🐑 Play Catan with Tech Founders, Operators, and Investors
"Whereas tech drinks optimise for alcoholics, tech games optimise for high-IQ crowds." 🧠
You're invited to a game of Tech Catan with a crowd of high signal founders, operators, & investors, presented by Techgames.xyz & PT1.
If you're a statistically literate techy who also finds beauty in abstraction, you probably LOVE games. 🧠
Perhaps you also worked very hard this week and now you're looking to relax. 🔥
If this sounds like you, we want YOU to come. 🫵🏽
What to expect?
Catan Tournament - We are limiting it to only 20 people. First come, first join. You also get a seat if you bring your Catan board. :)
Side Games - We will be hosting a lot of side games. If you just want to hang out and play games or learn new games, we got you covered. You can also bring your own favourite games.
Amazing people - We're running high-signal gaming events for you to recharge AND find the best allies to boost the odds of your venture's success.
Games + elite tech crowd = Max-ROI 👾
Our theses?
We believe the best founders, operators, and investors in the world are great gamers (e.g. Demis Hassabis with Chess, Reid Hoffman with Catan, Zuckerberg with Poker, etc).
Games attract the strongest allies you can imagine (e.g. future co-founder, hire, partner, investor).
Who've previously attended these events?
✅ T1-investors (Sequoia, Bessemer Ventures, a16z, Dawn Capital, etc)
✅ Operators with evidence of exceptional abilities (early at now unicorns, Olympiad winners, etc)
✅ VC-Backed founders ($1M-$100M+ raised)
Who this event is NOT for?
❌ Consultancies/agencies
❌ Sales people
👉 Apply to join by filling out the RSVP form.
Reid Hoffman - Linkedin Founder
Loves Catan so much he created his own custom "Startups of Silicon Valley" edition of it!
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🫂 About our Hosts & Sponsors:
🎤 Remy Messadene is an Oxford AI PhD dropout turned exited founder. He’s currently building an AI company in stealth by day, and running Founden.xyz, a curated tech community of 1,000+ exceptional founders (Seed to Series D), by night. He’s hosted 200+ founder events for over 10,000 attendees across London, NYC, and SF — from rooftop dinners to underground poker nights like this one.
PT1 is a Pre-seed and Seed stage VC fund investing in transformative technologies across Europe that make a tangible impact in real estate technologies, energy transition, infrastructure resilience and climate adaptation.