# Startup & founder events in Tel Aviv Curated by [foundercal.com](https://foundercal.com/). Only events worth a founder's time: conferences, demo days, founder dinners, meetups and workshops. Generic networking filler is filtered out. Updated daily. - City page (HTML): https://foundercal.com/cities/tel-aviv - Calendar feed (ICS): https://foundercal.com/cities/tel-aviv.ics - All cities + usage guide for AI agents: https://foundercal.com/llms.txt 25 upcoming events as of 31 August 2026. ## THE FOUNDERS - בהיכל התרבות בתל אביב - Date: Tuesday 1 September 2026, 17:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) - Type: Meetup - Venue: אולם צוקר, היכל התרבות תל אביב, Huberman St 3, Tel Aviv - Organizer: [PS&A - Product Strategy & Analytics by The Product Alliance](https://foundercal.com/organizers/ps-and-a-product-strategy-and-analytics-by-the-product-alliance) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/the-founders-316155715 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/8286?p=md היי חברים, רוצה לשתף אתכם באירוע שממש שווה להכיר אם אתם בונים סטארטאפ או נמצאים בעולם היזמות. קיבלנו לינק מוזל במיוחד לחברי הקהילה, כדי לממש אחרי ההרשמה באתר נכנסים ללינק הזה לתשלום👇 https://mrng.to/V7TdUMviv4 ב־1.9 מתקיים THE FOUNDERS בהיכל התרבות בתל אביב - ערב שמרכז מאות פאונדרים ויזמים במקום… ## Demo Day - Cohort 6, Genesis - Date: Wednesday 2 September 2026, 09:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) - Type: Demo Day - Venue: Google for Startups Campus, Ha-Umanim St 12, Tel Aviv-Yafo, 6789731, Israel - Organizer: Personal - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/demo-day-cohort-6-genesis-DUhnLPHlpcfCBsJ - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/7460?p=md This exclusive gathering will bring together more than 150 investors, business leaders and our 15 chosen Pre-seed startups of the Genesis 021 Program. Full Agenda: 09:00 - 09:30 Reception & Refreshments 09:30 - 10:00 Opening Remarks & Introduction to the Genesis Program 10:00 - 11:30 Genesis… ## Codex Demo Night - Tel Aviv - Date: Thursday 3 September 2026, 18:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) - Type: Meetup - Venue: Azrieli Sarona Tower, Menakhem Begin Rd 121, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel - Organizer: [Codex Community Events](https://foundercal.com/organizers/codex-community-events) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/codex-demo-night-tel-aviv-BdsNYFcvgiMFw1A - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/8637?p=md Codex Demo Night We're excited to host the next OpenAI event! Demo night is focused on real projects and how they were built. One speaker spent $150,000 on tokens to build his product! Thanks to eon.io for hosting! Both technical and non-technical people are welcome. Talks will be in Hebrew. At our… ## Founders Running Club :: Tel Aviv - Date: Saturday 5 September 2026, 18:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) - Type: Dinner - Venue: Migdalor Cafe, Rekhav'am Ze'evi Gandi St 1, Tel Aviv-Yafo - Organizer: [Founders Running Club Tel Aviv](https://foundercal.com/organizers/founders-running-club-tel-aviv) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/founders-running-club-tel-aviv-316141357 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9680?p=md Founders Running Club (FRC) brings founders, investors, tech, creative people and startup enthusiasts together for weekly easy runs and networking. We like to be comfortable when we run and finish with coffee and conversations. Choose your pace or follow a pacer, pets, friends, family, are welcome.… ## Team8 CTO Private Gathering with NVIDIA - Date: Monday 7 September 2026, 09:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) - Type: Meetup - Price: Free - Organizer: [Team8](https://foundercal.com/organizers/team8) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/team8-cto-private-gathering-with-nvidia-2026-09-07 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9121?p=md A closed morning for a small group of technical founders and CTOs, hosted by Team8 and NVIDIA. The programme is a conversation between Michael Kagan, NVIDIA's CTO, and Team8 managing partner Aviad Harell, plus a one on one with Moshe Shalev, co-founder of Decart. You apply, and the venue is only… ## When Tech Becomes a Commodity, What Do Investors Look For? - Date: Monday 7 September 2026, 09:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) - Type: Meetup - Venue: Google for Startups Campus, Ha-Umanim St 12, Tel Aviv-Yafo, 6789731, Israel - Organizer: [Fusion VC](https://foundercal.com/organizers/fusion-vc) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/when-tech-becomes-a-commodity-what-do-investors-look-for-JlM8MCsNQZCE8Co - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9713?p=md AI has made building faster, cheaper, and more accessible than ever. But when technology alone is no longer a moat, what makes a startup truly stand out? Join Fusion and Google for Startups for a candid morning with leading founders and investors on what creates real advantage today - from… ## Cyera & The Event Loop - Date: Monday 7 September 2026, 18:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) - Type: Meetup - Organizer: [The Event Loop (formerly known as Node.js-il)](https://foundercal.com/organizers/the-event-loop-formerly-known-as-node-js-il) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/cyera-and-the-event-loop-vReW7gd3DmCAdg1 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9446?p=md 18:00 - Mingling 🎉, pizza 🍕, and beers 🍻 18:30 - lectures Durable active remediations at scale at Cyera | By Ehud Blum (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ehud-blum/) Description: Remediation is one of the most valuable capabilities for customers using security platforms. At Cyera, we enable customers… ## Physical AI 2026 - Date: Tuesday 8 September 2026, 08:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) - Type: Conference - Venue: David InterContinental Tel Aviv, Kaufmann St 12, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel - Organizer: [People & Computers](https://foundercal.com/organizers/people-and-computers) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/physical-ai-2026-2026-09-08 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9115?p=md Israel's first conference on the bridge between AI models and robots, autonomy and edge systems. The speaker list is the reason to go: Amnon Shashua of Mobileye and Mentee Robotics, Eyal Waldman who founded Mellanox, and Shalev Hulio of Dream Security, alongside the national AI directorate.… ## The Road to SF TechWeek - Pitch Competition - Date: Tuesday 8 September 2026, 17:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) - Type: Pitch - Organizer: [Leverage](https://foundercal.com/organizers/leverage) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/the-road-to-sf-techweek-pitch-competition-8MfmiOFqGjsx8uo - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/7380?p=md 60 seconds on stage to get your ticket to SF TechWeek ✈️ On October 7 we're putting 1,200 people in one room in SF for the Israel-Bay Area bridge, during SF Tech Week. Speakers from Greylock, Index Ventures, a16z, Cyberstarts, Bain Capital Ventures, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, HubSpot, Palantir and… ## Team8 Believes in Marketing - Date: Tuesday 8 September 2026, 18:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) - Type: Meetup - Price: Free - Organizer: [Team8](https://foundercal.com/organizers/team8) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/team8-believes-in-marketing-2026-09-08 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9120?p=md The first night of a new Team8 series for go to market people at early stage startups. The centrepiece is a candid one on one between Team8's CMO Asaf Azulay and Amit Assaraf, co founder of KOI, on the marketing work that led to KOI's acquisition by Palo Alto Networks. Spots are limited and the… ## Grok Bot Meetup Tel Aviv - Date: Tuesday 8 September 2026, 19:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) - Type: Meetup - Venue: Sarona, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel - Organizer: [Cursor Tel Aviv, Israel](https://foundercal.com/organizers/cursor-tel-aviv-israel) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/grok-bot-meetup-tel-aviv-Z7SAMMJkNwmt4oJ - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9780?p=md We're excited to host the world's first Grok Bot meetup! Grok Bot is a new Cursor/SpaceX product: "AI teammates you can give real work to. Bots can sign in to your tools, use them just like you do, and come back with finished work." Thanks to Anima for hosting on their rooftop! The event will… ## Vanta Israel Community Event - Date: Wednesday 9 September 2026, 18:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) - Type: Meetup - Venue: Guesty, Eliezer Kaplan St 2, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel - Organizer: [Vanta Events](https://foundercal.com/organizers/vanta-events) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/vanta-israel-community-event-0ybOrvn0b919n1h - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9447?p=md Join us for the second Vanta community event in Israel. We are hosting a community event on Wednesday September, 9th at Guesty.com offices (2 Kaplan st. Tel Aviv floor 14). This will be an intimate gathering of founders, CISOs and GRC leaders as they