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URGENT: I'm still looking for founders who are fundraising. I am hosting an investor dinner with 165 Global, a family office that backs early stage founders this week in NYC. If you're raising right now, comment "1" below or send me a message and I'll send you the event to apply. Commenting is the fastest way in, since that's where I will send you the event. We've produced over 600 events for a community of 78,000 founders, creators, and investors. A real thank you to Michael Carapellotti and the 165 Global team for trusting us to find the right founders. I post every dinner, mixer, and investor night we open up. Follow me if you want the next one before it fills Ilias Anwar

I'm looking for founders who need funding This will be during SF TECH WEEK by a16z I am co-hosting a black-tie gala at the Redwood Room in San Francisco on October 9th. If you're building or raising in agents right now, comment "A" below or send me a message and I'll send you the event to apply. Commenting is the fastest way in, since that's where I will send you the event. The room is 300 people, backed by MongoDB, with LlamaIndex , TinyFish , Linq , Lemma and Obvious as cohosts. I’ve produced over 600 events for a community of 70,000 founders, creators, and investors. Follow me if you want the next one before it fills. I post every dinner, mixer, and investor night we open up. And a big thank you to Sarah Fan and Kamila Zak for building this one out with me.

I'm looking for founders who are fundraising. I am hosting an investor dinner with 165 Global, a family office that backs early stage founders. If you're raising right now, comment "1" below or send me a message and I'll send you the event to apply. Commenting is the fastest way in, since that's where I will send you the event. We've produced over 600 events for a community of 70,000 founders, creators, and investors. A real thank you to Michael Carapellotti and the 165 Global team for trusting us to find the right founders. Follow me if you want the next one before it fills Ilias Anwar I post every dinner, mixer, and investor night we open up.

I'm looking for founders who need funding. I'm hosting a dinner with a16z speedrun in New York City next week. I need serious founders, who already have traction or a product out. I've spent the last few years building rooms like this with my community Anwar Events 200+ events and over 73,000 people who have signed up for my newsletter consisting of founders, investors, and creators. Every single one of them came from an event I hosted IRL. Tag a founder who is underrated and deserves a seat. Follow me Ilias Anwarif you want the next one before it fills up. My community always hears about these first, and the seats never last long. Comment "F" below if you're building, if you're in a round right now. I will have our team reach out and send you a private link to apply.

I'm looking for founders who are fundraising. PlayHouse Ventures just launched a new fund, and I'm helping them find the founders they back. If you're raising right now, this is the shortest path I can hand you. Follow me if you want first access to rooms and funds like this. I share every dinner, mixer, and investor opportunity we open up at Anwar Events A real thank you to Lane Spurlock for trusting me and my community to help them find the best founders. Comment "P" below or send me a message, and I'll get your details to the team. Commenting is the fastest way in, since that is where I pull the list from.

I’m putting all my focus into screenwriting. A skill very few people master. Everyone desires to create a story that makes an audience return. Screenwriting teaches you how to develop characters people care about, create tension, build emotional arcs, and hold attention over time. The real opportunity is creating adaptable, recurring formats that can live across social media, short films, live experiences, creator partnerships, and campaigns. A single piece of content might earn attention. A recurring story builds familiarity and trust. The strongest brands will not simply publish disconnected content every day. They will create recognizable worlds, recurring characters, and formats people actively look forward to. Follow along for the story we are building at RG Creators.

When tech startups try to reinvent creativity You get infinite Gen AI assets on a canvas board. Mass producing a hundred campaign assets is not creative direction. Can you uncover a cultural tension, develop a novel concept, and then shape an entire world? That skill is being buried now by mass asset generation agents. Directing writers, filmmakers, set designers, composers, and talent toward one coherent vision. Now that is a beautiful process very few people get to experience. AI plays in role in aiding that work - there is no doubt. The hard part is having the taste, conviction, and cultural understanding to choose a direction worth pursuing. The winners will be the companies that understand the creative industry deeply enough to strengthen human direction, not rename asset generation as a replacement for it. The future of cinematic worldbuilding does not need an AI creative director. It needs exceptional human creative directors with better tools. RG Creators is building at the forefront of next wave of creative direction. Let's see where this journey takes us.

I’m looking for founders who need funding. I have joined as Venture Ecosystem Lead at Startup Grind as a volunteer. Startup Grind is the largest startup community in the world with 5 million founders across hundreds of countries. My job is simple. Find great founders and put them in front of the people who can actually move their company forward. That means: → Investors who write checks at your stage → Operators who already solved the thing you’re stuck on → Rooms where the intro happens in person, not in a cold email that never gets opened I’ve spent the last few years building exactly this with my community Anwar Events. With 200+ events and garnering over 73,000 people in my community. Every single one of them came from a room I put together myself. Now I get to do it at a much bigger scale with my mission to help people get more funding or more customers for their companies. Tag a founder who is underrated and needs more recognition. If you’re building something, comment “F” and I’ll reach out personally. If you’re raising right now, say that too and I’ll route you to the people who should be seeing your deck. And a big thank you to Mo Salah for seeing the potential in me and bringing me into the venture world like this.

Every company is an entertainment company. Most have not built the infrastructure yet. Consumers are choosing to spend their time with creators, podcasts, films, sports, live experiences, and communities. Traditional advertising is now competing with every form of entertainment for attention. That changes what brands need to build. A campaign is no longer enough. Companies need original stories, recognizable worlds, recurring formats, cultural partnerships, live experiences, and creators who can carry those ideas into different communities. Creators should not be added at the end of that process as distribution. They should be part of the world from the beginning. The companies that understand this will stop treating entertainment as a marketing tactic and start building it as a core business function. That shift will create an entirely new category of work at the intersection of brand, entertainment, technology, and the creator economy. That intersection is where I believe the next generation of culturally iconic companies will be built. We have started building worlds for brands at RG Creators. The shift has already started. Is your brand ready?

I'm looking for founders who are fundraising. Mo Salah is one of the most connected people in the Bay Area startup scene and more importantly a good person. He develops early stage companies, and he has spent 8+ years building Startup Grind into one of the strongest founder communities in the world. He backs founders early and right now he's actively looking for his next batch of founders. On Aug 5, Startup Grind San Jose is hosting Daniel Kottke → Steve Jobs's college friend → The first employee at the Apple garage → One of the first engineers to work on the Macintosh I want to give Mo some of the best founders he's ever seen similar to the same thing I said in my last post with Evan Buhler (亦凡) . Comment "C" and I'll send you a free ticket to the event so you can meet him in person. I check my ALINE NETWORK VIP community too, so you can also reach me there if I don't respond to my LinkedIn dm's.