Hardware Pitch Night - SF Climate Week Edition

​Join us for an evening of live pitches and demos from hardware founders helping build a cleaner, healthier word, and feedback from investors who actually fund hardware startups. ​​​We'll be showcasing 6 breakthrough climate hardware startups pitching to a live panel of leading VCs giving on the spot feedback. Real pitches, real feedback, and the kind of in-person networking that only happens when people who love hardware, build hardware, and invest in hardware are in the room. 📢Apply to pitch📢 ​Here's the agenda for the night: ​​​5:30-6:30pm: Arrival & Networking ​​​6:30-7:30pm: Pitches & Feedback ​​​7:30-8:30pm: Networking & Wrap up Startups: Thunderstone is a deep tech company developing a novel “underground lightning” approach to mining that uses high-voltage electric discharge to extract metals without traditional excavation. COPA uses physical AI to deliver clean, self-maintaining portable sanitation at scale.Trac builds robot that patrol and clean sidewalks for commercial properties.Sunnybotics builds robots that automate solar plant operations and maintenance, turning solar into a fully autonomous asset class.Boum builds autonomous systems for urban greening, initially for consumers and expanding into B2B. AEnergy powers heavy machinery by recovering wasted energy. Judges: David Mallard is a founder and General Partner at Cyan Ventures, a fund supporting early-stage energy technology companies. Chjango is co-founder and GP of Aexodus, a seed stage physical AI fund backing the founders building toward humanity's highest timeline.Karsten Ploesser is a leader in the Berkeley Angel Network and a deep tech angel investor focused on the intersection of climate and AI infrastructure. If you invest in climate hardware, we'd love for you to join our panel of judges. Email nate@informal.fund if interested! Brought to you by: ​​​​informal is a freelance collective for the most talented independent professionals in hardware. Whether you’re looking for a single contractor, a full-time employee, or an entire team of professionals to work on everything from product development to go-to-market strategy, the informal collective has the perfect collection of people for the job. informal fund is an angel syndicate for hardware investors. It's hard enough to build a hardware startup: finding hardware friendly capital shouldn't be too. informal fund connects the dots between investors who know hardware and the founders building it. If you're an accredited investor, apply to join the syndicate here. ​Studio 45 is a physical space for entrepreneurs and teams building hardware in SF. Located in Mission/Bernal Area, the studio gathers the community, resources, space, and tools needed to build a business making physical products. By registering for this event, you agree to share your registration information with the organizers of SF Climate Week.