December 2025’s Top Startup Events in Boston

Boston’s wrapping up the year with momentum and the startup community is showing up strong. December is packed with events that bring founders, investors, students, and ecosystem builders together for everything from intentional planning to real, relationship-driven connection.

Startup Boston is kicking off the month with two community-powered experiences:

• From Chaos to Cadence: Building a Founder Schedule That Actually Works (Dec 3) – A practical, no-fluff panel where founders and startup leaders share how they’ve designed their time, habits, and systems to move from reactive chaos to focused execution.

• She Builds Boston: Brewing Bold Ideas (Dec 10) – A monthly coffee meetup for female founders and women in growth mode, designed for honest conversations, real connection, and community without the pressure of panels or pitches.

From there, the month continues with invite-only investor gatherings, student innovation mixers, career showcases, founder workshops, and scenic community hikes — all designed to help you close out the year strong and step into 2026 with real momentum.

December’s Top Startup Events

VC Village December Holiday Edition

DATE: Tuesday, December 2 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm

ORGANIZER: VC Village

LOCATION: Boston, Massachusetts; Register Here

VC Village Holiday Edition brings together Boston’s active investors for an exclusive, invite-only networking experience. Angels, Principals, GPs, FoFs, and LPs will connect in a high-trust setting designed for real relationship-building. Attendance is limited to investors actively deploying capital into startups and funds.

From Chaos to Cadence: Building a Founder Schedule That Actually Works

DATE: Wednesday, December 3 from 9am - 10am 

ORGANIZER: City of Boston and Startup Boston

LOCATION: Virtual; Register Here

In this panel conversation, founders and startup leaders will share how they’ve learned to design their year for impact - creating schedules and habits that turn chaos into progress. We’ll unpack how to plan 2026 around your biggest goals, translate strategy into weekly execution, and build the accountability loops that keep you and your team aligned all year long.

Cross University Student Innovators (CUSI) Mixer @ BU

DATE: Thursday, December 4 from 5:30pm - 7:30pm

ORGANIZER: Boston University 

LOCATION: Boston University, Brookline, Massachusetts; Register Here

Meet other entrepreneurial students at the Cross-University Innovation Mixer! This is a great opportunity to build meaningful connections with innovative and entrepreneurial students from local universities. The event is open to all backgrounds and interests — tech, arts, social impact, and more.

Museum of Science Careers of Tomorrow 

DATE: Saturday, December 6 from 9am to 4pm

ORGANIZER: Museum of Science  

LOCATION: Museum of Science, Boston, MA; Register Here

The Museum of Science will be hosting an event called “Careers of Tomorrow 2025”. Its aim is to focus on supporting equitable workforce development in STEM careers. The showcase includes a job fair, mentorship opportunities, panels, talks, activities, headshots, and more throughout the Museum of Science. 

Slicing Pie: Splitting Equity Fairly amongst your Startup Team

DATE: Tuesday, December 9 from 5pm to 7pm 

ORGANIZER: Startup Grind

LOCATION: 500 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts; Register Here

Are you starting a bootstrapped business with co-founders? Do you plan on bringing on partners, employees, or advisors in the future? Are you hoping to pay them with equity instead of cash? Join Mike Moyer, author of The Slicing Pie Handbook and Will Work for Pie for a seminar about how to use a dynamic equity split formula to create a perfectly fair equity split among co-founders. Learn how to fairly allocate equity and fairly recover equity if someone leaves the company.

She Builds Boston: brewing bold ideas

DATE: Wednesday, December 10 from 9:30am to 11:00am

ORGANIZER: Startup Boston

LOCATION: shared upon invite confirmation; Request Invite Here

This monthly coffee mixer brings together female founders and women in growth mode for real conversations, genuine connections, and community. It’s not a panel or a pitch - just coffee, collaboration, and shared lessons from women actively building and scaling companies. This meetup is exclusively for founders and co-founders of tech, hardware, life sciences, and product-based startups.

Life Science Hikers - Boston Edition - December Hike

DATE: Sunday, December 14 from 10am - 12pm 

ORGANIZER: Life Science Hikers

LOCATION: Lincoln, MA; Register Here

Join the Boston Life Science Hikers community for the final 2025 hike, a scenic 4.3-mile loop from Mount Misery to Walden Pond. This relaxed, late-fall outing is a chance to celebrate the season, connect with fellow life science professionals, and enjoy peaceful trails and shoreline views. Bring water, warm layers, and sturdy shoes — and kids and leashed dogs are welcome.

Boston Venture Finance Summit

DATE: Wednesday, December 17, all day 

ORGANIZER: VenCapital 

LOCATION: Boston, MA; Register Here - use the code SBW@BVF2025 for 80% discount on tickets 

The VenCapital Boston Summit titled “Navigating 2025 Exit Drought” is a gathering of emerging fund managers and allocators. With over 250 attendees, 30+ speakers, 150+ investors, and 50+ corporates, the event offers substantial opportunities for networking and collaboration. The focus is on addressing the challenges of limited exits and connecting fund managers with allocators and corporates to find new paths forward.

Golden Seeds Boston Office Hours

DATE: Thursday, December 18 from 9am to 12pm 

ORGANIZER: Golden Seeds

LOCATION: Virtual; Register Here 

Thank you for your interest in attending an upcoming Golden Seeds Office Hours session. Participation is limited to companies with a female entrepreneur in a senior management role, and please note that Golden Seeds invests only in for-profit businesses (nonprofits are welcome to attend, but are not eligible for funding). Space is limited, so we encourage you to register early.

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About the author: Nicholas Ewing is a graduate of UMass Lowell in Business Administration: International Business. He is a practice coordinator at Tufts Medical Center in Framingham. His hobbies include writing stories and going for walks in nature. You can connect with him here.