The Goal

Typically at dinner, there are 30 entrepreneur executives, a couple of investors and other unique guests. We strive for gender balance and a mixture of 1st time, funded, serial entrepreneurs. At least 50% of the attendees are new each month.

A key aspect of the community is asking how we can help each other. Then we take the 30 asks from each dinner along with photos and send an email to our whole community to help each other. The more helpful people will be invited back more often. Hopefully, we can continue building a fantastic and very collaborative NYC tech community where people help each other as much as possible.

 
 

The community

2000+ Members
Equal gender balance

 

When & where

 

What: Drinks/Dinner. Open bar for 1hr, 3-course meal, wine, etc.

When: Monthly and dates change each month. 10x per yr.

Where: Typically downtown NYC.

Costs: We frequently have partial sponsors. We split the remainder of the costs. ~$50 per person.

Invites: Community referrals are the only way to get invited. 

Started: 2011

Sponsors rotating:
Latham & Watkins, Orrick, Softlayer, JP Morgan Private Bank, Silicon Valley Bank, Google Cloud for Startups, Coatue, La Fosse Associates, and many more.
Please email if you  wish to Sponsor.

Photographers:
Ron Haviv, Robert Wright 

 
 

Photos

 

Testimonials

What a fantastic gathering of entrepreneurs, investors and generally interesting people from our city and beyond. Was really great to meet folks outside of the typical circles over a meal.
— Alex Cavoulacos, COO & Head of Product, HUG & Co-Founder, The Muse
The group you curate and the format you’ve established are top notch. In fact, several of us were saying how we usually try to avoid “networking” events at all cost - but that your dinners are the absolute outlier/exception. Very inspiring, actionable - and more than wonderfully enjoyable LDV dinners that he hosts.
— Gesche Haas, Founder & CEO, Dreamers & Doers
Congratulations, Evan, for your 11-year anniversary. You have been a model in what it means to create a sustainable community and if there’s anyone I trust to be building good things in this arena, it’s you.
— Lori Mazor, Founder & CEO, Synthetivity
I’d heard about your gatherings for years and it was great to finally experience one - your generosity of spirit is remarkable and I was honored to be included.
— Rick Smolan, CEO, Against All Odds Productions
About the coolest and most helpful bunch of folks you will come across in the NYC startup community. Evan has put together an incredible network of entrepreneurs and investors.
— Mark Birch, Global Startup Advocate, Amazon Web Services
Being surrounded by like-minded people was transformative.
— Brandon Holley, Chief Fashion Officer, Shoptrue
Evan manages to pull together a witty and ambitious group of founders together every month. This is a must-attend event in NYC if you can score an invite.
— Vivek Sharma, Co-Founder & CEO, Movable Ink
Exciting to meet an array of new faces and walk away actually knowing you want to follow up with several people you just met. Great use of time.
— Richard Greenfield, Partner, TMT Analyst, LightShed Partners & GP, LightShed Ventures
It’s like a Jackson Pollock painting. You throw a bunch of great people together and something amazing will emerge.
— Andrew Bogle, Managing Director, Reva Capital Markets
This event puts together some of the best and brightest the city has to offer and I was humbled to be invited into this community of truly incredible human beings.
— Tristan Louis, President and CEO, Casebook PBC
Great crowd and friendly conversations! Coming from San Francisco, I couldn’t ask for a better event to meet talented entrepreneurs in NYC. Evan is a first class host, I am grateful to be apart of the experience.
— Sherman Hu, Investor
You did it again— what a fantastic gathering of some of the brightest entrepreneurs from our city. Everyone I met was so engaged and generous. Thank you for building a community that feels like home, I look forward to the next one.
— Julia Rhodes Davis, Consulting Senior Advisor, Data & Society Research Institute

Community [partial list]

