Winter cohorts are wrapping. Demo days are done. You survived. One night to actually exhale before you're back to the grind, come hang.

DigitalOcean and Zendesk are throwing a proper celebration for the SF startup community.

Founders fresh off Y Combinator, a16z speedrun, Techstars, and beyond, this one's for you.

Here's what's waiting:

Arcade games. Free food and drinks. And yes, a full donut bar, because you earned it.

No keynotes. No pitch sessions. No one reviewing your deck. Just good people, good energy, and good chats.

If you've been locked in since January, this is your permission slip to come up for air for one night. The grind will be there tomorrow. Tonight, we celebrate.

Grab your spot. Capacity is limited and the room fills fast.

Agenda

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM: Registration & Networking

5:30 PM - 5:45 PM: Opening Program

5:45 PM - 6:15 PM: (Optional) Fireside Chat

6:15 PM - 9:00/10:00 PM: Networking, Food, Drinks, & Entertainment

About DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean is the Agentic Inference Cloud built for production AI. We deliver predictable cost efficiency, radically simple operations and high performance at scale so teams can focus on building AI products instead of managing infrastructure or absorbing surprise costs.

About DigitalOcean Startups

DigitalOcean Startups is designed to help founders build and scale faster than ever on the inference cloud. With fully customized core and GPU credit packages, support, community, and more, the Startups program empowers you to scale your AI ambitions, not your expenses.

About Zendesk

Zendesk is a service-first CRM company that builds powerful and flexible software to meet the needs of any business.

About Zendesk for Startups

More than 50,000 startups use the leading AI-powered CX platform built for speed and scale. Through the Zendesk for Startups program, startups get access to Zendesk Suite free for 6 months, plus exclusive discounts from top tech partners like AWS, Google Cloud, and GitHub.

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