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  • This Week in NYC (Oct 9 2023) - Techstars Happy Hour w/ Diverse Investors (Founder, Gaingels; VC, Serena Ventures), GIA NYC Accelerator Demo Day, Tech Singles Mixer, Women in AI ML Happy Hour, & more!

This Week in NYC (Oct 9 2023) - Techstars Happy Hour w/ Diverse Investors (Founder, Gaingels; VC, Serena Ventures), GIA NYC Accelerator Demo Day, Tech Singles Mixer, Women in AI ML Happy Hour, & more!

October 08, 2023

Hey homies,

It’s October already! Is everyone feeling excited about the fall? 🎃👻 We are still waiting for this weekend to end before we can confirm our Sep Top Superhost - stay tuned for the update on our winner next week 🙂 

Meanwhile, start planning for your Oct events!! Prize in Oct for Top Superhost will be complimentary chef-made healthy dinners for yourself & 10 friends. This would be perfect for a fall get-together with your friends.

Huge thank you to Square Fare for supporting the NYC Tech Community. Square Fare provides food tailored to your calories and macros by personal chefs and nutritionists. Definitely check them out 🥳

Check out our Monthly rankings on our supermomos.com home page under the “Superhosts” section. Looks to be an intense fight with 4 currently tying for 1st place - Cindy @ Amazon, Birce @ Medtronic, Anastasia @ Starta VC, Deepak @ D.E. Shaw. 💪💪💪💪

Spotlight

On Friday, October 13th at 9:00 AM EST, WEVE will be hosting their Demo Day, where you’ll have the chance to hear from a cohort of impressive Singaporean companies as part of a dedicated program they are hosting in partnership with Enterprise Singapore through their Global Innovation Alliance (GIA).

The companies cover a variety of different sectors, including clean energy, food & bev, advertising, medical tech, HR tech, and more. They represent the best of Singaporean talent and industry, and they’re excited to be able to introduce them to the US market.

During the event, each of the startups will present their 3-minute pitch before fielding 5-minutes of audience Q&A. Afterwards, you’ll have the opportunity to network with the founders as well as a select group of WEVE’s network of investors, corporates, and experts over drinks and light bites 🍷🍲

Last call this week for the Single Momos out there - Get ready for an unforgettable night of mingling, laughter, and inspiration at our Celebrity x Tech Singles mixer co-hosted with Tawkify! This exclusive Singles Professional Mixer will feature an equal split of men & women, with time for mingling & making new friends, and also a captivating fireside chat with Joe and Serena from Season 7 of Bachelor in Paradise.

Joe and Serena met & got engaged during the final episode of Bachelor in Paradise! After the show wrapped, they had a long-distance relationship for months before moving in together in NYC. The couple got married last year and recently hosted a 2nd wedding. Check them out in the news here!

Guests receive a complimentary membership to Tawkify's matchmaking network ($99 value) to be matched with their amazing clients. Create a profile and their expert matchmakers will reach out when they have a compatible match for you - they even plan the date to introduce you! Complete your profile by October 13th and enter to win a $200 gift card towards your next date night! Join here. Questions? Email: [email protected]

There will be complimentary drinks (thank you Lunar Hard Seltzer 😍) & bites, and great happy hour deals. Don't miss out on the opportunity to meet incredible people, hear Joe and Serena's inspiring love story, ask them questions during Q&A, and create lasting memories.

Discover potent sales and partnership strategies at SuperConnect's NY Tech Week edition. Learn from Radha Amalraj, VP of Sales at Immutable and former Global Head of Business Partnerships at Meta, alongside Chloe Ho, GTM of Scale AI, bringing her experience from Wharton and Harvard Business School. There will be deep-dive sessions led by top-tier professionals and real-world strategies sharing sessions proven for business growth.

This event will be highly curated for Sales, BD, Partnerships professionals in NYC and great for networking as well. Don't miss this exclusive SuperConnect edition.

