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🎁 FOMO Berlin: A Present from FOMO × Qonto: 6 Months Free | 01.09. - 07.09.

🎁 FOMO Berlin: A Present from FOMO × Qonto: 6 Months Free | 01.09. - 07.09.

Weekly newsletter keeping you up to date on the coolest events for tech & culture in Berlin

Cephas from FOMO
August 31, 2026

Two days. 7 stages. 1500+ guests: Founders, business leaders, and decision-makers beyond the usual Berlin bubble. Secure your ticket with 20% off, exclusively for the FOMO Community - before the next price increase on September 15th: MYWAY26_FOMO_COMMUNITY20.
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Hey Berliners, FOMO here.

Spotted: summer leaving the group chat. But not before we put close to 100 founders on a boat with Qonto, added a DJ, drinks, and one very good Berlin sunset. FOMO. See what you missed.

And because we don’t like sending you home empty-handed: 🎁 A little present from FOMO × Qonto: Just founded? Get 6 months of Qonto for free when you 👉 sign up here and use code FOMO6M. Valid for new businesses up to 30 days after account opening, and don’t forget the code; the link alone won’t unlock the offer.

September clearly didn’t get the memo about slowing down. 👀 FOMO × IFA is happening, and we’re giving away 20 free IFA tickets to our paid subscribers. Not subscribed? We might still sneak you in; comment “FOMO” under this post. But obviously, don’t tell everyone. 🤫

And there’s more: MY WAY brings together 1,500+ founders, business leaders & decision-makers across 7 stages and two days. FOMO readers get 20% off before the next price increase with MYWAY26_FOMO_COMMUNITY20.

Meanwhile, Berlin keeps making moves: Moss is officially a unicorn, Layla was acquired by Expedia, and AI is slowly taking over everything we were supposed to do ourselves.

We're also taking 20 Series A & B founders hiking outside Munich before Bits & Pretzels — cabin, lunch, sauna, off-the-record conversations. Apply here. And if America is calling, a16z Speedrun Sprint is looking for its next founders.

And our next FOMO Events 🚨

Tue. Sep. 15: FOMO Founder & Investor Run N Rave 🏃 | 6:15 PM – 9:00 PM: FOMO's own 6km through Berlin Mitte, pacemakers for every pace, no one dropped. FeelAustria, Coup and RSM Ebner Stolz co-host; Vöslauer keeps the crew hydrated. Founders and investors only, rooftop drinks after.
Sun. Sep. 20: FOMO x FeelAustria x Albert&Tina, Coffee Rave ☕🎂 | 12–4 PM: Sunday coffee rave meets Annett Gapstream’s birthday bash. Annett Gapstream & Paul Paulin on the decks, free coffee, snacks & dancing. No hangovers required. Fluxbau, Kreuzberg.
Sun. Sep. 27: FOMO x Qonto: Founders Hike, Bits Edition 🥾 | 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM: FOMO's own founders-only hike, timed the morning before Bits & Pretzels descends on Munich. Twenty-five Seed, Series A and Series B founders climb to a hut for a proper meal, an off-the-record fireside and a sauna. Invitation only. Munich.

P.S. Don't miss our Carve Out section at the bottom of today's newsletter. 👀

Learn more about us here: FOMO Media Kit.

Week of August 31 — We’re here so you don’t have FOMO, xoxo.

FOMO Off-Market connects a small number of companies with exceptional people from our network — no noise, just curated intros. Apply if you want in.

Sun. Sep. 27: FOMO x Qonto: Founders Hike, Bits Edition 🥾 | FOMO's own founders-only hike, timed the morning before Bits & Pretzels descends on Munich. Twenty Series A and Series B founders climb to a hut for a proper meal, an off-the-record fireside and a sauna. Invitation only. Munich,

And if you’re the type who likes an unfair advantage, plan your event schedule smarter with FOMO Berlin Insider.

