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🍾 FOMO Berlin: INMerge Berlin 2026: Where Berlin Meets Emerging Markets | 29 June at AXICA | 16.06 - 22.06

🍾 FOMO Berlin: INMerge Berlin 2026: Where Berlin Meets Emerging Markets | 29 June at AXICA | 16.06 - 22.06

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

Cephas from FOMO
June 15, 2026

Hi Berliners 🍾

The FOMO Berlin Super Week is finally over. And I’m still recovering. 3,000+ RSVPs. 1,000+ attendees. 4 events. One week that somehow felt like a month.

We kicked things off with a curated dinner for 50+ GPs, LPs, and founders at Coco Boule, followed by The Edge — our afterparty with Backed VC and Carta at Prince Charles. Investors dancing around a pool. Berlin at its best.

Wednesday brought our second Super Aperitivo at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, together with Norrsken, PT1, Carbon Equity, and Heliad. Great people, incredible art, live performances, and stunning food installation. Find more here 👈.

We closed the week at BAD1, where I had the privilege of MCing the conference, stepping onto the stage right before Al Gore and welcoming more than 10 unicorn founders to the stage in front of 500 founders and investors — before ending the week with our FOMO x BAD1 rooftop afterparty.

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Our upcoming 3 FOMO Events 🚨

Tue. Jun. 16: FOMO x RSM Ebner Stolz: The Fundraising Salon 💸 | 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM: 30+ founders, no stage, no pitching. Term sheets, dilution, investor rights, negotiation mistakes — decoded over dinner. Curated, Apply.
Tue. Jun. 23: The Orange Dinner Munich — FOMO x HubSpot 🕯️ | 6:30 - 10 PM A Jeffersonian dinner, one table, one shared conversation. Seed and Series A founders only. No pitching. Candlelit ballroom, live pianist, venue drops 48h before. Munich
Wed. Jul. 8: FOMO x season5: Founder Padel Open 🎾 | 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM: Berlin's founder scene trades boardrooms for courts. Mixed doubles, Giant Americano format, new partner every match. Flying buffet, bubbles, DJ after. TioTio Padel Berlin Rooftop.

See you soon, Berlin.

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What did you FOMO last week 📸

FOMO Super Week: 3,000+ RSVPs, 1,000+ people, 4 events. Coco Boule with Season5, Juni, Gemma Analytics, Gründerszene. The Edge with Backed VC and Carta. Aperitivo with Norrsken, PT1, Carbon Equity, Heliad. BAD1 with The Delta, Dentsu and many more.

FOMO Opportunity Spotlight & Carve Out 🔦 :

VANTAGE — 100-Day Performance System: Claim your rate 💪 | FOMO Community exclusive: Physical, mental, and emotional health — one system, 100 days. Built for founders who optimize everything except themselves. Save up to €600 with code FOMO26.
INMerge: Berlin’s startup and investment community meets at INMerge Berlin on 29 June at AXICA. Connect with founders, VCs and innovators building bridges between Europe and emerging markets. Apply now.
Mindspace Open House 💻 | Thu. Jun. 18 & Mon. Jun. 22 – Fri. Jun. 26: Mindspace opens doors across Friedrichstraße (Jun 18), Kreuzberg (all week) and Ku'damm (Jun 25). Free desk, free coffee, membership discount if you bite. Pick your neighborhood. Berlin, multiple locations.

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The FOMO Berlin week 💙 (16.6 - 22.6):

FOMO Top Picks of the Week 🔥

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

FOMO x RSM Ebner Stolz: The Fundraising Salon 💸 | Tuesday, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM: 30+ founders, no stage, no pitching. Term sheets, dilution, investor rights, negotiation mistakes — decoded over dinner.
AI Tinkerers Berlin 🤖🧠 | Wednesday, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Technical AI meetup featuring live demos, agent systems, RAG workflows, and builder-focused discussions for ML engineers and founders.
HINTERLAND26 🏭 | Thursday, Europe's B2B conference for AI and industrial tech. Thomas Rabe (Bertelsmann), Carsten Maschmeyer, René Obermann (Warburg Pincus) on stage. FOMO Community gets 25% off with code MEDIA25. Bielefeld.

All Day Festivals & Conferences ✨

Sat. - Sun. 13 – 21: BERLIN BLOCKCHAIN WEEK & SIDE EVENTS 🔐| Various times: Distributed blockchain ecosystem events including meetups, hackathons, conferences, parties, and crypto networking across Berlin.
Sat. - Sun. 13 – 21: VANDA Pharmaceuticals BERLIN TENNIS OPEN 🎾🔥 | Various times: WTA 500 professional women’s tennis tournament featuring top international players competing in singles and doubles matches across a full week of high-level clay court action.
Sun. - Wed. 21 - 24: Summer Berlinale at Freiluftkino Friedrichshain 🎬✨ | Various Time: highlights from the 76th Berlinale before cinema release, bringing festival-style film experiences to Berlin’s summer nights in a relaxed outdoor cinema atmosphere.

