Mafia and Board Game Night
The night where the only agenda is to play.
Most basecamp events give builders room to explore through talks and panels. this one does it through a table, a deck of cards and games, and the slow realisation that the person next to you has been lying to your face all night.
🗓 9th August
⏰ 5 pm – 10 pm IST
📍 Founder Startup House, Koramangala
No speakers. No slides. No pitches. just a room full of founders, operators, engineers, and builders actually getting to know each other.
What's on the table:
🕵️ Mafia - Accuse, Defend, Bluff, Betray. The fastest way to see who someone really is.
🎲 Board games - Catan, Secret Hitler, Exploding Kittens, codenames.
🎒 BYOG - bring your own game. got a favourite?
bring it, teach us, take us down.
Zero experience needed. If you can count to three and keep a straight face, you're qualified.
Why bother? board games and mafia are just startup life with fictional stakes. collaboration, negotiation, reading the room, calling a bluff. the skills every founder uses daily, minus the burn rate. the best co-founder conversations start when people drop their guard, and nothing drops it faster than accusing someone of being the mafia.
the people - honestly the whole point. founders, builders, operators worth actually meeting, beyond the usual conference small talk.
hosted by Himanshu Upreti - exited founder, now building in agentic ai - along with the draper startup house operators.
🎟 RSVP to grab a seat. 40 spots. come ready to play.
This event is part of Basecamp, a community-powered tech week in Bengaluru bringing founders, builders, and operators together. Basecamp is free for the community and powered by the community.