NY Tech Week 2026 SaaS & AI Founder + Investor Rooftop Happy Hour
Attendees: 704
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Location: New York, Mr. Purple.
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Thanks to everyone who joined us for the NachoTuesday SaaS & AI Founder + Investor Rooftop Happy Hour at Mr. Purple during New York Tech Week! With 700+ attendees, the venue was packed with an incredible mix of founders, investors, operators, and some of the most respected brands and community leaders in tech.
We loved seeing so many great connections being made and can’t wait to do it again soon.
Check out how it went!
This was part of our NachoTuesday series, which includes in-person events as well as online thought leadership C-Suite interviews (https://nachonacho.com/nachotuesday). This networking event was exclusively for SaaS/AI:
– Founders (minimum Seed funded and later)
– C-Suites
– Investors/VCs
– Tech media.
Applications were carefully screened. No +1s were allowed. Only approved guests were permitted onto the premises. The event included sponsored drinks and a rooftop deck component. This event was a part of New York Tech Week.
Partners
A special thanks to our partners for helping make this event happen:
SHOPLINE: A leading global commerce Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider, empowering over 600K brands and retailers to build, launch, and scale their business around the world. SHOPLINE offers a fully integrated platform that provides merchants with solutions such as ecommerce, POS, social commerce, omni-channel marketing, B2B management, and more. Learn more at http://Shopline.com
Astra: Your digital Chief of Staff, crafted for founders and solopreneurs. She’s not just another tool—she’s your strategic partner. Astra cuts through chaos, guiding your priorities, protecting your focus, and turning your week into intentional progress. With Astra, you lead with clarity and momentum—not just task completion.
Pierson Ferdinand LLP: A Partner-led, tech-driven, fully distributed law firm with 290+ partners across 30+ markets. Founded on a proprietary tech stack, PierFerd runs with zero legacy overhead: no offices, no bloat, and no junior associates. Every lawyer is a senior practitioner drawn from elite AmLaw firms, top boutiques, and the government. The result is a full-service firm covering 90+ practice areas, from formation through IPO and everything in between, that moves at the speed founders and fund managers need to commercialize their products and accelerate growth. Learn more at https://pierferd.com.
Anchin: A full-service accounting, tax and advisory firm specializing in servicing the diverse needs of entrepreneurial, venture capital, and private equity-backed businesses ranging from start-ups to growing and established technology companies. Read more here: https://www.anchin.com/industries/technology/
Zero: Give your AI agent access to ~8k tools, APIs and services, unblocking them so they can discover services to accomplish tasks, no APIs keys or config. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, OpenClaw, Hermes and most other CLI agents. Make your agents better with Zero: https://zero.xyz
Revolut Business: The all-in-one business account. Scale – and save – with global payments, multi-currency accounts, and smarter spending. Get started at business.revolut.com/signup?promo=NachoNacho
Amikoo (by MuukLabs): Claude drives 10x faster coding and 10x more QA bottlenecks. Amikoo’s agents clear the way for fast, reliable releases. VeUP: An AWS-first partner for ambitious, cloud-native companies, embedding AWS, AI, and data expertise directly into high-growth teams to turn cloud complexity and spend into commercial outcomes. Learn more at https://veup.com
Forecastr: The Best Financial Model — Get a dedicated financial analyst on your team. Build your model with confidence. Build your model with confidence. Revenue, runway, expenses, hiring plan, and more. Professional projections. Learn more at https://www.forecastr.co/nacho-nacho
Deel: Deel is an HR software that allows businesses to easily expand their workforce globally. With Deel, you can start hiring employees and contractors abroad while they take all the liability and handle compliance matters for you. Learn more at https://nachonacho.com/product/deel
Angel Launch: Based in Silicon Valley, Angel Launch is a leading producer of venture forums, summits, dinners and mixers for early and advanced stage tech and AI startups, accredited investors, corporate executive and tech professionals. View at www.angellaunch.com.
Truelogic Software: A Nearshore tech firm specializing in Staff Augmentation Services and Innovation Projects. We build innovative digital products. Learn more at https://www.truelogic.io
Efficient Capital Labs: Provides fast, flexible, non-dilutive funding to AI and SaaS companies. We convert predictable revenue into growth capital, enabling teams to hire, expand, and invest without giving up equity. Supporting 250+ companies across 20+ countries, we help founders grow faster while staying in control. Learn more at https://nachonacho.com/maven/ecl
Archera: Archera is the creator of Insured Commitments—a new category of cloud commitment products that deliver deep savings without long-term lock-in or wasted spend. Learn more at https://www.archera.ai
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