Fadi Bishara is the founder and CEO of Blackbox VC, a globally focused founder accelerator based in Silicon Valley, connector; effectively matching human capital and venture capital needs across the globe, Angel investor, mentor and business partner to international startup accelerators such as Communitech, NASSCOM, Seedcamp, Rockstart, NUMA, iBeta, Startupbootcamp, StartupChile, Enterprise Estonia, etc. ^{[0] [1]} He is a frequent speaker at incubators and accelerator, technology innovation and startup conferences, education initiatives and related economic development policy discussions around the world.

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Early life

Fadi Bishara was born on June 24, 1966.

^[4] His hometown is Hama, situated in Syria.

^[5]As the founder and CEO of Blackbox VC, Bishara moved to Silicon Valley in 1992 where he started his career in sales.

For over 20 years, he has matched human capital and venture capital needs as well as, using his experience to guide technology entrepreneurs pave their way in the area.

Career

Mr. Bishara has in-depth knowledge and experience related to building successful startups in Silicon Valley and elsewhere in the world.

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Since August 2009 he's been working as an advisory board member at MIT/ StanfordVenture Lab(VLAB).

Also, he's been a venture partner of Sinbad Ventures since October 2012.

Moreover, since October 2010 he is the founder and CEO of Blackbox Accelerator, LLC.

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Prior to founding Blackbox VC, Fadi was the founder and CEO of techVenture.

He has over fifteen years experience building teams for over 100 early stage startups where a large majority of them successfully exited.

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Bishara has experience working with the venture capital community and talented technology entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley to -often exclusively- craft and execute strategy for recruiting and building core teams for early-stage and high-growth startups companies such as Chromatic Research /ATI, Intraspect/VGNT, PeakStream/ GOOG, SixAprt/SayMedia, Bebo /AOL, Splunk/SPLK, Zynga/ZNGA, Lala/AAPL, Tapulous /DIS, CubeTree/SFSF, Apture/ GOOG, Shopkick, etc. ^[0]

Blackbox

According to the official website, ^[1]**** Blackbox serves startup founders from every corner of the globe.

The network of 350 Blackboxers spans more than 60 countries and six continents one relationship at a time.

Alumni of Blackbox programs are defined by their willingness to champion and support fellow startup founders.

Over 90 percent of startups founded by Blackboxers continue to grow and thrive, nine companies have exited, and the majority have come full-circle by taking on new leadership roles in their startup communities.

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Investments

Fadi Bishara is a Palo Alto-based Angel investor who typically invests up to $10,000 in young companies.

Bishara prefers to invest in very early stage firms via seed investments or participation in A/B rounds.

He aims to provide value to portfolio companies via recruitment, his network, and mentorship.

^[6]As stated on his page on AngelList, he invested for Front, Intiza, Mixtent, Octonius (2013), Omies, etc.