Adam Paulisick, Founder & CEO
maad labs

Adam Rothenberg, Partner
BoxGroup

Adam Quinton, Founder & CEO
Lucas Point Ventures

Adam Soldinger, SVP of Strategy & Ops
Range Digital Ventures

Alain Miguel, Head Of Ops, Modalyst
Wix

Alan Mark
Investor

Aleks Jakulin, Chief Innovation Officer
Katalys

Alex Taub, Co-Founder
Upstream

Alex Bangash, Founder, Board Member
Trusted Insight

Alexa Varsavsky, Senior Product Manager Multiverse

Alexander Shashou, CEO
10Beauty

Alexander Tange, Co-founder & CEO
ICM Hub

Alexandre Winter, Founder and CEO
Norbert Health

Alexandra Cavoulacos, COO
HUG

Alexis (Anderson) Tarlow, Head of Special Projects @ Thirty Madison

Alexis Tryon, Founder
Stealth company

Alia Shafir, Head of Product Experience
Bloomberg

Alicia Syrett, Founder & CEO
Pantegrion Capital

Allen Kors, CEO
Synergy Management Group

Alistair Shepherd, Co-Founder
Saberr

Allie Mahler, Founder & CEO
Community by Design

Amanda Freeman, Owner
SLT

Amanda Moskowitz, Founder & CEO
Stacklist

Amanda Steinberg, Founder & CEO
Soapbxx

Amol Sarva, Managing Partner
Life Extension Ventures

Amy Sample Ward, CEO
NTEN

Amy Kadomatsu, CEO
COMPLY

Anastasia Leng, Founder & CEO
CreativeX

Angelique Augereau, Chief Analytics Officer
Capital One

Andrea Marcucci, Owner
Agent 99

Andres Blank, Co-founder & CEO
Fetcher

Andres Glusman, Co-founder & CEO
DoWhatWorks

Andrew Bonventre, Staff Product Engineer
Stripe

Andrew Bogle, MD
Reva Capital Markets

Andrew Cleland, Investor

Andrew Cohen, SVP, Head of Product Development @ AT&T

Andrew Delorey, Vice President
Massachusetts Capital Resource Company

Andrew Fingerman, CEO
Photoshelter

Andrew Montgomery, Investor
Collaborative Fund

Andrew Shults

Andy Parsons, Sr. Director, Content Authenticity Initiative @ Adobe

Anna Curran, Founder & CEO
Cookbook Create

Anson Tsai, Founder & CEO
ClearMD

Antonio Rodriguez, General Partner
Matrix Partners

Ari Lewine, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer @ Triplelift

Art Chang, Founder & CEO
Allie

Ashley Swartz, CEO & Founder
Furious Corp

Asmau Ahmed, Senior Leadership - Management Committee and Portfolio Group Leader @ Google X

Benjamin Kelly, Staff Software Engineer
Google

Ben La Marca, Managing Partner & CEO
The Calibrate Group

Beth Ferreira, Managing Director
FirstMark Capital

Betsy Morgan, Co-Founder
Magnet Companies

Bill Reichblum, Publisher
Liberties - A Journal of Culture & Politics

Bonnie Ryan, Partner
Abingdon Square Advisors

Brad Dickason, PM
Facebook

Brad Hargreaves, Co-Founder
General Assembly

Brad Svrluga, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Primary Venture Partners

Brandon Holley, Chief Fashion Officer
Shoptrue

Brooke Moreland, Owner
Jane Wayne Pictures

Bruce Eckfeldt, Founder & CEO
Eckfeldt & Associates

Bostjan Spetic, Global Head of Business Data Strategy @ Outbrain

Caitlin Zaino von During, CEO
The Kallia Company

Carlos Eduardo Espinal, Managing Partner
Seedcamp

Carlos Alimurung, CEO
ONE Esports

Carly (Chamberlain) Sharma, Data Science and Marketing @ LiftLab

Carly Stockdale, Co-founder, Advisor
BestLife Holdings

Carly Strife, Co-Founder
BARK

Carla Holtze Cell, Co-Founder & CEO
Parrable

Caroline Waxler, Writer and Producer
Harkness Hall Consultancy

Carrie Hammer, Founder & CEO
CARRIE HAMMER

Carrie Seifer, Chief Customer Officer, General Manager @ GWI

Chad Lynch, Business Mentor PAVE Program @ New Avenues for Youth

Charlie Kemper, Partner
Beta Bridge

Chris O'Brien, Principal, Head of PR/Communications @ Compass

Christina Mercando, Product Designer
Instagram

Christian Lawless, Managing Partner
Conversion Capital

CindyMcLaughlin, Head of Product
CarbonBuilt

Colin O'Malley, Founder & Principal
Lucid Privacy Group

Courtney McColgan, CEO and Founder
Runa

Dan Cohen, SVP/Executive Creative Director
Saatchi New York

Dan French, Founder & CEO
Consider Solutions

Dan Ruch, Partner
Rho Capital Partners

Dagny Prieto, Sr. Manager Product, Prime Video Personalization @ Prime Video & Amazon Studios

Daniel Friedman, Co-Founder
Moxie

Daniel Loreto, Founder
Jetpack Technologies Inc.

