After helping form the San Fransisco and Seattle "Settler's of Catan" leagues, where executives from VC backed technology startups would gather, network, and play "Settler's of Catan," I decided that since I'm a New Yorker now, I would do the same here. The purpose of the group is for executives from New York technology startups to get together, network, play Settler's, and see who will be the "Lord of all Catan." We did this very successfully in both San Fransisco and Seattle.  We were covered …

Our goal is to get bright entrepreneurs, developers, designers, and investors all together in one room for a low stress networking session! We'll aim to have some introductions but no formal presentation. Just good people, good food, and good ideas.

At NY TECH Ping Pong, we believe that the conversations sparked over a friendly game of ping pong can lead to the creation of new relationships and ideas that can change the world. We want to be a catalyst within the NYC technology community that readies a social environment to facilitate these conversations, and we welcome both people and partners seeking to support and advance the growth of our cause. Welcome to NY TECH Ping Pong.

Everybody grabs some food (you have to pay for your own, sorry), grabs a seat, and talks tech. There's no particular focus other than meeting some new people and having some interesting conversations. Credit goes out to James Dennis and Sean O'Connor for starting the first "tech breakfast" in DUMBO: http://www.meetup.com/DUMBO-Tech-Breakfast/

Decoded Fashion Startup Showcase features monthly discussions and demos centered around different topics and challenges facing the Fashion & Retail industries. We invite a highly-curated group of Fashion Tech startup founders, retail executives, investors and influencers to share their stories, advice and opinions with our with engaged community of entrepreneurial and forward-thinking leaders.

This meetup is for everyone interested in Technology, Startups, and Entrepreneurship who want to meet other like minded people over a monthly morning breakfast. Our goal is to build an innovative gathering of people to get to know each other. Twitter: @NJTechBreakfast Check Other Stuff Out: NJ Tech Mixer! - The NJ Tech Mixer is all about bringing members of the Technology Community together to have a good time and make new friends. Hoboken MakerBar - Hudson County's one-and-only Hackerspace, …

New York is at the hub of the next wave of startups and venture funding. While many meetup groups showcase particular startup projects or focus on narrow issues, this group is intended to explore at a higher level the full range of business and legal issues that confront startup companies. These include founder relationships, intellectual property matters, funder expectations, marketing, and developing a user base. This group will help make your startup stronger from the very beginning. Meetups …

We connect people with content and opportunities in the NYC startup community by featuring guest speakers from awesome companies. Great way to meet like-minded individuals and learn more about the startup scene. Founded by Dan Porter (GM Zynga NY/CEO OMGPOP), Inside Startups also manages a directory of startups - here - and we send a weekly email with top jobs and events. Free to receive and low-cost to post, it's a great resource whether you're looking for opportunities, aiming to hire, or just …

The NJ Tech Mixer is all about bringing members of the Technology Community together to have a good time and make new friends. All of you Startups, Developers, Bloggers, Investors, Technologists, and Entrepreneurs who want to meet other people in the scene should come on down. Our goal is to build an innovative gathering of people to get to know each other while having a fun time. Twitter: @NJTechMixer Check Other Stuff Out: NJ Tech Breakfast - This meetup is for everyone interested in Techn …

If you're working at or are interested in starting an educational start-up, please join our group of founders and educators to explore opportunities. Please note, this meetup is only for those actively involved with a start-up or thinking of doing an educational start-up.  We will not accept vendors.  Investors are accepted on a case-by-case basis.

We'll be hosting various dodgeball games and tournaments around the city for members of the Startup World. This is going to be freakin awesome!

Having visited a lot of business meetups, we saw a lot of great people with great ideas. Some of them have already started their first company, others are just thinking to do it, and others trying to promote their company’s products or services. Also there were plenty of talented people who were looking for investors and business networking. So that was the main reason why we decided to launch such group, in cooperation with NY newspaper StartupsNY. We will help you get necessary information to …

So many memories ... Ping pong is the ultimate stress reliever, it's the mental block breaker and for designers, developers, biz dev, founders, sales, vc's, investors and all around anyone involved in the nyc tech and startup community it's another way to genuinely connect. These games are all about having a good time and coming together to forge new relationships. We'll have some open run (pick up) games at local spots around NYC, as well as regular large tournaments. Join us and let's get a fe …