Tuesday 16th

Berlin Tennis Open 🎾 | From 11 AM: Serena Williams returns to a Berlin court. Doubles with Karolína Muchová against Giuliana Olmos and Erin Routliffe. Grass courts, opening round, a name that still stops a feed. Steffi Graf Stadion, Grunewald.
ARRtist on Tour Berlin 2026 🚀 | 6 PM – 10 PM: Exclusive afterwork networking event for B2B SaaS, software, and AI founders and CxOs featuring learning sessions, industry insights, food, drinks, and startup ecosystem connections.
Female Founders Contest Halbfinale Berlin 👩‍💼 | 6 PM – 10 PM: Pitch competition for female-led startups with jury voting, networking, investor meetups, prizes, and national final qualification.
FOMO x RSM Ebner Stolz: The Fundraising Salon 💸 | 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM: 30+ founders, no stage, no pitching. Term sheets, dilution, investor rights, negotiation mistakes — decoded over dinner. Curated, Apply.
Framer Watch Party: Berlin 🎨🚀 | 6:30 PM – 10 PM: Invite-only builder meetup to watch Framer’s major product launch livestream, followed by hands-on building time, an informal hackathon session, and networking with designers and creators over drinks and snacks.

Wednesday 17th

PROMPT x PURCHASE - A Bitrefill Hackathon 🤖💳 | 11 AM – 7 PM: AI and blockchain hackathon challenging participants to build autonomous AI agents that search, purchase, and pay for real products, with prizes, mentorship, and networking opportunities. Mena Berlin.
Clay in Berlin: Outbound Hackathon Night 🚀 | 5:30 PM – 10 PM: Hands-on GTM hackathon where founders and operators build AI-powered outbound systems using Clay, Salesforge, and HubSpot with live demos and networking.
AI Tinkerers Berlin 🤖🧠 | 6 PM – 9 PM: Technical AI meetup featuring live demos, agent systems, RAG workflows, and builder-focused discussions for ML engineers and founders.
Smoothies Launch Party x CINNAMOOD Berlin 🥤✨ | 7 PM – 9 PM: Launch event for CINNAMOOD’s new healthy smoothie range featuring protein, superfoods, free smoothie tasting, live DJ music, and lifestyle-focused wellness vibes with content creators and guests
Berlin Media Tech Party by Castlabs & nanocosmos 🎬🍸 | 8:30 PM – 11:30 PM: Industry networking night for streaming, media tech, and digital infrastructure professionals featuring drinks, informal conversations, and meetups.

Thursday 18th

Mindspace Open House 💻 | 9 AM – 6 PM: Free desk, free coffee, free 50% off your first two months if you sign on the spot. Bring a laptop, claim a window seat, work like the office never happened. Friedrichstraße 68, Berlin.
DeSci.Berlin 2026 Presented by BIO 🧬🤖 | 9 AM: Leading decentralized science conference exploring AI-driven research, biotech, longevity, Web3, agentic science, workshops, and networking during Berlin Blockchain Week.
Claude Founder House 🛠️ | 2 PM – 8 PM: Anthropic's own team runs the masterclass, then vanishes into 1:1 office hours while the room builds. Ends loud: a live pitch off, the room votes. Approval required.
Berlin Girls Social presents: Queen’s Court 🎾👑 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM: Women-only padel evening with coaching, beginner-friendly matches, networking, and social summer vibes. PadelCity Berlin.
LOVE BLOCK Party at The Blockspäti 🎶🔥 | 8 PM – 4 AM: Berlin Blockchain Week community party featuring DJs, free BBQ, open bar, flash tattoos, chillout spaces, and two floors of music in a crypto-powered nightlife experience.

FOMO Upcoming Top Events & Opportunities 💯 :

Tue. Jun. 23 – Wed. Jun. 24: K5 Konferenz 🛍️ | 8:30 AM – 5 PM: 5,000 retail heads descend on ESTREL. Two expo halls, 70 masterclasses, an open bar that never runs dry. China, AI and social commerce eat the old playbook alive. The Connect Party closes it out. ESTREL Berlin.
Mon. Jun. 29: INMerge Berlin 🌉 | 10:30 AM – 4 PM: GITEX's official side quest. Founders, VCs and corporate innovators wire Berlin straight into Baku, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Pitches, panels, one networking break, zero wasted time. AXICA, Pariser Platz 3.
Tue. Jun. 30 – Wed. Jul. 1: GITEX AI EUROPE 🤖 | 9 AM – 6 PM: AWS, AMD and HP take the floor. OpenAI, Bosch and Euronext take the stage. Perplexity, Miro, DeepL and Delivery Hero wander the halls. Supernova founders pitch for €50K. Messe Berlin's AI invasion. Messedamm 22, Berlin.

