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Events
Summits, mixers, pitch nights and partner-led events across 13 countries. Pick a city. Drop in.
🇺🇸Chicago· United StatesYou've been workshopping your idea with ChatGPT, not real founders. We fix that. Themed tables, 5 live pitches, one Chicago room - 3 hours
🇫🇷Paris· FranceMeet startups, investors, and access ongoing deal flow with weekly intros and early opportunities. Free for approved investors.
🇺🇸Boston· United StatesDive into tech with other professionals! Network and build strong relationships with investors, tech experts, and entrepreneurs in Boston
🇺🇸New York· United StatesNew York Startup Networking Event. Meet Founders, Investors, and Talent - Build or Scale Your Startup
🇺🇸San Francisco· United StatesMeet startups, investors, and access ongoing deal flow with weekly intros and early opportunities. Free for approved investors.
🇳🇱Amsterdam· NetherlandsYou've been workshopping your idea with ChatGPT, not real founders. We fix that. Themed tables, 5 live pitches, one Amsterdam room - 3 hours
🇨🇦Montreal· CanadaDive into tech with other professionals! Network and build strong relationships with investors, tech experts, and entrepreneurs in Montreal
🇨🇦Toronto· CanadaToronto Startup Networking Event: Meet Founders, Investors, and Talent - Build or Scale Your Startup
🇺🇸Palo Alto· United StatesMeet startups, investors, and access ongoing deal flow with weekly intros and early opportunities. Free for approved investors.
🇦🇺Melbourne· AustraliaMelbourne Startup Networking Event: Meet Founders, Investors, and Talent - Build or Scale Your Startup
🇨🇭Zurich· SwitzerlandZurich Startup Networking Event: Meet Founders, Investors, and Talent - Build or Scale Your Startup
🇺🇸New York· United StatesDive into tech with other professionals! Network and build strong relationships with investors, tech experts, and entrepreneurs in New York
🇺🇸Houston· United StatesHouston Startup Networking Event: Meet Founders, Investors, and Talent - Build or Scale Your Startup
🇺🇸Dallas· United StatesYou've been workshopping your idea with ChatGPT, not real founders. We fix that. Themed tables, 5 live pitches, one Dallas room - 3 hours
🇺🇸Boston· United StatesYou've been workshopping your idea with ChatGPT, not real founders. We fix that. Themed tables, 5 live pitches, one Boston room - 3 hours
🇦🇪Dubai· United Arab EmiratesDubai Startup Networking Event: Meet Founders, Investors, and Talent - Build or Scale Your Startup
🇺🇸San Jose· United StatesMeet startups, investors, and access ongoing deal flow with weekly intros and early opportunities. Free for approved investors.
Nine formats, one principle: every room has a reason to exist and a single walk-away per attendee.
Founders walk a small room through one decision they got wrong, what they learned, what they'd do differently.
Curated mixers across our network. Verified attendees, no badges, no panels. Real conversations between people doing the work.
Hands-on sessions on the work that compounds: hiring, fundraising, GTM, product. Run by operators who shipped it.
Lower-stakes gatherings between formal events. Dinners, drinks, the unplanned conversations that turn into intros.
Co-hosted with funds, accelerators, media and corporates. Their network plus ours, our standards on agenda and access.
Most events run you through panels. Ours bring founders and investors into a room with structured intros and one walk-away per attendee.
Tuesday evening · 19:00–21:30
Every founder you meet at an event lands in the Ascent Valley Mini App — verified, searchable, and matched to you long after the night is over. Opens right inside Telegram. No new account.
Verified profiles of the founders and operators in the room — see who's coming before the event, and search by tag, city and what they're building.
Every connection is saved automatically, and a shared notes system captures a group summary of the night. No more lost business cards.
Pick your radius: people in your city (Local), across other cities (Across), or anywhere in the network (Global). Matched by tags, not luck.
Graduate from a one-night event into your city's ongoing community — threads, the next meetups, and the people who actually show up.
Every city has its own hub. Local team, recurring formats, and a community that already shows up.
4–6 thesis-matched intros every Monday, only from founders who've shown up at an event and reported real growth.
Get verifiedPartner with us to co-host a city event, demo day or private dinner.
Become a hostClosed-door rounds where verified founders meet thesis-matched investors. Cross-region by design — useful where local deal flow saturates.
Curated demo nights where 6–8 startups present to the room. Built around momentum and live metrics, not theatre.
A weeklong city takeover: workshops, dinners, demo days, investor meetings. The flagship format and the deepest signal week of the year.
Closed sessions for early teams: founder–CTO trust, decision rights, the conflicts no one talks about until they break the company.
Sample agenda. Real formats vary by city: mixer, summit, partner-led. Pick one above.
Open the Mini App from the link your host shares on the night.
Set your tags and what you're looking for. Verified by your in-person attendance.
Local, Across or Global — the app surfaces the right people and keeps the thread going.
Free, in open beta. Best experienced after you've attended a city event.