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Have you enjoyed Xoogler events or benefited from the community since our founding in 2015? If so, please give back for us to make the community even stronger. Xoogler is now under a non-profit foundation to enable US taxpayers to receive a tax deduction. Here is the link to donate. Help us continue to unite Xooglers around the world for tech talks, happy hours, founder meetups, job connections and more. Learn more on Wednesday 11/13.
XOOGLER DEMO DAY APAC
🙌 Congrats to Angelica Handover from OpenSeal, Alaap Tatwawadi from Ads In Store, Caesar Sengupta from Arta Finance, Ishi Singh from Counto, Julien Condamines from Novo AI, Mohammed Abdoolcarim from DesignPro, Rohit Shawarikar from Levi Semiconductor, Saif Farooqui from Corgi Labs and Swee Kiat Lim from Pebblely for presenting on October 15! Reach out to organize Xoogler Demo Days in your region! .
🙏 Thank you to the Google Cloud team including Fannie Soubiele and Annie Nguyen Hai Anh for hosting Xoogler Demo Day at Google Singapore, investor panelists Shiyan Koh & Patrick Cao, volunteers Pooja Verma, Arun Kumar, Ethan Tan, Joel Ho & Vasanth Raju and the selection advisory panel consisting of Rajan Anandan, Andy Hwang, Alap Bharadwaj & Tony Zameczkowski.
UPDATES
📈 Our community has 33K+ members. Let us know if you want to set up a community like Xoogler.
♻️ San Francisco Climate Week is the ultimate gathering for those invested in climate tech—bringing together climate curious, founders, and VCs. In 2024, SFCW brought together 18,500 attendees, 750+ organizations, and 350+ events. The Xooglers in Climate hosted an inspiring series of sessions (check out our videos) and we're set to go even bigger in 2025! If you want to be part of this or have suggestions, please take a few minutes to answer our survey.
💰 More Xooglers are running venture capital funds. Email your ideal check size if you are interested in being an investor in those funds.
🚀 Ankit Jain has organized feedback for Xooglers applying for Y Combinator from Xoogler YC alumni. Email him to get feedback on your application and prepare for your interview.
🌱 Did you work at Microsoft or Meta? Help build “Xoogler” for those communities.
OPPORTUNITIES
Fractional work might be your next full-time job: Learn from Xooglers who have transitioned to fractional work. RSVP.
Speaking in Malaysia & Southeast Asia: Are you interested in sharing your expertise with companies and government agencies in Southeast Asia? If so, share your interest here.
X Studio: We are announcing a 90 day program for startup founders to ideate, validate, and build a business. The program is stage agnostic. Whether you have an idea, have written an app and need help with GTM or anything in between we will partner with you and unblock to build a successful venture. You will be guided with successful startup founders, VCs and experts. To learn more sign-up here.
Expert Network: Xooglers are subject matter experts and widely sought after. If you are willing to spend time to help our members in their journey please sign-up here to learn more about the Expert Network marketplace. Whether it's Applied AI, Revenue Ops, Coaching or GTM all disciplines are welcome to apply. Once verified, you can elect to offer services for a fee or pro bono.
Venture Fellows: Xoogler Ventures is seeking 2 Venture Fellows for 2025 to help partners with deal flow, opportunity assessment portfolio management, marketing and more. This is great opportunity to learn about the world of Venture Capital. Background in Corp Dev or Strategy are strongly preferred. If interested, please apply here.
JOBS
🙌 Xoogler has a recruiter for the community to assist with hiring:
If you’re looking to hire xooglers, email to be connected and start hiring from the community.
If you’re open to a new role, email your resume to talent@xoogler.co for our recruiter to consider your background for openings.
🧳 Abel Mengistu, CEO/Co-Founder of FlutterFlow is hiring in the US 🇺🇸, Canada 🇨🇦, India 🇮🇳, Singapore 🇸🇬, Latin America & Remote 🌍. Review the openings and email talent@xoogler.co to be connected.
🧳 Are you interested in joining a Xoogler that was at Google 2000-2009? He’s looking for a Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer (Finetuning) and a Platform Software Engineer. Email talent@xoogler.co.
WATCH
Learn how to lead in the times of technology disruption and leadership changes from Steve Vamos. He shared his insights from his book, Through Shifts And Shocks.
Learn from Stefanie Lau, Kaitlyn Knopp and Terry O’Connor as they discuss compensation and salary negotiations best practices.
Learn how Thalo Labs tackles decarbonization of the built environment in this fireside chat with their CEO/Founder Brendan Hermalyn, moderated by Veronique Lafargue.
EVENTS
All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event!
💻♻️ 11/12 6pm PST Xooglers in Climate Monthly Introduction Call. RSVP.
