The 25 most sponsor-active event communities in New York, ranked by our Event Leader Score and refreshed daily.
NYC-focused founder and investor community producing curated startup, AI, fintech, and Web3 gatherings, workshops, and social events. The organization reports more than 40 NYC events in 2026 and a network of over 47,000 founders, investors,…
A recurring startup pitch competition and founder networking experience in which five entrepreneurs deliver short pitches followed by audience Q&A and voting. The New York City chapter connects early-stage founders, investors, operators, an…
New York Tech Alliance's flagship recurring meetup, featuring startup demos, founder presentations, ecosystem discussions, and networking. It has served the New York technology community since 2004 and is one of the city's largest tech meet…
Supermoon runs a dense calendar of NYC founder and investor events, including socials, workshops, dinners, and Tech Week activations for startup builders and funders.
A recurring paid networking series for New York entrepreneurs, startup professionals, technology workers, and business leaders. Events combine informal social networking with access to startup, digital, Web3, and Fortune 500 communities.
One of the largest CFA societies in North America, providing 200+ finance events annually for nearly 10,000 members across Wall Street and the broader investment community.
Community organization producing recurring Customer Success gatherings in New York and other markets, plus larger conferences and Customer Success Week programming. Its events connect customer-success executives, operators, vendors, and pos…
The New York City chapter of a global startup community providing founder education, pitch opportunities, networking, and connections to investors and ecosystem partners. The chapter runs recurring interviews, pitch events, happy hours, and…
A long-running NYC hardware community for founders, engineers, designers, investors, and makers building physical products. Events include demos, facility tours, workshops, hackathons, and networking across robotics, connected devices, manu…
New York professional association for marketers, agencies, publishers, adtech, martech, and data-driven communications professionals. MCNY runs recurring educational, networking, awards, and student-support programming, including the Silver…
A New York technology community and media platform that produces the Brooklyn Tech Expo, AI Week New York, and other technology networking and showcase events. Its programs connect founders, executives, builders, exhibitors, and investors.
TechFutures is a recurring New York summit brand focused on technology, business, and culture, run by the team behind LWT. It attracts senior operators, brand leaders, and technologists through a large-format annual summit and related commu…
All Tech Is Human is a responsible-tech community and event organization that convenes mixers, roundtables, and its flagship Responsible Tech Summit in New York. It serves practitioners across AI governance, trust & safety, policy, civil so…
Community advancing women in fintech through panels, networking, and partner-driven programs across NYC.
NYC‑based digital health innovation lab that runs the HITLAB Digital Health Innovation Summit and monthly symposia bringing together health systems, life sciences, and tech.
GenZtea is a New York-centered Gen Z founder, creator, and investor community that runs recurring IRL mixers and brand activations across startup, creator, and tech audiences.
A recurring NYC tech community series combining tacos, informal networking, workshops, and founder conversations across AI, blockchain, fintech, and Web3. The series operates as the NYC flagship of a broader global community initiative.
Community-powered citywide fintech gathering spanning summits, meetups, dinners, workshops and networking events across New York. It serves fintech founders, investors, operators, banks, developers and policymakers.
Curated investor-and-founder salon and pitch-event platform in New York, centered on startup capital, strategic introductions, and sponsor/partner activations.
An application-oriented New York summit connecting commercial space companies with investors, enterprise buyers, government stakeholders, and strategic partners through curated programming and matchmade meetings.
Long-running monthly NYC pitch + investor Q&A series (since 2007) produced by ERA, featuring founder demos, investor speakers, and networking.
Founders Network New York City is the local Meetup-facing presence of the broader founders-only peer network. It runs founder education and keynote-style programming for startup entrepreneurs, often through virtual and member-platform event…
NYAI is an NYC AI community that convenes technical networking events, partner meetups, and sponsorship opportunities for AI, ML, and GenAI professionals.
NYC-based tech community focused on founders, investors, and operators, with a strong emphasis on Latino tech and startup ecosystem programming in New York.
Historic New York advertising, media and marketing association running year‑round programs, award shows (ANDYs) and industry forums.
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