
RoboBusiness keynote to investigate state of robotics funding
Karthee Madasamy, founder and managing accomplice of Cell Basis Ventures, Sherwin Prior, director of Amazon’s Industrial Innovation Fund, and Fady Saad, founder and common accomplice of Cybernetix Ventures, to debate the state of robotics funding.

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Analysis developments and technological progress have mixed to take away limitations to robotics innovation and commercialization, offering the robotics sector with many alternatives for startups that may ship robotics options which might be purposeful and ship actual worth.
Whereas funding for robotics start-ups continues to extend, it’s equally true that fundraising for a robotics startup may be difficult, extra so in comparison with different sectors and applied sciences. At RoboBusiness, which takes place October 19-20 in Santa Clara, Calif., a keynote panel of main robotics sector funding professionals will talk about enterprise capital (VC) and personal sector funding into corporations producing robots or enabling applied sciences.
The keynote, known as “Robotics Sector Fundraising and Funding – Standing, Tendencies and Suggestions,” will even spotlight corporations, applied sciences, and functions which have discovered industrial success or have the potential for doing so. Macro tendencies within the robotics sector, helpful for uncovering novel technological improvements, in addition to surfacing missed enterprise alternatives, shall be mentioned. Subjects embrace:
- The state of robotics sector funding
- Enterprise, technological and social drivers for funding
- Gating components and headwinds
- Why robotics startups succeed (or fail)
- Robotics unicorns
- Ongoing robotics alternatives
The panel will function Karthee Madasamy, founder and managing accomplice of Cell Basis Ventures, Sherwin Prior, director of Amazon’s Industrial Innovation Fund, and Fady Saad, founder and common accomplice of Cybernetix Ventures. The panel shall be moderated by Dan Kara, VP of robotics at WTWH Media, mum or dad firm of Robotics Enterprise Assessment. View the complete RoboBusiness agenda right here.
The opposite RoboBusiness keynotes embrace:
- Anthony Jules, co-founder, CEO, Strong AI
- Allison Thackston, senior technical lead and supervisor, roboticist, Waymo
- Sally Miller, CIO, North America, DHL Provide Chain
- Jonathan Hurst & Damion Shelton, Co-founders, Agility Robotics
RoboBusiness will function 100-plus exhibitors, 50-plus audio system, a MassRobotics Profession Honest and Startup Workshop, the Pitchfire Startup Competitors, networking receptions and far more. Full convention passes are $795, whereas expo-only passes are simply $75. Educational reductions can be found and educational full convention charges are $295. Register immediately.
Co-Positioned Occasions
RoboBusiness shall be co-located with the Subject Robotics Engineering Discussion board, a world convention and exposition designed to offer engineers, engineering administration, enterprise professionals and others with details about easy methods to efficiently develop and safely deploy the following era of area robotics methods for operation in wide-ranging, outside, dynamic environments. You’ll be able to try the present listing of audio system, to which extra shall be added, right here.
Additionally co-located with RoboBusiness is DeviceTalks West, the premier business occasion for medical know-how professionals, at the moment in its ninth yr. Each occasions entice engineering and enterprise professionals from a broad vary of healthcare and medical know-how backgrounds.
Sponsorship Alternatives
For details about sponsorship and exhibition alternatives, obtain the prospectus. Query concerning sponsorship alternatives ought to be directed to Courtney Nagle at cnagle[AT]wtwhmedia.com.
About WTWH Media
WTWH Media is an built-in media firm serving engineering, enterprise and funding professionals via 50+ web sites, 5 print publications, together with many different technical and enterprise occasions. WTWH’s Robotics Group produces The Robotic Report, Robotics Enterprise Assessment, Collaborative Robotics Tendencies and Cell Robotic Information, on-line technical, enterprise and funding information and knowledge portals targeted on robotics and clever methods. WTWH Media additionally produces main in-person robotics conferences, together with the Robotics Summit & Expo, RoboBusiness and the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Discussion board. See www.wtwhmedia.com for extra data.