🎁 FOMO Berlin: FOMO: 100 Founders & Investors. One Run & Rave. Next Tuesday. You in? 🏃‍♂️ | 08.09. - 14.09.

Hey Berliners, FOMO here.

FOMO is running again. Literally. 🏃 After a little event break, we’re back next week with our Founder & Investor Run N Rave: 6K through Mitte, 100 curated founders & investors, music and rooftop drinks, together with FeelAustria, Coup, RSM Ebner Stolz & Vöslauer. Consider this your warning before the guest list fills up. 👀

Meanwhile, tech has gossip: Apple has a new CEO just in time for its September 9 reveal, while Nvidia casually dropped $12.9B on Hugging Face. Closer to home, Factorial just acquired Berlin AI startup Empion.

And Berlin? Completely booked and busy. Berlin Art Week takes over the city this week and, frankly, there was too much to choose from. And as you know, we are Artlovers, so we did the work for you: FOMO Berlin Art Week guide; you will find openings, exhibitions, and events worth knowing.

Too much happening, too little calendar. 👀 Here’s our shortlist for the next two weeks, and if you want to plan further ahead, unlock the full curated list + selected free business conference tickets, become a FOMO Insider for €10/month →

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: Founders-only edition, 25 late-stage founders, 90 minutes, hike, plus lunch and wellness area, Munich.

• Mon. Sep. 28: Female Founders Reformer Pilates — Bits Edition 🧘‍♀️ | 9:00 AM: 20 female founders, 20 reformers. A 45-min Pilates session followed by snacks, drinks & good conversations — the perfect reset before the Bits & Pretzels madness.

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

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What did FOMO last week 📸 

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 💙 (8.9. - 14.9):

FOMO Top Picks of the Week 🔥

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

• Female VC Club x ANTI: Red Light Pilates & Networking 🧘‍♀️ | Tuesday, 8:00 AM – 10:30 AM: The first Female VC Club gathering at its new home, ANTI Berlin. Red Light Pilates to start the morning, then coffee with investors, founders, and operators. Bring a friend. ANTI, Brunnenstraße 9, Berlin.

• OpenAI Builder Lounge Berlin 🛠️ | Wednesday, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: An evening of building with OpenAI engineers and Parloa's CPO Csaba Tamas, fireside chat first, laptops out after, technical office hours on tap. Bring an idea, leave with something that runs. The Delta, Berlin.

• Gründerszene: Supergründer Finale 2026 🏆 | Thursday, 7:00 PM: Ten weeks of building AI products ends here, Fellows pitching a jury for ten thousand euros. Backed by OpenAI, Vercel, Dash0, and DHL, then food and drinks with the founders. Forum im Axel Springer Neubau, Berlin.

All Day Festivals & Conferences ✨

• 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.

• Wed. Sep. 9 – Sun. Sep. 13: Berlin Art Week 2026  🎨 |Kulturprojekte Berlin turns the city into one gallery for five days: 100+ museums, collections and project spaces, the Positions Art Fair, Gallery Night, Featured Night, and a garden takeover at Kulturforum. Dream On closes it out Saturday at Factory Berlin Mitte.

Tuesday 8th

• Female VC Club x ANTI: Red Light Pilates & Networking 🧘‍♀️ | 8:00 AM – 10:30 AM: The first Female VC Club gathering at its new home, ANTI Berlin. Red Light Pilates to start the morning, then coffee with investors, founders, and operators. Bring a friend. ANTI, Brunnenstraße 9, Berlin.

• AENU x French Tech Berlin: Back to School Community Breakfast 🥐 | 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM: The monthly French German breakfast, this edition with AENU, the Berlin climate tech VC behind a hundred seventy million euro fund. Tanguy Vidal opens, then coffee turns into contacts. Berlin.

• Women's AI Breakfast: Hypergrowth Playbook 🤖 | 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Two marketing leads scaling AI in legal and audit, where one mistake is a liability, not a lesson. Panel, then coffee with people who actually ship in regulated spaces. Doors close at 9:30 sharp. Merantix AI Campus, Berlin.

• Berlin Art Week Warm Up at Studio Kloof 🎨 | 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM: A Berlin Art Week warm up, work from Brittney Scott on the walls, DJ sets by Chippy Nonstop Yazzus on the decks. Five hours, one studio, the kind of crowd that shows up early. Studio Kloof, Berlin.

• Google Cloud for Games Berlin 🎮 | 5:30 PM – 9:30 PM: Google opens its Berlin office to game studios building at global scale. Talks on next-gen tech and deployment. Exclusive, in person, not the kind of invite you skip. Google Berlin, Tucholskystraße 2.

• UNRUHE Opening at MaHalla (Berlin Art Week) 🖤 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: A group show about the restlessness before work becomes visible, years of exchange between the artists, rarely shown pieces, work that stayed unrealised until now. Opening night. MaHalla, Berlin.