📨 Stay subscribed to FOMO247 and keep an eye out for more exciting events and opportunities we’ve got in the works. Trust me, you won’t want to miss what’s coming next! 😉

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What did FOMO last week 📸

Close to 100 curated early-stage founders. One boat. Four hours. Zero escape routes. Berlin’s best sunset, great music & real connections. Somehow, nobody wanted to leave. Check out our Post. 🚤🌅

FOMO Opportunity Spotlight 🔦 :

Sep 8, Live Webinar: Co-Founder Setup, Unfiltered 🎤 | Sep 8, 11:00 AM – Founding solo is simple. Few founders think this through before it happens. Arne (Coup) and Max Weber (season5) unpack founder agreements, vesting, and real exit stories.
Sep. 10: FC Finale 🧡 | Germany’s 12 best female-led startups pitch for funding! Support diversity, meet investors, connect. Get your ticket now! Men welcome 😉
Sep. 17: The Pitch Night by Mindspace 🎤 | Join Berlin's startup ecosystem for an evening of inspiring pitches, live jury feedback, and high-value networking. Discover bold ideas, meet ambitious founders and investors, and connect over drinks. RSVP here!

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The FOMO Berlin week 💙 (1.9. - 7.9):

FOMO Top Picks of the Week 🔥

These are the events I would attend if I find the time:

Off-the-Record Nights: Berlin 🤫 | Wednesday 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM: Miro and LeaderShift Club gather agency founders and senior consultants behind closed doors. Andreas Barhainski of HelloDigital sparks it, then a ShiftBowl round pulls the room in. Pizza, drinks, nothing recorded.
AiDiA Business & Culture Fest 2026 🎉 | Fri. - Sat., 10:00 AM – 11:00 PM: A two-day business and culture festival featuring 100+ speakers, startup pitches, masterclasses, networking, live music, comedy and Stonebwoy’s performance. Hamburg
Zauber x Point Nine Builders Café 💻 | Sunday, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM: A small, deliberately unpolished Sunday for technical founders building with AI: laptops out, pizza in, a few experienced builders around if you get stuck. No program, no pitch, just progress on your own thing.

All Day Festivals & Conferences ✨

Wed. Sep. 2 – Tue. Sep. 8: IFA Berlin 2026 📱 | Private visitors Fri 12–6 PM, Sat–Tue 10 AM–6 PM: One of the world's biggest home and consumer tech shows returns with robotics, AI companions, smart home and wearables across every hall. Germany's digital minister, AMD's Jack Huynh and Peloton's leadership all on stage this year.
Thu. Sep. 3 – Sat. Sep. 12: Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin 📚 | Main programme through Sept 12, young readers programme through Sept 16: The twenty sixth edition of Berlin's literary festival, curated in residence this year by Jeet Thayil.
Fri. Sep. 4 – Sun. Sep. 13: FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 2026 🏀 | Germany plays Sept 4, 5 and 7; final weekend Sept 12 to 13: Sixteen nations, two arenas, ten days. Germany's group matches open the tournament; the final weekend closes it.
Sat. Sep. 5 - Sun. Sep. 6: JK ACCESS: Stage of Life Berlin - Bosch Home & Siemens Home Appliances ✨ | All Day: A 2,000 m² lifestyle experience featuring food, drinks, interior, family, longevity, brands, creators, and interactive community experiences. Kantgaragenpalast, Berlin, Germany.

Tuesday 1st

Creative Coworking Session at CIC - João Gonçalves💡🎨 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM: A focused creative coworking session helping participants overcome procrastination, develop ideas, create content, receive feedback and make meaningful progress together. CIC Berlin, Lohmühlenstraße 65, 12435 Berlin.
September Planning Workshop - Andra Nuta & Denizen Eiswerk🎯📅 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM: A practical planning workshop helping participants reflect, set priorities, organize September goals, take action and return to productive routines. Denizen, Köpenicker Str. 40, 10179 Berlin, Germany.

