Events

Join us for an invite-only awesome happy hour with Republic, Brex, & Workweek. The best builders, founders, creators, investors, and operators all under one roof. 

SXSW Happy Hour with Republic, Brex, & Workweek

Founders and Funders, join Carta and Republic for this invitation-only event. We'll be welcoming influential founders and investors from the Miami area for an evening of cocktails and camaraderie as we celebrate the growth of the Miami tech community.  We look forward to seeing you there!

Republic x Carta Happy Hour

Republic is super excited to host our first Iftar to celebrate Muslim founders, investors, operators, & builders. We'll share great food, open our fasts together (for those observing), and get to know one another. We have a limit on attendees so do RSVP for a spot ASAP.  

Republic Iftar Dinner

Republic is thrilled to be hosting a dinner celebrating Asian & Pacific Islander founders, investors, and creators during AAPI heritage month. Reach out to Zehra with any questions. 

This event is brought to you in partnership with Carta.

Republic's AAPI Celebration Dinner

Republic is so excited to be hosting our inaugural pride celebration dinner! 

There will be goodie bags, dinner, drinks, film cameras, & so many other fun things. We're so excited to bring people together to celebrate. 

Republic's Pride Celebration Dinner 

We are excited to see you at our Lunch & Munch with Brex & Republic @ Verci Clubhouse.

Time & Date: Today, Monday October 10th at 11am

Address: Verci Clubhouse Fidi (17 John St (3rd floor), New York, NY, 10038). 

1) Once you get to Verci Clubhouse Fidi (17 John St, New York, NY, 10038), ring the doorbell and you will be let in. 

2) Go to the 2nd floor where we will check you in

3) After check-in, head up to the 3rd floor where our event is!

We will be catering lunch, coffee &  drinks and so come out to meet, mingle and cowork with amazing founders, investors and operators. 

Lunch & Munch & Verci Clubhouse with Brex, Republic & Verci

 Republic, Litquidity and Carta are hosting an exclusive event for NY Techweek. We’ll be bringing together top investors, founders, and entrepreneurs to network, have fun and celebrate.

Come and enjoy free food, drinks and swag. Meet the Republic and Carta teams.

*RSVP does not confirm attendance - look out for approval of your RSVP from the organizers in your inbox.

Founders & Funders: NYC Tech Week (Republic, Carta, & Litquidity)

Brex x Republic Supper Club Chicago 

In 1727, Benjamin Franklin and a group of friends founded the Junto Club. The members were tradesmen and artisans who met on evenings to discuss ideas, politics, philosophy, and ethics. Members were avid readers and intellectuals who were passionate about individual improvement and that of society.

are hosting an event for a highly curated group at an intimate venue. 

15 curators will be selected to nominate 

The idea is to create authentic connections for a highly curated and relevant group. 

There have been a lot of large format events. But the more genuine relationships are always built in an intimate environment.

We welcome attendees of all backgrounds and domains.

This is our first time hosting an event like this. If it proves to be a success, we'll continue to invest more into this series.

Venue is in West Village. Revealed upon being approved. Cash bar.

[Nov 5] The Junto Club (Happy Hour)

Coffee & Capital 

for a highly curated group at an intimate venue. 

Venue revealed upon being approved. Cash bar.

[Dec 9] The Junto Club

Founding & Fundraising in 2023 : Coffee Meetup

​Join Volv, in partnership with Republic, as we bring together top Twitter creators, TikTokers, and Podcast hosts to discuss all things creator economy to kick off the new year.

​Stick around after for drinks and networking! 🥂

​Space is limited so please RSVP if you would like to attend.

​Volv is pioneering the new era of entertainment. Our app gives you an endless stream of personalized content in 9-second reads using ChatGPT. We enable writers and publications to hyper-distribute their content to the next generation of readers using AI.

​Volv is backed by Snapchat. Users from 100+ countries have read almost 30 million stories on the app so far. Users call us “TikTok for readers and writers” 

how to navigate the creator economy

Join us for Gen Z Gathers - an AMA style series featuring young founders, investors, creators, and builders sharing their perspectives on what it means to serve this generation as well as build for it. 

Gen Z Gathers: Building for & Investing in Gen Z 

How I Built It is an event series hosted by Zehra Naqvi & Jack McClelland interviewing skilled builders in an AMA-style fireside chat. 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82589658490?pwd=UWg5Wm5nazdXbU94azZmeDhPay80QT09

We do our research beforehand and ask our speakers questions that they haven't been asked before. We guarantee you'll learn something new. 💥  

How I Built It: Alex Lieberman

community connoisseurs is a recurring event series featuring builders who specialize in community. you'll hear from folks who used their community to 10x growth or created a community from scratch. 

community connoisseurs: ama with andrew yeung & zehra naqvi

Zehra Naqvi (Republic), Ariel Purnsrian (Investor/Startup Cafe), and Morgan Barrett (Lowenstein) are teaming up to host March's Tech Breakfast Club, a monthly breakfast meetup for founders, operators, and investors.

​​If you're building or investing in something new come stop by — we'll have coffee, refreshments, bagels, and chats.