Daniel Michaeli, Co-Founder & CEO
Glia

Daniel Seal, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman @ DeltaWorks

Daniela Perlein, Co-Founder
Stealth company

Danielle Weinblatt, Chief Product Officer
Taulia

Dave Mathews, Principal Investor and CTO Portfolio Advisor @ Softeq

Dave McClure, Founder & Managing Partner
Practical Venture Capital

Dave Zohrob, Product Director
Spotify

David Aronoff, General Partner
Flybridge Capital Partners

David Cascino, Engineer
101edu

David Concannon, Partner
Goodwin

David Levy, Startup Business Development
Amazon

David Lifson, Chief Product Officer
Buoy Health

David Pakman, Partner & Advisor
Venrock

Deborah Berebichez

Debra Goldstein, Head of Marketing & Platform @ Bonfire Ventures

Deborah Estrin, Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean for Impact Cornell Tech

Deborah Schultz

Derek Stewart, COO
Stay at Lina

Diana Hardeman, Founder & CEO
MilkMade Ice Cream

Divya Kapasi, CEO & Co-Founder
GoodOps

Doreen Bloch, Founder
ELLEMENT

Elissa Shevinsky, Fractional CTO
Paragon Tech

Eliza Factor, Director
Extreme Kids & Crew

Eloise Bune D’Agostino, Co-Founder and CEO @ DayNew

Emily Lutzker, Founder, Lead, Global Brand Strategy and Communications @ TechSoup

Emilie Vasu, VP & Director of Business Development @ DAC

Eric Jensen, CTO
Aura Home, Inc.

Eric Martineau-Fortin, Founder & Managing Partner @ White Star Capital

Erick Schonfeld, President & Co-Founder
Traction Technology

Erik Michielsen, Managing Director
World 50 + G100

Erik Nordlander, General Partner
Google Ventures

Evan Nisselson, General Partner
LDV Capital

Ethan Fixell, VP
Ruby

Evelyne White, Co-Founder & CEO
SixPlus

Fran Hauser, Founder
Book Bound Co.

Frank Kelcz, Advisor, Founder
Excelerance

Frank Rimalovski, Executive Director
NYU Entrepreneurial Institute

Fausto Gimondi, Co-Founder
DigitalZero

Gaja Zornada, President & CEO
Računalniški muzej

Giff Constable, Lecturer, Product Leadership @ Product Faculty

Gill Linton, Founder & Editor in Chief
Byronesque

Gillian Morris, Product Manager
Jupe

Gillian Munson, Chief Financial Officer
Vimeo

Claudia Perlich, Data Scientist
Two Sigma

Habib Kairouz, Managing Partner
Rho Capital Partners

Heather Marie, Founder & CEO
Shoppable

Henrik Werdelin, Founding Partner
Prehype

Hilary Mason, Co-Founder
Hidden Door

Inaki Berenguer, Managing Partner
Life Extension Ventures

Jacob Robbins, Founding Engineer
DRAUP

James Haft, Founder
PALcapital

Jasmin Hume, CEO & Founder
Shiru

Jason Glickman, Managing Partner
Tribal Ventures

Jay Weintraub, CEO & Founder
Connectiv Holdings

Jeff Freedman

Jeff Stewart, Co-Founder & Managing Director @ Global Public Offering Fund

Jennifer Arcuri, Founder
Hacker House

Jennifer Litorja, Director Of Operations
Orchard

Jennifer Yen, Founder & CEO
Purlisse Beauty

Jeremy Kagan, Managing Partner
Textbook Ventures

Jessi Hempel, Senior Editor at Large LinkedIn

Jessica Randazza-Pade, VP of Marketing
Biobot Analytics

Jigar Patel, Head of LIFT
SVB/FCB

Jill Sherman. Head of Suppliers Hub
Wix

Jim Hirshfield, Principal
SpringSeed Partners

Joana Pacheco, Capital Planning Manager, Lead Architect @ New York Power Authority

Jocelyn Johnson, Founder
Happy Partners Project

John Pasmore, Partner
TRS Capital

Jonas Lee, Chief Commercial Officer
CarbonCapture Inc.