share their perspective and key learnings around… ## VCs and Angels Summit - Date: Tuesday 15 September 2026, 09:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) - Type: Meetup - Venue: Google for Startups Campus, Ha-Umanim St 12, Tel Aviv-Yafo, 6789731, Israel - Organizer: [Genesis Accelerator](https://foundercal.com/organizers/genesis-accelerator) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/vcs-and-angels-summit-ndKsmActqvXkS2i - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/7461?p=md Where is venture capital actually heading? We're bringing together leading Israeli VCs and angel investors for a morning of panels and conversations on what catches their attention, what kills a deal, and what they're looking for right now. We'll close with a look at the trends moving venture… ## Builders & Brews Tel Aviv - Date: Tuesday 15 September 2026, 09:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) - Type: Hackathon - Venue: Nebius Israel, Yitzhak Sadeh St 8, Tel Aviv-Yafo, 6777508, Israel - Organizer: [Builders & Brews](https://foundercal.com/organizers/builders-and-brews) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/builders-and-brews-tel-aviv-DRZA7A5SiiaiPSC - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/8694?p=md Builders & Brews: Hack Edition ☕️💻 Builders & Brews, our flagship builder community event series, is getting a hands-on build-day twist and going global. Nebius and Tavily are taking a special tour to 20 cities worldwide, bringing workshops, technical support, and focused build time to the global… ## Ushpizin Unplugged - Date: Sunday 27 September 2026, 17:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) - Type: Dinner - Price: Free - Organizer: [Team8](https://foundercal.com/organizers/team8) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/ushpizin-unplugged-2026-09-27 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9119?p=md Team8 puts a hand picked group of entrepreneurs under a sukkah for an evening of food, drinks and unstructured conversation during Sukkot. No stage, no pitch, no agenda. It is the curated founder dinner format that Israeli VCs do well and never publish outside their own list. Apply if you want a… ## Shift Happens 4.0 - Date: Thursday 15 October 2026, 09:30 (Asia/Jerusalem) - Type: Conference - Price: Free - Venue: AWS Tel Aviv - Organizer: [Grove Ventures](https://foundercal.com/organizers/grove-ventures) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/shift-happens-4-0-2026-10-15 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9117?p=md Grove Ventures runs this once a year for founders and engineering leaders building software infrastructure. The format is masterclasses, not panels: past editions had the co-founders of Eon, Avalor and env0 walking through pivots, vertical AI infra and what actually breaks at scale. Small enough… ## Future of AI 2026 - Date: Wednesday 21 October 2026, 08:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) - Type: Conference - Venue: Hilton Tel Aviv, HaYarkon St 205, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel - Organizer: [Lynx by People & Computers](https://foundercal.com/organizers/lynx-by-people-and-computers) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/future-of-ai-2026-2026-10-21 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/2628?p=md Tel Aviv's main AI gathering, drawing 1,000+ AI builders, founders, CTOs and the VCs writing AI checks to the Hilton for two days of deep technical and applied sessions. Less a vendor expo than a working conference: agents, applied LLMs, AI-native product and the hard engineering behind it. Worth… ## TECH1 2026 - Date: 28 October 2026 – 29 October 2026 - Type: Conference - Venue: Expo Tel Aviv, Rokach Blvd 101, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel - Organizer: [Calcalist](https://foundercal.com/organizers/calcalist) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/tech1-2026-2026-10-28 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9122?p=md Calcalist's annual summit and the closest thing Israeli tech has to an all hands. Day one is the main stage at Expo Tel Aviv with 90+ speakers and a startup exhibition. Day two moves to the David Kempinski for curated roundtables and investor to founder speed dating, then closes with the awards… ## Israel Mobile Summit 2026 - Date: Thursday 29 October 2026, 09:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) - Type: Conference - Venue: Expo Tel Aviv, Pavilion 10, Rokach Blvd 101, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel - Organizer: [Israel Mobile Summit](https://foundercal.com/organizers/israel-mobile-summit) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/israel-mobile-summit-2026-2026-10-29 