🍾 New York City Founders & Investors Winter Social #1 - Hosted by Pilot
Come Socialize With Fellow Founders & Investors
👋 What is this?
A casual event to bring tech founders and investors together. No overt pitching or selling allowed—just fun conversation and genuine connection to avoid overly transactional and fake introductions. Attendees can buy their own food or drink if they wish (optional).
💝 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?
Exact location will be shared with attendees the day before and the day of the event. 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 or Consumer (pre-seed or other categories are fine with strong traction)
VC Partners and Angels who invest in the above
We personally review each applicant using LinkedIn, websites, AngelList, Crunchbase, web traffic, mutual connections, and other sources, etc. This ensures high-caliber attendees.
We also offer some support in facilitating intros to investors who attend based on their thesis.
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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