A community for
young Asian founders & creators

We host a curated series of events in New York City and San Francisco designed to form genuine, long-lasting relationships—think small meetups, dinner parties, happy hours, game nights, and more. We value authenticity and creating impact at scale.

Dinner Parties
Game nights
Community
Happy Hours
Meetups
Spotlights
Dinner Parties
Game nights
Community
Happy Hours
Meetups
Spotlights

Our community.
By the numbers.

$200M

in capital
raised

>100

founder and creators

20M+

followers across creators

Past Events

Testimonials

Brandon Hong
Brandon Hong
Creator @ BH Insights

"I can honestly say that I've made some of the best friends that I've had in New York through Asian Founders Club. The curation is great. The quality of the people, in terms of their ambitions, integrity, and values are so aligned with what I'm looking for in a friendship. There are people who are not only very driven, but genuine people who I can hang out with on a personal level.

In terms of the quality of the events themselves, I think the creativity, amount of planning, and attention to detail have been some of the best I've attended New York."

"I can honestly say that I've made some of the best friends that I've had in New York through Asian Founders Club. The curation is great. The quality of the people, in terms of their ambitions, integrity, and values are so aligned with what I'm looking for in a friendship. There are people who are not only very driven, but genuine people who I can hang out with on a personal level.

In terms of the quality of the events themselves, I think the creativity, amount of planning, and attention to detail have been some of the best I've attended New York."

Andrew Zhou
Andrew Zhou
Co-Founder of Kona

"The people that I've met through Asian Founders Club, I continue to keep in touch with them even six months later. These people are incredibly authentic and super impressive at a very young age. They're the kinds of people that I wanted to surround myself, but wasn’t able to find until I started going to AFC events. The organizers do a really good job curating the people, and not just in meeting them, but in really getting to know them.

I’m not a big networking person. There's a lot of tech events where it’s hard to meet anyone interesting because there’s so many people, or it feels transactional because it’s a networking event.

What I value is getting to know somebody on a much deeper level, especially somebody who truly understand the same struggles. I feel like AFC fills that gap. No other community has been able to hit that for me."

"The people that I've met through Asian Founders Club, I continue to keep in touch with them even six months later. These people are incredibly authentic and super impressive at a very young age. They're the kinds of people that I wanted to surround myself, but wasn’t able to find until I started going to AFC events. The organizers do a really good job curating the people, and not just in meeting them, but in really getting to know them.

I’m not a big networking person. There's a lot of tech events where it’s hard to meet anyone interesting because there’s so many people, or it feels transactional because it’s a networking event.

What I value is getting to know somebody on a much deeper level, especially somebody who truly understand the same struggles. I feel like AFC fills that gap. No other community has been able to hit that for me."

Yin Qi Xie
Yin Qi Xie
Founder of KoStudio

"Normally, I dread going to one-off networking events or founder dinners because most of the time, you don't actually meet people you truly connect and form a deeper relationship with. Everyone is on their own grind. New York City moves so fast, it can be really lonely.

But the crowd AFC brought together, everyone was genuinely so nice; I've never felt uncomfortable or scared at any of these events. I’ve met some pretty incredible people who I’m still good friends with to this day, so I’m very grateful for the events AFC has held."

"Normally, I dread going to one-off networking events or founder dinners because most of the time, you don't actually meet people you truly connect and form a deeper relationship with. Everyone is on their own grind. New York City moves so fast, it can be really lonely.

But the crowd AFC brought together, everyone was genuinely so nice; I've never felt uncomfortable or scared at any of these events. I’ve met some pretty incredible people who I’m still good friends with to this day, so I’m very grateful for the events AFC has held."

Spotlights

Sam Song Li
Comedy Creator & "The Brothers Sun" Star
Kenan Saleh
Co-Founder of Halo Cars (now Lyft Media)
Eric Zhu
Co-Founder of Aviato
Zehra Naqvi
Community Builder and Republic Investor
Saif Khawaja
Founder of Shinkei Systems (YC W22)
Elena Shinohara
Rhythmic Gymnast TikTok Creator, U.S. National Team Member
Khoi Le
Co-Founder of Fanhouse
Angad Arneja
Co-Founder of WOMBO
Brian Wu
Co-Founder of Daelus Space
Phoebe Yao
Founder of Pareto, Thiel Fellow
Annie Hwang
Co-Founder of Jemi (YC S20)
Jennifer Lee
Justin Kan's Executive Producer, Discord Moderator
Nikita Gupta
Co-Founder of Symba
Yash Khandelwal
Co-Founder of Hedge
Sam Song Li
Comedy Creator & "The Brothers Sun" Star
Kenan Saleh
Co-Founder of Halo Cars (now Lyft Media)
Eric Zhu
Co-Founder of Aviato
Zehra Naqvi
Community Builder and Republic Investor
Saif Khawaja
Founder of Shinkei Systems (YC W22)
Elena Shinohara
Rhythmic Gymnast TikTok Creator, U.S. National Team Member
Angelina Suwoto
Travel Creator
Jon Wang
Co-Founder of Shimmer (YC S21)
Alexander Wu
Co-Founder of Utopia Labs
Jennifer Lee
Justin Kan's Executive Producer, Discord Moderator
Nikita Gupta
Co-Founder of Symba
Yash Khandelwal
Co-Founder of Hedge

Our Members

Our Mission

Asian Founders Club started off as a newsletter, featuring young Asian founders and creators to inspire young people to innovate. Through that experience, we discovered the value of community for those forging their own paths. When you’re young, starting something can be lonely, unstable, and difficult to truly empathize with.

Being in NYC, we wanted to create an intimate space for young Asian founders and creators to feel seen and supported by other people who understand.

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