Hi hardwarians,

What better way to celebrate a leap year than to have a hardware meetup on Feb 29th! We've got some great startups for you again this month - the NY hardware scene is just getting better and better. And remember to stay for the beers afterwards!

Agenda:

6:00 - 6:15pm:arrival, pizza and beer

6:15 - 6:25pm:welcome and sponsors

6:25 - 6:45pm:Chris Rill, CTO and cofounder of Canary, will talk about their journey going from 2 cofounders and an idea, to a company with 94 employees selling Canaries in over 7000 retail stores in the US, and all this within 2 years.

6:45- 7:05pm: Matteo Franceschetti, CEO and cofounder of Eight, the smart mattress cover to enable better sleep. He will talk about creating the company out of StartX, Stanford's incubator, getting into YCombinator and then crushing it with an Indiegogo campaign.

7:05 - 7:20pm: Ismail Salhi, cofounder of Qleek, an original and beautiful way to share and collect your music. Qleeks are physical bookmarks to online music.

7:20pm - onwards:networking and community announcements.

See you all there!

Haytham