​Where Founders Meet the Experts Who Can Change the Game 🤝

​Every month, Krubner’s Startup Luncheon convenes some of the sharpest minds shaping New York City’s startup ecosystem, from operators and investors to legal, HR, and tech experts, for a power-packed lunch of insight, connection, and tactical takeaways.

​Teja Urankar — Scientist turned Entrepreneur 👩🏻‍🔬 CEO & Product Developer @Butter Be Kind 🧴 Building a global skincare brand & sharing my journey.

​Jeremy Epstein — ex-VC @ $1B Fund | Backed vQuip, XP Health, Alix, Elysian, "What makes a good pitch? And when should a founder walk away from a deal with VC?"

​Katie Dunn (she/her) — Angel Investor | Board Director | Finance & Due Diligence Expert

​Tracy Byrnes, CDFA® — Financial Advisor at Lebenthal, "You have to plan your exit strategy the day you plan to start your business."

​Barry Marshall — As the Philippine COO for JP Morgan, I was tasked with building and scaling a global operations center from the ground up. We grew this operations hub from zero to 10,000+ employees in 5 years with an annual attrition rate under 15% while the industry standard remained higher than 100%.

​About Lawrence Krubner:

​If your startup is drowning in tech debt, Krubner can save you. Krubner writes software 7 days a week, either for serious professional work or for fun personal projects. Krubner co-founded Starchive.io in 2002 and served as CTO until 2010. Krubner then worked as software architect helping companies such as Timeout.com handle new levels of scale. Krubner has also lead the tech side of Revenue Operations to re-engineer the sales processes of teams using Salesforce and Hubspot. Krubner has developed algorithms for new forms of Cognitive AI, which have seen applications with both romantic dating apps and also in HR departments, determining who should be hired. In recent years Krubner has organized in-person events to help the leadership of startups in New York City meet the people who they most urgently need to meet. To follow Krubner's events in New York City, subscribe to his newsletter:

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