NYCFC: June 2026
Tech Week Boat Cruise Round 2 (final round!) now available, VenueHopper's founder spotlight, and upcoming NYCFC events!
Opening Remarks
‼️ NY(SEA) Update: Round 1 sold out, Round 2 now available ‼️
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This edition:
May events (YC happy hour recap)
Upcoming events + job openings!
Let’s get started! 🚀
Founder Spotlight: Stonny Liu, Co-founder and CEO of VenueHopper
Stonny Liu is Co-founder and CEO of VenueHopper, a platform that connects event planners and individuals with unique venues across New York City.
"[Hospitality is a] very hard to move industry. On one hand, it makes it really difficult to work in, but on the other, it's very rewarding. When you start to make progress and you actually get people on board like we have already, people like what you do and they stay with it.
I studied chemical and biomolecular engineering in college. [VenueHopper is] a complete 180 from what I actually studied in university. But on a conceptual level in chemistry, there's this term called activation energy. It's like what it takes to get a reaction started, right? And what a catalyst does — things that speed up reactions — all it does is make it easier for that reaction to happen. And so on a conceptual level, I thought if I can make a company that brings down the activation energy for letting people engage in person… then we should conceptually see way more in-person events and engagements in real life. So that's the idea of it. That's what we do."
What’s your biggest ask right now? How can others help?
Stonny: "In terms of people helping VenueHopper, I think the best way to help VenueHopper is plan events, even if it's not through Venue Hopper… Ideally, there's such a high density of real life events with people that you actually know or at least are acquainted with that you can just go and find an event without having to make so much effort. And so obviously if they're doing events that are within our ballpark right now, we're mostly focused on community groups as well as business events."
Mike: "If it's within our ballpark, what size would that be? Like what size would your ballpark be?"
Stonny: "It's like if you're buying out a room and maybe not buying out like a 400-person restaurant. The range is going to be medium-sized events, nothing too big, nothing too small yet… You want to help Venue Hopper? Go see your friends. Do more events. Get out there. But if you can do it on Venue Hopper, even better."
If this sounds like you or someone you know, reach out at events@venuehopper.com or via LinkedIn.
Read our full interview with Stonny here.
Coming Up 🔥
Events:
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Tues, May 26 (members only)
🗽 NY(SEA): Tech Week Founder Boat Party: Wed, June 3
🗽 (N)YC Alumni + Founder Friends Monthly Happy Hour: Wed, June 10
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Wed, June 17 (members only)
🗽 NYCFC Quarterly Dinner: Thurs, June 25 (members only)
🗽 = NYCFC Event
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Email jordan@nycfounders.club to have us feature your event!
Roles at NYCFC Companies 👩🏻💻
Kickoff is hiring a Provider Growth Manager and other roles across growth and engineering.
GhostEye is hiring a Founding GTM.
Cobalt ID is hiring a Chief of Staff and a Staff Software Engineer.
Zingage is hiring a Head of Talent Engineering, a Founding GTM Engineer, Founding Engineers, and SWEs.
Invoice Butler is hiring a Founding Engineer.
See you next month!
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– Aakash, Adam, Mike, and Jordan
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