How I Raised is a gathering centered around open discussion regarding best practices for raising a Seed round. Every other month, we invite two or three founders who have successfully raised a round in the past few months and foster an open dialogue around what worked and what didn't. RSVP

​In this webinar, Charlie O'Donnell of nextNYC talks with Propeller Industries Raymond Nieuwenhuizen (CEO) and Beth McCarthy (VP of Digital Transformation PMO) of Propeller Industries on why AI deployments that should take a year are taking three, why your team's capacity to change is the real constraint (not your AI budget), and how to build the organizational muscle for continuous adoption instead of one-off tool rollouts. RSVP

Join us at one of our local meet-up spots across the city at 8:30 AM on October 15h! These coffee meetups are a great opportunity to connect with local VCs in your area as well as other founders at the beginning of their startup journey! RSVP

​In this session, Charlie O’Donnell of nextNYC sits down with Chris Hofmann of Qapita for a 30-minute live session on building a refresh strategy that actually retains people. RSVP

Top VCs in New York with decision-making power come together to hear from companies looking to finish a round. Open to any pre-seed or seed round company with at least one professional VC, angel, or family office participating. More information here.

​In this webinar, Charlie O'Donnell of nextNYC talks with Propeller Industries founder Chris Fenster to talk about why the hard part of AI isn't AI. It's the dirty data, the processes that were never actually written down, and the accountability question nobody on LinkedIn wants to answer: when the number goes to your board, who signs? RSVP

​In this session, Charlie O’Donnell of nextNYC sits down with Vishnu Boorla or Qapita for a 30-minute live session on how secondaries actually get done, when they make sense, how to structure them cleanly, and how to think about liquidity when nobody knows what anything is actually worth. RSVP

How I Raised My Seed is a gathering centered around open discussion regarding best practices for raising a Seed round. Every other month, we invite two or three founders who have successfully raised a round in the past few months and foster an open dialogue around what worked and what didn't. RSVP

​In this webinar, Charlie O'Donnell of nextNYC talks with Propeller Industries founder Chris Fenster and CEO Raymond Nieuwenhuizen for an unusually candid conversation about the strategic decision every founder eventually faces: do you rebuild while things are still good, or wait until you're out of runway? RSVP

​In this session, Charlie O’Donnell of nextNYC sits down with Amit Majumder of Qapita to break down what founders and operators actually need to know before they extend that next global offer, from choosing the right instrument (options vs. RSUs vs. phantom equity) by jurisdiction, to the contractor-vs-employee-vs-EOR distinctions that change everything, to what happens when an employee vests in one country and moves to another. RSVP

​In this webinar, Charlie O'Donnell of nextNYC and Chris Fenster of Propeller Industries will unpack the confidence vacuum: why founders lose control of their companies, and how operational fluency is the antidote. RSVP

Join us at one of our local meet-up spots across the city at 8:30 AM on June 18th! These coffee meetups are a great opportunity to connect with local VCs in your area as well as other founders at the beginning of their startup journey! RSVP

Top VCs in New York with decision-making power come together to hear from companies looking to finish a round. Open to any pre-seed or seed round company with at least one professional VC, angel, or family office participating. More information here.

​In this webinar, Charlie O'Donnell of nextNYC and Anthony Rosen of Propeller Industries will discuss how founders should think about building a finance function before they hire for it , the difference between a controller, a VP Finance, and a CFO, when a fractional partner beats a full-time hire, what the "swiss-army-knife" finance leader actually looks like when it works (and when it breaks), and the patterns of misdiagnosis that lead founders to over-title, over-pay, and under-scope their first finance hire. RSVP

​In this session, Charlie O’Donnell of nextNYC sits down with Ravi Ravulaparthi of Qapita to discuss how founders can structure advisor compensation, manage equity thoughtfully, and avoid common cap table mistakes. RSVP

Join us at one of our local meet-up spots across the city at 8:30 AM on May 21st! These coffee meetups are a great opportunity to connect with local VCs in your area as well as other founders at the beginning of their startup journey! RSVP

​In this session, Charlie O’Donnell of nextNYC sits down with Evelyn Tay, who leads Global Valuations at Qapita, to unpack what founders often misunderstand about 409A valuations and the real implications when those numbers move. Most founders treat 409As as a compliance exercise and something to check off between raises. But in today’s market, valuation shifts are happening more frequently, and the downstream impact touches everything from hiring and employee morale to option pricing, fundraising strategy, and board dynamics. RSVP

​In this webinar, Charlie O'Donnell of nextNYC and Raymond Nieuwenhuizen of Propeller Industries will discuss what professional CEOs actually do and what happens when founders hand over the keys. RSVP

Join us at one of our local meet-up spots across the city at 8:30 AM on April 16th! These coffee meetups are a great opportunity to connect with local VCs in your area as well as other founders at the beginning of their startup journey! RSVP

Spend a day in Brooklyn learning from top Series A and seed investors, experienced start-up CEOs, and your fellow founders! Learn more here.

Every startup's success starts with one critical decision: how founders structure their relationship. Founder agreements shape equity splits, vesting, decision-making, and succession and misaligned expectations can derail even strong teams. Join Charlie O'Donnell (nextNYC), Ravi Ravulaparthi (Qapita), and Lindsay Kaplan as they discuss the real purpose of founder agreements and the issues founders should address from day one. RSVP

​Join Charlie O’Donnell of nextNYC and Chris Fenster of Propeller Industries on how the people you bring onto your cap table quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) shape your company’s strategy. From angels to institutional investors, every check comes with expectations, incentives, and timelines that can influence everything from hiring to growth pace to exit outcomes. RSVP

Join us at one of our local meet-up spots across the city at 8:30 AM on March 19th! These coffee meetups are a great opportunity to connect with local VCs in your area as well as other founders at the beginning of their startup journey! RSVP

How I Raised My Seed is a gathering centered around open discussion regarding best practices for raising a Seed round. Every other month, we invite two or three founders who have successfully raised a round in the past few months and foster an open dialogue around what worked and what didn't. RSVP

Moe Aeh of Venhawk is putting his company on the line in front of Charlie O'Donnell of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures to get real, unfiltered feedback. No softballs. Just the kind of honest conversation most founders only get after they've already made the mistake. RSVP here.

Top VCs in New York with decision-making power come together to hear from companies looking to finish a round. Open to any pre-seed or seed round company with at least one professional VC, angel, or family office participating. More information here.

​Join Charlie O’Donnell of nextNYC and Chris Fenster of Propeller Industries for a 30-minute webinar on real-world AI use cases in finance, as they go deeper into how finance leaders should think about implementation. What separates successful AI deployments from expensive experiments? Where do teams get stuck? And how do you prioritize the right projects without overwhelming your org? RSVP