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HighLevel to Bring 1,500+ Founders to Dallas for LevelUp 2026

More than 1,500 founders, entrepreneurs and business builders will gather in Dallas for HighLevel LevelUp 2026, one of the year's larger founder-focused events.

By Amara Osei

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What's News

  • More than 1,500 founders, entrepreneurs and business builders expected at HighLevel LevelUp 2026
  • The event takes place in Dallas
  • LevelUp 2026 is organized by software company HighLevel
  • Announcement reported by StreetInsider

More than 1,500 founders, entrepreneurs and business builders will gather in Dallas for HighLevel LevelUp 2026, according to StreetInsider. That headcount makes the conference one of the larger founder-focused gatherings on the 2026 business calendar.

The host, HighLevel, runs the event under the LevelUp name. The 2026 edition will take place in Dallas, and the expected crowd of 1,500-plus spans startup founders, entrepreneurs and what the announcement calls business builders.

Who is coming to Dallas?

The audience breaks into three groups named in the announcement:

  • Founders
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Business builders

StreetInsider puts the total at more than 1,500 attendees. The event carries the HighLevel brand, tying it to the company's software platform for marketing and business operations.

What is LevelUp 2026?

LevelUp is HighLevel's conference format. The 2026 edition lands in Dallas, a city that has spent recent years courting corporate relocations and tech payrolls. An event of this size puts more than 1,500 operators in one place — the kind of density that typically draws service providers, investors and hiring teams to the sidelines.

The announcement itself stays lean on programming detail. It names the crowd, the city and the year. Everything else — speakers, agenda, venue, dates — remains for HighLevel to disclose.

Why does the headcount matter?

Conferences live or die by the room they fill. More than 1,500 business builders in Dallas signals real pull for a vendor-organized event, where attendance usually tracks how many customers and partners a platform can activate.

For HighLevel, the number doubles as a public proof point: it shows a customer and community base large enough to move over 1,500 people to one city for its flagship gathering.

For attendees, the draw is the concentration itself — founders, entrepreneurs and operators assembled in Dallas for LevelUp 2026, per StreetInsider's announcement.

Watch for HighLevel to publish dates, venue and speaker lineup as 2026 approaches. Those details will show whether the 1,500-plus figure is a floor or a starting bid.

Source: GN: Entrepreneurship

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