Expat founders · Istanbul

You’re not the only one building here.

Once a month, one table. 8 to 10 expat founders in Istanbul, hand-picked, over a long dinner — the conversations you moved abroad hoping to find.

Request a seat on WhatsApp

Next table — very soon

A long candlelit table on a terrace above the Bosphorus at night.

The idea

Building a company abroad is a strange kind of loneliness. The city is full — your calendar isn’t.

So once a month, we set one table for founders, freelancers and builders who chose Istanbul, and let dinner do the rest.

A founder alone, seen from behind, at a laptop in a dark apartment at night.

How it works

01
Request a seat

One short message: who you are, what you’re building, how long you’ve been here.
02
We curate the table

Eight to ten people, mixed on purpose — different industries, same situation. Never more.
03
Dinner happens

One long evening somewhere worth the trip. Confirmed guests get the date and the address.

No name tags.

No pitch decks.

No ‘networking’.

Just a good table.

Rhythm: Once a month
Table: 8–10 seats
Language: English spoken
Where: Venue shared with guests

The host

I’m Vincent.

23, French, building iOS apps solo from Istanbul — alongside a clothing brand and an Instagram account of 150K. I moved here with my girlfriend and exactly zero network — and I learned fast that building alone abroad is precisely as lonely as it sounds. Full days of work, a beautiful city, and nobody to talk to about any of it.

This dinner is the table I wished existed when I arrived. I’m not an events company — I’m the guy who books the restaurant, picks the guests, and sits down at the table with you.

Say hi — @vincent_betis

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