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Open Circuit: The Founders Exhibit

Hosted by Laminar and Berkeley Gateway Accelerator

When
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Where
Other
Format
Networking, Pitch Event / Demo Day and Roundtable / Workshop
Open Circuit: The Founders Exhibit artwork

/ About this event

Remember science museum worksheets from field trips? The kind where you wandered room to room, checked boxes, and left knowing more than you meant to? We're bringing that back, but for founders.

Open Circuit: The Founders Exhibit is a hands-on, exhibit-tour-style session where small groups rotate through live 5 minute demo walkthroughs from founders building deep and hard tech - each one making the case for why their tech matters, why the world needs it now, and how it actually works.

Laminar, the only physical AI company powering Process-Aware Autonomy for self-driving factories, teams up with Berkeley Gateway Accelerator, a deep tech accelerator based in Downtown Berkeley; Greentown Labs, the world's largest climatetech incubator network, and Bakar Labs for Energy & Materials, UC Berkeley's incubator for energy and advanced materials startups, to bring you Open Circuit.

The full lineup draws from deep and hard tech founders, spanning climate, robotics, physical AI, and beyond, no single sector dominates the floor.

Founders, come show us what you're building. We've got 12 stations, and each one is you and a small group of people who genuinely want to understand your work.

Apply here: https://forms.gle/UudB5vtxUBDZexbL9 - open through September 25.

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


Thank you to our sponsors, JP Morgan: The Innovation Economy Group at J.P. Morgan’s Commercial Bank serves as a dedicated partner to tech entrepreneurs, founders, and disruptors challenging the status quo from inception to IPO and beyond. Working with founders, their startups, VC funds, and LPs within the tech ecosystem, the group leverages J.P. Morgan's platform and global network to support clients at every step of their founder journey. The team is founder-first and founder-friendly, committed to empowering entrepreneurs as they scale.

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