Wednesday 9th

• Climate Tech Meetup vol. 06: Financing Scale 🌍 | 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM: The financing gap holding climate hardware back from pilot to scale, discussed by Bundestag member Katharina Beck, a CFO, and two founders building the fix. Keynotes and a panel. Future Energy Lab, Berlin.

• MASSOUMI at Maschinenraum: ODE an die Kunst 🍹 | 5:30 PM – 9:30 PM: MASSOUMI Gallery opens inside Maschinenraum with Tanja Thordsen's beeswax pieces and Arthur Löwen's layered paintings. ODE Aperitif pours all evening for the vernissage. Maschinenraum, Zionskirchstraße 73A, Berlin.

• Berlin SEO & Content Club #13 x BONIAL 🔍 | 6:00 PM – 10:30 PM: Berlin's top SEO and content meetup turns thirteen, co hosted with Bonial and idealo. A chief growth officer and engineers on what breaks when agents hit production. Free, capped at 150. Bonial International GmbH, Berlin.

• OpenAI Builder Lounge Berlin 🛠️ | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: An evening of building with OpenAI engineers and Parloa's CPO Csaba Tamas, fireside chat first, laptops out after, technical office hours on tap. Bring an idea, leave with something that runs. The Delta, Berlin.

• Kreuzberg: Kunst und Migration seit 1960 🖼️ | 7:00 PM: An exhibition on the labour migration that shaped West Germany, seen through the artists who lived it in Kreuzberg. Decades of overlooked work, opening on the eve of Berlin Art Week. Gropius Bau, Berlin.

• CURRENTS.DESIGN Opening 🪩 | 8:30 PM – 10:30 PM: Studio IIII asks how to build a club, RobertNeun on the mic, a lineup running DJ Schowi through Natalia Escobar. Free entry until half ten, the night that opens the festival. Studio IIII, Potsdamer Strasse 96, Berlin.

Thursday 10th

• Merantix Developer Day 2026 🧠 | 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM: The AI field takes stock for a day, keynotes from Cusp AI and former ICANN chief Rod Beckstrom, panels on small language models, demos from teams in biology and robotics. Merantix AI Campus, Berlin.

• Investors Alliance Forum 👩‍💼 | 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM: The first major event from the Wo//men Investors Alliance, built to name what actually moves diversity in the angel and startup world. A showcase, panels, a founders contest final. Waschhaus Potsdam.

• CLQ x Nike Running: Community Tempo Session 🏃‍♀️ | 6:00 PM: A community tempo run with Nike Running, the new Pegasus Plus and race models on your feet, Hyperice recovery waiting after. A very short list that closed fast. NOIR Boutique Gym, Berlin.

• AWS x The Delta: Founder Padel 🎾 | 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM: The first Founder Padel, a new monthly series pairing rallies with real conversation. King and Queen of the Court tournament, a live interview with TIO TIO's co-founder. Rackets provided. TIO TIO Padel, Köpenicker Str. 154, Berlin.

• Gründerszene: Supergründer Finale 2026 🏆 | 7:00 PM: Ten weeks of building AI products ends here, Fellows pitching a jury for ten thousand euros. Backed by OpenAI, Vercel, Dash0, and DHL, then food and drinks with the founders. Forum im Axel Springer Neubau, Berlin.

• Business Punk Relaunch Party, Issue #3 (private) 🥂 | 7:00 PM – 3:00 AM: Business Punk relaunches faster, harder, bolder, and throws the party to prove it. Sounds, snacks, and Schampus at Fotografiska, a sneak peek before the new issue hits shelves. Fotografiska Berlin.

FOMO Upcoming Top Events & Opportunities 💯 :

• Tue. Sep. 15: Berlin AI Day by Buildersklub 🤖 | 8 AM – 8:30 PM: A full-day AI conference exploring real-world adoption, transformation, revenue, operations, product development and practical AI-first strategies. Festsaal Kreuzberg, Am Flutgraben 2, 12435 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.

• Wed. Sep. 23: Female Founders Fest 🥂 | Wednesday, 23 September, time TBD. Third year running, Julia Dous, Dr. Gesa Miczaika and Bettine Schmitz reopen the room. 350+ founders, investors, and ecosystem champions.

Friday 11th

• Kitchentalks at New York Bagel Bar 🥯 | 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Warm bagels and real talk from the food industry, no pitches, no pressure, just founders comparing notes on what is actually keeping them busy. Drinks are on you. New York Bagel Bar, Rosenthaler Str. 72, Berlin.

• TAM Leadership Festival 2026 ⚡ | 9:30 AM – 10:00 PM: A full day on leadership, two hundred seats at TAM Akademie running from arrival coffee to an afterparty past ten. Sessions on what makes people actually follow you. TAM Akademie, Hagelberger Str. 53, Berlin.

