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Tuesday, July 28

Tuesday, July 28 · Curated · Times in PDT

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Must Attend

Tier 01 · 4 events

018.4Signal / 10Must AttendFintech/CryptoCircle × Pantera: The Agentic EconomyTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM Stanford StanfordTLDRCircle (USDC) and Pantera Capital dig into AI agents meeting payment rails at Stanford Open Lab — a timely stablecoin-meets-agentic-commerce night for fintech/crypto founders and investors.Room signal133 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

028.4Signal / 10Must AttendAISF Private AI Founders & C-Suite Dinner ft. Partner at NEA ($35B+ AUM)Tue · Jul 28, 6:00 PM Private Upscale Venue (Location revealed upon RSVP approval) San FranciscoTLDRInvite-only, Chatham House Rule dinner of 25 for AI founders ($10M–$100M+ ARR), investors and enterprise AI leaders — featuring a partner from NEA ($35B+ AUM).Room signal25 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Supermomos

038.4Signal / 10Must AttendAILlamaIndex Founder Dinners 001: Loop EngineeringTue · Jul 28, 7:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRLlamaIndex's inaugural invite-only founder dinner — 15 early-stage founders and CTOs shipping AI agents in production, hosted by a leading agent-framework brand. Curated, small, and squarely on the hottest topic in AI.Room signal15 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

048.1Signal / 10Must AttendFounder/InvestorRobotics Founders & VCs Private Dinner · Palo AltoTue · Jul 28, 5:00 PM Palo Alto, CaliforniaTLDRInvite-style private dinner in Palo Alto bringing together robotics founders and VCs — an intimate 41-seat format ideal for sourcing physical-AI deals or meeting co-investors in a hot vertical.Room signal40 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

Strong Pick

Tier 02 · 21 events

057.8Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/InvestorOpen Batch 002 — Demo DayTue · Jul 28, 4:00 PM San FranciscoTLDRA 235-person startup demo day in SF — a prime venue to source early-stage deals and meet founders, with Brex's Chris DN (ex-Sequoia) among the hosts.Room signal235 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

067.8Signal / 10Strong PickAIPhysical AI and Robotics MeetupTue · Jul 28, 5:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRPhysical AI & robotics meetup drawing 137 engineers, founders and investors; hosted by a Category Ventures partner alongside an Apple robotics engineer and AI startup founders — a hot deep-tech theme with real buyers in the room.Room signal137 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

077.8Signal / 10Strong PickAIMCP V2 RELEASE EVENTTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRMCP V2 launch night — the biggest update to the Model Context Protocol (stateless core, Extensions, MCP Apps, Tasks), hosted by Manufact (YC S25) with 146 AI builders. Prime turf for agent-era founders and dev-tool investors.Room signal146 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

087.6Signal / 10Strong PickAIMCP Graduation PartyTue · Jul 28, 6:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRMCP (Model Context Protocol) spec-finalization party hosted by Arcade.dev and MCPJam — a 355-strong gathering of AI agent builders at the center of a hot developer-infra moment.Room signal355 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

097.4Signal / 10Strong PickAIAI × Health Happy Hour at Esther Wojcicki’sTue · Jul 28, 4:30 PM Stanford, CaliforniaTLDRIntimate 45-person AI × Health happy hour hosted at Esther Wojcicki's Stanford home — a curated, small-format mixer at the intersection of two hot founder/investor themes.Room signal45 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

107.4Signal / 10Strong PickAIIntelligence in the Open — Edition 01: Reasoning, Evaluation & Long-Horizon AgentsTue · Jul 28, 6:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRFrontier-AI talks on reasoning, eval and long-horizon agents — one of the hottest research themes — hosted by MiniMax with AI Valley, The AI Collective and Diversis Capital's AI partner; 249-seat builder crowd.Room signal249 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

117.4Signal / 10Strong PickAIPhysical AI over Coffee - Palo AltoTue · Jul 28, 6:00 PM The Treehouse StanfordTLDRPhysical AI meetup hosted by Menlo Research (team behind Asimov, an open-source humanoid robot) in Palo Alto — a hot robotics/embodied-AI theme with a builder-heavy crowd and a VC among the speakers.Room signal934 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

127.2Signal / 10Strong PickHackathonAgents You Love 2 Hackathon - Open RegistrationTue · Jul 28, 8:30 AM Frontier Tower @ Spaceship 995 Market Street, San FranciscoTLDRAn AI agents hackathon at SF's Frontier Tower — a hot topic and a builder-heavy room ideal for founders scouting technical talent and co-founders; features founders like Jacob Valdez (commandAGI) and Gergana Quievy (Querii).Room signal76 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

