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We're ending the year with a bang... with a final, epic 4-day event series for founders and investors in New York! We've partnered with Notion, J.P. Morgan, Lowenstein Sandler LLP, Sunset, WeSoftYou Inc., Neuberg Gore, Roar Global, Till CFO & fibe (prev: andrew's mixers) to bring you a series of 7 founder and investor dinners, fireside chats, and mixers 4 days. Our schedule: - November 18 | Founder Dinner (Founders & CEOs at Seed - Series B) - November 19 | Investor Dinner (GPs & Heads of Platforms at VC Funds) - November 19 | Investor Mixer (GPs & Investors at VC Funds) - November 20 | Fundraising 101 (Fireside chat with NYC-based GPs) - November 20 | Founder Dinner (Founders & CEOs at Seed - Series B) - November 20 | An Evening at Venture Loft (All friends in tech welcome) - November 21 | Founder Dinner (Founders & CEOs at Seed - Series B) Get the full schedule here: https://lnkd.in/ep6VVu7z

🇺🇸🗽 Roar Apex is co-hosting an exclusive founders dinner in NYC on November 21st! This curated event will bring together 20 accomplished founders and CEOs, from Seed to Series B. It’s a unique opportunity to connect, share insights, and engage in meaningful conversations within an intimate setting. We are proud to be partnering with the exceptional Andrew Yeung for this event. Our only intent is to bring good, smart humans together! Want to join us? Register your interest here: https://lu.ma/founderloft3

I had such a great time last week attending the Andrew Yeung and Rho seed stage summit. Seeing old friends and meeting new people in the industry all starting on their next journey had me walking away filled with genuine joy. The incredible founder stories of pivots, overcoming mistakes, challenging GTM hurdles and candid humor to take the edge off it all was well received by the entire room. Two takeaways that resonated with me: There are no real net new ideas out there, only the execution of ideas differently. Know who your competitors are and learn from them. - Lindsay Kaplan (Co Founder Chief ) You need solid “Scaffolding”. Build the business properly from the ground up, not with duct tape. - Alexa von Tobel ( Founder at Inspired Capital and LearnVest ) A big thank you to Mastercard for providing a space where seed and pre-seed founders can gather, not only to learn from successful leaders but also from each other.

We wanted to bring together the most ambitious seed stage founders - and introduce them to the legends of NYC tech... So last week, I hosted our first-ever Seed Stage Summit with Rho, with 150 founders and 30 VCs from funds like Notable Capital, Insight Partners, and GV (Google Ventures), Thank you to our incredible speakers for coming: • Dennis Crowley (Co-founder of Foursquare) • Russ Heddleston (Co-founder of DocSend) • Lindsay Kaplan (Co-founder of Chief) • Alexa von Tobel (Founder at Inspired Capital & LearnVest) • iqram magdon-ismail (Co-founder at Venmo) • And our YC Alumni panel with Aakash Shah (Wyndly (YC W21)), Rachel ten Brink (Red Bike Capital), Eve Halimi (Alinea Invest) & Max Kolysh (Dover) Thank you to our team: Justin Wolz, Jacob Solano, Christianna Gray, Drew Parten, Alina (Oz) Osborn, Rebecca Shamus, Luis Gonzalez Thank you to our volunteers: Helen G., Maiyan Pearl, Katie McCarthy, Sashank RM, Armand Tawerapetcharat, Daniel Gorbachev, Alime Karimova Thank you to the Mastercard (Viraj Mehta) for hosting us and Vanessa Lopera for the photography. Recordings will be shared in the coming weeks. Follow here: Andrew Yeung to be the first notified! Stay tuned for our Seed Stage Summit in 2025 👀

love this - and big congrats to Andrew as always, one of the best community builders I know :)

If you haven’t been to Andrew Yeung events, you are missing out. Well curated, thoughtful and actually where connections get made. Thanks for hosting this a couple of weeks ago !

