New York Tech Week '24 is here

Don't wait to followup with new contacts

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Michael Morgenstern
June 04, 2024

Happy Tuesday Brex community,

We're knee-deep in New York Tech Week events at our office in Soho and across the city. Founders are innovating, investors are investing, diligence is happening, and deals are getting done.

Good times!

Founders, make sure to come to at least one of our events. Post about your week on social media and follow up with contacts made in under 12 hours with specific asks. Speed wins!

Growing together, Michael Morgenstern

Upcoming Events:

  • Happy Hour 6/5 in NYC #TechWeek

    Designed as a mixer for founders & VCs

    Apply Here Brex Host: Jonathan Chang

  • Brex Supper Club 6/5 in NYC #TechWeek with Wilson Sonsini

    Designed for newly funded Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A startups

    Apple Here Brex Host: Conor Bradshaw

  • Fintech Panel: Building Banking Products 6/6 in NYC #TechWeek

    Designed as a Brexfast and Panel for founders and VCs looking to gain insights from Brex’s product leaders on navigating the challenges of developing modern banking and payments products

    Apply Here Brex Host: Anshul Shah

  • Breezin' for NYC Happy Hour 6/6 in NYC #TechWeek

    Designed as an outdoor mixer for founders & VCs, bringing the OG’s of the New York Tech scene together.

    Apply Here Brex Host: Shai Goldman

  • Brex Shabbat Dinner 6/7 in NYC #TechWeek

    Designed as a traditional shabbat dinner for founders, VCs, and Brex employees

    Apply Here Brex Host: Michael Morgenstern

  • Happy Hour 6/13 in SF

    Designed as a mixer for founders & VCs

    Apply Here Brex Host: Anshul Shah

  • LGBTQ Awareness Month Mixer 6/20 in SF

    Designed as a mixer for LGBTQ+ founders & VCs

    Apply Here Brex Host: Alexandra Settlemeyer

Startup of the Week 🤩 

Alona Kotliar and Katya Kotlyar are the sister co-founder duo behind donut

donut is the first global vertical social network for donors and volunteers to invest their time or money. donut modernizes an old-school and very offline industry. donut shows where your friends and coworkers donate and volunteer, curates and vets nonprofits worldwide and provides improved employee engagement programs for businesses. They are serving one of the world’s largest communities of 2.4 billion people, connecting individuals and businesses on one platform for the first time.

Ambassadors Perspective: donut is transformative by modernizing donations and volunteerism through a user-friendly platform that shows where friends and coworkers contribute. Enhancing social engagement is a very important dynamic of philanthropy! Their recent Webby win and backing from Greycroft, Correlation Ventures, and angels from Spotify, Discord, and Snap, highlight their innovative platform and growth opportunity. Rallying friends & community to solve problems together is a mission we love!

Venture Capitalist Spotlight 🤩 

Shaun Abrahamson, Shilpi Kumar, and Stonly Blue are the Investment Partners

Third Sphere is a leading full capital stack partner for climate-focused founders. The VC and Credit platform enables them to serve a combination of software and hardware - something that uniquely defines climate-focused startups. By focusing on rapid revenue growth and non-dilutive financing has them led to top decile performance.

Over the past 10 years, Third Sphere has invested in over 100 pre-customer stage teams, mostly in climate mitigation and adaptation across nearly all sectors of the economy. Notable investments include leading startups like Bowery Farming, Mill, Cove Tool, Future Motion, Gradient, Cycle, Forward Platform and One Concern.

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Don’t hesitate to reach out,🦾!

Startups Team @ Brex