

PhD Breakfast - Boston
Nick Kim & Alex Marley from Upfront Ventures are coming to Boston to meet entrepreneurial PhD students and startup community leaders. We’d love for you to join us for a breakfast with your peers. Nick leads the hard tech investing practice at the firm, making investments in hardware-enabled software and physical AI for critical infrastructure sectors. Alex brings experience in manufacturing, semiconductors, and AI infrastructure. We’d love to meet you if you’re conducting research in these areas, adjacent sectors, or just interested in how technology will shape the future.
Upfront Ventures, founded in 1996 in Los Angeles, is a multi-stage venture capital firm backing teams across several technology sectors. With over $3 billion under management, Upfront has backed companies across AI (Bland, Writer, Laurel), aerospace (Apex Space), healthcare (Rula, Reveleer), and critical infrastructure (BrightAI), among others. Meet the team at upfront.com.