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The Top Floor: Sunset Rooftop Mixer 🌇

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Saturday, September 12, 2026, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Builders Club, 165 King Street West, Kitchener, Kitchener

Hosted by Sunny Wu, Navreet Pabla, Hur Abbas Merchant, Sip & Scale Waterloo, Builders Club, Jay Chopra, Waterloo Tech Week


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Secure your spot here. This step is mandatory for approval.If your spot is not approved, your full payment will be refunded within one week - we only charge you once you're officially in.Waterloo Tech Week starts here - on a rooftop, at golden hour, with the region's most ambitious builders in one place before the week officially begins.Sip & Scale is bringing its first-ever Waterloo event to the Builders Club rooftop, and we're kicking off Tech Week with the best possible view of the city.When you walk in, you'll find🌇 The Kitchener skyline going gold as the sun drops🍽️ Dinner with a variety of choices + dessert once the skyline's dark🎧 A DJ setting the mood📸 Photographers and videographers catching the night🎨 An artist drawing your portrait live💸 A $50 giveaway - be there and you'll figure out how🖼️ A custom selfie frame for the gram!💡 The exact conversations you came to Tech Week hoping to haveThis isn't a stand-around-with-a-name-tag kind of night. It's the everyone from the whole week, together on night one, when everyone's still fresh and the energy's highest. Designers next to ML engineers next to founders next to creators - different lanes colliding on purpose, because that's where the good ideas (and good co-founders) come from.Who's in the room✦ Founders - from first-timers with an MVP to people closing their Series B rounds.✦ Waterloo's best students - engineers, designers, and CS talent from UWaterloo and Laurier already shipping side projects and startups.✦ Operators & creators - early builders at the startups everyone's about to hear about, and people with real audiences online.✦ The wider ecosystem - investors, accelerators, and leaders from across Canada and beyond.These are people who'll be running companies, leading teams, and writing the checks - soon, if not already. You want to know them now, and you want them to know you.The teams behind itSip & Scale - A global community for founders and builders going from 0 → 1, running curated dinners, mixers, and socials across 35 cities. 1,500+ builders, 30 universities, and now Waterloo.Stanley by Stan (hiring) - Stanley is your AI Head of Content, giving you the chance to automate your growth and focus on building your brand and company. We’re giving everyone who attends this event a month free of Stanley Pro! Excited to see you all there.Interfaze (YC P26) (hiring) - A new model architecture for deterministic tasks achieving the highest accuracy, precision and consistency for tasks like OCR, Audio understanding, Structured Data Extraction and more.Motherboard Repair Canada + Graphics Repair - This event is facilitated with support from Motherboard Repair Canada & Graphics Repair, helping keep Waterloo’s builder community moving. They provide advanced electronics repair including data recovery, GPU repair, BGA rework, and Apple product repairs atOro - Most of us dread the moments where dressing suddenly matters - the first date, the interview, the meeting that could change everything. Oro is the personal stylist that makes sure you never show up wrong. There's a secret prize for best dressed - use your unfair advantage and download Oro.Builders Club - This event is hosted at Builders Club, the private clubhouse in downtown Kitchener where the region's most serious builders actually work with support from Motherboard Repair Canada. This place is home to founders like Joseph Fung (three exits and counting) and teams like AllMind ($2M+ ARR), and it's not somewhere you can just walk into. But for one night, their rooftop is ours - and you're on it.Good to know👕 Dress: business casual, rooftop-ready - come as the best version of you. There's a prize on the line for best dressed ;)📱 Bring: yourself and a charged phone.⏰ Timing: doors at 7. Come early! Golden hour is the whole point, and there's only so much space.🎁 Swag: exclusive merch from our partners for early arrivals. Get there early and grab yours before it's gone.A couple of notes📸 There'll be photographers and videographers capturing the night for recaps - by coming through, you're cool with being in a few shots we and our partners might share.🎟️ Being shortlisted holds your place, but it isn't a seat until you RSVP below. Lock it in so we know to expect you.💬 Questions? Text Sunny.You're on the shortlistYou texted Stanley, he liked what he saw, and he pulled you for this room - out of everyone who wanted in. That's not nothing. Admission is free and the room is capped at 100, so the last step is yours: lock in your spot below before it's gone.Let's build something real.IG @sipnscale · sipnscale.co

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