​✅Follow Ariel Purnsrian and her interviews with founders on 

​✅Join the breakfast club on Saturday! We have over 600 members now 

Breakfast Club March

Organizing a casual meetup for scouts at top funds like Accel, Sequoia, a16z, BCV, Bessemer, and more!

Join us for some light food and drinks at a nice office space in Flatiron! - meet other top-tier scouts and investors and enjoy the evening.

​​Looking forward to seeing you there!

​​​📍 Location: provided after registration

) is a $300m pre-seed-focused VC investing $1-2m checks into tech founders across all industries and geographies. Since Afore's inception 5 years ago, the fund has invested in 75+ companies that were almost all 

pre-traction, pre-revenue, and pre-obvious

 at the point of investment. Portfolio companies have raised $2 billion in follow-on capital and are valued collectively at $11 billion.

) is a financial technology company that specializes in investment-related services in the private markets, which include a retail investment platform, a blockchain advisory service, and a private capital division. Republic has deployed over $900 million in investments, supported over 600 companies, with a community of over 1.5M users across 100 countries. Republic is backed by dozens of leading investment firms and financial institutions and has co-invested with the best names in venture and private equity.

) enables every business to access the products and services they need to grow and thrive. By making it easy for a business to access financial products, hire new employees, and transact with other businesses, Middesk can increase the odds of success for that business to contribute to its community and the broader economy. Customers include Affirm, Brex, Plaid, Mercury, Divvy, Rippling, Gusto, and others.

NYC Scouts & Friends Happy Hour

Join Volv, in partnership with Republic, as we bring together founders to discuss the future of social media.

​​Stick around after for drinks and networking! 🥂

​Space is limited, so please RSVP if you would like to attend.

​​Volv is pioneering the new era of entertainment. Our app gives you an endless stream of personalized content in 9-second reads using ChatGPT. We enable writers and publications to hyper-distribute their content to the next generation of readers using AI.

​​Volv is backed by Snapchat. Users from 100+ countries have read almost 30 million stories on the app so far. Users call us “TikTok for readers and writers” 

The Future of Social Media is Collective

​Join the z list, in partnership with Rise by Barclays, as we bring together a panel of stellar VCs to chat all things investing and breaking into VC. Stick around after for networking! 💥🧿✨👩🏻‍💻

) is a global community of the world’s top innovators working together to create the future of financial services. With a diverse network of FinTech talent, a world-leading accelerator programme and workspaces based in the main FinTech hubs of the world, Rise is an exclusive place for FinTech companies to connect, create and scale together with Barclays.

Fundamentals of VC

 & afore present: nyc consumer founders happy hour

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✨ come meet and trade notes with a highly curated set of founders working on consumer-related businesses in nyc!

📍 location will be provided after registration

nyc consumer founder happy hour ✨

Are you ready to connect with some of the most inspiring women in the industry? Join 

 for a special luncheon designed exclusively for seed and Series A female founders and investors in FinTech. 

You'll have the opportunity to share your experiences, insights, and challenges, and to learn from others who have been through similar journeys. You'll also get to hear from Alexa von Tobel, one of the top female investors about her experience investing in the space and insights from one of her portfolio founders' Nami Baral. 

This event is SOLD OUT. You can sign up for the waitlist above. Given the demand and limited capacity, registration and approval are required for attendance!

Alexa is the founder and managing partner of Inspired Capital, a $500M+ early-stage venture capital firm.

Prior to Inspired Capital, Alexa founded LearnVest in 2008 with the goal of helping people make progress on their money. After raising nearly $75 million in venture capital, LearnVest was acquired by Northwestern Mutual in May 2015 in one of the biggest fintech acquisitions of the decade. Following the acquisition, von Tobel joined the management team of Northwestern Mutual as the company’s first-ever Chief Digital Officer. 

Alexa, who holds a Certified Financial Planner™ designation, is the New York Times-Bestselling Author of Financially Fearless and Financially Forward. She is also the host of The Founders Project with Alexa von Tobel, a weekly podcast with Inc. that highlights top entrepreneurs.

Originally from Florida, Alexa attended Harvard College and Harvard Business School before settling in New York City where she currently resides with her husband and three children.

Nami Baral is the Founder & CEO of Niural (

), which provides globally compliant payroll and HR management solution. Nami is a repeat entrepreneur with two successful exits. Prior to Niural, Nami founded 

, a fintech company that leverages AI to reduce debt for American consumers. Harvest was acquired by Acorns in 2021. Before Harvest, Nami was Head of Product Partnerships at Twitter, where she had joined as an early employee. Nami graduated from Harvard with a degree in Economics and Mathematics. Nami is an active angel investor and mentor to fintech, data and AI founders.

Join us on April 25th, and take the next step towards building a powerful community of women in FinTech.

NY FinTech Week: Female Founders and Funders Luncheon 

We're lucky to have @Zehra hosting us at Republic's beautiful office space. 

, which is the private investing platform for investors seeking high growth potential. She's also the creator of 

This will be a large event for health/tech founders-only (re: no one else!), to give you all a chance to really kick back and get to know each other, during what are some crazy times. 

