Mybzz vs Meetup: the room or the person?

Meetup is the veteran of offline networking: business breakfasts, founder meetups, industry nights in every major city. Mybzz approaches the same goal from the opposite end — instead of putting you in a room full of strangers, it matches you 1:1 with entrepreneurs relevant to your goals, and adds its own networking events on top. The real question isn’t which is “better” — it’s which gets you to the right person faster.

Meetup has been organizing local communities since 2002: someone creates a group, schedules events, and people show up. For business networking that means startup mixers, industry breakfasts and founder meetups in most cities — usually free or cheap to attend, with organizers paying a subscription to run groups.

Its weakness is everything that happens around the event. You don’t know who’s coming or whether anyone is relevant to your goals; quality varies wildly between groups; and when the event ends, the app gives you no way to keep networking — no profiles worth browsing, no matching, no reason to open it again until the next event.

Mybzz inverts that: the network is the product, and events are a feature. AI matching introduces you to relevant entrepreneurs every day, profiles are verified and built around business goals, and Mybzz events give you the face-to-face layer — with the difference that you already know who you want to meet there.