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

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Cephas from FOMO
June 09, 2026

Hey FOMO Munich 👋

The FOMO Berlin Super Week is here, and it's absolutely nuts. If you're not sure what we're talking about, take a look at everything happening across the city this week, we have collected over 75 events: https://www.superreturn.fomoberlin.com/

We're hosting four events before Friday alone: The SuperSalon Dinner, The Edge, Super Aperitivo II, and the BAD1 Conference Aftergathering. You can find all the details here: https://luma.com/fomoberlin

And once the event madness is over, I'm looking forward to Sunday, grabbing a drink, slowing down, and watching Germany play their first World Cup match - I can't wait!

So catch me if you can! :)

Our upcoming FOMO Events 🚨

  • Tue. Jun. 23: FOMO x HubSpot: The Orange Dinner Munich 🍊 | 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM: Off-the-record. One table. B2B founders, Jeffersonian format — candlelit ballroom, live pianist, no panels, no pitching. Apply via HubSpot for Startups

See you soon, Munich.

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The FOMO Munich week 💙 (9.6 - 15.6):
FOMO top picks of the week 🔥

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

  • Ecosystem Startup Reveal by UnternehmerTUM & BayStartUP 🚀 | Wednesday, 12:30 PM – 9 PM: 40+ startups. One stage. 200+ investors. Half out of XPRENEURS stealth, half actively fundraising. Walking pitch sessions, 12 speaker slots, and a full evening in TonHalle.

  • Investor & Founder Afterwork by identity.vc x Freiraum Ventures 🌈 | Thursday, 6 PM: Europe's first LGBTQ+ VC meets Munich's early-stage fund. No agenda. No pitches. Founders, investors, operators, summer evening.

  • Builders Club @TUM Hackathon 💡 | Friday, 1 PM – 6:30 PM: One-day education hackathon by Claude Builders Club @ TUM, backed by Anthropic. Theme: equal access to quality learning. $1,500 in API credits for the winning team. All backgrounds welcome. TUM München (address on approval).

Tuesday 9th

  • Healthcare Happy Hour – 10 years 🩺 | 6 PM – 8:30 PM: Ten years of Munich's healthcare networking ritual. Rapid 60-sec startup pitches, investors, MedTech, pharma, and clinicians in one room. The launch-pad for healthcare innovation — anniversary edition.

    Munich Co-Founder Matching 🤝 | 6 PM – 8 PM: Structured matchmaking for founders looking for the right person. Two rounds, then open networking. Idea-stage, team-gap, or just a drive to build — all welcome. S

Wednesday 10th

  • Ecosystem Startup Reveal by UnternehmerTUM & BayStartUP 🚀 | 12:30 PM – 9:00: 40+ startups. One stage. 200+ investors. Half out of XPRENEURS stealth, half actively fundraising. Walking pitch sessions, 12 speaker slots, and a full evening in TonHalle.

  • Healthy Gut, Healthy Glow ✨ | 6 PM: Wellness event exploring gut health, energy, skin, and wellbeing through expert talks, fermentation workshops, fermented food tasting, kombucha drinks, and exclusive goodie bags,

    Munich NLP x XPeng: Synthetic Data Generation 🧠 | 6 PM - 9 PM Two talks: synthetic dialogue generation for voice assistants (XPeng AI team) and multilingual LLM evaluation (LMU Munich MaiNLP Lab). Food and drinks at XPeng's office. Weimarer Str. 32, 80807 München.

  • FTL DeepDive @ Scalable Capital 📈 | 6 PM - 10 PM: Fintech Ladies Events goes behind the scenes at Scalable Capital. Head of Principal Trading on how they built market making from scratch. Head of Content on female investor behaviour data. Drinks included. €15. Seitzstraße 8e, München.

    Munich | Claude Code Meetup for Developers 🤖 | 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM: Technical edition of Munich's Claude Code series. Lightning talks: enterprise-ready AI agents, access control for Claude, integrating Claude Code into dev teams. Q&A + networking. München (address on approval).

Thursday 11th

  • RAGAZZI x CCC (Cycling Club Collective) 🎧 | 10:00 PM – 5:00 AM: Late-night club event featuring DJ collectives, house/techno sets, lineup performances, €8 entry at door.

  • Munich Builders Hub Night 🛠️ | 6 PM – 10 PM: First of a recurring AI builder co-working evening. Pre-matched teams, 2-hour build session on curated problem statements, then demos and feedback from the room. Lovable credits for all. Tacto, Sandstraße 33, München.

  • Streamfest Munich 📡 | 4:30 PM - 11 PM: For CTOs, Platform Leads, and Heads of Data who own data streaming in production. Rotating partner stations — 20 min each, no slides, real use cases. Networking on the Steadforce rooftop after. Westendstraße 193, München.

