Curated events for pre-seed & seed founders and early builders in Chicago.
An instructional workshop focused on building, interpreting, and managing a cap table, helping founders understand ownership, dilution, and long-term equity implications before fundraising or major capital decisions.
Stage: 4 — Readiness
Founder ROI: Equity structure clarity | Dilution awareness | Stronger investor and capital decision-making
A foundational session for founders learning to translate assumptions into a financial model, focused on understanding core drivers, cash needs, and tradeoffs before fundraising, hiring, or scaling decisions.
Stage: 2 — Solution Shaping
Founder ROI: Financial clarity | Better decision-making | Stronger capital and pricing discipline
A community-led meetup featuring real-world AI use cases, product demos, and lessons from teams building and scaling applied AI, with PostHog sharing how they approach experimentation and product insight.
Stage: 2 — Solution Shaping
Founder ROI: Applied AI insight | Product experimentation context | Peer learning from real implementations
A weekly roundup of Chicago startup events, ecosystem signals, and founder-focused context — curated through an early-stage lens.
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