🧠 OGs & LPs: AI Lab & Private Networking Hub @AfroTech 2025
📍 Location: Private Residence, Houston
📅 Dates: October 29–31, 2025
🔐 Access: By Invitation Only – Musa Chip with QR Code Required
Welcome to the Musa Capital Oasis, a sanctuary of innovation and deep connection in the heart of AfroTech 2025. Hidden away in a modern, serene private residence in Houston, this invite-only AI Lab and Networking Hub offers a refined contrast to the bustling energy of the conference.
During the day, the Oasis becomes a calm and elegant retreat where builders and backers come to reflect, connect, and accelerate their ventures. By night, it transforms into a powerful launchpad for the next wave of unicorn founders, with curated collisions between elite founders, VCs, operators, and angel investors.
🎟️ Access: Musa Capital Chip
Your physical Musa Capital Token — a sleek custom chip with a QR code — is more than an entry pass. It is your formal invitation to join the Musa Capital community. It signals that you're being scouted for greatness and grants full access to curated experiences designed to accelerate your journey as a founder, investor, or operator.
To enter, guests must present their Musa Capital Chip physical token with a QR code registration on the reverse. This chip is your:
🔐 Access pass to the Oasis throughout AfroTech week
📲 Identity key for personalized 1:1 sessions with investors and fellow founders
🧭 Connection compass for matchmaking with future cofounders, early team members, or backers
🍹 Lifestyle credential unlocking food, cocktails, and hospitality during open hours
🌞 By Day: Reprieve + Intention
Open Lounge: Step away from the noisy expo halls into a curated environment designed for intentional networking, quiet strategy sessions, and recharging your energy.
AI Lab Touchpoints: Experience live AI product demos, hands-on tinkering with Musa-backed dev tools, and informal huddles with technical founders.
Operator Networking: Lets find where your skills can grow and provide the highest impact
Features:
Catered Meals + Light Refreshments: Gourmet lunch and snacks daily, plus beer, wine, and curated cocktails
Live product builds and AI experiments
Soft seating and WiFi-enabled quiet zones
🌙 By Night: Elevation + Energy
As the sun sets, the Oasis flips into its night mode — a curated social club for top-tier connection and collaboration. These evenings are less about panels and more about collisions — between capital and creativity, between experience and ambition.
Nightly Themes May Include:
🔥 Founder Fireside Jams: No microphones, just raw storytelling and feedback
🥂 Investors Unplugged: Intimate mixers with family offices, angels, and fund managers
💡 Pitchlight Hour: Unstructured pitch moments (think: no decks, just vision)
🧩 Who Should Be There?
Pre-seed to Series B founders building bold AI and SaaS companies
Fortune 500 professionals exploring angel investing or new opportunities
Engineers and designers hunting for their next rocketship
Operators looking to join founding teams
Family offices, solo GPs, and angels sourcing and edge
💬 Scout Notes
Musa Capital scouts and advisors will be on-site throughout the event. They’re seeking:
Founders ready to raise
Operators with breakout potential
Developers with elite skillsets
Angel investors who bring more than capital
They’re not just observing — they’re investing. In people. In ideas. In futures.