Aureum
Our Story

Why we built Aureum.

A room worth showing up for, built by two founders who couldn't find one.

Guests in conversation at an Aureum evening

An Aureum evening · Amsterdam

We started Aureum because we couldn't find the room we wanted to be in.

Anna Kotcharyan (founder of Pay the Public) and Maroussia Tyl (founder of WOGO Amsterdam) had sat through enough networking to know the feeling. A room full of people scanning for a VC, quietly deciding whether you're worth their time. Ambition performed, rarely shared.

So we built the opposite. Dinners, drinks, masterclasses, workshops, coworking days: different rooms, one rule. People come to give as much as they take. Aureum is a non-profit, so no one is selling anything, and the evening can be exactly what it should be.

What Aureum Is For

Inspire. Connect. Build.

What every gathering is designed to do, and why we keep them small, curated and non-profit.

Inspire

AI taught plainly, a skill you can actually practise. Ideas you use the next morning, not ones you nod along to.

Connect

Rooms chosen by hand, and the right people actually talking. One honest conversation is worth ten transactional ones.

Build

From one conversation: a collaborator, a co-founder, a first customer. What starts in the room rarely stays there.

The Board

The two who started it.

Two founders who plan, curate and host every gathering themselves.

Maroussia Tyl, co-founder of The Aureum Club

Maroussia Tyl

Co-founder

Founder of WOGO Amsterdam, the premium cocktail-walk experience across the Netherlands. She knows what a room feels like when it's set with care.

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Anna Kotcharyan, co-founder of The Aureum Club

Anna Kotcharyan

Co-founder

Founder of Pay the Public, and a builder of communities long before Aureum. She's the reason the right people keep ending up in the same room.

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Join Us

Pull up a chair.

Join the list, come to an evening, and let one conversation do what it always does.