50th Hardware Meetup

Hello!

After our summer hiatus we're ready to kick off the fall with our 50th Hardware Meetup. We've come a long way since the early days and in the spirit of change we're hosting this meetup at Kickstarter! If you haven't been to Kickstarter HQ, it's a space to behold. We're super excited to be holding our 50th meetup there.

Agenda:

7 - 7:15pm: Arrival, food, mingling

7:15 - 7:25pm: Welcome and notes

7:30 - 7:50pm: Ryan Rzepecki, Founder and CEO, JUMP (https://jump.com/). JUMP makes on-demand personal electric vehicles like bicycle and scooters for cities throughout the US. They were acquired by Uber earlier this year for $200 million.

7:55 - 8:15pm: Vlad Vukicevic, Founder and CEO, Meural (https://meural.com/). Meural is a platform for discovering, customizing, and interacting with visual art in your daily life, designed to bring the joy of art to walls everywhere. Meural was acquired in August by NETGEAR.

8:20 - 8:40pm: Mark Belinsky, Founder and CEO, Birdi (http://birdihome.com/). Birdi reinvented the smoke detector, combining smoke and CO alarms with air quality monitoring. In 2016, Birdi was acquired by the innovative router maker Luma, now owned by First Alert.

8:45 - on: Community announcements and networking. You'll hear from SecondMuse about their trio of New York programs for cleantech and hardware startups:

M-Corps - funded by NYSERDA and in partnership with Dragon Innovation, New Lab, Urban Future Lab - is accepting 12 companies for its statewide cleantech manufacturing incubator. Apply by Oct 8. http://www.manufacturenewyork.com/

Futureworks Incubator - funded by NYCEDC - returns for the second year and gets hardware startups and entrepreneurs investor-ready. Apply by Oct 31 https://futureworks.nyc/incubator/

Futureworks Shops - NYCEDC - comes back in November and opens access to New York City's prototyping spaces. https://futureworks.nyc/shops/

See you there!