Dirty Jobs Summit
Welcome to the Age of Physical AI.
You asked, and we answered. By popular demand, VSC Ventures is bringing back Dirty Jobs Summit for 2025!
Join an exclusive gathering of startup founders and investors driving much-needed innovation and automation in America’s physical industries.
Whether you’re building for painters, plumbers, truckers or technicians, Dirty Jobs celebrates startup founders and funders from every unseen, unloved, but ultimately essential industry across America.
Our debut Dirty Jobs 2024 Summit in SF, became a runaway success with a standing-room-only group of 120 attendees with 60 VCs and 60 Founders... handpicked from our waitlist of over 300 more!
In May 2025, we’re back with a bigger venue with double capacity meaning even more opportunities for every attendee to build meaningful relationships, create lasting partnerships, and close more funding.
Date: May 22nd, 2025
Location: Neuehouse Madison Square, New York
Format: Limited to 200 participants
Who Should Attend
Pre-Seed to Series A Founders building technology for dirty, dusty, and dangerous industries
Seed to Series B VC investors with active investments in robotics, AI or automation for physical industries
Corporates and Strategics innovating in dirty jobs
Why Attend
We know there are plenty of vertical-specific conferences every year.
But we felt no one had brought together startup leaders across dirty jobs to share actionable insights and hard-won wisdom on how to navigate things like:
Delivering automation in legacy industries profitably.
Managing working capital in hardware and robotics.
Avoiding legacy labor, procurement, and political pitfalls.
Dialing in your storytelling when selling unsexy categories.
What gets funded & acquired in the era of physical AI.
At Dirty Jobs, we curate our guest list to focus on founders and funders who are willing to share their experiences and challenges openly, helping each other bring innovation to legacy industries and the physical world.
Let's Talk Dirty
We'll have 6 roundtable sessions for each attendee to select from and will be sharing more about each one soon.
Registration
Limited to 200 participants:
100 startup founders and leaders
100 investors & strategics
Early registration is recommended as space is limited.
Dirty Jobs is an invitation-only event. Applications will be reviewed within 48 hours.
Event Hosts
Jay Kapoor and Vijay Chattha, General Partners at VSC Ventures.
Event Sponsors
We've got some great partners for this year's summit and you'll be hearing about them very soon!