Scout Supper (July)
Real talk for people actually building something
Most founder dinners in NYC are basically pitch events with better wine. You show up polished, talk in traction, leave with a few new LinkedIn connections you'll never message. This isn't that.
We put a small group of early-stage founders in a room, off the record, and let the conversation actually be real. No highlight reel, just people deep in the middle of building something, comparing notes with others who get it.
Past dinners have led to:
Warm intros to first real customers
A referral partnership, formed on the spot
A live fundraising strategy, debugged at the table
A shortlist of vetted vendors for a physical product
A coach lined up ahead of a raise
Basically: the "how can I help" that VCs ask and never follow up on, except it actually happens here at our suppers.
That's the point. Not networking for its own sake, a room built so the right conversation can actually happen.
Who this is for: Early-stage founders (sub-20 people) working full-time on their company. People who want a real conversation more than another round of small talk.
Format: Small group dinner, off the record. No pitching, no investors, no audience. Just founders.
Who's hosting this? Randy Brown, Kirk Fernandes, and Lucia Hoang, the team behind Scout. In the past year, we've hosted 1,000+ early-stage founders, engineers, and PMs across NYC and SF.