Santa Monica SaaS & Media Tech Founder Salon: AI, Audience Growth & Revenue

This is a curated business room for people who are actively building, marketing, automating, or growing media and technology companies.
About this Event

A premium in-person networking salon for serious founders, operators, owners, and decision-makers building at the intersection of media, technology, SaaS, AI, creator tools, entertainment, digital content, marketing, and audience-driven businesses.

This is not a happy hour, job fair, pitch competition, or social meetup.

This is a curated business room for people who are actively building, marketing, automating, or growing media and technology companies.

If you are working on a real business and want better conversations with people who understand growth, revenue, customers, content, software, AI, acquistion, and sales, this salon is designed for you.

Why Attend

SaaS, Media Tech, and AI founders are facing the same core questions:

• How do we grow audience without wasting money?
• How do we use AI to build faster and deliver more?
• How do we create attention and turn it into revenue?
• How do we build real visibility in a crowded markets?
• How do we find the right customers, partners, vendors, advisors, investors, and collaborators?

This event brings together a small, high-quality group of people who are thinking seriously about those problems.

Expect thoughtful conversations, useful introductions, and practical discussion around what fast-moving founders are building, buying, testing, outsourcing, automating, and investing in now.

Who This Is For

This salon is designed for:

• SaaS founders
• AI-Based startup founders
• Media Tech founders
• Entertainment and Production Company Owners moving into Tech
• Marketing tech and Audience Growth Founders
• Digital agency owners serving media, SaaS, or tech companies
• Tech founders in creative spaces including video, podcast, publishing
• Senior operators, consultants, advisors, and fractional executives
• Established enterprises interested in the media and tech ecosystem for acquisitions

You do not need to be seeking investment to attend. Investors and funders are welcome, but this is not an investor pitch night. The focus is on business growth, audience, revenue, AI, and high-value connections.

Who This Is Not For

• This is not intended as a general job-seeker networking event.
• It is not a room for people who are only “thinking about starting something someday.”
• It is not a generic social mixer.
• It is not an open-mic sales pitch event.
• If you are attending, please come prepared to talk about what you are actively building, what you need, what you can offer, and what kinds of introductions would be valuable.

Event Format

This will be a small, curated gathering capped at 30 attendees so the room stays focused and the conversations stay useful. The evening will include:

• Arrival and premium networking supported by appetizers, wine, and appetizers (all free).
• Brief welcome and framing
• Founder and operator introductions
• Guided discussion around AI, audience growth, revenue, and business needs
• Curated introductions where appropriate
• Open networking

You will have the opportunity to share:

• What you are building
• Who you serve
• What you are trying to grow
• What solutions you are looking to buy, hire, automate, improve, promote, or partner on
• What kinds of people would be useful for you to meet

Topics We Expect to Discuss

• AI tools and workflows for founders
• Audience growth and customer acquisition
• Content, media, and distribution strategy
• SaaS growth and positioning
• Creator economy business models
• Revenue generation beyond vanity metrics
• Partnerships, licensing, and strategic alliances
• Fundraising versus customer-funded growth
• Using events, podcasts, video, and media for visibility
• Hiring vendors, consultants, fractional executives, and agencies wisely
• Turning expertise, technology, content, and community into income

Admission

• This is a paid, very limited-capacity event.
• Tickets are designed to support a higher-quality room, better filtering, and a more intentional business environment.
• Admission includes networking, participation in the salon discussion, and light food and drink.
• Space is limited to approximately 30 people.

Registration Questions

To help us maintain the quality of the room, attendees are asked to provide:

• Company or project name
• Website or LinkedIn profile
• Your role
• What you are building
• What help and resources you might need

The Goal

The goal is simple:

Bring together a thoughtful, capable, high-value group of media, tech, SaaS, and AI founders in Santa Monica for conversations that can lead to real business.

• Not just contacts.
• Not just small talk.
• Useful relationships, smarter ideas, better visibility, and possible revenue.

We’re developing a community of hard working tech leaders eager to link with the like-minded.