Social Matchbox Summer Social 2009 – Event Recap
On August 20, 2009, we hosted ten early stage start-ups companies presenting to a handpicked group of 200 attendees including the Mid-Atlantic region’s leading investors, startup executives, engineers, designers, startup industry professionals, bloggers and press. The crowd also included representatives from Ashoka, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, The DC Office of Economic Development, Department of Defense, Grotech [...]
IMPORTANT Note Regarding Time
Tonight’s program will start promptly at 6:45pm so please don’t be late. If you can’t help it, tickets will be available at the upstairs ticket counter after 6:40pm.
A Snapshot of Who Will Be There
Social Matchbox always attracts an interesting and very diverse crowd. This time around we’ve got a more interesting crowd than usual. We’ve got people from the government space, the startup space and everything else under the sun. Here is a partial list of companies where attendees are:
AARP
ACLU
AddyMate
AKQA
Allegiant Group
American University
Angel.com
Apple Comp
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
Atlantic Media
Autonomy
BeMeeting
Booz [...]
Update: New Speaker Flight, Open Bar Time & More
Major event updates:
1. There will be a new presentation flight callled “Opportunities and Ideas for Startups” with speakers including the Sunlight Foundation’s Apps for America team, the Apps for Democracy team, and others. We’ve invited Ashoka, Innovators for the Public, an Arlington based local social entrepreneurship organization and we are expecting them to join us too.
2. The [...]
Presenter List
The Social Matchbox Organizing Team had to carefully consider a lot of startups who were nominated for presentations at Social Matchbox Summer Social 2009. Around 50 companies were nominated and only 10 11 were selected to present. Congratulations to the companies who will be presenting on the silver screen at E Street Cinema with us [...]
