🏃 FOMO Munich: EWOR applications are open. Run with them next Tuesday | 03.11 - 09.11

Hey FOMO Munich 👋

Two months left in the year. Munich isn’t slowing down.

Building something, or about to? EWOR’s fellowship is open. Ideation for idea stage founders, up to €300k. Traction for teams already in motion, €500k on acceptance. Operators who built at scale in your corner. Apply here.

Next Tuesday we run it back. Our Founder & Investor Running Club with EWOR and 10x Founders. Early miles through the Altstadt, sharp people, coffee after. Bring your fellowship questions. The best deals start slightly out of breath.

On Nov. 25, 700 founders, investors and corporates fill one room at Startup Demo Night. You know where to find us.

Heading north? Nov. 17 we take over the court at our Padel Open during Slush. Dec. 1, 70 founders at one long table for our Founder Christmas Dinner with Qonto in Berlin.

As always: this is just the start. 💙

We’re here so you don’t have FOMO.

As I always say: this is just the start. 💙 XoXo FOMO

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• Thu. Nov. 5 (Munich): FOMO x EWOR x 10x Founders: Founder & Investor Running Club 🏃 | 7:30 AM – 9:30 AM: Six kilometres through the English Garden before most people check Slack. Founders and investors only, paced by Nico from 10x Founders and Gülce from EWOR. Finish line: the 10x Founders office, coffee waiting. Munich, done right. Eisbachwelle, Munich.

• Tue. Nov. 17: Founder & Investor Padel Open: Slush Edition 🎾 | 4:00 PM – 12:00 AM: Berlin, Munich, Cape Town. Sold out ten times over. Now Slush. Founders and investors, mixed doubles, partners drawn on court. Then sauna, ice bath, DJ till midnight. With Berlin Partner. The most Finnish way to close a round. Konepaja, Helsinki.

• Tue. Dec. 1: FOMO x Qonto: Founder Christmas Dinner 🕯️ | 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM: Seventy founders running teams of ten or more. Three courses, good wine, candlelight. Black tie and evening gowns. FOMO and Qonto pull up the chairs, you bring the year you actually had. Every seat personally curated. One surprise, very FOMO. Berlin.

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

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Tue. Nov. 17: Founder & Investor Padel Open: Slush Edition 🎾 | 4:00 PM – 12:00 AM: Berlin, Munich, Cape Town. Sold out ten times over. Now Slush. Founders and investors, mixed doubles, partners drawn on court. Then sauna, ice bath, DJ till midnight. With Berlin Partner. The most Finnish way to close a round. Helsinki.

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What did you FOMO last week 📸 

FOMO Opportunity Spotlight & Carve Out 🔦 :

• The ultimate Slush side event list is live: 150+ events, cut down to the ones worth freezing for.

• FOMO Cape Town Group 26/27 🌴: Spending winter in Cape Town? Get on the inside before you land. Last season, 500+ of us shared one WhatsApp group: roomies, Garden Route crews, deals closed. 100 already in for 26/27. Event drops, curated dinners, your people from day one. Best season yet. Zero FOMO.

• Schub: Batch 27 Spring 🚀 | Apply by Nov. 29: Munich’s most selective accelerator, with a 3% acceptance rate. Fourteen weeks of weekly coaching from founders who built and exited, then four weeks in San Francisco. €25k for 2% after week six. Sixty percent go on to raise or bootstrap successfully. Munich & SF.

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The FOMO Munich week 💙 (3.11 - 9.11):

FOMO top picks of the week 🔥

These are the events I would attend if I were in town:

• Physical AI Meetup: Munich Edition - {Tech: Europe} x Tacto 🤖 | Wednesday, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Robots that work in a demo video are easy. Robots that work on a factory floor are another story. The builders closing that gap, real hardware, real problems. Tacto, Sandstraße 33.

• extra+ feat. Radio 80000 - Lenbachhaus 🎶🖼️ | Thursday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM: Lenbachhaus after hours. Free entry to all exhibitions, then drinks and a Radio 80000 set under Olafur Eliasson’s Wirbelwerk. Munich’s creative class in one of the city’s best rooms. Lenbachhaus.

• MATCHUP - thinc! x a16z x five degrees 🤝 | Friday, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM: Consulting, finance, Big Tech? thinc! pitches another path. Startups like Augustus, Reonic and Lio meet ambitious students hunting their next chapter. Free. Lio Office, Seidlstraße 23.

