The Deeptech Summit

The world's top deeptech investors. The mental models, frameworks, and sector intelligence you need to deploy in deeptech.

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The speakers who built the playbook.

Learn how they source, pick, and close the best deals in deeptech
Ali Tamoseb
DCVC
Shaun Maguire
Sequoia Capital
Alice Brooks
Khosla Ventures
Mike Annunziata
Also Capital
Charly Mwangi
Eclipse
Clay Dumas
Lowercarbon Capital
Will Coffield
Riot Ventures
Amber Yang
Lightspeed
Shawn Xu
Lowercarbon Capital
Leo Polovets
Humba Ventures
Christian Keil
a16z
Peter Walker
Carta
Julian Shapiro
Julian Capital
Joe Wilson
Undeterred
Agenda

What We're Covering

Two-day online event · Panels, keynotes,
and interactive rooms · Agenda is in CT

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Day One

11:00 AM–11:45 AM PT
2:00–2:45 PM ET
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The State of Deeptech Funding

Deeptech funding trends that you must know from Carta's own data: capital allocated, follow on rates, valuations, and more.

Peter Walker
Peter Walker
Carta
Peter Walker
11:45 AM–12:45 PM PT
2:45–3:45 PM ET
d.01 / t.01

The Reindustrialization Round Table

Cut through the noise on reindustrialization: the future of manufacturing, defense, and critical inputs— finding durable businesses vs passing trends.

Shaun Maguire
Shaun Maguire
Sequoia Capital
Shaun Maguire
12:45–1:45 PM PT
3:45–4:45 PM ET
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The Space Economy

What the SpaceX IPO means for the space industry, the subsectors you must know about, and signals that matter most.

Mike Annunziata
Mike Annunziata
Also Capital
Mike Annunziata
Will Coffield
Will Coffield
Riot Ventures
Will Coffield
1:45–2:45 PM PT
4:45–5:45 PM ET
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The Art of Technical Due Diligence

How to perform technical diligence across deeptech sectors without falling into technical feasibility and scale up pot holes.

Alice Brooks
Alice Brooks
Khosla Ventures
Alice Brooks
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Day Two

11:00 AM–11:45 AM PT
2:00–2:45 PM ET
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Why Deeptech, Why Now?

The macro case for hard tech: industrial policy tailwinds, defense spending, onshoring, and everything else that makes software-only VCs miss out.

Leo Polovets
Leo Polovets
Humba Ventures
Leo Polovets
Christian Keil
Christian Keil
a16z
Christian Keil
11:45 AM–12:45 PM PT
2:45–3:45 PM ET
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Energy and Climate Tech

This is the largest infrastructure push of our generation, we'll cover the gaps and open opportunities in energy.

Shawn Xu
Shawn Xu
Lowercarbon Capital
Shawn Xu
Clay Dumas
Clay Dumas
Lowercarbon Capital
Clay Dumas
12:45–1:45 PM PT
3:45–4:45 PM ET
d.01 / t.01

Chips and Compute

AI is the biggest technical inflection of our era. We'll cover the subsectors in deeptech that are foundational to it.

Amber Yang
Amber Yang
Lightspeed
Amber Yang
Ali Tamoseb
Ali Tamoseb
DCVC
Ali Tamoseb
1:45–2:45 PM PT
4:45–5:45 PM ET
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Robotics and Automation

What makes a robotics company venture investible—from warehouse floors to surgical suites.

Joe Wilson
Joe Wilson
Undeterred
Joe Wilson
Charly Mwangi
Charly Mwangi
Eclipse
Charly Mwangi
2:45–3:45 PM PT
5:45–6:45 PM ET
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How LPs Pick Deeptech Managers

How institutional LPs decide which deeptech funds to back.

Joshua Berkowitz
Joshua Berkowitz
Berkocorp
Joshua Berkowitz
Oliver Sorensen
Oliver Sorensen
SITFO
Oliver Sorensen

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The world's largest deeptech funding platform

1000s

of submissions

$100M+

Fundraised

Join the investors defining the next era of deeptech.

The future won't wait.

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About the summit

Deeptech is rising as a top sector in venture - but investing at the frontier requires a particular skillset.

The technical risk is more daunting, demand is harder to prove, and real world constraints lend to real barriers to scale.

The Deeptech Summit brings together top investors to share exactly how they think, evaluate, and win.

A six hour masterclass in deeptech investing, built specifically for deeptech (and deeptech curious) investors.

Attend the event for free.

The event will not be recorded.

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