The OpenCoffee Club is an open concept originated in 2007[1]inLondon by Saul Klein,[2][3][4] one of the founders of Skype. The goal was to encourage entrepreneurs, developers and investors to become acquainted with each other in informal gatherings so that the investment industry become more transparent and thus to encourage entrepreneurship.[5]
Meetings are held worldwide every week at over 100 locations as the timing and content varies by city.[6] There is no single database of Open Coffee groups: The Ning group founded by Saul Klein is inactive, but events can be found on Meetup.com, Facebook and websites such as https://www.open-coffee.nl. There are active groups in Krakow Poland that has been running from 2012 to the present, Lisbon, Portugal since late 2021, Ericeira, Portugal since spring 2023, Sydney, Australia since summer 2023.
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