🎾 FOMO Munich: Founder × VC Padel at Slush with b2venture, 500 Global & co | 10.11 - 16.11

Hey FOMO Munich 👋

Slush is next week, and we’re taking the Munich crowd north.

On Tue. Nov. 17, FOMO and Startup Berlin open Court Zero: Founder × VC Padel Night in Helsinki. Our pre-party before Slush turns into beautiful chaos. 4:30 PM to 8 PM, mixed doubles drawn on site, a DJ, drinks, and a Finnish sauna and ice bath. The real networking happens at 90°C.

The investors on court: b2venture (DeepL, 1KOMMA5°, SumUp), 500 Global, revent, eCAPITAL (sonnen, Novaled) and Vireo Ventures. Sponsored by Holvi. This edition has one job: putting founders and VC principals on the same court before the calendars fill up. 275 already signed up. Never held a racket? You’re in.

Berlin, Munich, Cape Town. 10+ sold-out editions. Next stop: Helsinki. Grab your spot.

Staying in Munich? Tomorrow at 7:30 AM, we run the English Garden with EWOR and 10x Founders at our Founder & Investor Running Club. EWOR’s fellowship is open too.

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.

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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 💙 (10.11 - 16.11):

FOMO top picks of the week 🔥

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

• supersummit#5 - superangels 🦄 | Wednesday, 8:30 AM – 6:45 PM: superangels takes the 14th floor of Ten Towers for a full day with angels, VCs and LPs. Keynotes from Productsup and Oceanflight, portfolio pitches from Beyond Presence and foom, plus booked 1:1s. Only 220 seats. The view helps. Ten Towers.

• Robot Learning Munich: Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics - Robot Learning Munich 🤖 | Wednesday, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Engineers and scientists from Agile Robots, Intrinsic, Sereact, RobCo and TUM around one dinner table. No talks, no keynotes, no agenda. Just robot learning shop talk. Fifteen seats, PhD students welcome. Apply fast. Munich.

• Alex Katz + Günter Fruhtrunk: even colors depend on each other - Walter Storms Galerie 🎨 | Nov. 13 – Jan. 16: Fifteen Alex Katz portraits of women meet fifteen Fruhtrunk screenprints, plus canvases by both. A New York icon and a German master of colour bands, in dialogue at Walter Storms. Proof that colours depend on each other. Walter Storms Galerie.

Tuesday 10th

• FOMO Founder & Investor Running Club - FOMO x EWOR x 10x Founders 🏃 | 7:30 AM – 9:30 AM: Our own monthly run, now in Munich. Five to six kilometres through the English Garden, paced by Nico from 10x Founders and Gülce from EWOR. Founders, operators and investors, then coffee. Rain is likely. Excuses are not. English Garden.

• TUM.ai Founders Campus Run × Florian Scherl - TUM.ai 🥐 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Florian Scherl went from the very first TUM.ai E-Lab to €600k+ ARR with explaino.ai, now backed by EWOR and Sigma Squared. Hear how over an easy campus run, then coffee and croissants. Lunch break, upgraded. TUM.ai, Garching.

• Female Founders Circle x InnovationsCafé - SCE x Bitkom Get Started 👩‍💼 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: How do female founders win customers and land investors? Bitkom's Get Started and the Strascheg Center put founders and investors on one panel, then hand the mic to the room. Free, one ticket each. Bring your sharpest question. SCE Creative Hall.

• AI APÉRO Munich #7 - MINDMASH x ICAA 🍸 | 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM: ICAA's AI Apéro returns for edition seven. Washington hangovers, Wall Street tremors and Anthropic's looming float, unpacked over cocktails in a gallery bar. AI talk for people who find AI talk boring. Dress for November mist. Graf Rumford Bar & Galerie.

• Inspiration & Talk: What Olympia Could Set in Motion for Munich - Munich Urban Colab 🏟️ | 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM: Munich wants the Summer Games in 2036, 2040 or 2044. The city's sports chief, MCube, ABG and Urban Partners debate what Olympia would unlock for transport, housing and investors, and what it could cost. Wine at Flash Gordon after. Munich Urban Colab.

• BIPoC Media Meet-up - Media Lab Bayern 📣 | 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM: Amira and Marius Ismann, the siblings behind cleo collective, on building community structures for BIPoC creatives in Munich. Founders, creators and freelancers from the media scene, then networking. Free, allies welcome as guests. Media Lab Bayern.

Wednesday 11th

• Revenue for Breakfast #6: How Trust Accelerates Revenue Growth - Revenue for Breakfast ☕ | 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM: The Berlin original keeps growing its Munich chapter. Julian Hertzog, Head of Sales at Secfix, on why trust is the most underrated lever in B2B revenue. Coffee, croissants and sales leaders, before the inbox wins. House of Communication.

• Venture Leaders Cleantech 2026 - venturelab x 3DEXPERIENCE Lab 🌱 | From 5:00 PM: Switzerland's national startup team lands in Munich. Ten handpicked cleantech founders on venturelab's roadshow meet Bavarian investors and corporates at Dassault Systèmes' lab. Climate tech, delivered with Swiss precision. 3DEXPERIENCE Lab.

• Failure Analysis Side Event @ SEMICON Europe - QuantumDiamonds 💎 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM: SEMICON Europe is in town and QuantumDiamonds opens its new Munich labs. See the quantum sensing tools behind next generation chip failure analysis, then food and drinks. Conveniently on the way home from Messe. QuantumDiamonds, Munich.