Wednesday 2nd

Off-the-Record Nights: Berlin 🤫 | 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM: Miro and LeaderShift Club gather agency founders and senior consultants behind closed doors. Andreas Barhainski of HelloDigital sparks it, then a ShiftBowl round pulls the room in. Pizza, drinks, nothing recorded. Invite only. Miro DACH GmbH, Berlin.
Panel: Mehr Kreisläden als McDonald's ♻️ | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Prof. Melanie Jaeger-Erben, degewo's Katrin Baba-Kleinhans and Social Economy Berlin's Heike Birkhölzer debate what it takes to make repair, share and reuse the default, not the niche. Sequel to a sold out June edition.
The Agentic Data Stack: From AI Agents to Production 🧠 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: ClickHouse, Langfuse and Merantix Momentum open the AI Campus for a night on what breaks when agents hit production. Talks from Bob de Vries and Annabell Schäfer, a panel pulling in Peec AI and Distil Labs
What's Your Thing? #002 💍 | 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM: Jewellery maker Anis of OATES PILZ sits down to talk imperfection, memory and building an independent craft practice. Show and tell, honest questions, drinks and a browse through the Things showroom after. workish.berlin, Neukölln, Berlin
Opening Night, Berlin New Media Week 🎭 | 8:30 PM – 1:30 AM: Second edition of Berlin's art and tech week kicks off with installations, AV shows and performances from Flow & Chaos, TROJΛNOVSKX and Makoto Inoue. Berlin as a capital for art and technology, one late night at a time.

Thursday 3rd

AMMMT - Auch Marketing Mäuse Müssen Mal Tanzen | Yeah But No 💃 | 5:45 PM – 8:00 PM: A 120-minute after-work dance party celebrating Yeah But No’s first anniversary, featuring hits, free drinks, tiramisu and an inclusive safe space. Factory Berlin.
Berlin Founders Meetup, powered by Holvi 🤝 | 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM: HAUS OF STARTUPS' quarterly cross-community mixer lands at The Delta this round. Strictly early-stage founders, no service providers, no corporates. Moderated networking that actually gets you talking to someone new.
SLMs & Agent Memory with Cognee & Fastino Labs 🧠 | 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM: Explore small language models, AI agent memory, knowledge graphs and local models through talks, live demos, Q&A, food and networking. Berlin, Germany.
Get Together September 2026 🍽️ | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Berliner Netzwerk's twenty-five-year-old Mittelstand crowd swaps pitches for plates at an old Berlin gasthaus, wild game on the menu this month. Seats rotate all night, no stage, no speeches, just introductions that stick. Jäger & Lustig, Friedrichshain, Berlin.
AI-Native Engineering - Berlin Tech Meetup 🤖 | 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM: Explore AI-native engineering, coding agents, autonomous workflows, guardrails and verification systems through expert talks, networking, pizza and drinks in Berlin. Schönhauser Allee 180, 10119 Berlin.
How to Restructure Teams - Leaderslab 👥🤖 | 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Senior product leaders discuss restructuring product and technology teams, organizational design, AI-driven role changes, scaling challenges and practical leadership decisions. Mitte, Berlin, Germany.

FOMO Upcoming Top Events & Opportunities 💯 :

Wed. Sep. 9: OpenAI Builder Lounge Berlin 🤖 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: OpenAI and Parloa host a night of building. Live Codex demo, engineers on hand, local founders and CTOs in the room. Bring a laptop, bring an idea. Approval required. Berlin, address on approval.
Wed. Sep. 16: Exec Dinner with Sunday Natural 🥂 | Evening, invite only: Laura Kremer and Unzer host sixteen D2C leaders for a four-course dinner above Berlin's rooftops, butler service and private chef. Sunday Natural's CTO Raimund Reisinger co-hosts, the eve before Merchant Inspiration Talks. Invite only. 33rd floor, Berlin
Wed. Sep. 23 – Thu. Sep. 24: MyWay 2026 🏛️ | 2 days. 7 stages. 1,500+ guests. Founders & business leaders beyond the Berlin bubble meet to talk AI, capital & Europe’s future. FOMO: 20% off with MYWAY26_FOMO_COMMUNITY20.