Techstars NYC Powered by JP Morgan is celebrating the dynamism and diversity of NYC's tech ecosystem! We are hosting this intimate event with top NY-based founders and investors at Techstars' Chelsea HQ. Approval is required to attend.

This event will include a panel of VCs (including Founder of Gaingels & VC from Serena Ventures) moderated by Techstars' Managing Director Gary Stewart, as well as a pitch-off featuring five promising NYC founders from a range of backgrounds. The event will culminate with a happy hour social.

In collaboration with Women in Machine Learning & Data Science (WiMLDS) NYC Chapter, we are hosting a Women in AI ML Happy Hour Mixer & Lightning Talks. Allies are welcome!

There will be lightning talks and an open networking session. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to connect, learn, and exchange notes about what everyone’s building & working on in the space + have fun over happy hour.

Events this week

We are gathering a panel of industry specialists from the ed:tech, global business, and technology space to talk about team-building, growth, and customer support across borders.

Tues, Oct 10, 7 PM: Mundo lingo (co-hosted by 2 SWEs)

100s of people from around the 🌎 meet weekly to socialise, have a drink, and meet foreign/local people of all ages. It's chill, fun and free. Please remember to bring a valid ID, local or foreign. 🗣 Talk about anything you like. You don't have to be an advanced speaker - it's open to everyone!

Especially for the Single Momos out there - Get ready for an unforgettable night of mingling, laughter, and inspiration at our Celebrity x Tech Singles mixer co-hosted with Tawkify!

Get a chance to hear from a cohort of impressive Singaporean companies as part of a dedicated program we are hosting in partnership with Enterprise Singapore through their Global Innovation Alliance (GIA).

Fri, Oct 13, 6 PM: Tech Dinner & Drinks

Zuma is a modern Japanese restaurant. Tech startup investors, cofounders, engineers, data scientists, marketers, operators, community builders are welcome.

Come join the Supermomos Supper Club for some Mediterranean food!

Sat, Oct 14, 3 PM: NYC Home Buyer Guide

Understand the home-buying process in NYC and the benefits of real estate investments.

Fall highlights!

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What Happened Last Week

Who said Web3 is dead? Shardeum x Koala Wallet co-hosted a Web3 community night last week 🤩. Proof of Community is a series of meetups and workshops by Shardeum, designed to educate and raise awareness about the exciting world of Web3.

Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform that provides low gas fees forever while maintaining true decentralization and solid security through dynamic state sharding.

Koala Wallet makes it easier than ever to buy, send, receive, and safely store your crypto assets.

Big shoutout to Ansen, Kelsey, Koby for the fun and engaging fireside chat & to our favorite co-working spot The Yard: Space to Work!

Last week’s Dev x AI Convergence Forum with B Capital ($6B+ AUM) at their office was epic - we featured 4 venture-backed AI ML founders & engineers for a Dev x AI Convergence Forum and gathered data scientists, engineering leaders, founders, and investors in AI ML. After the fireside chat, the community mingled over hors doeuvres, wine, and beer, making new friends & connections in the AI ML space with a wonderful view! 🥂

THANK YOU to all 4 founders & engineers and our co-host, B Capital for the enlightening fireside chat and buzzing discussions on the future of AI ML!

B Capital is a global multi-stage investment firm that collaborates with innovative entrepreneurs to support the transformation of traditional industries through technology.

⭐ Pro Tip ⭐ Invite the community to join you in activities you enjoy and would anyway do by yourself! (why not get a few new friends with similar interests along the way?) Feel free to pull along fellow momos to join you as co-host/s :)

Get the Supermomos App for exclusive access to these intimate events, earn +100 momos for every new friend you refer via your unique referral link, and... Host your own events too (from the newsfeed tab, click the green + icon on the bottom right corner, and click "Create Social") and earn more momos :)

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Signing off from The Yard!
Edwina 💜💛