes while a thousand identical-looking others don't?
You've already run into Albert-László Barabási's work, whether you knew his name or not. He's the physicist who discovered scale-free networks: the finding that most real networks, from the web to your own social graph, run on a small number of massive hubs instead of evenly spread connections.
That's the math behind preferential attachment, and it's why the web, social networks, and citation networks all follow the same power law.
In collaboration with the National Arts Club and its Art and Technology Committee, Barabási will walk through 25 years spent turning that math into something you can look at.
BarabásiLab's work has moved from raw data visualizations to physical, 3D-printed network sculptures, and from academic papers to museum installations.
The current centerpiece is Constructing La Biennale, a 30-by-8-meter data visualization wrapped around the scaffolding of the Central Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. It maps roughly 12,000 architects and 3,800 projects across the Biennale's 45-year history, back to its first edition in 1980, as a single connected graph.
Barabási has called it the most visible work at the Biennale, and building it, in his words, "was a massive data science project."
If your product, your portfolio, or your own career runs on network effects, this is a rare chance to hear from the person who wrote the math for it.
Reserve your spot and arrive early. Space is limited.
3 attendees
Tech Happy Hour by Startup Grind
Time Out Market Union Square, 124 East 14th Street, New York, NY, USThis is the monthly Startup Grind tech mixer. It's a low-key way to connect with the NYC tech and startup community to discover shared interests, explore areas for collaboration, and find your next co-founder or key hire.
Join us for a casual happy hour to build real relationships and make friends, not just contacts. No pitches. No presentations. No agenda.
This happy hour is for:
- Startup Founders & Employees
- Technologists, Developers & Tech Workers
- Product Managers & Designers
- Investors, VCs, Advisors & Mentors
- Anyone curious about the NYC tech scene
Agenda:- 5:00 PM: Happy Hour starts. Come and go as you please.
We're at the new Time Out Market at Union Square. It features a selection of the city's best food and drink together under one roof, offering a wide variety of options to choose from throughout the event.Look for Startup Grind table signs toward the back near the outdoor terrace.
17 attendees
Past events
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