TC Investors · Minneapolis, St. Paul & the Cities
The room where the Cities build.
An invite-only room of the Twin Cities’ founders, operators, and investors deciding what AI does for their businesses, and for the city they’re building it in. Off the record, capped, and local to its bones.
58+
seats already taken
250
founding seats, then the founding class closes
2
vouches per member. Every seat is answered for
Four things you can’t get anywhere else in the Cities.
Every room, one calendar
We track every business, tech, and investor event across the Cities (Minneapolis, St. Paul, Bloomington, Edina, and out to Eden Prairie and Woodbury), refreshed daily, so you never hear about the good one after it happened.
The weekly briefing
One email: what’s worth your time this week, who’s gathering where, and what Twin Cities builders are actually doing with AI. Curated by people who go, never scraped-and-dumped.
A listing that means something
The member directory is vouched-for, not paid-for: the short list people check before they hire, fund, or partner around the Cities. Founding members hold their numbers permanently.
Private tables + introductions
Our own gatherings are members-only, off the record, and small on purpose: real numbers, real decisions, and the introduction you actually needed.
Since the Falls
The Cities have always been rebuilt by people who make things happen.
When the Mississippi’s only waterfall powered Minneapolis into the flour-milling capital of the world, the city rebuilt its biggest mill bigger within two years of losing it to an explosion. When a Navy codebreaking team quietly set up shop in a St. Paul glider factory in 1946, this became the country’s computing hub for four decades, Univac, Control Data, Cray, Honeywell, before Silicon Valley existed. When a hard winter made downtown unlivable, they built a second city one story up and kept working. TC Investors is where the people doing that now find each other.
This week around the Cities
The best local events to grow, or unwind.
The calendar refreshes daily from every chamber, tech council, and founder gathering around the Cities. Members get the full slate in the weekly briefing.
Community events belong to their hosts, we just make sure you know. Sources: the Minneapolis Regional Chamber, the St. Paul Area Chamber, the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, MnTech, Medical Alley Association, MinneAnalytics, Minnestar, and BETA.MN. Refreshed daily. Members get the full calendar weekly. Comedy is graded before it is listed: top-reviewed clubs, a named comedian on the bill, three a month, no open mics.
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Request or get vouched
Apply below, or arrive on a member’s invite link.
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A human review
Every request gets a real look: founders, operators, investors, and serious builders.
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Into the room
The briefing, the calendar, the directory, the private tables, and two invitations of your own.
Request an invitation
Every request gets a real human look. Founders, operators, investors, and serious builders across the Cities, if that’s you, say so plainly.
🐾 The nonprofit initiative behind this network
Every room we open is in direct partnership with Best‑Friend.org
Millions of healthy animals are put down simply because shelters run out of room. Best‑Friend.org is the world’s first decentralized nonprofit with a planned ending: it builds the system any community can install to solve shelter overcapacity, then disappears because it is no longer needed. It doesn’t ask anyone for money. Sharing is the donation.
That is what this network is ultimately for. The rooms build the businesses; the attention they earn goes to emptying the shelters.