Startup Lean Coffee

​Since 2019, Startup Lean Coffee has grown into a vibrant community of over 1,000 new and repeat founders, startup advisors, corporate employees, fractional leaders, and experienced investors in NYC. We meet monthly to share questions, challenges, and opportunities from our startup journeys.

We follow a Lean Coffee format: a fun, collaborative, and lightly facilitated meeting in which you suggest and vote on the topics that are of interest to you to build the agenda. We discuss topics for a fixed time, voting to continue discussion or move on to the next topic after the time runs out.

Because our theme is startups, pretty much any topic goes! Our previous topics have varied widely, from fundraising and social equity to lean product experiments and development shops to technical co-founders and psychedelic-induced “flow” states.

​We foster innovation, mentorship, and connections that enable startups to thrive.

All you need to bring is your attention, curiosity, and willingness to share. A light breakfast will even be provided. Oh, and don't forget to bring a photo ID and allow time to go through building security.

​Startup Lean Coffee is sponsored by Foley Hoag LLP.

​Photos by Mamadou Cissé.