
Join us for a mixer with global startup founders, mentors and speakers of the blackbox connect program.
You will meet 12 carefully selected startups from Argentina, Latvia, Ukraine, UK, Thailand, South Korea, France, Russia, Germany and Poland, looking for advisors, market entrance partners, funding and US excecutives. You will have a chance to be among the first people in the Bay Area to see them pitch and engage in one-on-one conversations.
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The party starts on Friday, Apr 13th, 6:30pm
There will be light dinner, drinks and music by the pool.
Dresscode: business casual
Agenda:
6:30 PM – Networking and Food & Drinks
7:00 PM – Public Pitches of the blackbox connect Alumni
7:45 PM – Networking and Drinks
- The party starts on Friday, Apr 6th, 6.30pm
- Food and drinks will be provided
- Dresscode: business casual
Help to save the Hacker Dojo and join the Fundraiser at blackbox mansion!
All ticket purchasers, through their support of Hacker Dojo, demonstrate their advocacy of creativity and innovation in Silicon Valley.
Special guest: Robert Scoble!
The Fundraiser’s Agenda:
- 6:00 PM Exclusive meetup with Robert Scoble @scobleizer (only for people with category 3 tickets or higher will be admitted)
- 7:00 PM Networking & light Dinner + Drinks
- 7:30 PM Guest Speaker: David Weekly, Founding Director of Hacker Dojo
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Join us and meet exceptional global startup founders participating in the blackbox connect program, and the program speakers.
You will be among the first people in the Bay Area to meet carefully selected startups from Argentina, Latvia, Ukraine, UK, Thailand, South Korea, France, Russia, Germany, and Poland all of whom seek to find strategic partners, investors or cofounders in the US.
Experience the magic of blackbox mansion and plug into our network of global entrepreneurs, mentors and investors.
Expect engaging conversations, tasty food & drinks, live music and fun :)
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- The party starts on Friday, Apr 6th, 6.30pm
- Food and drinks will be provided
- Dresscode: business casual

A weekend after Clojure West we invite you to come and join Clojure on the Penninsula meetup, hosted for the first time at the blackbox mansion.
The meetings have been in SF recently and there is a lot of people excited about Clojure and interested in meeting others in the SV area. So, in cooperation with BA Lisp this is going to be the first in a series of Clojure meetups hosted in the peninsula.
Clojure in Silicon Valley: Clojure West Recap and Introduction to Clojure
Agenda:
- 2pm – Intro/Overview talks, Clojure West recap and lighting talks.
- 4pm – Burgers, beers, small group Clojure conversation and hacking.
Please register for the event here and keep your RSVP accurate so that we know how much food and drink to get.
We’re organizing a couple of short talks, a Clojure West recap panel and some lightning talks. If you are interested in participating, please contact Julio Barros.
If you want to meet the unique international community of blackbox entrepreneurs and discover new startup opportunities, join us this Thursday for a monthly Cofounder Dinner event at the blackbox mansion in Atherton.

Guest speaker this month is Erin Rapacki, the Product Marketing Manager for Mobile Robots at Adept Technology, Inc. and she will give a talk about how to start a robotics company without building any hardware.
Previous Cofounder Dinner Speakers include:
Janice Fraser, CEO of LUXr.co
Carlin Wiegner, serial entrepreneur
Daniel Zimmerman, partner at WilmerHale
Emil Eifrem, Neo4j
Ben Smith, merchantcircle.com
Erin (@RobotDiva) has over 10 year robotics experience across academia and industry. Her projects range from military casualty extraction, assistive living devices, and pioneering the video conferencing robot in her role as a Chief Product Officer for Anybot, Inc. Currently, as the product marketing manager for Adept Technology, she is responsible for productizing autonomous navigation software and hardware. She holds BS & MS in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering degrees form Northeastern University and the University of University of Massachusetts where she’s developed a robotic hand to help people in wheelchairs open doors.
Dinner’s Agenda:
- 6:30 PM Networking & Dinner + Drinks
- 7:30 PM Guest Speaker: Erin Rapacki, “The Future of Robotics Startups”
- 8:00 PM 90 seconds individual introduction + pitch your project/startup
- 9:45 PM Networking
Click here to sign up.
Looking Forward to seeing you!