Bridges @ Mashup: CVC/VC & FO for Robotics & Physical AI

​Strategic co-hosts: Mashup & Minc

​Community partner: NVIDIA

​Topic & Theme of Bridges at Mashup 2026📍

​Who owns the SW and HW stack in Robotics and Physical AI, and who should?

From Building Investment Bridges for Cumulative Founder Stewardship between CVCs, VCs and FOs for early stage deep tech.

​How do we build trust and design better incentive alignment bridges between venture capital and corporate VCs for stewarding founders in the long term?

​For Bridges participants, you will need a Mashup ticket - please reach out to us, and we will sort this together.

​Format 🎙️

​Introducing the agenda and partners (10 min):

​Nino and Per introducing the Robotics vision at Mashup House, Malmö

• ​Lightning Panel (20 min): Short insights from 3 speakers with one VC, two CVCs

  • ​Who owns the SW and HW stack in Robotics and Physical AI, and who should?

    • ​NVIDIA (Alex and Claeus)

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• ​Open Circles (30 min):

  • ​Group dialogues in interactive fishbowls with different case studies of collaboration and specific areas (for example, deep hardware tech, SW tech cases)
    
    Topics

    • ​From 5,000 to 500,000: The Manufacturing Scaling Cliff

    • ​The Reliability Gap: from Lab to 99.9% Uptime

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• ​Reciprocity circle (15 min):

  • ​One idea to take home: how do you build capital for stewardship?

  • ​An Investor Open Board Wall for people to contribute ideas for better VC/CVC alignment structures.

• ​Networking (30 mins):

  • ​Open networking with locally served mocktails and snacks from the local regions of Malmö.

​Then a bus goes 18:00 pm & 18:15 pm to the last dinner and afterparty from Malmö live to Mashup HQ.

​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.