Jonathan Hyman, Co-Founder & CTO
Braze

Jonathan Lehr, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Work-Bench

Jonas Jonsson, President
Stellar Holdings

Jorge Torres, Lecturer
Yale University

José de Cabo, Co-Founder
Remotely.works

Josh Brody, President
Cadma Capital Partners

Josh Guttman, Co-Founder & CEO
Small Door Veterinary

Josh Auerbach, Chief Operating Officer
Aura

Joshua David Cotton, Co-Owner
Stealth

Julia Corbett Davis, Communications Consultant & Managing Partner @ RIOT PR

Julia Straus, CEO
Sweaty Betty

Julie Yoo, GP
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Justin Smithline, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Triple Impact Capital

Justin Tsang, Founding Partner
7 Seas Partners

Kamal Patel, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Operations & Facilities Management @ iHeartMedia

Karen Moon, Investor & Advisor
Node Innovation Ventures

Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner
Utecht Holdings

Kathryn Minshew, Founder & CEO
The Muse

Katie Nadler, Founding Venture Partner
NextGen Angels

Kelly Hoey

Kevin Fleming

Khayyam Wakil, Member Board Of Directors
WonderSeed Foundation

Kristal Bergfield, GM, Strategic Partnerships @ Funding Circle US

Kristin Calve, Co-Founder
Law Business Media

Kelsey Recht, President & Founder
Willow Grand

Laurel Touby, Managing Director
Supernode Ventures

Leslie Harrington, Founder
HueData

Lindsey Marshall Gray, Partner
Pacific Lake Partners

Lippe Oosterhof, Group Product Lead Commerce @ Yahoo

Liz Bacelar, Executive Director Global Tech Innovation @ The Estée Lauder Companies

Liz Crawford, CPTO
Flare

Liza Kindred, Founder
Holy Shift

Lora LeSage, SVP Digital Media
NBC Owned TV

Lou Kerner, Founder
CryptoOracle Collective

Luca Critelli, Co-Founder & CTO
LoopSpark

Lyde Spann Uffelman, CEO & Founder
netamorphosis

Maisie Devine, Founder & Managing Partner
100+ Accelerator

Marcel Saba, Founder & Director
Redux Pictures

Marcy Simon, Founder & CEO
Agent of Change

Mariquel Waingarten, Co-Founder & CEO
HICKIES

Mark Birch, Global Startup Advocate
AWS

Mark Uhrmacher, Head of Digital Transformation & CTO @ GrowthCurve Capital

Maria Gotsch, CEO
Partnership Fund for NYC

Mariya Nurislamova, CEO
Scentbird

Marta Wohrle, Founder
Truth In Aging

Matt Littin, Co-Founder & CEO
Lootcakes

Matt Meeker, CEO, Founder, and Chairman
BARK

Matt Ruby, Founder
Vooza

Melanie Charlton, Founder & Owner
Clos-ette

Melanie Moore, Founder
Archer Commerce

Melissa Stepanis, Head of Technology Banking @ HSBC Innovation Banking

Megan Cunningham, Founder & CEO
Magnet Media

Meghan Asha, Founder & CEO
FounderMade

Meghan Gill, SVP Sales Operations & Sales Development @ MongoDB

Meghan Muntean, EVP, Commerce & Revenue Development @ BDG

Melanie Schnuriger, Treasurer
Gray Panthers NYC

Melissa Gonzalez, Founder
Lionesque Group

Melissa Perri, Founder & CEO
ProdUX Labs

Merrill Stubbs, Co-Founder
Food52

Micah Craig, Principal Engineer
ASAPP

Michael Chernow, Co-Founder
The Meatball Shop

Michael Horn, Product Leader
Care.com

Michael Levy, CEO
Somatic

Michael Tolkin, Vice President of Business Development and Marketing @ BRELYON

Michael Zirngibl, Co-Founder & CTO
TEAMSPORTS.AI

Michele Spiezia, Team Principal
Ellysium Racing

Mickey Beyer-Clausen, Co-Founder & CEO
Timeshifter

Mike Brown, General Partner
Bowery Capital

Mike Moretti

Mike Sigal, Venture Partner
Global Public Offering Fund

Milos Fulton Peluffo, VP, Business Operations @ Gameto

Monika Kochhar, Founder & Board of Directors @ Smartgift

Murat Aktihanoglu, Co-founder and Managing Partner @ Remarkable Ventures

Naama Bloom, CMO
TrueML

Natalia Oberti Noguera, Founder & CEO
Pipeline Angels

Neda Talebian Funk, Co-Founder
Woodley + Lowe

Nicholas Thorne, CEO
Basno

Nina Sodhi, Founder
Bookshelf Builder

Neha Jain, Investor
40 North Management

Nora Abousteit, Founder and CEO
CraftJam Inc.

