Come kickoff our weekly Thursday Gathering, and connect with your community here at Venture Café St. Louis! We provide the space, complimentary beverages, and all the vibes for a socially engineered evening of improving the human condition through innovation. Join us!

Do you have the arm of a legend? The accuracy of a future hall of famer? Well then show your stuff in our game Snowball Throw! You’ll pair up with other attendees to try and outclass and out-throw the opposing team and see who could compete with Buddy The Elf himself!

Time to move and groove Venture Cafe! This game has you trying to use your best dance moves to get all of the ping pong balls from an empty Kleenex box that is tied to your waist! Shakira asked you and so will I, do those hips lie?

Venture Cafè wants to congratulate and celebrate some members of our community who’ve contributed to the mission that Venture was made for. Come help us toast to innovation and it’s champions this year!

Wrapping Presents is such a skill that people have made their entire careers around it! For this activity you’ll just us if your present wrapping skills could pass the holiday bar! You’ll wrap up a team member as best as you can and the audience will judge the best wrapped present!

Last night was our very first, Venture Cafe Townhall. We opened up the space for all attendees, new & old to tell us what the future of Venture Cafe St. Louis looks like to them! Accompanying that was an open discussion about the tangible and actionable things that Venture Cafe can do and look for in our community to move toward that future!

It was a busy and ambitious week here in St. Louis as many of you know! Startup Week kicked off on Monday and it lit the city up with innovation and incredible trendsetters that are setting the precedent for what our ecosystem will look like in the coming years. Let's get into what you missed at our Thursday Gathering, STL Startup Week Showcase!

The “signature event” of STL Startup Week will be its STL Startup Showcase, scheduled for 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, at Cortex. The event is being put on in partnership with Venture Cafe St. Louis.

A look at how the landscape is evolving across the metro area

Venture Cafe partnered with Filament LLC to help them host Thinksgiving®, this was a night full of innovation and collaboration that we love to see as apart of the community here in St. Louis! Before getting into the recap of what you might've missed during this event, we just want to extend a thank you to the team over at Filament for allowing us to be apart of their fantastic day. Without further ado . . .

Happy Halloween everyone! Well we know it's not Halloween yet but, we are close enough that we feel like it's warranted! Despite the festivities being right around the corner, Venture Cafe continued with our final gathering under the Sustainability & Wellness theme that we have planned for October. The final gathering of Preventive Self-Care was a smash hit, so let's get into what you might've missed!