

🍾 SaaStr Side-Event: Afterparty for Founders & Investors - Social #46 - Hosted by Pilot
NO WALKINS OR PLUS ONES EXCEPT THOSE WHO REGISTER AND ARE APPROVED!!! WE EXPECT TO BE FULL.
You do NOT have to be part of SaaStr Annual Conference to attend this event.
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Come Socialize With Fellow Founders & Investors - a Web Summit 2025 Vancouver Afterparty
👋 What is this?
The premier SaaStr Annual Afterparty, bringing tech founders and investors together. Attendees can buy their own food or drink if they wish (optional).
🚫 Everyone is welcome to register, but only those approved may attend. Approved guests will receive an email saying they’ve been approved and will find a QR code ticket in Luma. Anyone without will be turned away at the door, no exceptions, and no plus 1’s. Everyone who attends must register and be approved. This is to keep the event to only those founders and investors who meet the criteria.
💝 Why come?
Find your next investment or investor
Make friends and future referrers or partners
Have fun and enjoy a night off
📌 Where is it?
ANNOUNCING SOON- must have valid ID and be legal drinking age to attend.
🔍 Who is this event best suited for?
Seed & Series A Founders in B2B Software, Marketplaces or Consumer (pre-seed is fine with strong traction)
VC Partners and Angels who invest in the above
Note that this event is in high demand, and due to capacity limits, we can only take in the most competitive registrations.
Unlike events optimized for fun, this event is specifically for networking - pitching investors and meeting other promising founders. That said, it's going to be awesome, and you'll have a great time too.
➡️➡️➡️ Learn more about why you should attend and about sponsorship opportunities here: https://docsend.com/view/5k37zhzk79g85bie ⬅️⬅️⬅️
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About the hosts:
Pilot
Pilot is a travel tech company with two main offerings:
A free travel planning and booking tool powered by AI that bring everything you need to make trips happen in one place. We make traveling less costly and tedious, and more fun and collaborative for you and your travel group.
A corporate retreat planning and booking service (contact us for service) that saves you thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours by planning and booking your company's next retreat or offsite for you.
Pilot was featured by outlets like TechCrunch and Forbes, and is trusted by and rated 4.7 starts out of 5 by over 27,000 travelers in 183 countries worldwide. After just 10 minutes of planning on Pilot, 60% of people say they’d never go back to their old way. That's why today Pilot plans more than 66x the average number of trips planned by a typical travel agency.
In 2024, Pilot was top 3 BC Tech finalist for Startup of the Year, and has raised over $1.5mil from investors.
Connor Wilson
Connor Wilson is the Founder & CEO at Pilot:
Prior to Pilot, he grew NiceJob (marketing SaaS) to serving over 25,000 businesses, resulting in a $30mil bootstrapped SaaS exit in 2021.
He is a proud, maple-syrup-loving Canadian, as well as a C100 Fellow, alumni of NEXT Canada and TechCrunch Startup Battlefield, and the Creative Destruction Lab.
Follow or contact Connor via Linkedin
This event is organized and operated solely by the above listed Hosts (not SaaStr Inc. nor any of its affiliates or brands, including SaaStr Annual Conference).