# Anchor

> Anchor brings people in their twenties together through in-person social experiences in New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

Today Anchor hosts in-person experiences. Its vision is to make it easier to meet people, make plans again, and stay connected. Planned app features are not described as available products. Upcoming dates and registration terms belong on each event's page and its Luma listing.

## Start here

- [About Anchor](https://anchorplatform.app/about): What Anchor is and why Hammad started it.
- [Vision](https://anchorplatform.app/vision): Current work and future direction.
- [Experiences](https://anchorplatform.app/experiences): Upcoming registration links and clearly labeled past gatherings.
- [Anchor in New York](https://anchorplatform.app/new-york): First-time visitor information.
- [Making friends after college](https://anchorplatform.app/new-york/making-friends-after-college): Practical NYC guide.
- [Partners](https://anchorplatform.app/partners): Brand, product, venue and event partnerships.
- [Blog](https://anchorplatform.app/blog): Published stories and notes.
- [Hammad Manjra](https://anchorplatform.app/authors/hammad-manjra/markdown): Author biography and writing archive; links to canonical HTML.

## Selected writing

- [I want people to make plans without me](https://anchorplatform.app/blog/making-plans-without-me/markdown): If you meet someone at Anchor and start hanging out without us organizing it, good. That’s what I want.
- [Taking this back to LA](https://anchorplatform.app/blog/taking-analyst-connect-back-to-la/markdown): In August 2025, we took Analyst Connect from New York to LA. More than 200 people RSVP’d. I got to bring it home.
- [The first event was 25 people in a park](https://anchorplatform.app/blog/more-than-your-job-title/markdown): Twenty-five people came to our first gathering. It gave me a reason to host another, and a few things I wanted to change.
- [I moved to New York without knowing anyone](https://anchorplatform.app/blog/moving-to-new-york-after-college/markdown): I came here for a job at BlackRock. Finding people to spend time with outside work was something I had to figure out once I got here.
- [Bringing Anchor to San Francisco](https://anchorplatform.app/blog/bringing-anchor-to-san-francisco/markdown): My friend Viraj and I put together Anchor’s first event in the Bay for May 8.

## Contact and official profiles

- [Contact](mailto:info@anchorplatform.app): Public Anchor contact.
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/theanchor.app/)
- [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@theanchorapp)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/anchor-platform/)
- [Hammad on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hammadmanjra/)
- [RSS](https://anchorplatform.app/feed.xml)