Robotics After Dark
If you’re building machines for the physical world, come hang out with us on Day 0. We picked 5 of Europe’s best Physical AI founders, and they’re building every layer of the stack: robotics hardware, the industrial deployment layer, new ways to train robot brains, autonomous machines, and the software infrastructure underneath it all.
Programme · Tuesday 17 November
17:00 - 17:15 Doors open
17:15 - 18:15 PM Founder pitches at Illusian & Jury Q&A
18:15 PM Drinks and small bites at Gillet Lasipiha (5-min walk)
Expect a room full of hard tech founders, plus some investors, corporates, CVCs and friends who understand what it takes to build in the physical world.
Co-hosted by Pluto and Voyager.
Partners include Illusian, Modal, Nvidia, and AWS.
Space is tight and we have to approve every registration, so grab a spot early.
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About the hosts and partners
Voyager is a $475M AUM early-stage fund investing in the energy, materials and physical AI companies that will lay the foundation for future abundance, from robotics and advanced materials to new energy systems. With offices in Munich, London, New York, and San Francisco, Voyager partners with founders from day one to take frontier technology into the real world.
Pluto backs and builds the companies driving Europe’s next industrial revolution. Each quarter, Pluto runs week-long, vertical-specific residencies for frontier tech founders across Europe, with past editions in Paris, Munich, and Zurich. Community builders at heart, the team brings together founders working in robotics, energy, materials, and industrial processes.
NVIDIA is the world leader in AI and accelerated computing. NVIDIA Inception is a free program that guides AI startups through the NVIDIA platform and ecosystem. Inception members have access to the latest developer tools and training, preferred pricing on NVIDIA hardware and software, exclusive offers from partners, and exposure to a global ecosystem of investors.
Modal - The platform for production AI. Run inference, training, and sandboxes with sub-second cold starts, instant autoscaling, with a dev experience that feels local. Teams like Cognition, Runway, Physical Intelligence, Suno, Legora now ship faster.
Illusian - The founder office of the people behind Supercell, Zalando, Wolt, Aiven, Pigment, Parloa, Silo AI, and Iceye. While the group is still busy running their businesses, they've aligned their networks, capital, and expertise to simultaneously support the next generation of builders. Illusian backs teams through venture capital and philanthropy.