Bridges @ Hello Tomorrow: Energy, Materials & Robotics 2026 🚀✨

​Welcome to Bridges @ Hello Tomorrow 2026!
Host Partners: Zaz Ventures, High Tech Campus Eindhoven, Naext.
Community Partners: Voyager Ventures, Vale VC, Aurum Impact, Ahren Innovation & Hello Tomorrow

​Topic📍

​Rewriting the playbook for deeptech capital stack in Energy, Materials and Robotics

Elena Ballesteros - Voyager VC, Ilja Aizenberg - Loom CVC

​What does it take for CVCs and VCs to become true long-term stewards for founders?

We'll explore:

• ​Incentive structures

• ​Term sheets, governance, and trust

• ​Long-term stewardship in practice

​Roundtable/ Fishbowl Topics

• ​What kind of collaboration can close the 10+ hour storage bankability gap in LDES and why? - Taila, Vale VC

• ​Who is funding the material gap? - Daniel, Hyundai Cradle

• ​Sequencing the deeptech capital stack for unlocking project debt in Cleantech Infrastructure? - Stephan, Zaz Ventures

• ​Are we underwriting the integration cost between an 11-month pilot and a 5,000-unit fleet? What can help? - Vera, Ahren Innovation Ventures

​Why This Matters 🧩

​In climate and deep tech, the best outcomes compound over decades and that requires capital partners who can think and act on the same horizon as founders. CVCs, VCs and FOs are increasingly stepping into that role, bringing complementary strengths that founders in these fields genuinely need.

​Bridges gatherings are designed to bond on what's working, share where structures can improve, collaborate on what stronger alignments in practice.

​We will have tons of networking with your experience made fun!

​Format 🎙️

​Introducing the agenda and partners (10 min):

• ​Lightning Panel (25 min)

• ​Open Circles (30 min)

  • ​Group dialogues in interactive fishbowls with different case studies.

• ​Open Networking & Reciprocity circle (15 min)

  • ​One idea to take home: how do you build synergies?

  • ​Asks & Gives to the group

  • ​Open networking

​About Bridges

​Bridges builds structured collaboration across CVCs, VCs, and family offices to strengthen alignment and drive long-term outcomes in climate and deep tech, beyond capital alone.