


Lab Fuel: How to Get Out of the Labs
Join us for Lab Fuel, an exclusive workshop where leading VCs and successful founders share essential knowledge for spinning out research into fundable startups, from pre-pre-seed through seed stages. Get hands-on guidance on customer discovery, financial modeling, and fundraising strategies, plus direct access to top accelerator programs and intimate breakout sessions with experienced investors.
About Bee Partners
Founded in 2009, Bee Partners is a preSeed venture capital firm that partners with extraordinary Founders with unbounded potential building frontier technologies.
Our Strategy: We leverage a singular approach to detecting new and emerging patterns of business, as well as inside access to fertile but often overlooked entrepreneurial ecosystems, to identify early opportunities in large, untapped markets.
Bee’s portfolio companies consistently realize growth at levels that outstrip industry averages and secure follow-on capital from the world's top VCs.
About Grit Ventures
AI marks a watershed moment and the innovation race has started. Breakthrough applications like robotics and advanced materials are transforming industries to solve the global challenges of our age. Grit will fund these emerging tech titans in their infancy, driving the modernization of industrial infrastructure over the next decade.
Our Strategy is Deep Tech: Labs to Launch — sourcing innovation from the nation's top labs, de-risking by leading early-stage rounds and focusing on compelling go-to-market strategies.
About The Engine
Tough Tech has the potential to change the world — but only if it makes it out of the lab.
Our role at The Engine is to help bridge the gap between discovery and commercialization for the most promising teams and breakthrough inventions.
Our Strategy: We provide innovative founders with the necessary resources, infrastructure, and access to the Tough Tech ecosystem to fuel their growth. By convening policymakers, investors, and founders, we align the Tough Tech ecosystem to drive progress towards solving the world’s most important challenges.