  • TechGames Poker/Catan/Chess 🃏 | 7 PM: Curated strategy game night for founders, operators, and investors. Hosted by an investor from Project A (€1.3B AUM). €10 poker, no rake. Chess and Catan too. Global series, vetted crowd.

  • Investor & Founder Afterwork by identity.vc x Freiraum Ventures 🌈 | 6 PM: Europe's first LGBTQ+ VC meets Munich's early-stage fund. No agenda. No pitches. Founders, investors, operators, summer evening.

FOMO Upcoming Top Events & Opportunities 💯

  • Tue. Jun. 16 – Wed. Jun. 17: EMEA Humanoid Robot Summit 2026 🤖 | Two-day conference: Europe's humanoid robotics summit. 30+ speakers from Infineon, Renesas, ams OSRAM, ZEISS, Regal Rexnord. 300+ delegates, innovation showcase, investor matchmaking. Leonardo Hotel Munich Arabellapark, München.

  • Wed. Jun. 17:SUMMER WINE PARTY by VENTECH 🍷 | 6 PM: Ventech VC's second Munich gathering. Founders, angels, co-investors — no panels, no pitches, no lanyards. Just the right people, French wine, and honest conversation. Spots limited. München (address on approval).

  • Thu. Jun. 18: The Royal Jungle München 🐅🔐| 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM: Entrepreneur networking event in a hidden Munich location featuring a surprise speaker, practical networking strategies, community building, and an access-controlled entry system. Password: DAVE-GRUTMAN Discount code: MAKE-MONEY

Friday 12th

  • SheStartup – Frauen gründen 👩‍💼 | 8:30 – 13:30: Morning summit for female founders and those considering the leap. Financing, legal basics, networks, and a founder panel. Hosted by IHK München. Free. Max-Joseph-Strasse 2, 80333 München.

  • mybacs Pop-Up Munich 🖤 | 11 AM – 7 PM: Your favorite gut health brand hits Munich for two days. Up to 15% off, free matcha and coffee on-site. Part of a summer tour across Munich, Hamburg, and Berlin. Reichenbachstraße 43, 80469 München.

  • Open Source Europe Tour – Munich 💾 | 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM: AI, data, and the modern lakehouse. Speakers from Dremio, Confluent, Fivetran on agentic AI, streaming pipelines, and Apache Iceberg. 140+ registered. Impact Hub Munich, Gotzinger Str. 8, München.

  • Builders Club @TUM Hackathon 💡 | 1 PM – 6:30 PM: One-day education hackathon by Claude Builders Club @ TUM, backed by Anthropic. Theme: equal access to quality learning. $1,500 in API credits for the winning team. All backgrounds welcome. TUM München (address on approval).

Saturday 13th

  • Scheck Club Morning Pilates & Padel Session 🎾✨ | 9:30 AM – 1:30 PM: Courtside mat Pilates, open-play padel, matcha, DJ sets, goodie bags, wellness morning experience,

  • {Tech: Europe} Munich AI Hackathon 🤖 | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM: 2-day AI hackathon bringing engineers, founders, researchers together to build, network, compete, win prizes, and learn from expert.

  • Munich City Birthday 868 🎉 | 10 AM - 11 PM: City-wide celebration with live music, cultural performances, local crafts, food stalls, kids’ games, workshops, family activities, free entry

Sunday 14th

  • Practice Effective Communication & Public Speaking 🎤 | 10:00 – 12:00: Bi-weekly Toastmasters meetup. Prepared speeches, impromptu table topics, structured feedback. Free for guests. Lunch and networking after. Can also join via Zoom. Ackermannbogen, Rosa-Aschenbrenner-Bogen 9, München.

  • Friends & Friends x LELANTUS Records Open Air 🎶 | 2:00 PM – 12:00 AM: Full-day open air with house, indie dance & melodic music, World Cup viewing, tattoo pop-up, afterparty, DJs, tiered entry pricing.

Monday 15th

  • CDTM Fireside Chat: General Badia a.D. 🔥 | 7 PM: Former NATO Deputy Supreme Allied Commander at CDTM. Europe's security future, tech sovereignty, and why founders matter in defense. Small, intimate setting. Drinks provided. Marsstraße 20, München.

  • 9th Munich Hardware Meetup ⚙️ | 6:30 PM –9:00: PM: HIL platforms, hardware systems, and CE compliance, from a decade of shipping real products. Two talks, honest lessons, and networking with Munich's hardware crowd. Dassault Systèmes, St.-Martin-Straße 82, München.

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