NAAAP x AAAIM Presents: Asian & Pacific Islander Founders and Funders Mixer
NAAAP Boston is excited to co-host an Asian and Pacific Islander (API) Founders and Funders event with AAAIM (Association of Asian American Investment Managers) to kick off Asian Heritage Month and AAAIM's VC Summit. This event will also collaborate with community partners such as Gold House, Asian Hustle Network, A2C, and ACE NextGen. NAAAP and AAAIM will bring these incredible Asian entrepreneurial organizations together for a fun evening of networking and community building. This will be a pre-convention social to AAAIM's VC Summit the following day.
Please join us for this mixer to learn more about these organizations and how they can help support, accelerate, and invest in Asian and Pacific Islander Founders.
Thank you Gunderson Dettmer and MassChallenge for your support in sponsoring and hosting us!
Drinks and light refreshments will be served.
Due to capacity, we will be prioritizing founders and funders. This is a strictly 21+ event.
Apply to attend today! Questions? Please email Chareeda.rustanavibul@naaapboston.org or Kit.Canlas@aaaim.org.
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About our partners:
The National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP) is the premier leadership organization for Asian and Asian American professionals in North America, with 30 chapters, several thousand active members, and a reach of more than 20,000 professionals. Founded in 1982, NAAAP is a volunteer-run non-profit that inspires, develops, and connects leaders across industries and communities through networking and educational events, trainings, community service programs, and celebrations of Asian American excellence.
The Association of Asian American Investment Managers (AAAIM) is a national 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to increasing diversity and inclusion in the investment management industry, serving as a powerful voice for the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. Our goal is to elevate underrepresented groups through education, networking, and empowerment.
Gold House is a cultural ecosystem that unites, invests in, and champions Asian Pacific creators and companies to power tomorrow for all. The Gold House Futures Network is the pre-eminent community for Asian Pacific entrepreneurs, creators, and social impact leaders.
AHN is a global online and offline super connector for diasporic Asians crafting creative and entrepreneurial roads to success. Through their engaged community of 250,000+ members around the world, their storytelling, and their programming, AHN creates an ecosystem to inspire and connect members to the people and resources who will take their pursuits to the next level.
ACE NextGen is committed to helping accelerate the growth of our members' businesses and supporting them on their journey to success. We believe that by coming together and sharing our knowledge and resources, we can create a thriving community of entrepreneurs dedicated to driving positive change in the world.
A2C
A2C (Access to Community) is Boston's newest next gen community of founders and funders. The mission of this community is to help founders of cross-cultural backgrounds break barriers and gain further access to community, resources and outside capital in the innovation ecosystem.
Sponsors:
Gunderson Dettmer
Gunderson Dettmer is the preeminent international law firm with an exclusive focus on the innovation economy. The firm serves market-leading venture capital and growth equity investors and pioneering companies through inception, growth and maturity, as well as groundbreaking public companies that result from the global venture capital ecosystem. The firm’s clear-cut focus and well-honed technical skill enables an accelerated pace and unmatched efficiency, delivering best-in-class value at each phase of a client’s business.
MassChallenge
MassChallenge connects startups, experts, corporations, and communities to grow and transform businesses and economies. Our unique equity-free model allows us to accelerate high-impact startups with bold, disruptive ideas from non-traditional backgrounds.