Meetups for founders in Washington DC

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The Washington DC events worth planning around, at a glance.

US October 2026

October 2026

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29 Lead by Design, Not Default: Building Awareness and Presence as a Leader 09:30 · Meetup STATION DC Members Only Biotech Roundtable 10:00
30 The AI Era & What It Means To Be Human (w/ The AI Collective) 17:00 · Meetup
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6 STATION DC Robotics Roundtable (MEMBERS ONLY) 10:00 · Meetup When Everyone Has AI, What Sets You Apart? A Book Talk with Author Jonathan Aberman and Congressman Don Beyer 17:30
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10 ENTREPRENEUR HORROR STORIES 👻 10:00 · Meetup
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13 STATION DC Members Only Transportation and Infrastructure Roundtable 10:00 · Meetup Unstuck Tuesday: Startup Pitches, Feedback, and Action Steps! 10:30 The Business of BrainHealth: Washington DC, Oct 13th (VC, GTM, Monetization) 17:30 The DMV Tech Super Meetup (register on Luma) 17:30
14 The AI Industrial Stack Roundtable (STATION DC MEMBERS ONLY) 09:30 · Meetup DCSTW Community Reception - Creating Global Startups 17:30
15 Data Science DC ⚡️ Side Projects and Networking: DSDC Meetup 18:00 · Meetup
16 Claude Code Collaborative Coding Mentorship Circle Washington Building Faster with Claude Code 10:00 · Meetup Product Design to Market Launch 11:30
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19 Founder Friends DC 18:00 · Meetup
20 PEF DC: Inside the U.S. Department of State 09:00 · Meetup STATION DC Members Only Cybersecurity Roundtable 10:00 Unstuck Tuesday: Startup Pitches, Feedback, and Action Steps! 10:30
21 Lattes & Learning: Legal Strategies for Building and Scaling Defense and Aerospace Startups 08:00 · Meetup Understanding the IC Customer: Mission Fit, Readiness, and Market Context (STATION DC MEMBERS ONLY) 09:30
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26 Engineering Your Capital Strategy: Fundraising by Design 10:00 · Meetup
27 STATION DC Health Tech Open Roundtable 10:00 · Meetup DC Founders & Funders Open House 10:00
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29 STATION DC Mafia (Members Only) 17:30 · Meetup
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About Washington DC · October 2026

DC Startup & Tech Week lands next week, and it's the one stretch this fall worth planning around. It runs Oct 19 with 150+ events across DC, Arlington and Maryland, and it's the community's own flagship rather than a corporate convener. Same week, FORGE on Oct 28 puts defense and dual-use founders in front of investors, and DataTribe's Cyber Innovation Conference follows on Oct 26. NVIDIA GTC Washington DC arrives Nov 30 for the government and enterprise AI crowd.

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