SF Social Club - Nov 2nd, 2025

Your backstage pass to SF's top tech & startup events this week

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Matthew Taksa
November 02, 2025

Hey SF Social Club, we’ve curated a list of over a dozen fantastic events coming up in SF!

SF Social Club is brought to you by Matthew Taksa (Investor at Cold Start Ventures). Since late 2022, I’ve hosted over 100 tech events in San Francisco and built a community of 10,000+ people along the way. Why? Because I’ve seen firsthand that the city feels most alive when founders, engineers, and dreamers come together in person.

Interested in getting involved?

Event Lineup 🍾

Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Hosted by a16z in San Francisco

Join us for an evening of conversation about Context7, Upstash, Firecrawl, and whatever you're building with AI. Enjoy light bites, connect with fellow builders, and bring your hottest technical takes.

Time: 9:30am - 4pm

Hosted by Stripe for Startups in San Francisco

​Join us for a day of hands-on building with the Stripe team. Whether you’re looking for a chance to connect with other founders, 1:1 guidance from the Stripe team, or a change of scenery, we’ll have you covered. Build Days are a choose-your-own-adventure so you can optimize your time to get the most for you and your startup.

Nov 4th, 2025 - AI Hack Day by Comet at AWS

Time: 9:30am - 8pm

Hosted by Comet in San Francisco

​Join us for an incredibly engaging day at the AWS Loft.

​Get ready for an exciting day of learning, hacking, networking, and innovation! This event is all about exploring the potential of AI and creating impactful solutions alongside fellow developers.

Nov 4th, 2025 - All Things React Native

Time: 5pm - 8:30pm

Hosted by All Things Web in San Francisco

​Join us at Discord HQ for All Things React Native - hang out with the mobile and web dev community, enjoy two exciting tech talks, and let's dive deep into React Native.

Nov 4th, 2025 - SF Pre-Seed Happy Hour

Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Hosted by Work-Bench in San Francisco

​​​Work-Bench is partnering with a dream team of west coast Pre-Seed investors, including Modern Technical Fund, Race Capital, Oddbird VC, Seven Hill Ventures and more to meet and connect with founders and operators building the next generation of B2B SaaS and Infra companies.

Time: 6pm - 8pm

Hosted by Svix in San Francisco

​Join the first event in a new series of panels and talks about scaling backend infrastructure. This week we have engineers from Vapi, Convex and Svix talking about scaling low latency backend systems.

Time: 8:30am - 3pm

Hosted by <ai/> x Marketing in San Francisco

​Every day, a new AI tool reshapes marketing. How do you cut through the noise to ignite growth without losing strategic focus? This summit isn’t about chasing trends—it’s about mastering the mindset, tools, and processes to become AI-Native.

Learn to prioritize growth strategy first, then apply AI for automation, scaling, and enhancing the human elements that build your brand. 💡

Time: 3pm - 7pm

Hosted by v0 in San Francisco

​Join the v0 team for an afternoon of coworking, followed by a demo night all hosted at AngelList's @Founders_Cafe.

​We'll have snacks, drinks, and exciting demos from the v0 team and community.

Time: 6pm - 8pm

Hosted by Fin in San Francisco

​Support and engineering teams often live on opposite sides of the same customer problem, with critical context getting lost in the handoff.

​Join product and customer leaders from Fin, Jam, and Vercel for a fireside chat exploring how AI, collaboration tools, and new team structures are reshaping the way customer issues become engineering insight.

Nov 6th, 2025 - A Call To Build

Time: 10am - 6pm

Hosted by Draper University in San Francisco

​A 2 day summit in Silicon Valley to bring corporate innovation leaders, startup founders, global ecosystem builders, and investors together to discuss these opportunities.

​Is this your call to build?

Time: 5:30pm - 11:30pm

Hosted by Neon in San Francisco

​​Join us for the official TypeScript AI Conference After-Party at Southern Pacific Brewing. Entrance is at 5:30 PM, after the conference happy hour concludes. Enjoy great food, drinks, a bit of music, and plenty of time to continue your AI & TypeScript conversations.

Nov 7th, 2025 - Blueprint Festival

Time: 5pm - 8pm

Hosted by Founders, Inc. in San Francisco

​​​​Join us November 7 5pm for the Blueprint finale — a festival of inventions where you'll test-drive robots, interact with next-gen hardware, hold devices that were just sketches not too long ago, and see what happens when people bring their blueprints to life.

​Live music, DJs, food trucks and local artisans will also be an extension of the experience provided by Fort Mason Night Market.

Nov 11th, 2025 - SF Experimentation Meetup

Time: 6pm - 9pm

Hosted by Statsig in San Francisco

​​✨ Experimentation can sometimes feel like pulling answers out of thin air — but when done right, it’s less sleight of hand and more science.

​​Join us for an engaging session that brings product builders together to uncover the experiments every team should know — and the stories behind how real companies use them to unlock growth.

Nov 12th, 2025 - Overnight Success: Vanta

Time: 4:30pm - 6:30pm

Hosted by FPV Ventures in San Francisco

​​​Christina Cacioppo taught herself to code after leaving venture capital at USV because she realized the future belonged to people who build.

​The security compliance space in 2018? Nobody cared. Startups didn't need SOC 2. VCs told her the market was too small.

Now Vanta is worth $4.15 billion and serves 12,000+ companies.

Time: 5:30pm - 8pm

Hosted by Notion for Startups in San Francisco

​​​Harvey AI is rewriting the rules of law - and just hit a $5 billion valuation along the way. Join Notion’s co-founder Akshay Kothari in conversation with Harvey's co-founder & president Gabe Pereyra to unpack how they scaled Harvey to $100M+ ARR while redefining what AI can do in one of the world’s most regulated industries.

Time: 5:30pm - 8pm

Hosted by Jackson Square Ventures in San Francisco

Join the Jackson Square Ventures Book Club for an evening with Marc Randolph, co-founder and first CEO of Netflix, and author of That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea.

Time: 6pm - 9pm

Hosted by Hardware FYI in San Francisco

​​​Join Hardware FYI and Onshape for an evening in San Francisco with engineers, industry leaders, and product developers – people who live and breathe building in the physical world.

​This is your chance to connect with some of the Bay Area’s most forward-thinking teams and enjoy great conversations over food and drinks.

That’s it for this week!

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