• Notion x Claude Code: Content Strategy & Systems 📓 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Notion becomes a real content system, not just a place notes go to die, then Claude Code builds the workflows on top of it. A full month of content planned live. The Delta Campus, Berlin.

• Techstars Berlin Mixer 🥃 | 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM: No agenda, no panels, no pitches, just the mentors, alumni founders, and friends who make Techstars Berlin actually work, catching up at the AgeTechX office. Drinks included. AgeTechX, Schönhauser Allee 175, Berlin.

• Kuboraum x Hamburger Bahnhof: De Brujas y Fantasmas 👻 | 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM: A live performance staged first in Venice during the Biennale, now inside Hamburger Bahnhof for Berlin Art Week. Dance and ritual gesture from Kianí del Valle. Free entry. Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.

• Hungry4 brings Youngmallgrab to Prince Charles 🌀 | 10:00 PM: Youngmallgrab lands at Prince Charles, back inside the former swimming pool with support from Atta Music, DJ Eivissa, David Jaackson, and a surprise still under wraps. Prince Charles, Berlin.

Saturday 12th

• Kinofest 2026 at CinemaxX 🎬 | All day: Every CinemaxX seat, every film, every showtime, five euros flat for the whole weekend, Saturday and Sunday both. The cheapest excuse Berlin will give you to sit in the dark this month. CinemaxX, Berlin.

• Art Week at GAP House: No Ants Invited 🐜 | 12:00 PM – 12:00 AM: GAP House opens for a new chapter, Wolfgang Tillmans and Lars Eidinger among the names on the walls, an unannounced lineup on the decks past midnight. Just trust the sound. GAP House, Ruschestraße 57, Berlin.

• Germany Got Game x Beats N Buckets: Community Hub Takeover 🏀 | 2:00 PM – 10:00 PM: A full day of basketball and community at Adidas Sports Base, a 3x3 final, a panel talk, a live DJ, then the FIBA Women's World Cup semi finals on screen. Free, limited capacity. Adidas Sports Base, Schleusenufer 4, Berlin.

• Weavii x Tendermesh: Off Programme 🕯️ | 5:00 PM – 11:30 PM: An answer to Berlin Art Week's sprint, one building, seven artists, poets, and a plant sound set that turns electrical signals into something you can listen to. Donation based. Tendermesh, Teilestraße 11, Berlin.

• Dream On, Closing Berlin Art Week 2026 🎨 | Saturday 17:00 → 05:30. JMES World closes Berlin Art Week: a group show at JMES Museum, live sets curated by Gezellig Sessions, then JMES Club takes over. No end time, those who stay become part of the story.

Sunday 13th

• HOLOBIONT Open House 🧬 | 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM: Seven exhibitions and sixty studios across four industrial halls close out their week with an open house. Open ateliers, artist talks, coffee and cake, classic cars, kids program. RWK Studios, Berlin Zehlendorf.

• everybody. Performance Festival 🩰 | 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Three artists, three hours, one museum, performances from Janne Kummer, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, and Lauryn Youden exploring the body's own politics. Free, part of Art Week. Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin.

• US Open Men's Final Screening 📺 | 7:00 PM: Watch the last Grand Slam of the season in your most iconic nineties tennis fit, Serena Williams or Andre Agassi energy required, bingo included. Be there or be square. The Social Hub lounge, Alexanderstrasse 40, Berlin.

Monday 14th

• MCP, AI & Workflows: The Softr x Make Hackathon 🤝 | 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM: An afternoon hackathon pairing Make's automation with Softr's app builder, the engine and the front end in one room. Free AI credits, pizza, real apps built and running. Impact Hub Berlin.

• Pre-Screening: How to Live on Earth 🌱 | 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM: A pre-screening of the Benedict Cumberbatch narrated documentary on nature and what comes next, followed by a panel discussion and networking. Hopeful, cinematic, worth arriving on time for. Atelier Gardens, Berlin.

• Aperture Sessions Berlin 🎧 | 8:00 PM – 12:00 AM: A Monday night gathering built to feel more human than the average tech mixer, better music, better drinks, conversations that do not feel like a sales funnel. Past guests include Meta and Google. Berlin.

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FOMO Carve Out

• Mon. Oct. 5 – Sun. Oct. 11: a16z Speedrun Sprint 🚀 | Rolling applications, program runs Oct 5–11: a16z opens speedrun's founder sprint to day zero teams building for the US market. Dinners and 1:1s with the team, VIP access to 500+ Tech Week events, an AI Faire room with 300+ US executives. Under 1% get in, up to $3K travel covered.

• Thu. Oct. 8: Female Founders Pitch Night Application 2026 🎤 | Evening, exact time TBC: Project Ada's third year platforming women-led startups: five-minute pitches in English, a jury of investors and entrepreneurs, a thousand euros for the winning team.

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