The backbone of Venture Café – come meet the community and make connections with all different kinds of innovators. How will you make your serendipitous moment come true?
Ping! Is a networking product ecosystem that thrives at events. They facilitate in-person & long-lasting connections through wearable NFC technology and a companion app that maintains and activates your network.
Tap the NFC wearable to anybody's phone; they get all your contact info, and you get theirs in a way that's never been done before.
They are building the future of connection that combines rich in-person context as well as digital context from main communication channels to give you agentic insights and actionable steps to get the most out of your network. Stop by to check it out!
Nearly 118 million people are displaced worldwide. Millions are entrepreneurs, artisans, designers, and creatives with extraordinary talent, yet remain excluded from the global economy, not because they lack skill or vision, but because they lack market access. Stargazrs is building a technology marketplace that connects displaced creative talent with brands and companies seeking original design, distinctive craftsmanship, and creative solutions
they cannot find through traditional channels.
Anh Sawyer founded Stargazrs on a simple belief: creativity is a competitive asset, not a charity case. Anh’s Boston luxury atelier, Anh55, demonstrates this idea in practice. Every garment is designed, cut, and handcrafted in Boston. Refugee artisans have contributed hand-designed and embroidered labels and creative solutions to special projects, showing how artistic collaboration can create both commercial value and meaningful economic opportunity.
In a world increasingly shaped by AI-generated and trend-optimized design, displaced creatives offer something algorithms cannot replicate: original vision shaped by imagination, resilience, culture, and lived experience. Fashion and design are where Stargazrs is proving this thesis first.
Join Venture Café for a conversation with the Stargazrs founders about building a platform connecting overlooked creative talent with the fast-moving worlds of fashion, design, and enterprise innovation.
If you are connected to Adidas, Nike, New Balance, or another company exploring meaningful creative partnerships, we would love to meet you.
A working discussion for leaders across life sciences, clinical development, healthcare, government, and innovation exploring how Massachusetts can build the Trust Infrastructure needed to strengthen representative research, Community Intelligence, medical innovation, and the Commonwealth's long-term life sciences leadership.
You know the moment. The presentation where your thinking goes flat. The conversation where you contract instead of engage. The meeting where you're physically present but not quite available.
These aren't just mindset problems: they're mind and body patterns that consume energy and limit your perception of what's possible, often at exactly the wrong moment.
In this session, somatic educators and Grinberg Method practitioners Dylan Cowie-Haskell and Kyan Aldrich offer a body-based framework for recognizing and interrupting the patterns that quietly limit high performers. Expect to participate, not just observe.
Why It's Worth Your Time
The limiting factor for most founders, researchers, and builders isn't knowledge or capability, it's the patterned responses that narrow perception and constrain behavior under pressure. This session offers a framework and a felt experience for interrupting those responses: radical action toward disrupting the patterns keeping you from closing that sale, connecting with your team, and connecting with your vision.
You'll leave with a concrete tool and a different relationship to your own reactivity.
Space is limited. Plan to stay for the full 90 minutes because the work builds.
There is perhaps no more valuable asset to fuel your success than a good mentor. Someone who’s been there. Someone to guide you. Provide resources and introductions. Help keep you from failing. Accelerate your growth. Encourage you.
Join mentor, author, and strategist Chuck Goldstone as he offers advice on how to find the best mentors and to be a mentee who gets the most out of this potentially game-changing relationship.
The backbone of Venture Café – come meet the community and make connections with all different kinds of innovators. How will you make your serendipitous moment come true?
Ping! Is a networking product ecosystem that thrives at events. They facilitate in-person & long-lasting connections through wearable NFC technology and a companion app that maintains and activates your network.
Tap the NFC wearable to anybody's phone; they get all your contact info, and you get theirs in a way that's never been done before.
They are building the future of connection that combines rich in-person context as well as digital context from main communication channels to give you agentic insights and actionable steps to get the most out of your network. Stop by to check it out!
Nearly 118 million people are displaced worldwide. Millions are entrepreneurs, artisans, designers, and creatives with extraordinary talent, yet remain excluded from the global economy, not because they lack skill or vision, but because they lack market access. Stargazrs is building a technology marketplace that connects displaced creative talent with brands and companies seeking original design, distinctive craftsmanship, and creative solutions
they cannot find through traditional channels.
Anh Sawyer founded Stargazrs on a simple belief: creativity is a competitive asset, not a charity case. Anh’s Boston luxury atelier, Anh55, demonstrates this idea in practice. Every garment is designed, cut, and handcrafted in Boston. Refugee artisans have contributed hand-designed and embroidered labels and creative solutions to special projects, showing how artistic collaboration can create both commercial value and meaningful economic opportunity.
In a world increasingly shaped by AI-generated and trend-optimized design, displaced creatives offer something algorithms cannot replicate: original vision shaped by imagination, resilience, culture, and lived experience. Fashion and design are where Stargazrs is proving this thesis first.
Join Venture Café for a conversation with the Stargazrs founders about building a platform connecting overlooked creative talent with the fast-moving worlds of fashion, design, and enterprise innovation.
If you are connected to Adidas, Nike, New Balance, or another company exploring meaningful creative partnerships, we would love to meet you.
A working discussion for leaders across life sciences, clinical development, healthcare, government, and innovation exploring how Massachusetts can build the Trust Infrastructure needed to strengthen representative research, Community Intelligence, medical innovation, and the Commonwealth's long-term life sciences leadership.
You know the moment. The presentation where your thinking goes flat. The conversation where you contract instead of engage. The meeting where you're physically present but not quite available.
These aren't just mindset problems: they're mind and body patterns that consume energy and limit your perception of what's possible, often at exactly the wrong moment.
In this session, somatic educators and Grinberg Method practitioners Dylan Cowie-Haskell and Kyan Aldrich offer a body-based framework for recognizing and interrupting the patterns that quietly limit high performers. Expect to participate, not just observe.
Why It's Worth Your Time
The limiting factor for most founders, researchers, and builders isn't knowledge or capability, it's the patterned responses that narrow perception and constrain behavior under pressure. This session offers a framework and a felt experience for interrupting those responses: radical action toward disrupting the patterns keeping you from closing that sale, connecting with your team, and connecting with your vision.
You'll leave with a concrete tool and a different relationship to your own reactivity.
Space is limited. Plan to stay for the full 90 minutes because the work builds.
There is perhaps no more valuable asset to fuel your success than a good mentor. Someone who’s been there. Someone to guide you. Provide resources and introductions. Help keep you from failing. Accelerate your growth. Encourage you.
Join mentor, author, and strategist Chuck Goldstone as he offers advice on how to find the best mentors and to be a mentee who gets the most out of this potentially game-changing relationship.