Airtree Pathfinders in Auckland
Airtree are in town, and we want to meet the best young builders and founders in Auckland, plus the people who want to become one.
The question we are building the night around: what does it actually take to build a venture backable company?
You will hear from the Airtree investment team on what we look for, how the AI investment landscape is shifting, and what the first cheque conversation actually looks like from the other side of the table. Fireside plus open Q&A, so bring your questions.
Drinks, food and plenty of time to meet other people building in Auckland afterwards.
If you are building something and the pitch is strong, this is a fast track to a conversation with our investment team.
Run of show
5:30pm: Arrivals
6:00pm: Welcome and fireside chat with the Airtree team followed by Q&A
6:45pm: Drinks, food and networking
What is Pathfinders?
Pathfinders is Airtree's program for young founders and builders. It normally runs as a four week stint out of our Sydney office: sessions with founders and investors who have actually done it, a build challenge with a mentor from our investment team, Friday co-working in our office, and a cohort of people building at the same stage as you.
We run it because we are bullish on young founders and we want to back them early.
Pathfinders on Tour is how we get the learnings and the community of the program to more people. Auckland is the next stop.
In collaboration with:
Startup Club NZ
Startup Club NZ (SCNZ) is the University of Auckland's student entrepreneurship club, with a community of 1,800+ members. We exist to close the gap between New Zealand's student founders and the world's best startup ecosystems. Whether you're already building something or are just curious, there's a place for you here.
HackAotearoa
HackAotearoa is a free co-working community for founders, indie hackers and makers building their own thing. Every second Friday in Auckland and Wellington: a full day working alongside people doing the same. Get feedback, help solving problems you're stuck on and some positive peer pressure to ship faster! No pitching, no program, and just one rule: be helpful.
Support by AWS for Startups and Vercel
Vercel's agentic infrastructure provides the tools and infrastructure to build, scale, and secure intelligent applications. As the most popular DX platform for frontend development and the team behind v0, Next.js, and AI SDK, we help customers like OpenAI, PayPal, and Zapier build for the AI-native web and ship at the speed of ideas.