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I’ll be in London & Paris in early October — reach out if you’ll be there!

Z List IRL hosted by Zehra

monday 9/25

• The Z List & Carta: Fundraising Fundamentals — waitlist

  • for who: investors, founders, operators

  • This session will focus on starting your own fund and feature a stellar line up of speakers who have gone from founder to Founding GP or angel investor to VC/GP. Can’t wait!

  • The Z List & Carta are back for round two of our fundraising fundamentals series.

thursday 10/12

• The Z List & Carta: Fundraising Fundamentals — waitlist

  • for who: investors, founders, operators

  • This session will focus on how to get into competitive deals from the POV of angel investors, analysts, and GPs

  • The Z List & Carta are back for round three of our fundraising fundamentals series.

NY Tech Week Events

monday 10/16

• For the Girls: NY #TechWeek Founder & Funder Breakfast

  • for who: femme founders & investors

• The Consumer Council: NY #TechWeek

  • for who: consumer (tech & cpg) founders, investors, & operators

  • hosted by: Zehra & Nate 

tuesday 10/17

Join us for a panel with Turner Novak (VC), Nichole Wischoff (VC), Nikita Bier (2 exits) & Ankur Nagpal (1 exit) all about founding, investing, and going viral. You will not want to miss this.

• Founding, Investing, & Going Viral: NY #TechWeek

  • for who: founders, investors, operators

  • hosted by: Zehra & Ocho (Jaiya)

• Pitch & Walk: NY #TechWeek

  • for who: founders & investors (operators welcome too!)

wednesday 10/18

• Vision Boarding: NY #TechWeek

  • for who: founders, investors, operators — anyone who wants to take a mental break from happy hours, breakfasts, & networking to do something creative in the middle of the day

• Fun & FinTech & Litquidity NY #TechWeek

  • for who: founders & investors in FinTech

  • hosted by: Litquidity, Zehra, Osiris (Jonathan), Picus 

thursday 10/19

• No GPs Allowed: NY #TechWeek

  • for who: full-time VC analysts, associates, VPs, principals, anything but a GP (sorry)

  • hosted by: Zehra & Jack 

friday 10/20

• Color Me Mine: NY #TechWeek

  • for who: founders & investors — taking a small group of founders & investors to color me mine to do something creative and destress as NY Tech Week winds down

• Angel Investors & Venture Scouts Social: NY #TechWeek

  • for who: angel investors & venture scouts

  • hosted by: Zehra & Jack 

Resources — a lot of folks reach out to me for recommendations of engineers, website devs, designers, & more. This new section of The Z List will feature recommendations from folks I’ve worked with.

• Need a graphic designer? Alisha is the best — I’ve worked with her for my own branding and more (soon to be revealed). Fill out the form to work with her.

• Need a website developer? Tamir is amazing and has been working with me on The Z List’s website (coming soon). Fill out the form to work with him.

Besties' Events & Projects

a reminder on the below section! i only feature events when I've been to at minimum two of host's/organizer's past events and had a good time. no other events get featured unless they are sponsored (indicated).

wednesday 9/6

• Mixer and Fireside Chat with Zehra

  • for who: anyone!

  • hosted by: Richard & Salley

Please reply to this email if you'd like to amplify your events with the z list community or if you'd like to collaborate on an event together.

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