Off the Clock: After Hours @ Akatos

💳 If your spot is not approved, your full payment will be refunded within one week - we only charge you once you're officially in.

Waterloo Tech Week ends at Akatos, the region's biggest hacker house, with a DJ going all night and the entire tech ecosystem in one place for the last night of the week.

When you walk in, you'll find
🏠 Akatos in full swing - the house where Waterloo's next unicorns actually live and build
🎧 A DJ keeping the mood up
🍽️ Food and non-alcoholic drinks to keep the room going
📸 Videographers and photographers capturing it all
🖼️ A custom selfie frame for the gram!
🔥 The people you kept crossing paths with all week, finally with time to actually talk

Who shows up
✦ Investors & accelerators - A TON of scouts. Two Small Fish, Dragonfruit, Panache, Entrepreneurs First, Antler, Framework, Inovia, Front Row, Boardy, and more still coming
✦ Founders - from first-timers with an MVP to people closing their Series B rounds
✦ Recruiters & hiring teams - top talent partners and technical recruiters looking to hire engineers, designers, and builders for growing teams and startups
✦ Waterloo's best students - engineers, designers, and CS talent from UWaterloo and Laurier already shipping side projects and startups

The teams behind it

Sip & Scale - a global community for founders and builders going from 0 → 1, running curated dinners, mixers, and socials across 35 cities. 1,500+ builders, 30 universities, and now Waterloo.

Akatos - Waterloo's biggest hacker house, and the place a lot of the region's best builders call home base. Part living space, part launchpad, where people move in, ship fast, and build the next thing surrounded by people doing the same. It's not open to the public, so a night inside is a night most people don't get. Tonight, the doors are open just for you.

Waterloo Venture Group - WVG is a student venture community and talent network based out of Waterloo, providing pro-bono consultancy for founders from ideation through Series A. Collectively, we’ve supported ventures in raising $8.8M+, hosted flagship programming on founder education, and curated the rooms where teams form and hires happen.

Rocket Innovation Studio (hiring) - We provide creative solutions to solve our client's greatest business opportunities. We leverage a people-centric service approach to provide human resources, product, data, and software expertise. By collaborating closely with our international partners Rocket Innovation Studio is able to impact the outcome for millions of clients across the United States and Canada.

Two Small Fish Ventures - An early-stage deep tech venture firm that invests in the next frontier of computing and its applications. We back founders early in their journey and support them until they cement their spot as industry-disrupting, world-class giants of the future. 

Dragonfruit Ventures - An early-stage venture fund backing breakout Consumer Tech and Future of Work companies led by the next generation of founders. We invest at inception and partner with founders who turn product or presence into real traction. We believe distribution is the first wedge, and the best founders know how to use it. We come from the same spaces our founders do. We build in public, think in the open, and use our own platform to help the companies we back get seen, supported, and taken seriously.

Oro - Most of us dread the moments where dressing suddenly matters - the first date, the interview, the meeting that could change everything. Oro is the personal stylist that makes sure you never show up wrong. Text it like a friend and get styled for this event :) (best dressed person gets cool swag)

Good to know
👕 Dress: casual - come as you are, it's a house.
📱 Bring: yourself and a charged phone.
⏰ Timing: doors at 7, going till 11. Come early - the early birds are almost free and they don't last.
🎁 Swag: exclusive merch from our partners for early arrivals. Get there early and grab yours before it's gone.

A couple of notes
📸 There'll be photographers and videographers capturing the night for recaps - by coming through, you're cool with being in a few shots we and our partners might share.
🎟️ Grab your ticket below to lock it in. Early birds are limited and go first ;)
💬 Questions? Text Sunny.

Let's build something real — then go celebrate it.
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