Central & Eastern European Founders Night
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November 4, 2026 at European Startup Embassy in SF, CA
461 Bryant St, San Francisco, CA 94107
One evening for Central & Eastern European founders in San Francisco.
For founders from Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, the Baltics and the Balkans who are building in the US. Come to share what you're working on, what you've achieved, and what you need help with. Meet the people who made the same move from CEE to the Bay.
Agenda
6:00 – 6:30 PM · Doors open and welcome
6:30 – 6:45 PM · Introduction to European Startup Embassy and SMOK Ventures with Borys Musielak, Founding Partner at SMOK Ventures
6:45 – 9:00 PM · Mingling, networking and sharing insights
About Borys Musielak
Borys is a founding partner at SMOK Ventures, which backs early-stage founders from Central & Eastern Europe and the diaspora, wherever they're based. He also runs SMOK Angels, a network of 230+ angels investing in CEE startups. Before VC, he co-founded Filmaster (acquired by Samba TV) and helped found Startup Poland.
Space is limited and registration is by approval.
Date:
November 4, 2026
Time:
6:00 PM
9:00 PM
Event website: https://luma.com/u1pso5wc
Event type:
Business
European Startup Embassy is a small coworking and event space in SoMa, a few blocks from the Embarcadero and the downtown office core. By day it operates as a shared workspace used mostly by startup founders and operators, many of them from Europe. The main floor is a compact open desk area with monitors already set up, meeting spots, and the usual coworking basics like Wi‑Fi and coffee. more...