Apply To Join Our NY Tech Week Event For Techies and Founders!

Are you a techie or a founder? Are you based in New York? More importantly, are you free on the 5th of June? If you tick all those boxes, we proudly invite you to our ‘Founder Stories,’ an event bringing techies together.

This unique event, powered by Braze, will include a robust lineup of founders breaking barriers and transforming the tech industry. Founder Stories is part of New York Tech Week, a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem.

Be ready to engage in honest conversations about fundraising and finding your niche, network with fellow NYC techies, and eat, drink, and mingle with new people. Our event will take place on June 5. You can sign up here.

Our first panelist

Our first announced panelist is Yale junior Nathaneo Johnson. He and Sean Hargrow raised $3.1M for Series A, the AI-powered networking platform.

Series, secured the funding in only 14 days after a trailer posted by Johnson on LinkedIn went viral in the college entrepreneurial community. The buzz attracted strong investor interest, including from former a16z investor Anne Lee Skates, who went on to lead the pre-seed round through her venture fund Parable.

Johnson met his soon-to-be co-founder at Yale, where they both joined the university’s Society for Aspiring Entrepreneurs. “One thing we quickly realized from meeting successful entrepreneurs and business founders was that they had engineered their own luck,” Johnson says. “They didn’t just trust that fate would connect them to the people they needed to meet.”

NYC Tech Week

NYC Tech Week is tech’s largest decentralized conference, presented by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). It will take place from June 2nd to 8th, 2025, and the events will include a tech pizza party, a power walk, and a sunset rooftop product showcase.

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