Pitch and Run Prospect Park: Brooklyn Founders October 13

Pitch & Run - Prospect Park will bring the Pitch and Run community to Brooklyn on October 13, 2026, from 7:30 to 8:30am EDT. The organizers ask participants to meet at 7:25am at Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket, with introductions from 7:30 to 7:35am.

The listed hosts are Kevin Weatherman, Shahn Christian Andersen, Charlie O'Donnell and Jay Sehgal. The announced pace range starts around 9 minutes per mile and extends to 11 minutes per mile and slower. Photos and coffee are part of the described morning, while current registration and route information remain on the official page.

Pitch and Run describes its purpose as helping founders meet angels, VCs and other members of the startup community without the pressure of a formal pitch meeting. That is the organizing idea, not a guarantee that a particular investor will attend or that a conversation will lead to funding.

A Brooklyn morning with a clear starting point

The meeting location is Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket at Prospect Park West and Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215. The five-minute introduction window gives the outing a defined beginning before people settle into the run. A participant should arrive for the stated meeting time rather than treat the event's 7:30am start as the moment to begin finding the group.

The event description links a Strava route and says the group will take photos near the Great Lawn and the lake. Coffee follows. Those details describe the organizer's planned format; they do not establish a particular coffee venue, route change policy or guaranteed attendance.

For someone joining a community run, a pace range is practical information. It helps set an expectation about the activity around which the conversation takes place. The listing does not make a blanket accessibility promise, so participants with questions about the route or physical requirements should ask the hosts directly.

The host names are preserved as displayed on the current official page. No executive title, company role or investor attendance is inferred from them. The point is to identify the people organizing this particular outing without turning a host list into a claim about who will be available for a business meeting.

Why the introduction is different from a pitch

A formal pitch asks a listener to evaluate a proposition. An introduction can begin with something smaller: what a person is working on, which decision they are trying to make and what they would find useful to learn. Pitch and Run's stated aim is to make that first contact less pressured.

That makes preparation useful without requiring a presentation. A founder could explain the customer problem in plain language, name the stage of the work and leave room for another person to respond. An employee could describe the question their team is examining rather than give a complete company history.

Those are editorial suggestions for participating in the format, not instructions published by the hosts. No one should assume that another runner wants a pitch, a sales conversation or a request for a calendar slot. The shared activity is the basis for an introduction, not evidence of consent to a longer business exchange.

The practical advantage is the ability to learn something about another person's work before deciding whether a follow-up would be useful. A specific question can reveal that there is common ground, or that the connection is better left as a friendly community introduction. Either is more informative than treating every new contact as a transaction.

What useful follow-up can look like

A conversation becomes easier to continue when it contains an identifiable detail. Someone describes a product constraint, a customer question or a hiring challenge, and another person recognizes the issue. That gives a future message a reason beyond the fact that two people attended the same outing.

A participant can ask permission to continue the exchange and make a brief note afterward. Keep the note limited to what was actually discussed. A casual conversation is not evidence of an investment commitment, a buying signal or a request to receive ongoing marketing.

For founders, this distinction matters because the purpose of an informal community is different from the purpose of a deal process. A running introduction may help establish familiarity while leaving all substantive business decisions unresolved. That is not a weakness of the format; it keeps the first conversation proportionate.

The organizer's page describes historical business connections made through the broader community. This coverage does not treat those accounts as outcomes promised for the October 13 run. The value a participant can control is more modest: show up prepared, explain the work clearly and listen well enough to know whether another exchange makes sense.

A separate event within the wider community

The Prospect Park outing is distinct from Pitch and Run Monday in New York, which DevCuration has already covered. The Brooklyn event has its own date, meeting location, host list and registration page. An existing entry for Monday should not replace the Tuesday information.

That distinction also helps someone choose based on the format and location that actually fit their morning. The community mission may be shared, but the practical details belong to each event instance. Readers should rely on the October 13 source when planning this outing.

The most useful introduction may be the one that leaves both people with a clearer understanding of what the other is building. Prospect Park supplies the route. What happens after coffee depends on the substance of the conversation, not a promise printed on the event page.