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LA Tech Week 2026

Wake up Hardware! Network & Fun Run Sponsored by Nominal & D. E. Shaw Ventures

Hosted by Nominal and D. E. Shaw Ventures

When
7:30 AM
Where
Santa Monica
Format
Networking
Wake up Hardware! Network & Fun Run Sponsored by Nominal & D. E. Shaw Ventures artwork

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Hardware investors, founders, and builders:

Join us in kicking off LA Tech Week on October 12th!

Nominal will be hosting a run, starting at Dogtown Coffee (2003 Main St, Santa Monica, CA 90405) at 7:30 AM. We’ll run up the Marvin Braude Bike Trail before returning to Dogtown for a coffee and networking session sponsored by D. E. Shaw Ventures.

Feel free to join us for the run, networking session, or both! (For non-runners, we anticipate returning to the café around 8:15 AM.)

Please feel free to invite any friends in the investment/tech community who may be interested!

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This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.

Nominal is the AI-ready engineering data platform that helps aerospace, energy, defense, automotive, and other industrial hardware teams ship breakthrough products faster. Thousands of engineers use Nominal’s platform to confidently operate complex physical systems, while accelerating and automating verification loops from prototype to fleet sustainment. For more information, visit nominal.io.

D. E. Shaw Ventures is the D. E. Shaw group's venture and growth equity investing group supporting companies in the post-seed or growth equity stages of their life cycles.

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