Tech Events by Founders Mesh

Founders Mesh's year-end party for founders, investors and, for once, their teams. Each startup can bring up to five people, co-founders and first hires included. It's the usual Founders Mesh mix of founders and active investors in one curated room, with drinks, food and music. The signature beer crate comes out for two-minute stories: big wins, spectacular fails and things worth a toast. No corporate speeches and no set agenda. 19:00 to 23:00 at Benelux Bar, Gedempt Hamerkanaal 83 in Noord. Tickets €27 on Luma. Why go: an easy way to meet active investors and other startup teams before the year closes, and a chance to thank your own team in the same room. Best for seed-stage founders and their early hires.

An invitation-reviewed evening for startup and scaleup founders alongside a selected circle of actively deploying investors, at Flâneur Coffee Club in the 1st. Founders Mesh started in Amsterdam and runs editions in Los Angeles; this Paris edition is hosted with bunq, the Amsterdam-born digital bank for cross-border businesses, which is joining the Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin dates. Format: conversation first, with optional beer-crate pitches capped at two minutes, no decks and no judges. First drink included, wine and music after. The room is capped and attendance reviewed to keep the founder–investor balance; the organisers are explicit that the ticket is paid to filter for commitment rather than to cover entry. The price is not published on the listing. Why go: a vetted, deliberately small founder–investor room in a city where most of the alternative is a 200-person mixer. Best for founders raising soon and investors who want fewer, better conversations.

Soirée sur sélection pour fondateurs de startups et de scaleups, avec un cercle restreint d'investisseurs qui déploient réellement, au Flâneur Coffee Club dans le 1er. Founders Mesh est né à Amsterdam et organise des éditions à Los Angeles ; cette édition parisienne se tient avec bunq, la banque numérique née à Amsterdam pour les entreprises qui opèrent de part et d'autre des frontières, présente sur les dates d'Amsterdam, Paris et Berlin. Le format : la conversation d'abord, avec des pitchs sur caisse de bière facultatifs et limités à deux minutes, sans slides ni jury. Première boisson offerte, vin et musique ensuite. La jauge est plafonnée et les inscriptions passées en revue pour tenir l'équilibre fondateurs–investisseurs ; les organisateurs assument le billet payant comme un filtre d'engagement plutôt que comme un droit d'entrée. Le prix n'est pas publié sur l'annonce. Pourquoi y aller : une salle fondateurs–investisseurs petite et filtrée, dans une ville où l'alternative est souvent un mixer à 200 personnes. Pour les fondateurs qui lèvent bientôt et les investisseurs qui veulent moins de conversations, mais meilleures.

Founders Mesh runs Amsterdam's most deliberately curated founder room, and the summer flagship — edition #24, powered by OVHcloud — takes over Klaproos in Noord for an evening capped at 120 vetted founders, VCs and operators. The format is the draw: signature two-minute beer-crate pitches with no slides, a gender-balanced Seed-to-Series-A crowd shaped by manual approval of every registration, pizza and drinks in an industrial waterfront space, and a DJ who understands the assignment. Founders Mesh has grown from an Amsterdam experiment into an 800-strong European network spanning Paris, Berlin and Los Angeles, with a high return rate that tells you most of what you need to know. Attendance is by approval and the community pre-sale has already sold out.