/ About this event
Hi all! We have had such a great response to this event and are oversubscribed. Registered guests will be let in on a first come first serve basis, so please plan your morning accordingly. If your plans have changed and you no longer wish to attend, please cancel your registration so another guest has the opportunity to take your spot. Thank you and we look forward to seeing you Thursday!
Join Z21 Ventures and SVB for a candid fireside chat where we discuss on how to scale a hardware AI company. We will have a candid and practical conversation about what it really takes to build in the physical world.
We’ll dig into:
• Fundraising and what investors want to see at each stage • Surviving the prototype-to-production gap: manufacturing, supply chain, and hardware iteration cycles • Hiring for teams that ship hardware and AI — and why that combination breaks standard startup playbooks • What changes at each stage from founding through Series B
Whether you’re a founder building in robotics, embodied AI, or hardware, an engineer thinking about starting up, or an investor going deeper on physical AI, this session is for you.
Fireside chat + audience Q&A, followed by open networking. Hosted by z21 Ventures, an early-stage fund and SVB.
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.