💻 11/13 9pm EST | 6pm PST | 11/14 7:30am IST | 10am SGT | 1pm AEST Learn how your donations can help Xoogler support more xoogler members. RSVP.
💻 11/14 9am GMT | 5pm SGT AMA with Renegade Ventures, a new VC fund founded by former Google Play execs Shannon Low and KH Min. RSVP.
💻 🎓 11/14 12pm PST | 3pm EST EdTech Monthly Virtual Meetup. RSVP.
🌁 11/14 4:30pm San Francisco Meetup hosted by DOGO. RSVP.
🌁 11/14 5pm “Commercializing AI Research” Roundtable in Palo Alto, hosted by Yigit Ihlamur and Kazuki Notsu. RSVP.
🇯🇵 11/15 6pm Osaka Meetup hosted by Christopher Fong. RSVP.
🗽 11/16 3pm NYC Friendsgiving Party. RSVP.
💻 11/18 5pm PST | 8pm EST “How To Land A Job During The Holiday Season” Masterclass with Alan Stein. RSVP.
🇯🇵 11/19 6pm Tokyo Meetup hosted by Kushagra Shrivastava. RSVP.
💻 ♻️11/19 9am PST | 12pm EST | 5pm GMT Climate Founders Series with Alex Brown, Co-Founder and CEO of Alga Biosciences. Discover how Alga Biosciences is using algae to address methane emissions in agriculture. RSVP.
🇬🇧 11/19 7pm London EIS & SEIS Masterclass with SeedLegals. RSVP.
🇸🇬 11/20 6:30pm Drinks hosted at Monk’s Brew Club sponsored by SGN. RSVP.
🇮🇳 11/21 7pm Mumbai Meetup with FlutterFlow CEO Abel Mengistu, CTO Alex Greaves & Enterprise Head Abhishek Pathak. RSVP.
💻 11/21 9am PST | 12pm EST Xoogler Womxn and Money: Conquering Money Blocks. Conquering your money fears with money mentor, Katy Mazzara. RSVP.
🇮🇪 💻 11/21 7pm IST Ireland Virtual Meetup. RSVP.
🏝 11/21 5:30pm Miami Happy Hour with Anthony Hernandez. RSVP.
🇬🇧 11/25 6:30pm London Winter Party. RSVP.
🇫🇮 11/26 6pm Helsinki Meetup. RSVP.
💻 11/26 6pm PST Founders meetup moderated by Chris Fong. Meet other Xoogler founders and find ways to support each other. RSVP.
🇪🇸 11/28 7pm Madrid Meetup. RSVP.
💻 🧳 11/29 9:30am IST 11am SGT | 2pm AEST | 11/28 7pm PST Fractional Work Panel featuring Anna Buber, Deepti Dayal & other Xooglers. RSVP.
🇮🇳 December Bangalore Meetup hosted by Manu Rekhi and Lalitesh Katragadda. RSVP.
💻 12/3 9am PST | 12pm EST | 5pm GMT Climate Founders Series with Lauryn Menard, CEO of GOB. Join us to learn how Lauryn and her team at GOB are leveraging material science and mycelium to design sustainable earplugs. RSVP.
🇩🇪 12/4 5:30pm Berlin Meetup. RSVP.
🇩🇪 12/5 6pm Hamburg Holiday Meetup. RSVP.
🇨🇦 12/5 6pm Toronto Drinks and Dinner. RSVP.
🌁 12/5 5pm Bay Area Holiday Meetup. RSVP.
🇸🇬 12/11 6:30pm Singapore Holiday Party. RSVP.
💻 12/11 7pm PST 🇺🇸 | 10pm EST 🇺🇸 | 12/12 8:30am IST 🇮🇳 | 12/12 11am SGT 🇸🇬 | 12/12 12pm JST 🇯🇵 | 12/12 2pm AEDT 🇦🇺 Xoogler New Member Onboarding. RSVP.
💻 12/12 8am PST | 11am EST | 4pm GMT Net Zero Angels Demo Day for Xoogler-led Climate Startups. RSVP.
💻 12/12 12pm PST | 3pm EST Fireside Chat with Catherine Chin, Co-founder & CEO of Odyseek on “Perfecting Your Resume and Value Story” moderated by Maciej Szczepaniak. RSVP.
🇯🇵 12/19 7pm Japanese Xoogler TGIF (year end party) at Google Campus hosted by Kazuki Notsu. RSVP.
🇻🇳12/30 9pm Ho Chi Minh City Drinks. RSVP.
🇫🇷 1/23 6:30pm Paris Meetup. RSVP.
💻 Weekly startup mentorship hosted by Kazuki Notsu & Yigit Ihlamur. RSVP.