The NYC Tech Poker by Techgames.xyz #20
"Whereas tech drinks optimise for alcoholics, tech games optimise for high-IQ crowds." 🧠
You're invited to a game of Tech Poker with a crowd of high signal founders, operators, & investors, presented by Techgames.xyz & Meow.
If you're a statistically literate techy who also finds beauty in abstraction, you probably LOVE games. 🧠
Perhaps you also worked very hard this week and now you're looking to relax. 🔥
If this sounds like you, we want YOU to come. 🫵🏽
What to expect?
Social Cash game, Texas Hold'em, no limit, no rake, $0.25/$0.5, $50 buy-in
Curated tech crowd - We're running high-signal gaming events for you to recharge AND find the best allies to boost the odds of your venture's success.
Games + elite tech crowd = Max-ROI 👾
Our theses?
We believe the best founders, operators, and investors in the world are great gamers (e.g. Demis Hassabis with Chess, Reid Hoffman with Catan, Zuckerberg with Poker, etc).
Games attract the strongest allies you can imagine (e.g. future co-founder, hire, partner, investor).
Regular attendees?
✅ T1-investors (Sequoia, Bessemer Ventures, a16z, Dawn Capital, etc)
✅ Operators with evidence of exceptional abilities (early at now unicorns, Olympiad winners, etc)
✅ VC-Backed founders ($1M-$100M+ raised)
Who this event is NOT for?
❌ Consultancies/agencies
❌ Sales people
👉 Apply to join by filling out the RSVP form.
Reid Hoffman - Linkedin Founder
Loves Catan so much he created his own custom "Startups of Silicon Valley" edition of it!
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🫂 About our Hosts & Sponsors:
🎤 Remy Messadene is an Oxford AI PhD dropout turned exited founder.He’s currently building an AI company in stealth by day, and running Founden.xyz, a curated tech community of 1,000+ exceptional founders (Seed to Series D), by night. He’s hosted 200+ founder events for over 10,000 attendees across London, NYC, and SF — from rooftop dinners to underground poker nights like this one.
🐱 Matt Schkolnick is the Growth Lead at Meow. We're the modern treasury platform for venture-backed startups where companies can earn up to 3.52% APY — on checking accounts — compared to Mercury, Brex, Rho, and JPM's 0.01%. With $200M FDIC-insured accounts through our partner banks, we also offer high-yield treasury products, corporate bill pay, FX, cross-border wires, and send / receive USDC from a checking account. We're all about helping startups earn the most interest on their cash!