Building in Boston
The Founder Summit brings founders, investors, and operators together at the SoWa Power Station to discuss building companies from Boston and beyond.
November 4 is the day to make meaningful founder-focused connections, gain practical insights, and take part in conversations designed to move your startup forward. It’s also the last day to secure your pass before ticket prices increase and all special group discounts disappear. Secure your pass savings now.
Practical scaling insights to move the needle in your startup
Explore the full Founder Summit agenda to discover today’s hottest scaling topics across breakout and roundtable sessions.
A Boston company that became much bigger than Boston.
Local Success Stories
Steve Fredette, President, Co-founder, and Director of Toast, brings one of the city’s recognizable founder stories to the stage. Toast’s journey offers a look at finding customers, developing product-market fit, scaling a company, and continuing to evolve after the original idea succeeds, serving as proof that founders don’t have to leave Boston to build a company with national and global reach.
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The Boston Founder Playbook
Chase Garbarino, CEO and Co-founder of HqO, addresses the geography question directly. Having built from Boston for over a decade, raised significant capital, and expanded internationally without relocating to a traditional West Coast hub, his conversation focuses on the advantages, disadvantages, and realities of building outside traditional startup centers.
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Networking and Collaboration
The event focuses on connecting Boston-area founders, investors, and startup leaders in the same room to facilitate conversations around shared operational challenges.
Roundtables bring founders and venture capitalists closer together around specific problems in interactive sessions facilitated by scaling experts.
Official side events extend professional relationships beyond the main venue and across the wider Boston startup hub.
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The Regional Startup Ecosystem
For founders building in Boston, the ecosystem is already locally established, offering a full day of connections, practical insights, and growth opportunities at the SoWa Power Station.
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