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9124?p=md The annual gathering for Israel's apps, games and adtech industry, which is one of the deepest founder benches in the country. Every Israeli game publisher sends people, plus international ones, and the Startup Arena puts early stage app and game companies in front of them. Go if you are building… ## Cyber Week 2026 - Date: 9 November 2026 – 12 November 2026 - Type: Conference - Venue: Tel Aviv University (Smolarz Auditorium), Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv-Yafo - Organizer: [Tel Aviv University (Blavatnik ICRC)](https://foundercal.com/organizers/tel-aviv-university-blavatnik-icrc) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/cyber-week-2026-2026-11-09 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/2477?p=md The largest cyber gathering on the planet and the anchor of Israel's tech calendar: 11,000+ attendees from 100+ countries descend on Tel Aviv University for four days of frontier security, AI and deeptech. For a founder it is the densest week of the year in the world's cyber capital, wall-to-wall… ## AI Week 2026 - Date: 9 November 2026 – 11 November 2026 - Type: Conference - Venue: Tel Aviv University (Smolarz Auditorium), Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv-Yafo - Organizer: [Tel Aviv University (TAD / Blavatnik ICRC)](https://foundercal.com/organizers/tel-aviv-university-tad-blavatnik-icrc) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/ai-week-2026-2026-11-09 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/2478?p=md Israel's flagship AI conference, co-located with Cyber Week on the Tel Aviv University campus, three days where the research frontier meets the people shipping it. The crowd is exactly the high-signal mix a technical founder wants: venture-backed AI founders, R&D heads from the multinationals'… ## DeepTech Week TLV 2026 - Date: 15 November 2026 – 19 November 2026 - Type: Conference - Organizer: [DeepTech Week TLV](https://foundercal.com/organizers/deeptech-week-tlv) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/deeptech-week-tlv-2026-2026-11-15 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9118?p=md Five days of satellite events across Tel Aviv, each hosted by a different VC or innovation partner, covering AI, quantum, robotics, biotech, defense and climate. The 2025 edition ran 15 events with 390 startups and roughly 2,500 attendees, and 2026 stretches from three days to five. There is no… ## Lynx Disrupt 2026 - Date: Sunday 22 November 2026, 12:00 (Asia/Jerusalem) - Type: Pitch - Venue: Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Conference Center, Ahuzat Bayit St 2, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel - Organizer: [Lynx by People & Computers](https://foundercal.com/organizers/lynx-by-people-and-computers) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/lynx-disrupt-2026-2026-11-22 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9114?p=md Half a day at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange where a curated set of early stage Israeli founders pitch to VCs, angels and corporate buyers. The lineup skews frontier: generative AI, robotics, deep tech and climate. Short enough to be worth the afternoon whether you are on stage or scouting, and the… ## DefenseTech Week 2026 - Date: 2 December 2026 – 3 December 2026 - Type: Conference - Venue: Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel - Organizer: [Tel Aviv University](https://foundercal.com/organizers/tel-aviv-university) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/defensetech-week-2026-2026-12-02 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9116?p=md Two days at Tel Aviv University on the vertical that has become Israel's loudest: autonomous systems, drones, robotic combat vehicles, AI driven warfare and battlefield medical tech. There is a demo day for defense startups and an open call for them to apply, plus the ministry, the IDF, the primes… ## Cybertech Global Tel Aviv 2027 - Date: 25 January 2027 – 27 January 2027 - Type: Conference - Venue: Expo Tel Aviv, Pavilion 2, Rokach Blvd 101, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel - Organizer: [Cybertech](https://foundercal.com/organizers/cybertech) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/cybertech-global-tel-aviv-2027-2027-01-25 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9123?p=md The event the global cyber industry flies to Tel Aviv for, now in its second decade. Three days of keynotes and an exhibition floor where early stage Israeli security startups sit next to the funds and acquirers that buy them. If you are building in cyber, this is the densest concentration of…