Coffee & Connect
Recurring evening gatherings in Lahore's coffee shops, with about 50 founders, professionals and entrepreneurs at each session. Now open to a small number of founding partners.
Most of Lahore's best conversations still happen after the panels wrap.
Lahore's startup and business community keeps growing, but most of its best conversations still happen informally, after the panels and pitch stages are done.
Coffee & Connect is built around that gap: recurring evening gatherings at coffee shops across the city, with about 50 professionals, founders and entrepreneurs at each session.
It gives a partner brand direct, meaningful visibility in front of that room, with the option of a featured guest slot for a partner's leadership at one of the sessions.
The format
An evening networking series held in Lahore's coffee shops.
Format
A relaxed, conversation first evening at a coffee shop. No stage, no stiff panels, just good coffee and real connections.
Audience
Around 50 professionals, founders and entrepreneurs from Lahore's startup and business community per session.
Cadence
A recurring series, not a one off, building a consistent room of the same engaged crowd.
Vibe
Community first, informal and memorable. The kind of evening people talk about and come back to.
Why partner with this series
What a room like this can do for a brand people already admire.
On site brand visibility
Partner branding and signage front and centre at every session, the same presence sponsor banners get at flagship startup events.
The right room
Founders, entrepreneurs and operators. Precisely the audience a growing brand wants in front of it.
A voice on the floor
A featured moment for your CEO or team to speak directly to an engaged, curious crowd. No big stage required.
Founding partner status
Be the name attached to the series from session one, as it grows into a recurring fixture in Lahore's events calendar.
This isn't a first attempt
Coffee & Connect is built on rooms that already worked: UnMixer at Caby & Byke, the Startup World Cup Pakistan Qualifiers, a Women's Day iftar and panel, the Knitting 2.0 hangouts and a Learn 2 Ride brand activation.
What we're proposing
A simple, flexible ask, shaped around what works best for the right partner.
- Sponsor one or more Coffee & Connect sessions in the first season
- A guest slot for a partner's CEO or team member at a session, if timing allows
- Partner branding on invites, signage and social promotion around each event
- Open to shaping the package: sponsorship, co hosting, or something in between
- Format
- Evening coffee shop networking
- Audience
- About 50 founders and professionals a session
- Cadence
- A recurring series across Lahore
- The ask
- Founding sponsors and partners
Let's build this together
Open to a small number of founding partners for the first season.