Meetings the legends of NYC's tech scene 🏢 🍎 Thanks so much Andrew Yeung and Rho for an eye-opening day at the Seed Stage Summit. There is no guidebook that tells you precisely how to scale a fintech startup - especially in emerging markets - but hearing directly from those who have done it is some of the best guidance you can get. I was honored to meet iqram magdon-ismail, co-founder of the ubiquitous Venmo, who grew up in Africa. Often when I'm pitching Asaak to non-African investors I explain mobile money as, "East Africa had Venmo a decade before the US and it doesn't require internet." It was super inspiring to meet the visionary behind Venmo and tell him about our tech-driven asset financing in Uganda and Mexico ⚡🏍️🚗 And to hear about his exciting new venture Jelly! Thanks so much Andrew Yeung and looking forward to the next one 😎

We're kicking off November with our Venture Loft Series - a series of dinners and events for Seed to Series B founders, and General Partners and Heads of Platform at VC Funds. More info below 👇

We just wrapped up Lumos House in San Francisco and Los Angeles. 1,000+ founders, investors, and creators in attendance – representing >$500M in capital raised and thousands of employees from our personal networks. I'm so incredibly grateful for everyone who helped make it special. We hosted CEO dinners with Sunset, creator events with Whop, and even a fireside chat with the Co-founder of Lyft and Presto. 3 principles to our success: 1 - We built the experience that we wanted to attend as founders and investors. Stuffy, overly-engineered conferences are boring. We opted for a unique venue (Bel Air mansion in LA; Townhouse in SF), people-first activities, entertainment, music, great food - the works! We wanted to create an experience driven by traditional hospitality principles - elegance, customer experience, and service. 2 - Curation is the name of the game. Though we had over 4,000 applicants for both Lumos House events, our team personally went through the list and vetted every single person. Beyond meeting the objective business criteria, we asked questions in the application form that screened for Lumos House values such as kindness, openness, and collaboration. 3 - Our ethos. Though Lumos House can be categorized as a "networking" event, we encouraged people to expand their conversation topics beyond tech, business, and work. We hosted a "Magic of Human Connection" workshop with Jessica during one of the days with a focus on connecting with others as humans - going beyond the transactional nature of most industry events. This is what Lumos House has always been about. We aspire to create a space for the most ambitious people in business, tech, and media to connect and collaborate. THANK YOU to everyone for being a part of Lumos House. - To the core team: Jacob, Matei, Bogdan, Eitan, Bartu - To our sponsors and partners: Whop, Sunset - To our speakers and programming partners: Rajat Suri, Hari Arul, Umesh Khanna, Jessica Encell Coleman, Sigurdur Arnason, Ronak Shah, Suffiyan Malik, Julia Prakapovich, Kayla Kavanaugh - To our volunteers: Dave, Jeston, Astha, Aayushi, Shriyanshi, Fatima Btw, we've already started planning something epic for 2025... If you'd like to follow along - follow me Andrew Yeung and Lumos House.

Seed Stage Summit 2024 Rho X Andrew Yeung was a blast- 100 seed-stage founders together for a day of fireside chats, discussions, and networking. Honered to be included in the lineup among some incredible speakers: • Dennis Crowley (Co-founder of Foursquare) • Russ Heddleston (Co-founder of Dropbox DocSend) • Lindsay Kaplan (Co-founder of Chief) • iqram magdon-ismail (Co-founder of Venmo) • Alexa von Tobel (Founder of Inspired Capital) • Aakash Shah (Founder of Wyndly (YC W21) • Eve Halimi (Co-founder of Alinea Invest) • Max Kolysh (Founder of Dover) Our panel was on the Y Combinator experience with Eve, Aakash and Max- lessons learned, what it takes to get into YC, what it means in the long term. My favorite question “What would you tell yourself at the beginning of your founder journey?”: -> No one is coming to save you. No head of growth, no BDR, no new consultant is going to have the silver bullet- you need to figure out your business. -> Have appreciation for the journey- and the stamina it takes to navigate all of the of ups and downs. You will feel the ups and the downs more intensely as a founder. Nothing is ever as good * or as bad* as it initially seems. -> Be sure you want to commit to the idea you're building for- it takes waaay longer than you think it will. Don't be tempted to pivot into something that you don't want to do- you will be stuck. Thank you Christina C. for the great pics, Amy Chen Jesse Middleton Jacob Solano Justin Wolz Rashida Bobb Red Bike Capital Herman Goihman