Friday 19th

dida Conference 2026 (Machine Learning Conference) 🧠📊 | 9 AM – 10 PM: Technical machine learning conference featuring research talks, workshops, and networking focused on AI, diffusion models, PDEs, and industrial ML systems.
Hands-On with Claude Code: AI Skills for Non-Developers ⚡ | 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM: Sold-out AI workshop teaching non-developers how to use Claude Code to build real projects, edit files, run commands, and deploy simple apps using GitHub + Vercel workflows. CIC Berlin.
Late Shift x İÇ İÇE Festival 🎭🎶🔥 | 6 PM – 10 PM: Open-air community festival featuring talks, live concerts, DJ sets, stand-up comedy, and performance art blending New Anatolian music, queer-migrant culture, and experimental nightlife energy. Gropius Bau.
Gero Decker | Gründerszene x The Delta 💡🏢 | 6 PM – 11 PM: Founder and enterprise SaaS evening featuring fireside chat, startup insights, networking drinks, and discussions on building and scaling global enterprise software companies from Berlin with founders, investors, and operators.
Opening: No Place Like Home by Lee Shulman 🖼️🎤 | 7 PM – 8 PM: Exhibition opening event and artist talk exploring archival photography, memory, and collective storytelling through curated amateur photographs, featuring discussion with the curator and insights into The Anonymous Project.

Saturday 20th

AI x ENERGY HACKATHON ⚡ | Sat. to Sun. 9:30 AM – 5 PM: Eighty builders take over a Berlin weekend to hack the future of energy. Reonic and Point Nine co-host; OpenAI and Enpal hand out credits. €5K+ in prizes, first come first served at the door.
Agents that pay hackathon 🤖 | 9:30 AM – 5 PM: Apify and Kevin Lewis built a one day hackathon around AI agents that pay for their own data. Eighty builders in, already full, waitlist only. The open paid web starts here.
Berlin Robotics X AI Hackathon 🦾 | Sat 10 AM – Sun 5 PM: Hacklab's first robotics x agentic coding hackathon. Hardware tracks from ITQ, Hugging Face and MyBotShop, founder dashboard track judged by n8N and Lovable
Creative Fruits Mornings @ The Hoxton ✍️🍓 | 11:30 AM – 1 PM: Creative writing and networking session featuring guided writing sprints, and community exchange for writers and creatives.
Saucony Berlin 10K 🏃‍♀️✈️ | 6 PM: High-energy 10K race at Tempelhofer Feld featuring fast-paced running, live music, and Berlin festival vibes, with participants competing on a unique urban race course.
SYNERGY 001 – BERLIN By TTC 🎶🌙🔥 | 6 PM – 6 AM: Open-air courtyard party featuring DJ sets, live electronic music, and underground Berlin night energy with secret location access, limited entry, and early-arrival drink perks.

Sunday 21st

CRY SESSION – Ride To The Lake 🚲💧🌿 | 11 AM – 2 PM: Social group cycling ride from Berlin to a nearby lake focused on connection, conversation, and emotional wellness through movement, ending with time at the lake before returning together.
Philharmonie Open Day 🎻 | 11 AM – 6 PM: Kirill Petrenko runs a public rehearsal, the Berliner Philharmoniker play Tchaikovsky twice, and somewhere in the building there's a silent disco. Free admission, every door open, all day.
TIO TIO x Gründerszene Padel Tournament 🎾🏙️🔥 | 1 PM – 5:30 PM: Rooftop padel tournament bringing together founders, VCs, and startup builders with competitive matches, drinks, and high-level networking above Berlin’s skyline. TIO TIO – Padel Berlin Rooftop.
Fête de la Musique Berlin 🎶🌍 | 4 PM - 10 PM: Massive citywide music celebration with over 300 stages across Berlin featuring live performances, street music, and open-air shows across all genres, completely free and open to everyone.

Monday 22nd

Funding Your Way: A Founder’s Guide to Raising Capital - Amela💰🚀 | 6:30 PM – 12:00 AM: Female-founder focused fundraising evening featuring pub quiz, investor panel, practical pitch advice.
Summer Berlinale ✨ | From Sun. - Wed, starting 9:30 PM: Berlinale highlights return under open sky before they hit cinemas. Monday's pick is George Jaques' Sunny Dancer, introduced by Sebastian Markt, Berlinale Generation's section head. Freiluftkino Friedrichshain.