Nnamdi Okiki, Managing Partner and Co-Founder @ 645 Ventures

Offir Gutelzon, Head of Product Discovery
EquityBee

Oz Etzioni, CEO & Co-Founder
Clinch

Pam Huling, COO
Blue Chalk Media

Pankaj Jain, Managing Partner
Saka Ventures

Patrick de Laive, Co-Founder
The Next Web

Patrick Williams, Managing Partner
AdVentures Americas

Paul Diamond, COO
GreenLake Asset Management LLC

Paul Gebhardt, Partner
15degree

Paul Socolow, Recovering SRE
Socolow Enterprises

Pavia Rosati, Founder & CEO
Fathom

Pau Sabria, Co-Founde
Remotely.works

Payal Kadakia Pujji, CEO & Co-Founder
ClassPass

Pearl Collings, CEO
Contently

Pete Jimison, CEO
Frequency

Peter Kamali

Pete Soderling, Founder
Data Council & Data Community Fund

Peter Brodsky, CEO
Hyperscience

Prashant Agarwal, Senior Director, Product Management & Corporate Development Pantastic

Peter Stern, President
Voyant Photonics

Rachelle Hruska, Founder & CEO
Lingua Franca NYC

Rebecca Kantar, VP, Head of Education
Roblox

Reece Pacheco, Partner
Propeller

Reshma Sohoni, Founding Partner
Seedcamp

Richard Greenfield, General Partner
LightShed Ventures

Rick Fawcett, Founder & CEO
Outpace Enterprises

Ricky Berrin, Business and Legal Affairs
The OTHRS

Rishi Khanna, CEO
Stocktwits

Rob Go, Co-Founder & Partner
NextView Ventures

Rob Platzer, CTO
Syndio

Rob Grant, Technical Lead
Teachers Pay Teachers

Robert Jan de Laive

Robert Levitan, Senior Advisor
Crosscut Strategies

Robin Gill, Head of Relationship Management, East Coast
Global Fund Banking

Robin Rusch, Director
PwC

Robin Wilson, COO
Kapor Center

Rod Banner, CEO
3LA

Ron Williams, CEO
RW2 Enterprises, LLC

Ryan Terpstra, Chief Product Officer
ION Analytics

Ruthie SchulderSamia Saleem, Senior Director, UX Design @ Nike

Sandro Pugliese, VP Data Engineering
Univision Communications Inc.

Sandy Hussain, Business Development Executive @ Hawke Media

Sara Chipps, Senior Engineering Manager
LinkedIn

Saskia Miller

Sacha Levy, Investor
NY Angels

Sean Ammirati, Partner
Birchmere Ventures

Scott Carleton, Founder
Extra Yarn

Scott Kurnit, Founder
About.com

Scott Rafer, CEO
PANTASTIC

Scott Ostler, Founder & CTO
Alta Tools

Shai Goldman, Ambassador
Brex

Shala Burroughs, Solutions Consultant, Cloud CISO @ Google

Shaun Springer, Co-Founder & CEO
Archetype Labs

Shauna Mei, Advisor
Wible

Sherman Hu

Sonia Sahney Nagar
Investor

Spencer Lazar, Co-Founder & CEO
Apply

Stacy-Marie Ishmael, Managing Editor
Bloomberg News

Steve Raizes, EVP, Podcasting and Audio
Paramount

Summer Bedard, Senior Staff AI Designer
Facebook AI

Susan Bird, CEO
Wf360

Sutha Kamal, Builder
capital N

Suzanne Xie, Partner
Neo

Susie West, Founder & CEO
Sharedserviceslink

Tanya Menendez, Co-Founder & CEO
Snowball Wealth

Tarek Pertew, CEO
Uncubed

Tarikh Korula, Founder & Coach
Superculture

Taylor Davidson, Founder & CEO
Foresight

Taz Patel, Chief Busimess Officer
Playmaker

Ted Cleary, Principal
Archer Private Investments

Todd Sawicki, VP
Pantastic

Tom Melcher, Chief Product Officer
Hearst Local Commerce

Tom Limongello, Director of Product Management @ Pantastic

Tucker Max
Author

Trevor Owens, Co-Founder & CEO
Ninjalerts

Trina DasGupta Pillay, CEO & Founder
Single Palm Tree Productions

Tristan Louis, President and Chief Executive Officer @ Casebook PBC

Tuan Pham, Managing Director
J.P. Morgan

Ulla Maaria Koivula, Founder and CEO
ThingLink

Vanessa Hurst, Co-Founder & Board Chair
Girl Develop It

Vijay Pandurangan, Adjunct Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine

Vivek Sharma, Founder & CEO
Moveable Ink

Vivian Rosenthal, Co-Founder & CEO
FREQUENCY MIND

Wen Wen Lam, Partner
Gradient Ventures

Won Hee Chang

Yagmur Coker, Tech Lead, Secure Choice
Vestwell

Ylva Rahm, Head of Digital Marketing
DEFA

Yossi Vardi, CEO
Saferide Technologies


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