Founder
Ilias Anwar
Ilias Anwar is the founder of Anwar Events, a community for community builders. With over a decade building communities and events, he brings founders, investors, and creators together across NYC, SF, and LA.
- Founder of Anwar Events, a community for community builders
- Over a decade building communities and events
- 600+ events hosted across New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles
- Tens of thousands of founders, investors, and creators in the network
Ilias Anwar is the founder of Anwar Events, a community built for the people who build communities. Over more than a decade of building communities and events, he has become one of the most recognized connectors in the startup world, gathering founders, investors, and creators who each run communities of their own.
Under his leadership, Anwar Events has grown to tens of thousands of members and hosted more than 600 events across New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. The community throws its own recurring series, from intimate founder dinners to live mixers and an annual creator festival, all designed to put the right people in the same room.
Ilias believes that community is the quiet advantage behind every enduring company, fund, and creative career. His work focuses on curating rooms where genuine relationships form, where introductions turn into term sheets, hires, partnerships, and lasting friendships.
Whether he is hosting a seated dinner for founders and investors or bringing the whole community together for a live event, Ilias Anwar is focused on one thing: reaching the operators who reach everyone else.