Tokyo Founder’s Meetup @ VENTURE CAFE

A relaxed evening designed to bring together startup founders, corporate leaders, and ecosystem builders under one roof. Whether you're building a company, investing in the next wave of innovation, or leading change from within an organization, this gathering is the perfect space to connect with the people shaping the future of business.

​As Co-Founder of Openfor.co and Co-Capital, and Managing Director at Founder Institute Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, Erdinc has worked with founders and investors across Asia and beyond. He’s excited to share insights, spark collaborations, and create meaningful connections among like-minded leaders at Venture Cafe Tokyo. This informal hangout is open to all innovation-driven individuals.

Agenda

• Quick Introductions to each other

• Open Networking & Conversations

• Collaborations

Who Should Attend

• Early-stage and growth-stage Founders

• Investors exploring new deal flow and partnerships

• Corporate Leaders looking for innovation opportunities

• Ecosystem partners supporting entrepreneurship

• Anyone passionate about startups, technology, and global business

What to Expect

• Casual networking with cross-border founders & VCs

• Light discussions, idea exchanges & genuine relationship building

• Opportunities to discover collaborations, customers, & mentors

• Global perspective from leaders based in Japan, Korea, Taiwan & more

About Organisation Ecosystem:

-Founder Institute: Founder Institute, which originated in Silicon Valley, is a founder and idea stage accelerator, and with its Founder Capital, backs the best performing FI alumni as early as the angel stage. FI has over 8K+ startup portfolio (Including leading e-learning platform Udemy, IPO in Nasdaq $3,8B) across 200 cities in 100 countries around the world.) We are also the largest mentor network in the world, with over 35,000 mentors, and our alumni have already raised over $2 billion in US dollars and have recently exceeded the 10K mark of investors network as the FI-Venture-Network.

-FI’s sister program, called VC Lab, helps launch aspiring investors into launching VC firms. As an accelerator that allows both sides of the table, 70% of the activities we do are advocacy of entrepreneurship and ecosystem creation, which means we do way more activity than the accelerator to promote entrepreneurship to solve real-world problems with entrepreneurship in an economically feasible way, build a company that grows into a venture-scale.

-Openfor.co: A “Global Partnership Accelerator” originated in Silicon Valley that combined with an online platform and marketplace for learning, building, launching, monetizing, and growing partner ecosystems and a collaborative community around you for achieving effective marketing, sales, community building, GTM, fundraising, and many more.

-Co-Capital: Pre-seed & Seed stage new firm that focuses on hands-on GTM, sales, and partnership support, focusing on English-speaking Asian founders who have global ambitions from day ONE. Domiciled in the USA, with regional appearances in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Utilizes partnerships with the GTM expert network and the venture partner network across 20 major hubs and a network of 35 other VC networks who are willing to co-back our founders