A space for the world’s most ambitious creatives

SF Make-a-thon

Location: San Francisco, CADate: July 30, 2026

make-a-thon for SF's best designers, engineers, and builders. cash prizes and judges to be announced.

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⭐ The Collective is a community for the world's most ambitious young people.

⭐ Design Meetup is a space for restless designers, creatives, and builders who believe growth happens together.

⭐️ The Hackathon Company runs the world's most elite hackathons.

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⭐ AngelList is the premier platform for startup investing and fund management, empowering venture funds and syndicates to raise, deploy, and manage capital seamlessly. It powers the infrastructure behind modern venture, connecting top investors with the most promising startups.

⭐ SVB is a specialized financial institution focused on serving the technology, life science, healthcare, and venture capital industries.

⭐ Cloudflare is the agentic developer platform. Built to run any workflow, any AI model, and any idea at the edge. Powering 20% of the internet, Cloudflare gives developers the fastest path to build for the agent era.

⭐ CopilotKit is the agentic frontend stack & the company behind the AG-UI protocol. This protocol has been adopted by Google, Microsoft, AWS, LangChain & more, making it the easiest path for bringing AI functionality (like Generative UI) to full stack applications.

⭐ Lovart is the world's first AI design agent. You and Lovart, one canvas: brainstorm, build, and polish anything from brand identities to campaigns to video, all in one place. Tell it what you're going for and shape the results as you would with a creative partner. Try it at lovart.ai!

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About

We are a community of the world’s most ambitious young creatives.

In December 2025, Design Meetup was just an idea. A month later, we hosted our first event with 50 designers. Now, we’ve brought together over 10,000 people across countless events in NYC, LA, and the Bay Area.

A note from the Design Meetup team

Our story

We created Design Meetup to build the design community our younger selves wish existed: curated, ambitious, and focused on growth.

We’d love to grow it alongside partners who believe in the future of design. Join us!

Directors, Events & Partnerships

Graphics Leads

Internal Community Lead

Applications
opening soon

We'll be opening up applications for the next Design Meetup member cohort soon. If you're a student or early career designer, we'd love to meet you.

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