The fact of the matter is bowling is a game that some of us deep down inside really really really enjoy. Some of us like to play while drunk, some like to play while delivering mounds and mounds of trash talk. However, whatever your inclination whether of the drunken variety, the pure enjoyment variety, or even the trash talking variety, Startup Bowling is going to be about bringing developers, designers, business developers, VCs, investors and the remaining gamut of the New York startup communi …

"A meetup group for ex-pat Canucks working in the tech/digital space in New York City. From SQL to the NHL, we'll talk about everything from Canadian companies making a difference in the digital world, networking opportunities, visa issues and the best places to get poutine in the five boroughs. If you're as comfortable talking about the merits of the Tragically Hip as you are talking about HTML5, this is the Meetup group for you!"

360i is an award-winning digital marketing agency that drives results for Fortune 500 marketers through insights, ideas and technologies. 360i helps its clients think differently about their online presence and evolve their strategies to take advantage of the new world of marketing communications – one where brands and consumers engage in interactive and multi-directional conversations. Ad Age recently named 360i the #1 Digital Agency in the U.S. in its 2013 A-List issue and named it one of the …

Bring your thoughts for a new Startup ideas, share your experience and come to find your future partners!

Starting Bloc is a new group for entrepreneurs, freelancers, and professionals -- people out in the world building things, seeking resources to help them do it.  Our goal is to harness the power of community to help support developing businesses. Our first challenge... WORKSPACE! Tired of fighting for seats at cramped coffee shops with limited internet access?  We’ll be putting together a series of jellies, where we line up pop-up workspace on the weekends and all get together to jam.  In additi …

High Tech meetup is for Entrepreneurs and inventors who are working on cutting edge technology. This is not a meetup for just web or another exercise app. It is geared at high tech startups involved in non standard and potentially revolutionary ideas and products. Granted, everyone thinks what they make falls into that category.As an example this meetup is for people involved in material modeling, robotics, machine learning, mobile apps that are deeper than a server+table/map UI. You got the pic …

Forget tech breakfast at 8am, come network at our monthly happy hour in the village with your fellow tech rockstars! -> Focus on a specific person/company to meet and ask all you want! -> 1x month (for now) -> 5pm-7pm, a glorious end to your week -> limited number of people, to make sure everyone feels 'part' Tweet'it: #NYTF-HH

This group is for anyone interested or currently involved in healthtech startups in or around New York. Let's bring together entrepreneurs, technologists, investors, industry experts and other passionate individuals to network, share ideas, discuss business opportunities, learn, disrupt, create positive high-impact change in all aspects of healthcare and continue to make NY the best place for building next generation healthtech companies.

This is a group for Vassar Grads in tech to connect with like minded alums around all things tech. It's for networking, collaboration and fun. We're also open to current Vassar students.

The New York Live Art Meetup brings together artists and technologists in a fun and social environment, with music, drinks, networking and 2-4 artists on display, painting live for 2 hours. All art is for sale after each Meetup.

We are a group of science and mathematics students interested in developing high efficiency methods of living. We are interested in redoing everything and redefining all the norms. We believe there is a scientific way to approach old ways and maximize the quality of everyday life. The technologies we are currently looking at include but not limited to wind turbines that produce water by condensing air and high lipid algae for biofuel. We continually research new technologies and welcome every an …

For Quibb members interested in taking news discussion to the next (IRL) level. Before each meetup, we can nominate and decide on a few provoking articles to discuss, book-club style.

Tech Town Hall is a live, open forum discussion on the latest trending topics in tech that matter the most to the community (we take the online conversations and debates from the tweets to the streets). Like the classic town hall meetings, Tech Town Hall will give members of the New York tech community the opportunity to explore the complex issues surrounding what we do and to have face-to-face, constructive dialogue about the ideas, politics and events that effect us all. It's your tech communi …

Are you an entrepreneur, developer, investor, tech executive or other professional with a brilliant idea, product or service for the digital living room or smart home? This group focuses on how to build and roll out new products and services for today’s high-speed IP-connected home.

This is a group for European tech entrepreneurs based in New York City who are building products and want to share skills and connections.