Startup Summit
The fourth annual Startup Summit returns to the iconic Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.
Hosted by Comcast Ventures and Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs, it brings together founders, investors, and operators for an afternoon with companies shaping how AI connects with customers and how its underlying supply chain gets built.
Highlights include:
A keynote address from Euwyn Poon, Founder & CEO of Orbital (previously Co-Founder of Spin, acquired by Ford 2018)
Panel 1 | The Synthetic Consumer: When AI Sits Between You and Your Customer
The customer you're trying to reach is no longer a straightforward target. AI increasingly sits in the middle: simulating buyers on one side, shaping how they find brands on the other. This panel brings together two companies working opposite ends of that shift. Aaru builds synthetic populations that predict how real consumers and voters will behave before a dollar is spent. Profound makes sure brands show up, and show up well, inside the AI assistants that are becoming the front door to every purchase. Together, they map a future where we model the customer and optimize the channel for an agent.
Featuring: Aaru & Profound
Panel 2 | Grid to GPU: The AI Supply Chain
Every AI answer starts as electricity pulled off the grid. Far fewer people can explain what happens between that moment and the response on your screen, or what it costs along the way. This panel traces the full stack, from the power grid to the API call, with companies that each own a different layer and depend on the ones around them. We’ll get a macro view of where the biggest opportunities lie: expanding power capacity, meeting the growing demand for private compute, and equipping developers with what they need to build and scale.
Featuring: Hydra Host & NetBox Labs
Cocktail reception with light bites
Comcast Ventures is the venture capital arm of Comcast Corporation, with a 25+ year history of partnering with entrepreneurs to accelerate their businesses. They support founders shaping the future of technology by providing capital as well as by leveraging the expertise, global scale, network, and resources of Comcast. Comcast Ventures strategically invests in early to growth stage companies innovating across a set of focus areas that align with potential growth opportunities for the company.
LIFT Labs builds partnerships with strategically relevant AI startups that inform our strategy, impact the ways we work, and transform the products and experiences that we deliver to our customers around the world.