Hardware Pitch Night

Join us for an evening of live pitches and demos from hardware founders working on frontier technologies for the physical world.

We'll be showcasing 6 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.

[](https://airtable.com/appsqSsdYlS01gQru/pagk5sUYcl3nvG4le/form?utm_source=luma)Here's the agenda for the night:

6:00-6:45pm: Arrival & Networking

6:45-7:45pm: Pitches & Feedback

7:45-9:00pm: Networking & Wrap up

Startups:

• Shazia: Women's health wearable as beautiful as it is functional.
• Dreamz: adaptive sleep mask for falling asleep faster.

HeyPCB: AI-powered EDA & MCAD platform.

• Saro Energy: Physical intelligence for energy-constrained infrastructure.
• Niobia AI: autonomous factories to reduce scrap in advanced manufacturing.
• Waken Robotics helps robots learn hands-on skills from the way people use their hands.
• Amano Labs: affordable, personalized hearing technology designed to make better hearing accessible.

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Judges:

• Ram Rajagopalan, hardware angel investor.
• Zach Glabman, Venture Partner at Breakers.

If you invest in 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 - informal spaces SF 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.

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