Thursday 12th

• Industry Tech Day Munich - Google x Agile Robots x KNAPP 🏭 | 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM: Fourteen companies across four Munich sites, from Google's Safety Engineering Center to Agile Robots and KNAPP. Real use cases for AI in logistics and production, with shuttles between stops. A factory tour for the AI era. Google Safety Engineering Center.

• Verticals Summit 2026 - SME Tech Leaders 🧩 | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM: SME Tech Leaders host an invite only day on vertical SaaS and AI in Europe. Panels on moats when AI makes software cheap, fireside chats on cracking the US and building for industries that never asked for software. Munich.

• One Orbit: The Connected New Space Ecosystem - 3DEXPERIENCE Lab 🛰️ | 3:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Who connects with whom in New Space? Dassault Systèmes' lab gathers ESA BIC Bavaria, startups and research institutes to map Munich's space ecosystem and where the next partnerships form. Then networking, feet firmly on the ground. 3DEXPERIENCE Lab.

• Opportunity Hunters Talks - UnternehmerTUM x MAN 🔍 | 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM: Hubert Altschäffl, CHRO and board member at MAN Truck & Bus, on driving innovation inside a big industrial company. The wins, the wrong turns, what shaped him. Then UnternehmerTUM sends you hunting for your own. UnternehmerTUM, Garching.

• THE TABLE - Bumble x Early Bird 🍱 | 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM: Bumble and Early Bird set one long table for 48 curated singles at IBASHO. No speed dating, no forced rotations, just a Japanese dinner and real conversation. Free, Bumble profile required. Love, but make it omakase. IBASHO, Schwanthalerhöhe.

• 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.

• 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.

FOMO Upcoming Top Events & Opportunities 💯

• Tue. Nov. 17: creative connections - annieannie studio 🪡 | Time via link: annieannie studio, home of Munich's favourite independent design market, opens its doors for creative connections. Designers, makers and creatives from across the city in one room. The kind of room where collaborations start. annieannie studio.

• Thu. Nov. 19: Women Startup Pitch Night & Award Ceremony 2026 - UnternehmerTUM 🏆 | 5:30 PM – 9:30 PM: The finalists of Bavaria's Women Startup Award pitch their tech startups to a jury after months of coaching. Winners announced live, with prizes from seed + speed, IHK and AI Nation. Founders, investors and Women Startup Angels in one room. Munich Urban Colab.

• Thu. Nov. 19: Munich Tech Sauna Meetup: Candlelight Night - Munich Tech Sauna 🕯️ | From 5:30 PM: Müller'sches Volksbad, lit by hundreds of candles. Munich's tech crowd swaps laptops for steam in one of Europe's most beautiful Art Nouveau baths. Sweat, chill, connect. Networking, but make it Jugendstil. Müller'sches Volksbad.

• Wed. Nov. 25: Startup Demo Night - BayStartUP x WERK1 🚀 | 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM: One of Munich's biggest startup nights is back. Around 700 founders, investors and corporates walk the TonHalle floor, testing prototypes and products straight from the teams that built them. Bring business cards and curiosity. TonHalle München.

• Thu. Nov. 26: Artist Talk with Zanele Muholi - Museum Brandhorst 📷 | From 6:30 PM: Zanele Muholi, the South African visual activist and 2026 Hasselblad Award laureate, talks at Brandhorst to mark the new issue of Der Greif. One of the most important photographers working today, live in Munich. Museum Brandhorst.

Friday 13th

• SheStartup: Women Founders - IHK München 💡 | 9:00 AM – 1:30 PM: IHK's morning for women thinking about founding or in their first years. Business plans, funding, succession and coaching, plus a panel of experienced female founders sharing what they wish they had known. Free. IHK München und Oberbayern.

• 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.

• TUNE. Miriam Adefris - Haus der Kunst 🎶 | From 8:00 PM: Haus der Kunst's TUNE. series hands the stage to Miriam Adefris for a live performance. Sound in one of Munich's most charged rooms, on a Friday night. Coffee with the artist follows Saturday afternoon, for the curious. Haus der Kunst.

Saturday 14th

• Female Founders Breakfast: Brunch Edition - Female Founders Breakfasts x Vita Systemic 🥂 | 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM: A Saturday brunch edition of Female Founders Breakfast with Vita Systemic. Founders, aspiring entrepreneurs and impact leaders on sustainability and health through a holistic lens. Men welcome too. Brunch beats the boardroom. Akasha Academy.

• Game Jam Munich - HACK//OPS 🎮 | 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM: Build a playable game in a day with Rosebud, Meshy and ElevenLabs, tool credits included. HACK//OPS feeds you all day and your game goes straight into the Chroma Awards. No coding needed. Just ideas and a laptop. Munich.

• World of Basketball - Team OBVS 🏀 | 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Team OBVS takes the court at BMW Welt. A 3x3 tournament from noon, a meet and greet with FC Bayern Basketball, a Papi DJ battle and the final at 5:30 PM. Free guestlist, first come, first served. Sneakers mandatory. BMW Welt.

Monday 16th

• Powering the Future: Start-Up Day - TUM Venture Labs x e-conversion 🔋 | From 9:30 AM: e-conversion and TUM Venture Labs on turning energy research into companies. Keynotes, a panel on who gets venture capital and the gender funding gap, a pitch battle and founder success stories. Science, monetised. GALILEO Science Congress Center, Garching.

• 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.

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