Magic Room Series: International Founders Happy Hour
The Magic Room Series is a curated set of four secret dinners taking place this April, designed to bring founders together in a more intimate and meaningful setting. Each dinner explores a different theme, creating space for honest conversations, valuable connections, and unexpected collaborations.
Building as international founders often means navigating multiple worlds with different markets, cultures, and expectations.
This happy hour is a casual space to meet other Asian founders, operators, and builders who are doing the same.
🍻 Drinks, good conversations, and new connections.
Come by to share what you're building, exchange ideas, and meet people who understand the journey of building across borders.
Who it's for
• International founders building startups
• Operators and builders in tech
• Anyone interested in connecting with the international founder community
📍The dinner will take place at a restaurant near Stanford University. The exact location will be shared with confirmed guests a few days before the event.
Hosts:
About the Collective
The Collective is a deeply connected student founder community supporting more than 65 startups and over 130 founders across campuses in Singapore. It is building a strong founder environment and aims to serve as the central hub for student founders in Singapore.
About David Sheen
Based in Silicon Valley, David is an attorney advisor helping global talent, startup founders, investors, and families navigate U.S. immigration with clarity and confidence. With over 20 years of experience, he has advised professionals from more than 50 countries, including engineers, entrepreneurs, physicians, and creatives. His practice spans O-1, EB-1, EB-2 NIW, H-1B, L-1, and E-2 visas. He serves as Legal Counsel at PassRight and Senior Attorney Advisor at Sapochnick Law Firm, and is actively engaged in the startup ecosystem as a frequent speaker and visionary investor, supporting and mentoring global talent.
About James Huie
James Huie is a San Francisco-based partner in the Securities & Capital Markets practice at Paul Hastings. He has extensive experience representing venture capital firms and other investors in private equity and debt financings. His practice focuses on advising early and late-stage start-ups throughout all stages of their lifecycle, along with numerous venture investors. His clients comprise the full range of the start-up ecosystem, from one-person companies to unicorns preparing for public offerings.
About Daniel Xu
Daniel Xu is a registered patent attorney focusing on helping start-ups obtain patents and trademarks. He has drafted patent applications in a wide variety of technical fields including medical devices, cell therapies, next-generation sequencing, medical imaging, dental apparatus and treatments, ophthalmic technologies, diagnostic kits and devices, stem cell treatments, consumer hardware, and consumer/B2B software applications. Daniel holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, a M.S. degree from the University of California Los Angeles, and a law degree from Duke University Law School.
About Stanford Founders
Stanford Founders is a student-led founder community for interdisciplinary graduate students who are actively building companies across education, AI, climate, health, and more. The goal of the community is to create smaller, trusted spaces for founders to connect.
About DayDreamers
DayDreamers exists because the most meaningful lessons in life, how to think, build, and collaborate happen with people. Spanning 17+ cities, we replace the noise of traditional networking with the structured depth of shared meals and intensive builds.