137.2Signal / 10Strong PickAIEnterprise AI at Scale: Talks + AI Agent Workshops, Ft Google, Snowflake, Thoughtspot & DatasaurTue · Jul 28, 3:30 PM 135 Constitution Dr Menlo ParkTLDREnterprise AI talks plus hands-on AI-agent workshops in Menlo Park featuring Google, Snowflake, ThoughtSpot & Datasaur — a large (~1000) forum for building and scouting enterprise AI.Room signal1,002 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

147.2Signal / 10Strong PickAIDurable Multimodal AI Meetup with HeyGen, Vapi, and ModalTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRMultimodal AI agents meetup co-hosted by HeyGen, Vapi (voice AI, Series B), Modal, and Temporal—strong builder crowd (186) at the frontier of voice/video agents and heavy compute.Room signal186 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

156.8Signal / 10Strong PickAIAgentic AI Meets Go-to-Market: Panel and Mixer for Marketing and Growth LeadersTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM Palo AltoTLDRPanel + mixer on agentic AI for go-to-market with 120 marketing/growth leaders in Palo Alto; founder speakers from AgentWeb, Mindra and Makora make it a solid AI-GTM networking night.Room signal120 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

166.8Signal / 10Strong PickAIAI Demo Series: July Edition - Startup Grind + Bright DataTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM Bright Data officesTLDRStartup Grind Silicon Valley's AI Demo Series: early-stage founders pitch products live at Bright Data's offices, with The AI Collective's Ash Kumra and BFC's Dr. Paul Fang in the mix — an intimate 23-seat founder/investor room.Room signal23 goingStartup Grind · Startup Grind · Bright Data · Bright DataView on Luma

176.8Signal / 10Strong PickFintech/CryptoRiskCon Bay Area with Oscilar & MastercardTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM Menlo Park, CaliforniaTLDRRiskCon Bay Area co-hosted by Oscilar and Mastercard — a fraud/risk & fintech gathering in Menlo Park drawing ~89 practitioners; solid for founders and investors tracking payments and risk infrastructure.Room signal89 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

186.5Signal / 10Strong PickAI"Spark Session: Build Night" — a hands-on AI build event in Palo AltoTue · Jul 28, 6:00 PM Palo Alto, CaliforniaTLDRHands-on AI build night in Palo Alto hosted by Genspark.ai — an intimate 40-person builder session for founders and technical operators to prototype and connect over frontier AI tooling.Room signal40 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

196.4Signal / 10Strong PickAIEnterprise AI for LTMs and Structured DataTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM Entrepreneurs FirstTLDRHands-on AI workshop on enterprise LLMs and structured data, hosted at Entrepreneurs First's SF space — a solid technical evening for founders building AI products and investors scouting the space.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Meetup

206.2Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/InvestorShow and tell nightTue · Jul 28, 5:00 PM San FranciscoTLDRBuilder-focused show-and-tell night hosted by Apify, Workato and bolt.new livestreams — a solid room of founders and devs demoing projects, good for scouting early technical talent and hackathon-adjacent teams.Room signal142 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

216.2Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/InvestorLegacy Lounge Palo Alto: The Capital PlaybookTue · Jul 28, 5:00 PM Palo Alto, CaliforniaTLDRIntimate 24-seat Palo Alto evening on "The Capital Playbook" hosted by Succedia Ventures — a small, curated founder–investor gathering focused on fundraising strategy.Room signal24 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

226.2Signal / 10Strong PickAIEnterprise AI - LTMs and Structured DataTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CaliforniaTLDRAICamp SF meetup on enterprise AI, long-term memory (LTMs) and structured data — a timely technical topic drawing ~120 builders; solid for founders scouting infra trends and talent.Room signal121 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

236.2Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/InvestorCBS VC HH - SF EditionTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CaliforniaTLDRColumbia Business School's VC happy hour, SF edition — an intimate 35-person mixer of alumni founders and investors for warm intros and deal-flow chatter over drinks.Room signal34 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

246.2Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/Investorscrappy sessionsTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM San FranciscoTLDRScrappy founder/builder session (82 guests) hosted by True Ventures' AI Builder in Residence, with speakers spanning AI workflows and Crusoe's compute/energy BD — solid networking for early-stage builders.Room signal82 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

256.2Signal / 10Strong PickAIAI Nerd Meet UpTue · Jul 28, 6:00 PM San FranciscoTLDRA 100+ person SF AI meetup featuring Michelle Marcelline (co-founder, The Prompting Company, YC S25; ex-Typedream YC W20) — solid casual room to meet AI builders and founders.Room signal106 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

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