Oakland Startup Events for Every Stage of Your Company

Oakland is quickly becoming one of the best places to build a startup. With a wealth of resources, plenty of tech talent, and much more, it’s easy to see why countless companies are making the “Bright Side of the Bay” their home.

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However, one of the biggest benefits for aspiring entrepreneurs in Oakland is vast number of startup-related events in the area. In the blog post below, we’ve listed plenty of startup events and groups in the Oakland area for every stage of your startup, whether you’re testing your idea, meeting potential co-founders, looking for investors, or focusing on any other aspect of your company.

Inspirational Events

Open, inclusive, beginner startup events.

• Autism Success in Tech

• Bay Area Black Designers

• Bay Area - Code Black Office Hours

• Food Tech Startup

• FuckUp Nights

• Hustle Con

• Ladies Technically Speaking Bay Area

• Liberating Ourselves Locally

• Oakland Technology Meetup

• Open Source Wellness

• Startup East Bay

• Startup Weekend East Bay

• Startup Weekend Latinx in Tech Oakland

• Startup Weekend Oakland

• Tech With Heart

• The TechEquity Collaborative

• Women Who Code East Bay

Best Practices

Beginner knowledge-sharing events.

• Bay Area Modular Synth Group

• Berkeley-Oakland-East Bay Hardware Startup Meetup

• CareerWaze Learning Meetup

• Digital Storytelling

• East Bay Agile and Lean Leadership

• East Bay Bitcoin Meetup

• East Bay Cloud Computing and Cyber Security Meetup

• East Bay Virtual Reality

• SF East Bay AI, Blockchain and Emerging Tech

• SF East Bay Hardware Startups

• Startup Best Practices

• Startup Founder 101 Oakland

• Startup Grind Fremont

• Tech Liminal Meetup

• Tech4Good Pleasanton

• The East Bay WordPress Meetup Group

• Unconscious Bias Project

• Weekly WordPress Support Group

Team Formation

Resources for teaming up.

• Bay Area Entrepreneurs & Independent Businesses

• Berkeley Entrepreneurs Association

• Berkeley Startup Cluster

• Black Professionals in STEM

• Co-Founder Wanted Meetup Group by The Tech^map

• CoFoundersLab

• Comrade Fireside

• East Bay Women's Network

• Founder2be

• FounderDating

• Founders Network

• Gateway's Bay Area Cannabis Startup Founder Community

• Innovate East Bay

• LocalPreneurs: Start Bold Ventures, Build Great Companies

• San Francisco East Bay Entrepreneurs & Networkers

• Silicon Valley Startup Opportunity Group for Immigrants

• Startup Networking Night

• Tomorrow Partners

• Women Entrepreneurs of Berkeley

• Women in Life and Career Transitions

Build First Product

Hackathons & resources to build.

• Ace Monster Toys Makerspace

• AEC Hackathon 5.0 - Oakland

• Bay Area Tech Jam and Game Dev Meetup

• Bots Hackathon

• Consumer Goods - Design to Manufacture Cooperative

• Counter Culture Labs

• Curiosity Hacked Oakland

• DREAMerHack: Hackathon Academy

• GENOME LINK Hackathon

• Hackermoms

• Hayward Techies & Makers

• Liberating Ourselves Locally

• Makers Workspace

• Nimby

• Oakland Beginner's Programming Support Group

• Oakland Founder Institute

• Predix Builders of SF Bay Area

• Qeyno Hackathon Academy

• Sudo Room

• Supernode

• Wonder Hack - A Family Hackathon

Prepare for Seed

Incubators and advanced mentorship.

• Bay Area Legal Incubator

• CITRIS Foundry

• Cyclotron Road

• QB3 Incubators

• Raizlabs XLR8 Incubator

• The Batchery

• The Hood Incubator

• The Hood Incubator Cannabis Business Accelerator Program

• UpStart Lab

Investor Networking

Connecting professional investors with founders.

• Angel Investment Network

• Berkeley Angel Network

• Keiretsu Forum East Bay

• The Arcview Group

• UC Berkeley Haas Venture Fellows

The Oakland Founder Institute is hosting several free events leading up to its inaugural semester. Space is limited, so RSVP today!

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