Friday 4th

AiDiA Business & Culture Fest 2026 🎉 | 10:00 AM – 11:00 PM: A two-day business and culture festival featuring 100+ speakers, startup pitches, masterclasses, networking, live music, comedy and Stonebwoy’s performance. Hamburg
IFA Coffee Break for Innovation - Sesamers 🤖☕ | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Connect with investors exploring robotics, physical AI, smart home, health tech and sustainability while enjoying networking and complimentary IFA Investor Tickets. Messe Berlin.
Employed.world Community Gathering #3 💼 | 5:00 PM – 9:30 PM: 42 Berlin, mentors and hiring managers run a mini conference for job seekers in UX, product and engineering: panels on AI reshaping hiring, masterclasses, portfolio feedback, a visa corner.
Lenny's Newsletter Meetup in Berlin 📈 | 6:30 PM – 10:30 PM: Lenny's global product and growth community gathers for one more round of the conversations that don't fit in a newsletter comment section. Drinks on Revolut this time.

Saturday 5th

AI Automation with n8n: Build Smarter Workflows for Your Work ⚙️ | 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM: A hands-on workshop teaching AI-powered n8n automation for marketing, content creation, lead generation, productivity, and smarter workflows, no coding experience required. Berlin.
Else x Hoe__mies 🌴🎧 | 2:00 PM – 8:00 AM: An all-night open-air dance party featuring Alírio, Lady Shaka, Tash LC and others, with diverse sounds, riverside vibes and dancing. Else, An den Treptowers 10, 12435 Berlin.
Already Possible #4 (MIND/F◡̈CK) - XD NETWORK, Science of Rave, Tim Heiler, Amelia McConville & THE_SPACE 🧠 | 6:00 PM – 1:00 AM: An immersive festival exploring AI, cognition, sensory design, art, science, VR, audiovisual performances, experimental technology, and electronic music through interactive experiences.
Frizzante: The Aperitivo Edition - tipBerlin 🍋 | 9:00 PM: A two-day Italian food and wine festival featuring artisanal wines, spritz, pasta, focaccia, seafood, espresso, music, and Italian restaurants. Friedrichstraße 112B, 10117 Berlin, Germany.

Sunday 6th

Zauber x Point Nine Builders Café 💻 | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM: A small, deliberately unpolished Sunday for technical founders building with AI: laptops out, pizza in, a few experienced builders around if you get stuck. No program, no pitch, just progress on your own thing
Open Air Perreo Brunch & Coffee Rave #4 - The A Society / Mariona Planella ☕💃 | 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM: An energetic open-air Sunday rave combining Latin music, reggaeton, specialty coffee, matcha, brunch, dancing, fitness culture, wellness, and community connection. Bar Cafe Aedes, Christinenstraße 18–19, 10119 Berlin.
Berlin Swapfest - mirshko, in association with c-base🔧 | 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM: A relaxed electronics flea market for swapping used equipment, components, tools and music gear while promoting repair, reuse, recycling and community connections.
Meet the Open Home Foundation Team – IFA 2026 🤝 | 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM: Meet the Open Home Foundation team and Home Assistant community for drinks, networking, and conversations about privacy, choice, and sustainability. ENJOY ROOFTOP, Rognitzstraße 8, 14057 Berlin.

Monday 7th

Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin: Politik im Exil 🗣️ | 6:00 PM – 12:00 AM (doors 5:45 PM): Aslı Erdoğan, Stella Gaitano and Hong Kong activist Nathan Law on writing and resistance from exile, plus a night of readings across four rooms.
Theatersport Berlin: Das Match 🎭 | 7:30 PM: Two teams battle it out in unscripted improv theater, audience calls every scene; nothing rehearsed. Twenty-seven years running in Berlin, professional actors and musicians turning shouted prompts into songs and mini operas. Monbijou Theater, Berlin