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 out together.
Format 🎙️
Keynotes, 15:30: Introducing Bridges, the agenda, and Partners
Lightning Panel, 15:40 (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 Claes)
Inflection Fund (Alex)
Thank you note from Alessandro Santo (Kauffman Fellows) -> Breakout into Roundtables
Roundtables, 16:15 (30 min):
Group dialogues in interactive fishbowls with different case studies of collaboration and specific areas (for example, deep hardware tech, SW tech cases)
TopicsFrom Lab to first 5000: The pilot cliff (Professor Volker Kreuger + Alex from Inflection Fund)
Closing the Reliability gap in scaling: building Physical AI solutions with 99.9% Uptime (Alex from NVIDIA + Jing Li from Husqvarna Group)
Reciprocity circle, 16:45 (15 min):
One idea to take home: how do you build synergies?
Asks and Gives to the group
Open Networking, 17:00 (30 mins):
Open networking with locally served drinks 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.