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👋 I am hiring a lead engineer in Palo Alto to help the community connect more seamlessly. Email me to learn more 🙏
🔥 Thu 8/14 5pm PDT Fireside conversation with Jon Silber, co-founder of Google’s AI Futures Fund moderated by Howard Tung. Startups of all stages are welcome to apply for funding. Discover how the fund provides privileged access to Google's cutting-edge AI models, like Gemini, Imagen, and Veo, along with direct support from Google's experts. RSVP.
We’ve officially launched 🚀 the Xoogler Expert Network, an exclusive community dedicated to creating value for Xooglers who offer specialized knowledge and skills to businesses who seek help with their challenges and demands. We’d love for you to be part of it, whether you work as a fractional executive, advisor, consultant or solopreneur.
On the other hand, if you are looking to tap into the minds of these awesome experts, feel free to explore the full Expert Directory which will start growing every week, and be sure to sign up for the information session on August 13, 6pm PDT or August 15 8am GMT (1:30pm IST | 4pm SGT | 6pm AEST).
👩🏻💻📓✍🏻💡8/20 Have you considered hiring Xooglers who are fractional, a consultant or solopreneur? Learn from Anna Buber on the best way to collaborate effectively with business leaders and projects that need exactly what you bring to the table. RSVP
🙌💼🎯 8/22 Are you an engineer looking for fractional work? If so, join this Q&A with Turing. RSVP. Are you hiring? Email to arrange your own talk with Xooglers.
🙌💼🎯 Mon 8/25 6pm Liminal, a venture creation group by Temasek ($450B in AUM) is looking to meet serial entrepreneurs or are domain experts in robotics, healthcare, financial services, consumer and AI who are interested in building their next startups. RSVP.
📰 Sign up here to subscribe to the Bay Area 🌁 events weekly newsletter to be informed of the 3 events that are organized each week in the Bay Area! We always welcome Xooglers who can host events at their space or help sponsor drinks/food. You can see all the global events here.
If you’re in Singapore🇸🇬, be sure to join the AI training workshop for VC/PE Analysts & Associates (8/20) or Partners (8/22), pivoting to product workshop by a Group PM who pivoted from Sales to PM (9/10) and a jobs event where Xooglers get to meet companies who are actively hiring (9/12).
Will you be traveling to Singapore for Super Return (9/15)? Sign up and join the side event hosted by Xoogler, the Columbia University Venture Community, Berkeley Club of Singapore and Singapore Global Network. RSVP.
Sign up here to be informed of the other upcoming events alongside Token2049 (email to get a discount code), F1🏎️ , etc.
AI Education and Discussion
Reach out if you’re:
Interested in attending or teaching AI workshops
At an AI company and interested in partnering to run workshops
At a company looking to engage experts for your AI needs
Connect with Xooglers Globally
The events below are examples of the 300+ events that are organized each year. Sign up to the Xoogler Calendar to receive notifications when new events are organized.
🌁 Tuesday Aug 12 | 5pm PDT | San Francisco Cofounders Meetup Looking for the right partner to bring your vision to life? Join us whether you’re refining a product or just have the spark of an idea. RSVP.
💻 Wednesday Aug 13 | 11am PDT | Demystifying GenAI with Jerene Yang, Head of Runtime at Open AI hosted by Stefanie Lau. RSVP.
💻 August Founders meetup with Boldstart Ventures GP Ed Sim. RSVP.
We have WhatsApp groups in 🇦🇺Australia 🇨🇦Canada 🇮🇪Dublin 🇪🇺Europe 🇭🇰Hong Kong 🇮🇳India 🇮🇩Indonesia 🇯🇵Japan 🌎LATAM 🇵🇹Lisbon 🇬🇧London 🇲🇾Malaysia 🌍MENA🌁SF Bay Area 🇸🇬Singapore 🇻🇳Vietnam ✈️Digital Nomads. Reply with your WhatsApp number to be added and suggest other locations where we should have a WhatsApp group.
Thank you to Xoogler’s Advisors & Financial Supporters
We really appreciate everyone’s leadership and time over the past 10 years. Here is the donation link if you are able to financially support Xoogler. Thank you Jenny Cheng, Shoresh Shafei, Mailine Swildens, Ram Muthiah, Steven Klebe, Alex Papageorgiou and Cara Devins for donating! Our non-profit can now accept donations of startup equity. Thank you Catherine Lacavera, Hal Varian and Qasar Younis for serving as Xoogler’s advisors.
July Xoogler Startup Pitches & Startup Investing
👏 Congrats to Jeff Cherkassky & Jill Randell (Fuse), Bhavna Taneja (Pinakyne), Roza Ghamari (Healink) and Jing Conan Wang (DeepVista) who presented their startups infront of angel investors and VCs in July! Reach out to them to learn more about their startups. Email if you’re looking to present in future sessions, RSVP to attend August’s session or email to join our angels community.
You can check out 7 other pitches if you’re interested in meeting other early stage startups such as Lumena (watch their pitch)
A Xoogler is looking to raise a Series A+ round, email to learn more
If you’re looking to invest in a new venture fund, email to learn more
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Subscribe to the Xoogler calendar to be informed of our upcoming events. All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize events. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event and email partner@xoogler.co! Once you organize an event, just submit the event and we will approve it to be featured on the Xoogler calendar.
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