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FAANG++ & IVY++ Gala This Wed, AI Dinner w/ MD at Insight Partners, Founders Breakfast feat. Co-Founder of Ever/Body (raised ~$130M), Christmas Diners Club, & more!

December 09, 2024

Hey homies,


⭐ FAANG++ & IVY++ Holiday Gala Reminder ⭐

We are just 1 day away from the highly anticipated Crazy Rich Asians FAANG++ & IVY++ Holiday Gala! (the lucky winner of our grand raffle prize will win a free round-trip flight to Singapore✈️). Join us for an unforgettable evening of elegance, dancing, and networking among the brightest minds from the world's most prestigious universities and companies. The event will start at 7PM with great $7 happy hour steals! Grab your friends and RSVP together to celebrate winter in style💃🕺 Ticket prices go up to $30 on the day-of, so don’t wait! (Or you can go for the VVIP ticket which will close by EOD Dec 10)


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Spotlights

AI Founders who have $10-100M+ in revenue or funds raised only. 2 spots left.

A complimentary exquisite dinner will be provided, co-hosted with HSBC, Perkins Coie and Supermomos! It will be a great time - expect to come away with new learnings, curated connections and conversations with like-minded founders & funders, and a full stomach!

Our dinner will feature George Mathew, a Managing Director from Insight Partners. There will be a short AMA session with him for founders to ask him anything, from the state of the markets to AI to funding and growth! George is the Managing Director at Insight Partners, focusing on venture-stage investments in AI, ML, Analytics, and Data Companies. He is also a technical advisor to the C3.ai Board, an enterprise AI application development platform. With over two decades of experience developing high-growth technology startups, George has many notable mentions, including taking Alteryx through its IPO as the President & COO, serving as the CEO of Kespry, a drone-based aerial intelligence company, growing the second-largest portfolio of Business Intelligence as the Group VP & General Manager in SAP, and many more.

We will have a private room to ourselves, where we will also facilitate conversations at your table over dinner. There will also be time to network and meet other founders and VCs.

Invite & approval only: Venture-Backed Founders or Founders with more than $500K in ARR or Total Funding Raised.

Make new connections with other like-minded Founders and VCs.

A complimentary full, hearty breakfast will be provided co-hosted with Justworks and Morrison Foerster, and Supermomos! It will be a great time - expect to come away with new learnings, curated connections and conversations, and a full stomach!

There will be a fun AMA session with Kate Twist, Co-Founder of Ever/Body (raised ~$130M), where you can ask her anything from finding PMF to fundraising to growing revenue!

We will have a private room to ourselves, where we will also facilitate conversations at your table over breakfast. There will also be time for networking and meeting other Founders and VCs.

Celebrate the changing of the seasons in style at our FAANG & IVY Holiday Gala, presented by Supermomos, promising an unforgettable evening of elegance, dancing, and networking among the brightest minds from the world's most prestigious universities and companies.

Get ready for an evening of sophisticated fun with new friends from companies like J.P. Morgan, Google, Airbnb, Microsoft, Uber, Stripe, Amazon, Salesforce, American Express, Verizon, Apple, Netflix, BlackRock, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Spotify, ByteDance, Bloomberg News, Meta, MongoDB, and more!

Expect:

Chill vibes conducive to talking in themed sections around fun, games, and love. Epic DJ, music, and dancing. A decked-out photo booth. Raffles and prizes. Your chance to end the 2024 with a bang.

* Check-in: Grab your wristband indicating your relationship status (single/taken/complicated)

* Game Lounges: At the back, find our game lounge with Jenga, Exploding Kittens, and more!

* Professional Networking Section: Meet fellow software engineers, product managers, sales & BD, marketing, strategy & bizops friends and discuss work or side hustles! You can identify people's functions based on the color of their name badges :)

* Singles-Only Section: Love is in the air, come down to our singles section managed by TanTan and meet new friends, connections, or your perfect match👀

**Our GRAND RAFFLE PRIZE is a free round trip ticket to Singapore on Singapore Airlines! Brought to you by Singapore Global Network. Ticket holders to the gala can RSVP here to enter the raffle!

Dress to impress: The dress code is Crazy Rich Asians chic formal glamour. Think Rachel Chu's stunning evening gowns or Nick Young's sharp suits— Embrace the high fashion from the movie! Keep an eye out for the colored wristbands and name badges that all attendees will wear to signify their relationship status and current professional functions—so you can meet the right like-minded people for professional or personal reasons!

Supermomos is NYC's premier platform for connecting with professional communities in technology, business, and finance. We're dedicated to bringing people together in real life to foster meaningful connections and knowledge exchange, all while facilitating the participation of female and underrepresented minority groups.

Examples of past soirées here, here, and here!

Purchase your VVIP Tickets here, which come with a VIP wristband to bypass the queue and gain access to our VIP lounge, free drink ticket, free coat check, access to participate in our mystery game involving a mini momo plushie which you can take home, and 5 raffle entries! Prices go up next week!

(psst... Super Diners Club Members get complimentary VIP wristbands or 30% off VIP passes👀)

Tue, Dec 10, 6:30 PM: Impact Founders and Funders Dinner for Charity- Tasting Menu at 2 Michelin Star Restaurant 🌟🌟

Series B+ founders, founders who have $10-100M+ in revenue, and VC fund partners only.

A complimentary exquisite dinner will be provided at a 2 Michelin Star restaurant 🌟🌟 co-hosted with Yamba Malawi, Perkins Coie, and Supermomos! It will be a great time - expect to come away with new learnings, curated connections and conversations with other like-minded founders & funders, and a full stomach!

We’ll be joined by Yamba Malawi, an organization working to shift communities in one of the world’s most impoverished countries from subsistence farming to sustainable livelihoods. Our dinner will feature Yamba's Founder Melissa Kushner, who was recognized with the Young Entrepreneur Award by the World Entrepreneurship Forum and featured in Forbes, USA Today, Elle, and NBC. Also joining her are Founder & CEO of Percent (raised ~$50M), Nelson Chu, and Partner at Perkins Coie, Sonia Farber, a former founder who serves on Yamba's board. There will be a short session about how they have been engaged in impact work.

We will discuss impact-driven entrepreneurship and giving back. You’ll have the chance to connect with other successful founders and funders while exploring how your business success can make a meaningful difference in the world.

We will have a private room to ourselves, where we will also facilitate conversations at your table over dinner. There will also be time to network and meet other founders and funders.

Super Diners Club is a members-only experience that connects curious and open-minded people like you for dinners twice a month, right here in NYC! You will become part of an ongoing experience that brings strangers together as friends, one carefully curated table at a time.

Membership-only: Apply for membership by RSVPing here. Total turnaround time from the time you apply will be less than 72 hours. Our next dinner date is slated for December 16th!

🤶 Our Christmas edition of Super Diners Club! 🎅 

Events this week

Tue, Dec 10, 5 PM: China 2025: What to Watch

Fri, Dec 13, 8:30 AM: December Private Founders Breakfast in NYC  Spotlight

Winter highlights!

Fri, Jan 17, 2:47 PM: Ski/Snowboard Day Trip

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What happened last week

Our Supermomos community came together last week for a WealthTech Private Founders Dinner, a Karaoke Night, and a Healthtech++ Fireside Chat & Mixer! Huge shoutout to Citi Ventures, Thoropass, Justworks, Cindy, Michelle, and Perkins Coie for ramping up our first week into December with these awesome events☃️

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Signing off from The Yard! (Super good value memberships available starting from $169 per seat - quote SUPERMOMOS VIP)
Edwina