🍾 Web Summit Vancouver Side Event: Afterparty For Founders & Investors - Hosted by Connor Wilson

NO WALKINS OR PLUS ONES EXCEPT THOSE WHO REGISTER AND ARE APPROVED!!! WE EXPECT TO BE FULL.

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​​Come Socialize With Fellow Founders & Investors - a Web Summit 2025 Vancouver Afterparty

​​👋 What is this?

The premier Web Summit Vancouver Afterparty bringing tech founders and investors together. Attendees can buy their own food or drink if they wish (optional).

​​🚫 Everyone is welcome to register but only those approved may attend. Approved guests will receive an email saying they’ve been approved and will find a QR code ticket in Luma. Anyone without will be turned away at the door no exceptions and no plus 1’s. Everyone who attends must register and be approved. This is to keep the event to only those founders and investors who meet the criteria.

​​💝 Why come?

• ​​Find your next investment or investor
• ​​Make friends and future referrers or partners
• ​​Have fun and enjoy a night off

​​📌 Where is it?

ANNOUNCING SOON- must have valid ID and be legal drinking age to attend.

​​🔍 Who is this event best suited for?

• ​​Seed & Series A Founders in B2B Software Marketplaces or Consumer (pre-seed is fine with strong traction)
• ​​VC Partners and Angels who invest in the above
• ​​Note that this event is extremely popular and due to capacity limits we are only able to take the most competitive registrations. 
• ​​Unlike events that are optimized for fun this event is specifically for networking - pitching investors and meeting other promising founders. That said it's going to be awesome and you'll have a great time too.

​​We personally review each applicant using LinkedIn websites AngelList Crunchbase web traffic mutual connections and other sources etc.

​​This ensures high-caliber attendees. See past examples of events here and here.

​​New to this event: We have volunteers on site who will be facilitating introductions to funds who attend between them and founders who match their thesis.

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​​​​​About the host: Connor Wilson

​​​​​​​​Connor Wilson is the Founder & CEO at Pilot and was the host of the TechCrunch Disrupt 2024's largest side event and Official Afterparty now bringing that Silicon Valley style home to Canada:

• ​​Building an AI-Powered Collaborative Travel Hub used by more 27000 travelers (rated 4.7 stars) and featured in TechCrunch Forbes and others. Pilot was a top 3 BC Tech finalist for Startup of the Year and raised over $1.5mil from investors.
• ​​Prior to Pilot he grew NiceJob (marketing SaaS) to a $30mil bootstrapped exit. Before then NiceJob was a 2nd place winner of the NVBC awards Ready to Rocket recognized as a fastest growing company in Canada.
• ​​He is a proud maple-syrup-loving Canadian as well as a C100 Fellow alumni of NEXT Canada and TechCrunch Startup Battlefield and the Creative Destruction Lab.
• ​​Follow or contact Connor via Linkedin

​​​​​​Subscribe to this event calendar or others for cities Connor hosts events in:

• ​Web Summit Vancouver: lu.ma/web-summit-vancouver
• ​Vancouver (general): lu.ma/yvr-founders
• ​San Francisco / Silicon Valley: lu.ma/sf-founders

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​​This event is organized and operated solely by the above listed Hosts (not Connected Intelligence Limited nor any of its affiliates or brands including Web Summit).

Host or Publisher Connor Wilson