Republic x Pepper: Founder-Only Meetup

​Come join Republic for a day of founder coworking, hosted at Rise, created by Barclays. For FinTech founders, learn more about Rise directly from the source.

​Coworking will start at 10 AM and wrap up around 5 PM. 

NY FinTech Week Coworking Day 

👉 NOTE: approval IS required to attend this event. Thank you!

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New York City is one of the best places in the world to be a fintech founder / investor. We're bringing the community together for a casual happy hour for people to make connections (and trade notes on fintech go-to-market, fintech trends to pay attention to, fundraising dynamics, and more) 🍻

Note: we're curating this event's attendees towards builders and investors specifically focused on fintech. Please RSVP if this describes you 💸

Drinks and light snacks provided - looking forward to a great evening with some high-quality people! ​​Looking forward to seeing you there ✨

​​​❓ Questions? Text Jack at (650) 863-8151

NYC Fintech Founders & Investors Happy Hour

Brexfast Club : a breakfast series for investors and founders.

​​​​You are formally invited to Brexfast Club in NYC co-hosting with 

​Brexfast Club is an event series we launched, it's private breakfast events for Founders and Investors, with the goal of building meaningful relationships. 

 is reimagining financial systems to every growing company can realize their full potential. As the financial OS, we are building software and services in one place- disrupting long-entrenched institutions with products and experiences that better serve the ambitions of our customers.

is a financial technology company that specializes in investment-related services in the private markets, which include a retail investment platform, a blockchain advisory service, and a private capital division. 

is a global, early-stage venture fund that refuses to follow the conventional crowd. It offers promising founders investment with bespoke data insights and operating expertise – designed for product-led growth. With hubs in Miami, Madrid, San Francisco and Sao Paulo, it sees beyond borders and creates a steady current of resources for founders on the cutting edge of ventures. 

be considerate, respectful, and follow the event venue’s rules and policies, and applicable laws.

engage in harassment, discrimination, demeaning conduct, unwelcome sexual advances (physical or verbal), threatening or intimidating language or conduct, or inappropriate photography or recording.

, our anonymous reporting portal.  Brex takes your concerns seriously, and people who raise good-faith concerns will not be retaliated against.

​​​​Attendees who violate this code of conduct will be asked to leave, and may be denied admittance to future events.

Brex x Republic x TheVentureCity Founder/Investor Breakfast

We'd like to invite Council Members and other female operator-angels to an intimate session of knowledge-sharing and relationship-building.

The Council Angels is an education & community program for angel investors who want to level up their investing knowledge while advising founders hands-on with learnings from their experience as senior-level operators. Check out current members here: 

 We want you to bring another potential female angel who would like to learn more about The Council or a female founder who is building something special. (Send them this Luma to register beforehand)

, Principal at The Council and fmr. 3rd employee at 

, Head of Founder Community at Republic. 

Thank you to Zehra & our friends at Republic for providing our event space plus pizza and beverages.

[NY] The Council IRL - Angel Investor Peer Learning

. This event series focuses on GPs and their top tips on starting a fund, managing it, building a portfolio, and so much more. 

Republic is a global fintech platform democratizing private investing to the masses.

We are thrilled to kick this off with Erica. Erica is the Founding GP of Park Rangers Capital and a friend to The Z List. 

The Partner Perspective: AMA with Erica Wenger

 for the second fundamentals of investing event focused on angel investing. Our three speakers are experts on starting your angel investing journey and how you should set yourself up for success. We're excited to be hosting this in partnership with 

This is the first part of a 3 panel series on angel investing, syndicates, and starting your own fund. 

After our panel discussion, there will be networking opportunities with our speakers and others. 

Fundamentals of Angel Investing

Republic Founder Meet & Greet

Join us for a casual breakfast mixer with fellow South Asian Founders in CPG! Hosted by The Z List (Zehra Naqvi) and South Asian Trailblazers (Simi Shah).

South Asian CPG Founders Breakfast

One of the most frustrating parts of fundraising as an early stage founder is knowing how funds define "early stage" - can you 

have an idea? What type of traction do you need? Come to this event and you'll get all those questions answered.

This event will feature 15 early-stage NYC-based funds in a "college fair" style room. Founders will be able to speak to representatives at each firm and walk around the room meeting each fund.

Every 45 minutes 30 new founders will enter the space so it doesn't get too busy (this will happen 3x).

Investors coming include: 2048 Ventures, Anthemis, Bessemer, Bullish, Canapi, Cowboy, Fin, Night, Picus, Point72 Ventures, SOSV, and more 🔥

Early Stage Investors & Founders Fair 

 moderated by Zehra as we chat through navigating PR, Press, & Journalists as founders. 

How to Navigate Press, PR, & Journalists for Founders

Join this virtual session with Dulma moderated by Zehra as we chat through navigating Tiktok for founders.

Tiktok 101 for Startups & Founders

Pitch & Walk is a community for founders, investors, & operators to connect in a fun way via walking (or hot girl walking).* 

We meet every Friday at 8AM (you can bring bags/things - we have a safe space to keep them). 

In our first four sessions we'll be giving away Stanley Cups and Bala bangles.  

*with the blessing from the Pitch & Run team