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Welcome to the original Startup Grind Chapter established in February 2009 when nine people showed up in Mountain View California to brainstorm, hang out, and eat cheap pizza. This Chapter has hosted some of the best entrepreneurs Silicon Valley and the Bay Area has ever had. We host an event per month, ranging across all industries and topics for bootstrapped through Series B founders. Stay tuned for new events, venues, and more. We hope you'll join us! 🚀 Need help raising your next round? Join the Startup Exhibition at the SG Conference in Silicon Valley on April 27-29, 2026! Our top 100 exhibitors from past years have raised over $1.5B, and we can't wait to see what deals come from the 2026 batch. Don’t miss your chance to showcase your startup to 5,000+ entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators. Apply now as a startup or scaleup for 2026!

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2026년 8월 14일

In-Person Event (Free)

Building the AI-Native Startup Stack

AI-native products are evolving fast, and the teams building on them are making real-time decisions about voice, media, edge deployment, and agent orchestration every week. Join Startup Grind and Ignite on August 14 at The Canopy in Menlo Park for a half-day of keynotes, panels, hands-on demos, and serious networking with the founders, engineers, and investors shaping the AI-native startup stack

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2026년 8월 26일

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AI Demo Series: August Edition

Startup Grind Silicon Valley is continuing our a new monthly AI Demo Series—a high-energy showcase for the next generation of AI founders. Strictly not a pitch event. Demo only. This is scrappy. Things break. The energy is electric. But you get to show what you're actually building.

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2026년 9월 1일

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Funded Female Founder with Inc Magazine in NEW YORK CITY (!!)

Join us for the first Funded Female Founders event in NYC at Ramp HQ. One of the largest curated deal flow rooms for venture-scalable women founders, FFF is expanding to New York after four successful Silicon Valley events with 1,000+ attendees, in partnership with Inc. Magazine and Female Founders 500. Use SGCommunityFFF for 25% off launch price

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