Tuesday 3rd

• Startup Career Fair: Aerospace & Defense - TUM Venture Labs 🚀 | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM: Okapi Orbits, DCUBED, Saryn Space and more from the TUM space and defense portfolio are hiring. Internships, working student and full time roles. Bring a CV, leave with a mission. Immatrikulationshalle, TUM.

• Introduction to AI Safety - Safe AI Germany 🧠 | 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM: Johannes Koch from Safe AI Germany maps the risks nobody puts in the pitch deck. A clear primer, then open Q&A. Every AI headline reads differently after. TUM Think Tank.

• Bluebird Social Club: Founders, Senior Leaders & Operators Edition - Bluebird 🐦 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: An evening for founders and senior operators in B2B SaaS and AI. Hand-picked guests, honest conversations, at least one connection that lasts. Approval only.

• Creator Management Talk - Media Lab Bayern 🎬 | From 6:30 PM: When does a creator need management, and when is it time to build a team? Scaling, contracts and the business behind the feed. Free, registration required. Media Lab Bayern.

• Finance Padel Networking Event with Embat & torq.partners - torq.partners & Embat 🎾 | 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM: Connect finance leaders through casual padel matches, relaxed networking, delicious snacks, and drinks, welcoming participants of all skill levels. Casa Padel Pineapple Park.

Wednesday 4th

• Digital Health Pitch Day - HTGF x TUM Venture Labs 💉 | 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM: HTGF, TWIP Impact Ventures, Plug and Play and TUM Venture Labs put digital health startups in front of investors and corporate VCs. The prelude to the summit. TranslaTUM.

• Digital Health Summit 2026 - TUM Venture Lab Healthcare 🩺 | Nov. 4 – 5, from 5:00 PM: Two days on what happens when AI meets HI, human intelligence. Founders, clinicians and investors working on smarter medicine. TranslaTUM.

• Physical AI Meetup: Munich Edition - {Tech: Europe} x Tacto 🤖 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Robots that work in a demo video are easy. Robots that work on a factory floor are another story. The builders closing that gap. Tacto, Sandstraße 33.

• The Uncapped Table: VC Dinner - Bluebird x Ashby 🍷 | 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM: Twelve VC and PE investors, one table, off the record. A place to say “I’m not sure” out loud. Investors only.

Thursday 5th

• CDTM Run & Mingle - CDTM 🏃 | 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Skip the conference coffee. An easy morning run with CDTM students, some of Munich’s sharpest future founders, slightly out of breath. Milchhäusl, Englischer Garten.

• Zukunft übernehmen: UnternehmerTUM Day 2026 - UnternehmerTUM 🏛️ | All day: Owners ready to hand over, searchers ready to take over, investors circling an asset class Germany can no longer ignore. One table, both sides of succession. Munich Urban Colab.

• Opportunity Hunters Talks - UnternehmerTUM 🔍 | 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM: Philipp Engelhardt, Director Entrepreneurship & Tech Education at UnternehmerTUM, on innovating inside a big company. The wins, the wrong turns, what shaped him. UnternehmerTUM.

• extra+ feat. Radio 80000 - Lenbachhaus 🎶🖼️ | 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM: Free entry to all exhibitions, then drinks and a Radio 80000 set under Olafur Eliasson’s Wirbelwerk from 7. No registration. Lenbachhaus.

• Ship & Sip! Munich - Ship & Sip 🚢 | 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM: The monthly meetup for Munich’s product people and builders. A month of backlogs, bugs and pushed code. Now it’s time to sip. Location after RSVP. Munich.

FOMO Upcoming Top Events & Opportunities 💯

• Thu. Nov. 12: CFO Summit - Finance Collective 💶 | 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM: The Finance Collective community meets in person. How the finance function, the tech stack and the role of the CFO are changing in the new era of finance. A full day with Munich’s finance leaders. Künstlerhaus am Lenbachplatz.

• Thu. Nov. 12: Energy Stammtisch @ Proxima Fusion - Energy Stammtisch ⚛️ | 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM: Munich’s November energy problem, solved. A beer at Proxima Fusion, Europe’s stellarator fusion bet, with the people building the grid of tomorrow. Drinks first, physics second. Proxima Fusion, Munich.

• Fri. Nov. 13: Frns of Frns: Hotel Art Tour & Afterwards - Frns of Frns 🖼️ | 6:30 PM – 10:30 PM: Christian Ganzenberg of Various Others walks you through 30 works at The Dean, plus the spa, the suites and a few secret spots. Prosecco or sake at the bar after. Last Frns of the year. The Dean Munich.

