the z list irl 💥🧿✨👩🏻‍💻

upcoming events hosted by zehra & a few besties

September 25, 2023

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Announcing this on LinkedIn + Twitter later this week but I’m super excited to be partnering with Fidelity for a new community & event series I’m building dedicated to seed stage founders. Interested in joining? Fill out 🔥 this form 🔥

I’m also now a scout for Headline Ventures and will be hosting events in SF for VCs + early stage founders. If you’re an early stage founder fundraising now or in the next few months, fill out ✨ this form ✨

Z List IRL hosted by Zehra

monday 9/25

  • The Z List & Carta: Fundraising Fundamentals

    • for who: investors, founders, operators

    • We’re focusing on navigating VC deals for this session of fundraising fundamentals from both the founder and investor perspective.

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

thursday 9/28

wednesday 10/4

  • Private Founders Dinner! — request to join

    • for who: consumer founders

    • hosted by: Zehra & Tarik 

    • We are co-hosting a private dinner for founders and executives of NYC. We have hosted private dinners in the past w/ Le Labo, Tushy, Saks, Unilever, Abercrombie, Superhuman, Grammarly, Dropbox (to name a few). The goal of this dinner is to curate the highest quality conversations around one table all in a safe, and intimate environment. Based on the RSVPs we will short-list the guest list for an invite-only 24 guests seated dinner and a Guest of Honor.

wednesday 10/11

thursday 10/12

  • 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 three of our fundraising fundamentals series.

sunday 10/15

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NY Tech Week Events

If you’re interested in volunteering at any of these events & helping out, reply to this email! Would love to get the community involved :)

monday 10/16

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! Link below.

wednesday 10/18

thursday 10/19

friday 10/20

Opportunities (Fundraising)

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.

Besties' Events & Projects

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

thursday 9/28

friday 9/29

saturday 9/30

tuesday - friday: 10/10 - 10/13

  • Boston Fintech Week!

    • Boston Fintech Week October 10-13, 2013 is a must-attend annual event for the global fintech community. This year, the theme is On the Brink: Building the Infrastructure We Need for a Bold Financial Future. Event organizer Fintech Sandbox will bring the fintech ecosystem together at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston for a 2-day conference Oct 11 & 12 to discuss how new pathways for products, services and new distribution channels are - or maybe are not - ushering in the golden age of financial services. Register here.

    • for who: Fintech founders, entrepreneurs, investors, payments nerds, financial service providers, etc.

    • hosted by: FinTech Sandbox, Boston FinTech Week, & Emily O'Connor

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.

Have fun! 💥🧿✨👩🏻‍💻