Berkeley Angel Network Annual Party 2026
Berkeley Angel Network Annual Party 2026 🥂
Come celebrate another remarkable year of innovation and entrepreneurship with the Berkeley Angel Network!
Join fellow Berkeley Angels, entrepreneurs, founders, and friends for an evening of great food, drinks, and even better conversation as we kick off the 2026 holiday season.
We are excited to host this year’s Annual Berkeley Angel Network Party at Crystal Springs Tavern in San Mateo, with a private buyout of the restaurant. The entire space will be ours.
🎉A Year Worth Celebrating
There’s plenty to celebrate in the Berkeley ecosystem.
For the fourth consecutive year, UC Berkeley has claimed the #1 spot globally in PitchBook’s 2026 rankings for undergraduate alumni who founded venture-backed companies.
The latest analysis, spanning 2015–2026 venture funding and more than 222,000 founders, credits Berkeley undergraduates with founding 2,155 startups, representing 2,380 founders—including 345 female founders.
Behind those numbers are thousands of people taking ideas from the classroom into the real world—and a community of alumni, investors, mentors, and founders investing in them along the way.
That’s what the Berkeley Angel Network is all about.
🎤 Spotlight on Success
We’ll also take a moment to celebrate the impact of angel investing with brief, non-pitch updates from BAN portfolio companies—sharing what they’ve been building, milestones they’ve reached, and where they’re headed next.
No pitch decks. No fundraising presentations. Just a chance to hear directly from founders and celebrate the progress BAN has helped support.
🍴 What’s Included
Your ticket includes:
🍴 Delicious food
🍸 Full bar (please bring cash for tips)
🥂 An evening of conversation, connection, and celebration
🐻 A room full of Berkeley alumni, angels, founders, and friends
👥 Bring a Guest
Want to introduce someone to the Berkeley Angel community? Bring them along!
Guests who aren’t BAN members are welcome at this event with an additional ticket. There’s no accreditation requirement for this party—so bring a friend, colleague, founder, investor, or fellow Cal enthusiast.
The more the merrier.
🐻 About the Berkeley Angel Network
The Berkeley Angel Network is more than an investment group—it’s a community.
Our members include UC Berkeley alumni, faculty, and former faculty who share a commitment to entrepreneurship and innovation. While every investor follows their own investment interests, we’re connected by a shared belief in the power of the Berkeley community and the founders emerging from it.
We invest in companies, but we also invest in people, relationships, and the next generation of entrepreneurs.
Come raise a glass with us and kick off the holiday season with the Berkeley Angels.🍻
Space is limited, and there will be no ticket sales at the door. Get your tickets early! Prices go up closer to the event date.