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Space, Defense, and Going to Market with DCVC's Matt O'Connell
Matt O'Connell is an operating partner at DCVC, a deep tech VC firm backing entrepreneurs using computational approaches to solve trillion-dollar problems.
Daniel Oberhaus
Daniel is the founder of HAUS, a PR and creative agency that specializes in deep tech startups. He is the author of two books for MIT Press: Extraterrestrial Languages (2019) and The Silicon Shrink (2025).
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Commercializing University Research with AlbionVC's Dave Grimm
Dave Grimm is a partner at AlbionVC, a London-based venture firm that backs early-stage, research-heavy deep tech spinouts.
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Backing the Sci-Fi Future with Boost VC's Adam Draper
Adam Draper is the founder and managing director of Boost VC, a pre-seed venture capital firm that writes first checks for deep tech startups across crypto, space, biotech, robotics, and AI.
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Building Europe's First Semiconductor Fund with Cloudberry VC's René Kromhof
René Kromhof is a founding partner at Cloudberry VC, Europe's first venture capital firm dedicated to semiconductors, photonics, and advanced materials.
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Reindustrialization, Robotics, and the Lunar Economy with Beyond Earth Ventures' Viktor Shpakovsky
Viktor Shpakovsky is an investment partner at Beyond Earth Ventures, a $30 million venture capital fund investing in transformative deep tech across space tech, robotics, energy, and compute.
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Sovereign-Aligned Venture Capital with America's Frontier Fund's Brian Wilcove
Brian Wilcove is the managing director of America's Frontier Fund (AFF), a sovereign-aligned venture capital firm investing in frontier technologies to strengthen U.S. innovation and economic competitiveness.
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Applied Deep Tech and the European Founder Revolution with NP-Hard Ventures' Paul Veugen
Paul Veugen is co-founder and partner at NP-Hard Ventures, an Amsterdam-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed companies solving the hardest problems across robotics, defense tech, and foundational infrastructure.
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Investing at the Frontier of AI and Biology with Amino Collective's Nirmesh Patel
Nirmesh Patel is an investor at Amino Collective, an early-stage health and bio fund investing at the intersection of AI and the life sciences.
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Cracking Ammonia's Century-Old Cost Problem with Ammobia's Karen Baert
Karen Baert is co-founder and CEO of Ammobia, a climate tech startup developing a lower-cost, lower-pressure process for clean ammonia production.
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Bringing Robots to the Boring Industries with Physical Fund's Nima Ashraf
Nima Ashraf is the founder and managing director of Physical Fund, a pre-seed venture fund investing in robotics and automation startups building at the intersection of hardware and software.
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Reindustrializing America's Water with 4Earth's Jahanzeb Khan
Jahanzeb Khan is the founder and CEO of 4Earth, an industrial water technology company building productized, AI-driven systems that treat and reuse wastewater on site for factories, plants, and data centers.
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Climate Tech's Great Bifurcation with Sabanci Climate Ventures' Drew D'Alelio
Drew D'Alelio is an investment manager at Sabanci Climate Ventures, a $200 million corporate venture capital fund investing in energy and climate technology on behalf of Sabanci Holding, a century-old energy and industrial conglomerate headquartered in Turkey.