• Mon. Nov. 16: Scaleup Series Munich - South Summit 📈 | 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM: South Summit brings its Scaleup Series to Munich. Scaleups, investors and corporates in one room on what takes a company to the next level: funding, operations, new markets, top talent. Munich.

Friday 6th

• Industrial Edge Workshop for Startups and SMEs - UnternehmerTUM x Siemens ⚙️ | 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM: Free, practical workshop on Siemens Industrial Edge. Bring your machine data, leave with your own Edge application built alongside Siemens experts. MakerSpace, BMW InnovationLab.

• Flow31 – V3 - Flow31 🤖 | From 2:00 PM: A free gathering for world-class AI agent builders, third and biggest edition. Invite only, every application reviewed by hand. Location shared on approval.

• European Defense Tech Hackathon Munich - EDTH x Media for Peace 🛰️ | Fri. 5:00 PM – Sun. 4:00 PM: 48 hours on OSINT and countering disinformation, with Bundeswehr mentors and Munich researchers. 100+ builders from across Europe. Apply to join. University of the Bundeswehr Munich.

• MATCHUP - thinc! x a16z x five degrees 🤝 | 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM: Consulting, finance, Big Tech? thinc! pitches another path. Startups like Augustus, Reonic and Lio meet ambitious students hunting their next chapter. Free. Lio Office, Seidlstraße 23.

• Founders for Good AfterWork Kick-off - Founders for Good 🌱 | From 6:30 PM: A new afterwork series for founders building with purpose. Impact minded founders, a good drink, conversations past the KPI dashboard. Aera Loft, Lindwurmstraße 43.

• annieannie Design Market - annieannie studio 🛍️ | 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM: Independent designers, makers and small labels under one roof. Friday night opening, Saturday from 4 PM. The Christmas list starts here. annieannie studio.

Saturday 7th

• LongRun: Croissants et Crémants - Results May Vary x Coucou Food Market 🥐 | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM: Every first Saturday: long run first, community second, croissants and crémant as the reward. The most civilised kind of cardio. Coucou Food Market, Viktualienmarkt.

• Riviera Records turns 6 - Riviera Records 💿 | From 12:00 PM: Six years of one of Munich’s favourite record stores. Crates, DJs and the city’s music heads under one roof from noon. Cake optional, vinyl not. ZIRKA.

• AAHHH Takeover - commonfriends 🪩 | 9:00 PM – 3:00 AM: Munich summer is over, commonfriends isn’t. One more night, maybe the last of the year, maybe not. call.me.saesh, Noah Kulaga and Kinniks on the lineup. Munich.

Sunday 8th

• MUVE Sunday Social Run - MUVE 🏃‍♀️ | From 10:00 AM: MUVE moves its weekly run to Sundays. Six kilometres at an easy pace, coffee after. The Sunday reset Munich’s founder crowd didn’t know it needed. Ryzon Store.

• “In My Head” - Museum Brandhorst 🎨 | From 10:00 AM: Wolfgang Tillmans, Kara Walker, Nicole Eisenman, Deana Lawson and four more, one room each. Sunday admission is €1. Best euro you’ll spend all week. Museum Brandhorst.

• Hytte Opening Run - Hytte Studios x RuckZuck Run Club 🌲 | 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM: Hytte Studios opens in Munich and starts with a run. Around 6 km at an easy pace, then the doors open. Nordic wellness, finally in Munich. Hytte Studios, Am Kartoffelgarten.

Monday 9th

• Frontier Research Club: Munich Launch - the frontier syndicate 🔬 | 2:30 PM – 7:30 PM: Rigorous technical talk at the frontier of AI. Researchers from frontier labs, Stanford and Berkeley. Paper discussion first, then dinner. Location after RSVP. Munich.

• Open Source and Data & AI Meetup - Dremio x SAP 💻 | 5:00 PM – 8:30 PM: Dremio, now an SAP company, hosts an open source afterwork. Lakehouses, data, AI and the engineers who run them in production. Worth the trip to Garching. SAP Labs Munich, Garching.

• Startup Pitch Night: Aerospace, Defence & Cyber 🎯 | 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Europe’s defence and security startups are raising first rounds right now. Founders meet investors who want in early. Location after RSVP. Munich.

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