☀️ Why You Should Attend Our June 4th Event

If you’ve been hearing about Eastside Entrepreneurs but haven’t attended yet, this is the event to prioritize.

Come experience the network while the room is still fully open.

What’s forming here is becoming far more than a typical meetup.

Founders are meeting investors before formal fundraising processes begin.

Operators are reconnecting with other builders.

New partnerships are forming organically.

And perhaps most importantly:

The Eastside is starting to feel like a real startup community again.

That only happens when the right people consistently show up in the same room.

June 4th is your opportunity to experience that energy firsthand before the format changes for the summer.

For July and August, we’re intentionally transitioning into smaller, curated summer gatherings.

Long term, we’d like to return to the larger-format community energy that originally emerged in Seattle.

But for the summer, we want to experiment.

Think of this as testing a new MVP for the community itself.

These events will not be large public networking nights.

Instead, they’ll be designed around:

• Smaller groups
• Longer conversations
• Higher signal attendees
• Investors and operators spending real time together
• A more intimate Woodinville summer experience

Summer attendance will require ALL of the following:

• 💳 $50 contribution
• 🍷 Two bottles of wine
• 👥 Approval into the significantly reduced attendance pool

The goal is simple:

Build deeper relationships instead of larger crowds.

🚀 Why June 4th Specifically Matters

June 4th will likely be the largest and most broadly accessible gathering we host until the fall.

This is the point where people can still walk into the room organically, meet the community naturally, and experience the momentum that has been building over the past several months.

If you’re a founder, this is an opportunity to meet investors, operators, and other builders before relationships become gated behind smaller invite-only summer gatherings.

If you’re an investor, this is a chance to see the emerging companies, technical founders, and ecosystem participants showing up consistently before those conversations move into more private settings over the summer.

And if you simply care about rebuilding a stronger Eastside startup culture, this is the moment to participate early while the community is still forming.

The June event will include:

• Founders actively building companies
• Operators who have scaled organizations before
• Deep technical discussions that rarely happen in traditional networking events
• Family offices, angels, and venture participants
• Founder lightning pitches
• Wineries pouring throughout the evening
• Easter Eggs and unexpected experiences
• And the unique atmosphere that only Woodinville can create

This is not a hotel ballroom conference.

It’s not forced networking.

It’s not consultants discussing disruption over stale coffee.

It’s founders, investors, operators, and technologists spending real time together in an environment intentionally designed to create authentic conversations.

And during the summer, the atmosphere changes even further.

With Chateau Ste. Michelle concerts filling the valley with live music, July and August become something different entirely - smaller gatherings where conversations may continue outside under the summer sky while music drifts through Woodinville wine country.

But June 4th is the entry point.

The last fully open room before we intentionally tighten the format for the summer.

If you’ve been considering attending, this is the one to make.