Top 14 Professional Communities & Events Companies (October 2026)

Beijing, Beijing, China

Operator of an online network designed to cater the needs of software developers and professionals. The company's network provides life-cycle services such as knowledge dissemination, online learning, career development, training, social website based employment and conference holding, enabling software developers to execute and meet their fundamental needs of learning while developing software.

Jackson's Point, Ontario, Canada

Provider of an online social community intended to be used to reach qualified candidates. The company's online social community offers its members with access to shared knowledge on practices, trends and industry news to develop their people and also provides access to various articles, case studies, newsletters, surveys and discussion forums, enabling Human Resource (HR) professionals to reach the right candidate for their client companies.

San Francisco, California, United States

The Athena Alliance is a community that propels leaders to build impact, particularly focused on providing resources and support for women leaders and aspiring board directors. It operates a SaaS-based executive education platform that offers networking, coaching, and educational resources to support career advancement and leadership development.

San Francisco, California, United States

tech job platform

Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile

LabLab is an initiative designed to support and stimulate the modern artificial intelligence ecosystem and the innovators behind it. It offers resources, hackathons, and collaboration for developers and researchers.

San Francisco, California, United States

The global community bringing together AI founders and builders, investors, and partners to connect and collaborate.

New York, New York, United States

Pavilion is a membership community and events organization for go-to-market executives and rising leaders, founded in 2019 by Sam Jacobs in Austin, Texas. The company began as a dinner club for chief revenue officers and VPs of sales in New York City and grew organically through word-of-mouth and social media into a global organization with chapters across the United States and internationally, reaching more than 10,000 members. In 2021, Pavilion raised $25 million from Elephant Ventures at a post-money valuation of approximately $100 million to $105 million, having grown ARR from $1 million to $4 million in a single year. The capital infusion prompted a significant expansion into product and engineering, a large B2B sales organization, and Pavilion University, a learning platform. Those bets proved oversized relative to the business, and Pavilion moved from 30 percent EBITDA margins in 2020 and 2021 to burning capital through 2022 and 2023. By early 2024, Jacobs had restructured the business, cutting headcount from 62 full-time employees to 27, shutting down an internal software build in favor of the third-party Hivebrite platform, and returning the company to cash-flow positive operations. Pavilion entered 2024 with a stated 15 percent growth rate, a 4-to-1 LTV-to-CAC ratio on both its corporate and individual membership lines, and a strategic focus on member onboarding and retention rather than aggressive new-member acquisition.

United States

Coho helps senior designers tackle their hardest career challenges—together. When you’re the only design leader in the room, who do you turn to? Coho matches you with a small, curated group of peers at the same career stage to solve the problems no one else gets, team struggles, leadership decisions, and navigating the politics of design. How it works: - Groups of 6, carefully matched by career stage and shared challenges. - Meet every two weeks for 12 weeks. - Continue the conversation async in a private group chat, with AI pulling together agendas and surfacing what matters most. Why it works: Because senior designers need peers, not more advice. Coho gives you the people, space, and structure to work through decisions with others who’ve been there. What you’ll take away: - Clearer thinking about your next steps. - Insights that help you make decisions faster. - A group of peers you can trust. From a member: “Coho has been instrumental in helping me grow as a leader and navigate key decisions.” — Tim, UX Lead You don’t have to figure this out alone. Let Coho find you your group.

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

BAINSA is the new Student Association in Bocconi focusing on AI and Neuroscience. BAINSA’s methodology of bringing students into close contact with the latest technologies in AI is two-fold, in line with the two main divisions in BAINSA: - Research: we match published researchers in Artificial Intelligence...

Brooklyn, New York, United States

RevGenius is a free Slack-based community for sales, marketing, and revenue operations professionals, founded in June 2020 by Jared Robin and a co-founder named Gail. The business is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, and operates on a sponsorship-driven model in which brands pay for access to community events, the Slack group, and newsletter placements rather than charging members. The company grew from 38 founding LinkedIn members to more than 15,000 registered professionals in roughly one year, generating projected revenue of $500,000 in 2021 from approximately 20 to 40 paying sponsors. Sponsor contracts range from $9,000 per quarter to $100,000 or more per year depending on programming scope and category exclusivity. Robin, a 15-year sales veteran, bootstrapped the business with a four-person full-time team and self-assessed the company's value at $10,000,000 in mid-2021, citing community size, revenue trajectory, and a total addressable market he estimated at 60 million LinkedIn sales professionals.